I also have started thinking about how to get cards to other people, and was considering (on my next turn) treating 2 cubes in HCM city and driving through Sydney to LA, so I could get 2 black cards from Shraeye, but that won't work, due to the normal constraints on OTHER players giving ME cards. It has been tough luck that I don't have more cards than I do.
After losing the first 3 IRL games, I've now won the last two (all 2p). In both games, we made it a priority to treat wherever we were, so that we didn't have to double back to treat. I'm not saying it was the key to victory, but it did keep us out of trouble longer. The special event cards were very helpful (especially in avoiding painful discards to bring handcounts back to 7. You get to 7 cards fast in 2p.) But our only win condition is to find 4 cures, so we need to start thinking about how to move cards around, which of course means moving people, which will involve research stations, among other factors. (In a bizarre twist, my GF and I have played 5 games total, and in every game, one of us was the dispatcher, and one was the operations expert, so we had some transportation flexibility).
Schneau - posts like 131 are extremely helpful, so thanks for keeping up with what's where. Can you also start posting a counter to how soon the next epidemic could come up? We've been covering that in prose, but I think it would be helpful to have it with the card location info.