Neither a Cure or a Disease, Because It’s All About Perspective.
Silence is a broad idea, and people may perceive it in many different ways. Silence may be a cure to some because by science, it actually lowers your blood pressure and improves concentration, as well as reducing stress levels in your body. Silence may be a cure to some because it's a way to drift yourself apart from conflict, and you can just focus on yourself instead of others. If silence is a cure, then it's also a form of healing. Tension fades away. Slowly stopping to care about other people's problems because you've always felt like you have to fix their problems in order for them to be happy. Silence is one, powerful idea because literally any form of emotion can pass by you, depending on how you perceive silence. Some people may feel glad. Or some people may feel unbearable euphoria. Others may feel angry and a sense of sorrow, because silence could also be noxious to some.
Silence could also be a deadly disease to most. Imagine yourself being in the other party. Your friend has suddenly ghosted you and never gave you a definite reason that they did, which leaves you alone. Forgotten. Lost. Twisted in incertitude. It's painful, because you don't know what you did wrong, and you may feel uncertain that they even enjoyed your company with you, which was why silence can also be back-stabbing, painful, and consuming. Like a deadly disease that you can't get rid of. If the person who had ghosted you has not said anything, it's most likely that silence is also a form of their answer to your relationship.
Silence isn't an answer to a yes or no question, but it's one of the most powerful responses ever created. Sometimes, words can't describe how they're feeling and silence would be their only way to respond. Sometimes, silence speaks louder than words. Sometimes, silence is literally how they're feeling. If you imagine a blank piece of paper, and the question asks you, "How are you feeling right now?", leaving the paper blank is a valid response. Sometimes, we don't know how to respond to such questions like that. Sometimes, a blank piece of paper sums up everything.
Silence is not only a cure or a disease, but also a response.
At the end of the day, there's no one-word answer to this. At the end of the day, it's all about perspective. It's all about how you perceive it.
Silence could explain everything and nothing.
Silence is everything.