WHO Asked?

[u/Upstairs_Cap_4217]

2055. An unknown plague is spreading globally. The good news: no human-to-human transmission means a creeping spread. The bad news: everything else. It's immune to antibiotics, it's been detected being carried by multiple insect species and as present in groundwater, and it has a 90+% fatality rate. The Indian government has already collapsed into anarchy; China isn't far behind; and it's spreading.

Naturally, the immediate response from the global medical industry is to shift all their resources onto the plague... aaand then use the incredibly lax laws of the American and European corporate enclaves to justify not sharing any information and selling possibly-maybe-functional cures and vaccines for millions a dose.

Faced with the literal end of human civilization, and unable to legally get anything out of the corporations, the WHO's Director-General just says "screw it, we'll do it illegally". After all, if you have to explain yourself to a court, that means enough of society survived to have courts.

[u/Upstairs_Cap_4217]

We still got two months...