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Old 01-20-2016, 08:07 PM
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Originally Posted by unkated View Post
Ooops, you just said the magic word: manufacture.
We're not talking about a factory, more like a lab. It's WWI-level technology. Sure, if things have crashed so bad that you can't achieve a clean room in a 1920s tech level lab, even the plague is going to be hard to stop. Then again if things have crashed that badly, it's likely that your population has also crashed. If people aren't living in crowded conditions combined with poor sanitation and rampant rat infestations, the plague won't sweep through and be anywhere near as devastating as it was in Europe in the late Middle Ages.
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