The tale of the sickness that could not go away. In the Iceland caves, was a group of miners who spent their time looking for rare gems. The mountain caves were rumored to have gems hidden inside the cave walls. They spent their days in the caves looking until one day they came across a tiny and shiny rock deep within the ice. Curious about the tiny rock, they started fighting among each other about who would get to keep the shiny rock. In the midst of the fighting, the rock would move from one miner’s hand to the other. Every time it jumped from one miner to the other, it immediately made their hands feel itchy.
The rock was infused with a special serum. It is believed that it had been buried a long time ago to keep it away from humans as it was dangerous. With all the miners’ hands feeling uncomfortable from all the scratching, they decided to get rid of the rock. “Surely, no good would come out of it”, they all thought.
They were right and by the time they were all getting back home later that evening, they were all coughing and sneezing. It was the next morning, and all of them were feeling really sick. By the second day, the same sickness had spread to all the members of their families. By the third day, it had spread to the neighbors and anyone who made contact with them.
The sickness spread so fast that the whole town soon became sick. The doctors tried their best but they could not contain the sickness. For some reason, they were not able to. It spread so fast that eventually, the neighboring towns started getting sick. Henceforth, the whole country and soon after the neighboring countries all fell ill. No matter what everyone tried to do to end the sickness, nothing worked.
Therefore, to try to stop the sickness, people had to stay home and away from each other as they did not know who had it and who did not. Some people say this was the beginning of the end, where civilization ends. While others thought there is hope, that the doctors will be able to come up with a vaccine and medicine to deal with the sickness.
What do you think will happen?
Moral: Don’t just touch things you do not know about.
