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I suppose. Just seems like there'd be something deeper to it. A prion disease seems deeply metaphorical, brain being slowly eaten, mad cow disease, all that stuff. Seems like they put as much thought into that as they did the rest of the game, so I just want there to be some big significance to it I guess.
The people most affected by a prion plague would also still tend to be the ones who are vulnerable in general (because the rich at least have a better ability to quarantine, among other things), so the most ardent supporters of the socialists are the most disproportionately infected, and we have seen how capitalists will seize on whatever they can to pathologize their opposition. I think it's meaningful, but the metaphor is that people who were left by the ruling elite to have their brains eaten and are protesting that condition have their protest blamed on the brain damage and not the neglect that caused the brain damage. That is more persuasive a lie than if they were protesting having their lungs destroyed.