Nobody really knows what happened to the unwanted stranger.
The events took place quite a while ago now. Time has passed and things have moved on and most people have forgotten all about him. At the time, at least at first, he was simply regarded as one more foreign party visiting the place on a tourist visa. The pandemic was in full swing back then and everybody was getting jabbed. Fortunately, most people were vaccine protected when it happened. The story goes that he came from overseas and turned up from another part of the country as a tourist. It soon became evident that he was unvaccinated and had visited several public venues over a relatively short period. He tested positive to the virus.
Well, you can imagine, it caused quite a stink at the time.
He infected a number of people as he moved around, and his actions caused a sudden transmission of the disease around the community. Because of the registration system that was being widely used at the time, the culprit was soon identified. They knew who he was, what his name was, when he had arrived, and the location of the guesthouse he was staying in. They were able to trace where he had been. Quite naturally, people who were doing their best to protect themselves and others by getting a vaccine jab were very angry about the whole thing.
It came about that owing to the fact that there was so much going on in the community at the time, nobody noticed the fact that quite suddenly, he disappeared. Nevertheless, after a while people started to ask questions, but officially there were never any answers. All sorts of rumours started up about what had happened to him. It was as though he had never existed.
One version of the events that occurred around that time seemed to have some merit. The story goes that he was taken from the guesthouse one night and murdered. According to this version he was found behind the guesthouse partly hidden in the shrubbery. When the police were called, it became obvious that there had been no real attempt made to hide the body. Again, it was only surmised that at that point the authorities covered it up. The death was never officially recorded and the incident was never reported in the press. The notion was that some sort of suppression order had been made.
Put simply, the authorities were concerned about reprisals. Maybe it was thought that if the news broke that this had occurred, this activity, this idea, this solution may well have spread leading to copycat killings of people not doing the right thing by the rest of the community.
Nobody really knows the truth of it. The only thing anybody knows for sure is that he just simply disappeared…
Of course, this is just a story, and none of this actually happened.