I think you are misunderstanding my point. The technology to prevent plague was beyond the population at the time. "Just use basic hygiene" is useless to a po

I think you are misunderstanding my point. The technology to prevent plague was beyond the population at the time. "Just use basic hygiene" is useless to a population who has no understanding of what that means. It was a real virus that had very high mortality. This makes it a serious counterpoint for people who argue such things can't be created in future. "The AI designed killer virus using new science turned out to be not that easily transmitted, basic dynamically reprogrammable mrna implants easily prevents it, shame about the 95% who died"