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Originally Posted by Targan
The plague is actually easier to deal with than a bad strain of the flu, I suspect. If you can manufacture even fairly basic antibiotics you can treat the plague (it's bacterial, Yersinia Pestis). Influenza is a virus and anti-viral drugs are more difficult to synthesis and are often less effective.
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Ooops, you just said the magic word: manufacture.
Most of the Caribbean islands have very little manufacturing capability, although for game purposes I'd suppose you claim to have re-rigged something on a larger island (Jamaica's Red Stripe beer brewery, for example, though you may need troops to hold the place against a crowd instent on returning it to beer production!)
Actually, I think almost all of the smaller islands depend on food imports, and will experience die off to some degree. In some places, this may well bring a variety of illness due to inadequate means of handling lots of dead in a chaotic period, as well as individuals with weakened esistence due to malnourishment.
In some cases (in my nascent Caribbean Sourcebook), I had food delivered to hte French Islands from France, and some given out as humanitarian aid. There could be some repatriation (voluntary or otherwise) with folks being delivered to South America (surviving Dutch unloaded at Suriname, CW islanders being dropped off in Belize or Guayana, at night on an empty dock or beach at gunpoint: "We are saving you from starvation on the islands; France cannot feed you all forever. This (former) colony of yours will find you a place where you can grow your own food for the duration."
Uncle Ted