Ratatouille 2: curse of the Hantavirus :D
If we get a hantavirus pandemic, enough people will think that all the deaths are being caused by the covid vaccine that mitigation will be impossible
Yeah, it’s gonna be bad, nobody will want to quarantine either I imagine. Just have to hope the vaccines will be good enough at this point.
Hantavirus has been around forever.
Is there a particular reason these few cases have been focused on so hard in the news other than typical fear mongering?
Viruses mutate, in case you weren’t aware, if a strain starts transmitting easily between humans then we’ll have another major pandemic.
Of course I’m aware, that’s why I asked if there was a particular reason everyone was freaking out
Is it a particularly bad unique mutation then?
Well, this one is human transmissible, and it may be fairly easily transmissible given that several people got sick on the same cruise. So now we’re waiting to find out if people who came back to Canada are carriers or not. Also, apparently they’re self isolating for 30 days while it can take up to 8 weeks to develop. 🤷
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Well, we’re at the sixty day point where congressional approval is required for the war to continue, so if I were prone to conspiracy theory, I might see the inflation of a non story like this as a back burner option in case misdirection is needed.
Apparently this is a strain that can be transmitted from person to person though, so who knows?
It’s just gonna peter out like it usually does.
Imagine if this reconbines with a respiratory virus, good god. Don’t blame me if it happens, this is intelligence agency shit.
Sounds like it’s already a thing. From the article:
Andes virus is an especially contagious form of hantavirus, an infectious diseases physician and medical micro-biologist said Friday.
[The] germ can be spread through salvia [sic], bodily fluids, and droplets from the respiratory system, Dr. Donald Vinh said in an interview with CTV News Channel.
‘In general hantaviruses are transmitted from rodents to humans, but what has been known since the ‘90s is that there’s a specific type of hantavirus, in this case the Andes virus,” Vinh said, “that has been previously shown to have the capacity to spread from one person to another.”
Reuters just said two people in spain came down with it too, I don’t think they had any connection to the ship. Also a woman caught it from sitting two seats behind someone that had it. If I read the first part right.
