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Share the Sickness

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	Share the Sickness	comment	When a person is sick, they're generally expected to take care to not infect others with their disease. While many people do this, some diseased people are so sick in the head, that they will do the opposite by actively spreading the disease to other people. They'll cough in people's faces, sneak their infected fluids into people's food, or donate their infected blood to healthy people. Other people are merely uncaring about speeding their sickness, being willing to do things like have unprotected sex with people despite having an STD, not bother protecting people from their disease, or even lying that they are well. The motives of why a person would do this can vary. Perhaps they feel bitter about their illness and want to share their misery with others. If they worship a god of disease, perhaps they might view the act of spreading their illness to others as some kind of holy mission. If the disease is deadly, perhaps the person seeks to take as many people as they can with them before they die. A simpler possibility is that the character is a jerk who just doesn't care about other people's health or gets a kick out of making other people sick. Some variants of this trope are less about spreading the disease in general and more about hurting specific people or groups. A person who hates or wants revenge on a specific person might try to give their disease to said hated person. While this trope is usually done out of malice, there are some cases where someone gives someone a disease for benign parties. A real-life example of this is "pox parties", where parents try to build up immunity to chicken pox by deliberately exposing their children to other children with the disease. A more fantastical example would be a character who is immune to all diseases being exposed to a disease in order to develop antibodies that can then be given to others. Supertrope to Typhoid Mary, where a character is sick but unintentionally spreads their sickness to others rather than doing it with intent (though villains can weaponize such a character to deliberately spread illness). A Plaguemaster is sometimes this. Compare/Contrast Getting Sick Deliberately, where a person makes themselves sick. No Real Life Examples, Please!, as there a quite a number of real-life controversies and recent events where this happened. Examples:
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