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      This was said by a British politician about the UK, but it feels a lot like it applies to the US too:

      I think the people of this country have had enough of experts

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        Wasn’t that said to minimise the authority of experts rather than as a statement on the public? Specifically, Gove was trying to pass policies that the so called ‘experts’ were saying wouldn’t work so he tried to spin the narrative by saying politicians shouldn’t listen to experts and people should do what they’re told.

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      The strain from the cruise ship is the Andes strain.

      Avoiding rodents isn’t the answer to this one (still avoid them, that’s just not quite the correct answer here).

      The risk to the average person is low for other reasons.

      One difference is in the very fact that we can name the virus: we know more about how it spreads and the symptoms to look for. It’s not an unknown virus, unlike in 2020 when we were dealing with something we had never seen in humans before.

      If someone does start to show symptoms it will be tested for earlier during diagnosis than it otherwise might be since hantavirus is in the news. Earlier detection will reduce spread (if we even reach that point, many of the passengers are in quarantine).

      The other passengers being in quarantine is one of the biggest things lowering the risk.

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        Avoid rodents

        Me, who was juggling feral rats with my bare hands “This is fucking bullshit!”

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    I will NOT avoid ingesting mouse droppings.

    It is my God-given right to find a rodent nest and motorboat it.

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    COVID played a major part in my mother’s death, so I feel comfortable saying I welcome the hentavirus to our country. If all goes poorly, maybe it will take care of some of our more troublesome septuagenarians. 🤔

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      Oh yeah, I don’t want to see people die BUT the human population has reached a point where survival of the fittest isn’t a thing, so how we have complete morons all over.

      Case in point. A plastic bag from a grocery store has “Do not put on head” printed on it. Here’s the problem 1. If you’re a small child that legitimately doesn’t know better, you can’t read, this is zero help. 2. If you can read it, you’re old enough to understand not to do it in the first place, and you’re a dip shit.

      Just take the warning labels off obvious shit and let nature fix things. It’s that big of a deal to wear a mask at a minimum? Sure.

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        At least with the bag, it’s a reminder to tired parents not to let the child put the bag on its head, to tell the child about the danger, and not to leave the child alone with the bag because they’ll test it.

        If they leave the child alone with the bag and a cat, the child will learn 2 3 lessons: fur helps prevent plastic bag suffocation, and claws/teeth can penetrate both the bag and human skin. Also cats prefer to choose whether and where to be enclosed.

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    I’m waiting for the inevitable hantavirus parties. Gotta make sure little Timmy earns his immunity!

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    I can provide LIBERTY FREEDOM coffins at a discount for true patriots. Each coffin comes with an engraved American flag and a gun holster. Today’s your can pre-order your LIBERTY FREEDOM coffin for $4,747.47. Don’t 86 your rights!

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      You joke, but some gullible idiot will buy that.

      I know people who get their phone service through “PureTalk” to escape the “liberals at AT&T”. I’m still not sure which is the greater irony: the fact that AT&T is an extremely conservative stick in the mud Corpo of the fact that PureTalk is an MVNO whose network is provided by – wait for it – AT&T

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    I already said it doesn’t matter if this virus becomes wide spread or not, US will never do another shut down - I’m fact to wipe us out just release a virus, most would rather die than stay home for a few weeks

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      When the terrorists get that bio weapon, just expect absolute destruction of this Nation.

      The Maga cult has fucked our ability to respond.

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      and we already seeing significant amount of other viral infections going around as of recently because of the lack of protocols and vaccinations. currently theres ones that is going around causing sore throats, last year was the year of covid painful sore throats.

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      If the death rate is actually 30% the lizard brain fear instinct will quickly shut down the monkey brain “dumbshit fuckwad” instinct.

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      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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        yes, in chile they always do campaigns, is a fact of life since forever, so for me it’s quite surprising the global craze about it.

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        different species, variant implies its the same species but different genotype. hantaa virus of korea is a different species than sin nombre of the midwest, and andes virus. the first 2 are quite virulent.

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      All the losers are having sudden flare-ups of their persecution complex and are desperately using something that will never happen to create a feeling of power in their sad empty lives.

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      At the moment, there is no cure or vaccine. Just like with Ebola, until a few years ago when some non-African people got infected, and they suddenly whipped up something.

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      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.