Yeah you're right its exactly the same. Dadgum bards givin' everyone lung cancer!
Based on your horrible attempt to correlate real life health risks to an mmo experience, I would say you probably care way too much. Relax and go have fun in a better zone.

Nope. I found quiet spots in Upper Guk and SolA and got 20 levels without ever having to deal with a kiting bard, or anyone else really. I did get trained a couple times by some TMO cleric PL'ing an alt in SolA but he left pretty quickly.

Not sure who that was, but on behalf of them (like my word matters), I am sorry that happened to you. And I hope they apologized.:(

Is there a list or post about the not often visited zones for different level ranges around somewhere?

Wandering around on my druid I saw a couple groups in EJ, which never happens (probably because it's such an annoying zone nobody takes the time to learn where you can pull to.) I also saw people killing spectral keepers in TT (which should happen a lot more, MR+FR buff your tank and they're cake with that super low agro radius allowing a warrior to pull mostly singles with a rare double.)

Interestingly, on my cleric I had little trouble getting groups in KC and he went from barely 53 to over halfway thru 54 despite the over-population and camp drama. Apparently most of the clerics that haven't already bought level 60 from the Chardok AE cancer, er, cartel, were busy getting XP on alts.

I think it was Friday I zoned into KC and saw 3-4 other SKs lfg - can't blame people for wanting to make gains on their hybrids but it was certainly competitive for the tank slot over the weekend.

If you know the zone's short name you can do a /who search.

/ all blackburrow