A New Pandemic? : fictional short story

It could have become a global epidemic if it hadn’t been stopped in time. There was a new prank some people were using online, almost like a pulley, pulling people down into an abyss we should all never have to know again. After COVID was under control, no one wanted to be sucked into that sort of turmoil again. This time, however, it was all about going up. Whether it was an elevator, an escalator, or even a hot air balloon, the unknowing victim was supposed to hold their breath while rising in order to feel a head rush on the way down. The problem with what the culprit invented, his little prank, was that air had been transformed during the COVID pandemic, and doctors had found out that now, if you held your breath for too long, once you exhaled, you would spread any leftover viral cells into the air, infecting anyone around you. After learning of this prank, the CDC was on high alert, waiting for a new outbreak.

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