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Evacuated US and French cruise ship passengers test positive for hantavirus (www.theguardian.com)
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[–] 26 points 6 months ago (10 children)

I'm going to get downvoted for this, I'm sure but I'll be the one to ask, I guess. If the World Health Organization, who is an international group, says that this is not something that is worth panicking about then why are the newsmedia and comentors panicking?

https://www.who.int/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/hantavirus

This shit is scary and every thread I found on reddit it just Anti-Trump circlejerk and jokes like, "HERE WE GO AGAIN!" I've seen "experts" coment that it's not virulent and commenters claim that the infected spent less time around other infected people, so it is more virulent than the news says. I get that the CDC is compromised, but can we not trust the rest of the world's experts?

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  • [–] 24 points 6 months ago (4 children)

    Panic and fear is the bread and butter of news media. From what I understand, hantaviruses aren't something that causes pandemics like corona viruses.

    It's just news media fear mongering and regular people posting COVID trauma.

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  • [–] 15 points 6 months ago* (2 children)

    I mean, here's a comment on reddit with over 800 points in less than an hour:

    Already multiple people have tested positive. I think its more contagious than they proclaim. Supposedly you need to be family-level close to get contaminated but this seems not to be the case here

    This is just some guy on reddit saying shit. This isn't a conglomerate of international health experts. Hell, this could be a bot.

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  • [–] 12 points 6 months ago (2 children)

    If the World Health Organization, who is an international group, says that this is not something that is worth panicking about then why are the newsmedia and comentors panicking?

    Because the news media is not about informing people or keeping things objective... like everything else it has enshitified to be just alarmist garbage or unethical marketing

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  • [–] 4 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    I mean, I get that. It's just frustrating that social media comments of doomerism and jokes are the same. Haha here's another "worm brain", "drink lysol", and "ivermectin" joke. Oh, great. Another "we're so cooked" comment. Those jokes were dusty in 2021.

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  • [–] 6 points 6 months ago

    Yeah. One of my friends is an epidemiologist who is an expert on stuff like this. She's not especially concerned yet.

    Obviously if you are at risk, whether due to potential exposure or vulnerability, take precautions, but the vast majority of us don't have to care right now.

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  • [–] 2 points 6 months ago

    I've been saying the same thing. The articles themselves usually mention WHO as well, but way toward the end; in a world where half the people don't read more than headlines and few get past paragraph 2.

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    [–] 27 points 6 months ago (7 children)

    while American flown to Nebraska is asymptomatic, say officials

    Ah fuck...

    Asymptomatic carriers is literally worst case scenario. That's what Typhoid Mary was, and why she caused so many deaths.

    Some dumbass American off a cheap cruise who personally doesn't feel consequences but will remain infectious for a long time will just run around like an idiot infecting everyone.

    It sounds fucked up, but I hope it's only asymptomatic due to early stages.

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  • [–] 6 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    I think the big positive of this situation vs Covid is that Covid was a nightmare because of being able to easily be spread when asymptomatic and from what i understand about the hantavirus is that while the incubation period is longer it isn’t able to spread when asymptomatic. If that shifts we’re probably well and truly fucked

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  • [–] 1 point 6 months ago

    There's already asymptomatic people running around, no idea if they're infectious.

    But while the incubation can be up to 42 days, it can be as low as 4.

    Completely unpredictable which would make tracking if it starts to spread very difficult

    Like "what did you do 3 weeks ago" compared to "what did you do every day for the last month and a half excluding the last 72 hours".

    If it gets a foothold it's going to be very hard to get rid of.

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    • [–] 16 points 6 months ago* (4 children)

    The French, like other European passengers will be put in the WHO recommended 42+ days quarantine. I guess the treatment in the US is the usual "don't care" method?

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    • [–] 12 points 6 months ago

    I'm so glad we have competent government officials in charge to handle this like the ones we had during COVID. /S

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