Scabies

A sickness spreads across our island, causing itchy skin rashes. What should we do?

Choices and Outcomes

Decision	Choose	Result
Option 1	Find a Cure	Some physicians recommend sulphur to quell the infection and destroy the parasites, but we only have Tar. It burns both the skin and nostrils, but it’s the results that matter.
Option 2	Dull the Pain	There’s little that can be done against this disease. Alcohol can at least be used to dull the pain and make the sick forget about the maddening itch.
Option 3	Send the Afflicted Away	It’s easier to get rid of the sick than get rid of scabies mites. We put them on a boat and send them away from our harbour, as if they were lepers.
Option 4	Power Through the Itch	There’s nothing that we can do against scabies. This disease — and the mites carrying it — will always proliferate in places where hygiene is questionable at best. We could cure it now and it would come again. So we do nothing.

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