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[–] 33 points 5 months ago (8 children)

Hanta has been a thing in chile since the 90s, I don't know what the fuss is about.

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  • [–] 24 points 5 months ago (3 children)

    Yup. There's also deaths from hantavirus every year in California. The problem is the variant, its the first time a lot of these countries are being exposed to the more contagious than usual form of hantavirus that in Chile & Argentina is known as Andean Hantavirus.

    Chile has a long history of dealing with this and usually takes all the necessary precautions, but add some dumbass gringos (north americans and Europeans) into the mix and they basically go into a remote area and snort lines of mouse shit and then are surprised when they caught a really bad virus.

    Argentina doesn't really take any precautioms afaik.

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  • [–] 4 points 5 months ago

    Yeah, the irony of this kind of meme saying "I will not live in fear" and yet they quite obviously are living every day in fear of conspiracies. Anyone who has read a few sentences of commentary is aware that Hantavirus is not going to be a pandemic.

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