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She is evil but she gives correct political analyses more often than Measurehead.
That's true. I just, I don't know. As I said, why make it a prion disease?
Maybe just because a widespread prion disease is catastrophic and a more standard plague might have seemed to the devs to be more containable due to modern advancements (whoops), or because it being a prion disease could be rhetorically convenient for apologists for capital who can then pathologize their political opposition, which would not apply as well in the case of widespread tuberculosis or something.
It's a fraught strategy, but many authors like to demonstrate a widespread social trick by first tricking the audience with it (this gets used for racism allegories all the time), so the prion brainrot story is more likely to be viewed by some of the audience as credible than historical and easily-debunked examples. The reason it is a fraught strategy is partly demonstrated by threads like the current one.
between that and measurehead pointing to the revolution just being brain damage after the fact, i think you nailed it, this is why they chose a prion disease