I love the challenge of saving the world instead of destroying it. However, there are some unnecessary hardships in normal difficulty that could be worked on.

Now I understand that you have to keep your Authority high in order for people to obey lockdowns and stop the spread, but it costs funding for everything you need to minimize the infectivity, especially if you have to manually supply care packages. That same funding could be used to speed up vaccine research and production, but then you sacrifice Authority drastically due to the rapidly spreading disease. There is no real middle-ground, so anything higher than casual on anything other than bacteria is a "darned if you do, darned if you don't" situation.

I love the challenge of saving the world instead of destroying it. However, there are some unnecessary hardships in normal difficulty that could be worked on. Now I understand that you have to keep your Authority high in order for people to obey lockdowns and stop the spread, but it costs funding for everything you need to minimize the infectivity, especially if you have to manually supply care packages. That same funding could be used to speed up vaccine research and production, but then you sacrifice Authority drastically due to the rapidly spreading disease. There is no real middle-ground, so anything higher than casual on anything other than bacteria is a "darned if you do, darned if you don't" situation.