It would have been like the plot of "Deus Ex" where they manufactured the Grey Death virus and also made the treatment Ambrosia but kept it back claiming it was difficult and expensive to produce and hard to get on the list. The villains would deliberately infect people who bothered them and if they were useful like a politician "oh shame you caught the plague, maybe I could get you on the priority list for Ambrosia if you did this for me." The opening cutscene of the game has the villains discuss having did just that with the US President and the head villain Bob Page as obviously meant to make you think of Bill Gates (Elon Musk was a nobody back in 1999.)
It would have been like the plot of "Deus Ex" where they manufactured the Grey Death virus and also made the treatment Ambrosia but kept it back claiming it was difficult and expensive to produce and hard to get on the list. The villains would deliberately infect people who bothered them and if they were useful like a politician "oh shame you caught the plague, maybe I could get you on the priority list for Ambrosia if you did this for me." The opening cutscene of the game has the villains discuss having did just that with the US President and the head villain Bob Page as obviously meant to make you think of Bill Gates (Elon Musk was a nobody back in 1999.)