They have a pretty early start, though, since they know the ships potentially carrying the plague are only going to arrive at some point in the future. If there was already a city on the same continent with an outbreak, then things would be really bad. Now it could still go either way. Compared to the modern situation it's also a plus for the fight that the people are used to obeying the higher-ups. If they don't obey, they can be killed on the spot. I don't think even in China the police would have shot quarantine breakers, no guestions asked. In our world we had miscreants who purposefully tried to spread Covid around so that everyone would get the "natural immunity" (or die). If caught, they would have hardly faced any significant punishment, in many countries no punishment whatsoever, so what's stopping them?

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Then a counterbalance evil appears. A good show needs a good evil character. Too bad it feels like that one is caricatural as f... They told us he was a genius. I hope that will prove useful to the story.
If we talk about the Black Death, then the villain behind it must look like a skeleton. If you look at medieval art, that's just how it is. Whether he was a genius or not, it's hard not to think that's all in the past, looking at the scenes. He has clearly gone off the deep end a long time ago. A genius spending all of his time on nonsense is not really a genius anymore.