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News & Current Events May 11, 2026 at 8:15 PM

12 Employees in Quarantine After Incorrect Handling of a Person Infected With Hantavirus

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Hantavirus: 12 Radboud hospital workers to quarantine due to slack safety measures
NL Times
Hantavirus: 12 Radboud hospital workers to quarantine due to slack safety measures
A dozen workers at the university medical center in Nijmegen will enter a precautionary quarantine after possible exposure to hantavirus. The 12 employees at the Radboudumc hospital were involved in the case of a patient who tested positive for the viral infection after spending time on the Hondius cruise ship, the hospital said in a statement.
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eldasensei1989 May 11, 2026 +10022
I think it's more concerning that they're putting the dutch passengers in home quarantine with blind fate that they'll follow the quarantine guidelines for 6 straight weeks. Surely that'll go by smoothly, right?
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Tribalbob May 11, 2026 +6839
Here in BC, Canada - we basically flew in the 4 people infected on a chartered flight, and then they're being put into pre-arranged lodgings for the full length of time. No contact with anyone else, daily check-ins with our health care professionals. Pretty proud of how my province has handled this.
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gigalbytegal May 11, 2026 +1952
Thank the gods they weren't from Alberta
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RegularGuyAtHome May 11, 2026 +1135
Two people from Alberta had contact with someone who was later diagnosed. They’re taking the personal responsibility approach and monitoring at home. It’s not going to go well if they’re infectious.
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seven0feleven May 12, 2026 +692
"hmmmm I feel fine..." Off to the grocery store I go!
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SpocksLeftNut May 12, 2026 +421
In Alberta it's more likely they'll hit the bar and then a meeting of the brightest minds in Canada
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KriegConscript May 12, 2026 +383
you guys have a texas too, huh
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AWorldwithoutSin May 12, 2026 +84
Some versions of The United States of Canada map put Alberta in Jesusland https://i.redd.it/l9yws6ft6ga41.png
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KriegConscript May 12, 2026 +31
new mexico doesn't deserve to be stuck in jesusland...
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Awkward_Worry8300 May 12, 2026 +32
Arizona and New Mexico are coin tosses. Lots of red sundown towns but the major cities are blue.
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thehedgefrog May 12, 2026 +11
With a heavy dose of Florida
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No_Boysenberry4825 May 12, 2026 +29
> They’re taking the personal responsibility approach and monitoring at home. > > This province sucks so much ass. Our government is crooked and half the population thinks covid didn't even exist.
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goingfullretard-orig May 11, 2026 +174
The body can separate from the virus.
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McFestus May 11, 2026 +300
The body has ways of shutting it down in cases of legitimate infection.
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Aggressive-Stand-585 May 12, 2026 +52
F*** man that quote still fills me with anger. It was such an insane thing to say.
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jollybitx May 11, 2026 +85
Oh the Todd Akin throwback, can’t believe we somehow have someone more useless in that congressional seat now
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WhatAmTrak May 11, 2026 +47
Half of Berta would be infected by now if that was the case lol.
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tenormore May 11, 2026 +53
It has a long incubation period, well all get it in time for Stampede
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shaard May 12, 2026 +29
It would certainly deal with the separatist movement pretty quickly then.
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Wadarkhu May 11, 2026 +119
That's how it should be going everywhere! Well done Canada.
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ahhhahhhahhhahhh May 11, 2026 +194
Um...we have RFK and Dr. Oz down here, so we are all kinda fucked. 
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MsCalendarsPlayaArt May 11, 2026 +58
Don't worry. I'm sure Vitamin D and Methylene Blue will save us 😑
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AlterWanabee May 12, 2026 +35
If all else fails, the good old bleach injection and UV ray to the ass procedures will cure everything. Just ask Doctor Trump...
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Khan_Behir May 12, 2026 +116
By next week, RFK will have Dr Oz prescribe us all 2 weeks worth of ground up racoon p**** and insurance won't pay for it due to preexisting conditions.
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Petermoffat May 12, 2026 +38
That’s not how I read that release, it sounded to me like they’re being told to self isolate and will be monitored daily, but not full time. If the Covid quarantine we went through is any indication of the process, it’s basically an honour system.
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nfornear May 12, 2026 +31
The Dutch news also said they are allowed walks outside every now and then (as long as they wear masks) Some of them have roommates also. It does seem like a bit of too much faith. Especially if you look at how people behaved during Covid in the Netherlands (majority did fine but some didn't follow at all)
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under1over1 May 11, 2026 +82
Are they getting moratoriums on rent/mortgage? I'd be homeless if they locked me up for over a month. Not saying it was a bad call by the province. COVID sucked.
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Four_beastlings May 11, 2026 +109
Idk about Canada but in Spain they are on sick leave and fully paid. I imagine every other country with paid sick leave will do the same.
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Broad-Belt-5888 May 12, 2026 +150
Yea everyone besides the Americans should be 100% fine financially from this. The American patients are likely to get $10 million dollar hospital bills for their month in the hospital.
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HalKitzmiller May 12, 2026 +77
They can ask to have it itemized. That should bring it down to $7 million
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FnordRanger_5 May 12, 2026 +51
If they let it go to collections and ruin their credit they can probably knock it down to 3.5 million
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wrong_reason May 11, 2026 +68
I don’t think these are plebs like you and me. They spent $26k to spend 33 days on this ship. Each. Some of them probably bought their homes with cash lol but still, a moratorium would be fair since they don’t really have much autonomy right now.
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CharmingMechanic2473 May 11, 2026 +33
In US many/most part time jobs and even many fulltime jobs there is no paid sick time.
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fishflo May 12, 2026 +10
All the Canadians flown back to BC are in their 70s and probably retired.
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Breadloafs May 11, 2026 +2430
I got in an argument with a family member a while ago for saying that the next pandemic won't have effective containment measures because public officials are too afraid of conservative pushback. If this makes its way to the US, does *anyone* honestly thing that an RFK-led health department will do anything even remotely effective?
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RealGianath May 11, 2026 +1206
They just won’t tell us how bad it is. This is the administration who believes “no testing” and pretending it will go away on its own is all they got.
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Scared-Hope-868 May 11, 2026 +480
Governor of Iowa eliminated testing during covid. Then bragged about how covid was subsiding because of no more positive tests.
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adambuck66 May 11, 2026 +153
The Iowa Republicans just removed all water nitrate testing, also. It costs $300,000 annually.
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ZumboPrime May 12, 2026 +96
They don't care about the money. They shriek about being "fiscally responsible", but *always* cut responsible sources of revenue while simultaneously increasing spending on anything that doesn't help the average person. Republicans are proving that almost across the board they are vile, selfish human beings that will make people suffer and ruin the environment simply because they can. Decades of workers' rights and environmental protections, and general progress thrown away, all for a little more change in their own pockets.
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basaltgranite May 12, 2026 +28
They don't care about the money. They care about the Iowa farmers using nitrate fertilizers that inconveniently end up in the water supply. If they don't test, the farmers haven't polluted the water. Or at least you can't prove that they have.
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Suyefuji May 12, 2026 +27
It costs *us* $300k annually. It costs Big Agriculture a lot more than that, which is why they're removing it.
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Frankiebeansor May 11, 2026 +277
They’re not even telling us the truth about how bad the economy is
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SuccessfulSpring3354 May 11, 2026 +31
Or how much of a quagmire the Strait of Hormuz is becoming.
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PlanktonMiddle1644 May 11, 2026 +131
Or how literally demented Donnie is
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ShakeAndBakeThatCake May 11, 2026 +69
The economy is K shaped. Older retirees are doing great. People who own homes and locked in sub 3% interest rates are doing well. Everyone else is screwed though.
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Tecumsehs_Revenge May 11, 2026 +53
Everyone else is a slave, stuck in a for profit prison system.
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PhantomPharts May 11, 2026 +22
I have friends in all age brackets. Only my senior friends are having a good time rn. I know 2 unrelated pairs of seniors vacationing this week.
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Trikki1 May 11, 2026 +38
People who own homes at 3% and got laid off and can’t find a job for a year are not doing great.
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frobscottler May 12, 2026 +19
And people who own homes at 3% and became disabled and have been fighting with the SSA for years to get disability insurance…
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VividlyVividViv May 11, 2026 +78
Exactly, the lesson they learned last time is that too much truth got out too fast. They'll keep this quiet and dulled as long as possible.
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Allthemuffinswow May 11, 2026 +24
Which, considering the mortality rate of the different strains of Hanta, that's concerning.
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Serbian-American May 11, 2026 +118
It’s just not possible. If the Andes Virus somehow now spreads as fast as COVID or the flu (which I don’t believe, this is just hypothetical for the Doomers), not a single administration on earth could ignore it. It has a fatality rate between 33% to 40%. People like to meme RFK jr, but it’d literally be the 1300s all over again, it’d be the Black Death. There’s no such thing as not saying how bad it is
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t_huddleston May 11, 2026 +77
I think they'd try as long as possible though. I mean my local hospital had to set beds up in a parking garage during COVID, and everybody still thought it was fake.
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darkmythology May 12, 2026 +44
My sister is a doctor who was in charge of one of those converted garage wards, and my parents *still* insisted it was fake plot but Democrat nazis. The cultists will believe their leader over literally anyone.
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Visual-Hunter-1010 May 11, 2026 +174
> There’s no such thing as not saying how bad it is I mean...have you looked at this admin lately? They 100% would try to bury it, if not outright say the opposite in HOPES it would kill the "right" people.
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Barnaboule69 May 11, 2026 +69
We're talking "corpses piling up in the streets as far as the eye can see" kind of death toll here.
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Piratepizzaninja May 11, 2026 +58
It will be called something different, probably something like a bio weapon, terrorism caused by whoever they need to be the enemy in the moment. The masses will know the truth but the media will spit their talking points and... well I dont really want to continue this line of thinking cuz the next part terrifies me.
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twinoaksBandB May 11, 2026 +52
"Spread from Democrat run inner city abortion/methadone clinics by disgruntled Transgendered Hispanics who were in this country to get free sex changes and vote illegally."
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MarieOMaryln May 11, 2026 +36
"I see those corpses, they showed me the bodies, and I say those are not Americans. Those are people sent in from [insert country here]. Americans don't die from Fanta. I didn't die. Did you die? No. Doesn't exist. Don't believe in it. We're a healthy country, my good friend here said so."
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hexcraft-nikk May 11, 2026 +26
Epstein Files told everyone, with severe redactions and obviously thousands of files not shared, that Epstein was working with the billionaire class to totally destroy world societies and create movements such as MAGA. And nothing of consequence happened. The people implicated hold more power in the US than ever before and nothing will happen to them. Why wouldn't they lie about hantavirus if it got that bad lol, that's not nearly as a big a deal in the grand scheme.
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walleaterer May 11, 2026 +32
yea there is. i still remember trump blaming the very high number of covid cases on "too much testing" lmao
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International-Ing May 11, 2026 +62
From previous outbreaks of the Andes virus, it’s fairly clear that the CFR is really of hospitalized patients. All of the cases in one of the studies were hospitalized, but logically there were some that escaped detection because they were asymptomatic or had mild symptoms. There are definitely asymptomatic carriers (we know this for a fact now in the current outbreak, and even in prior outbreaks it was known that a carrier could be contagious at least two days before symptoms) and people who have mild symptoms that were never detected. MAGA would definitely trivialize 30-40% of hospitalized patients dying as the elderly, or infirm, or just generally not them. Because it would never happen to them. They would be the people who believe they would never had symptoms or just a sniffle. At worst, they’ll view it as a mild cold. They did the exact same thing with Covid when the initial CFR was quite concerning. It’s what they’re doing now and they’re also claiming that even if you get sick it’s no big deal because you can just take ivermectin which will definitely work according to them (with no basis in reality). There’s some quacks in Texas selling it already to people who want to stock up. They’re already trivializing it. Before the asymptomatic patient tested positive, the USA wasn’t planning on testing anyone who was not symptomatic (it’s clear the test occurred in Spain thankfully prior to them getting on the flight) and wasn’t planning on mandatory quarantines for anyone. It’s still not clear what they’re going to do. We also know from past outbreaks that the pcr test only detects the infection about two weeks before symptom onset. Meaning negative does not mean negative.
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oldandbald123 May 11, 2026 +73
You have way too much faith into this administration. FYI, societal collapse is at 5% of your population dead. 30% would literally be a zombie apocalypse type of event. No power, Water, medicines, food, etc
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hanotak May 11, 2026 +36
For historical context, the black plague killed about 50% of Europe.
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Allthemuffinswow May 11, 2026 +14
And the highest rate of one of the strains for this virus? Estimated to be 50% to 60%.
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Insertblamehere May 11, 2026 +12
Aren't these rates for people who receive medical attention too? If even like a tiny fraction of the population gets hantavirus the system collapses and everyone starts dying because the hospitals can't help anyone else
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W0gg0 May 11, 2026 +81
Welp, it’s already in the US, so we’ll find out soon enough.
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Academic-Mud-3374 May 11, 2026 +68
No worries. It is in the US already
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Torrossaur May 11, 2026 +32
If you can't trust a man that beheaded a whale with an axe with public safety measures, who can you trust?
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KlausKinki77 May 11, 2026 +33
I'm absolutely sure they will. *Oh look, the neighbors came over to welcome me back, let me just say hello real quick...*
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Car-face May 11, 2026 +47
IIRC the last time this happened, everyone followed the rules and nothing bad happened and it all blew over in a week or two. But my mind is a bit foggy....
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PurrfectlyNerdy May 11, 2026 +178
Yeah similar thing is planned for the US. This is not a good strategy. Far too many people are selfish and unlikely to stay away from everyone for such a long time. 
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AkieShura99 May 11, 2026 +138
That was an incredibly stupid thing to do. Dutchies always know better. And if you do put them in strict quarantine, they will believe their freedom has been taken away and that it's the worst thing that could ever happen to anyone. We've truly shown our worst side during the pandemic. My worst fear about a new pandemic is not the death and despair, but having to live through another one surrounded by Dutch people. Just thinking about it already pisses me off. Sincerely, a Dutchie who has been born and raised in the Netherlands, and still lives there.
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Degeneratus_02 May 12, 2026 +49
I'd almost prefer that instead of the hypocrites that live in *my* country—Philippines. Like, during the height of the pandemic, on a holiday of some kind, there were people flocking to churches (they were closed, mind you) just so they could pray outside and show off how faithful they were. I mean ffs, what's stopping you people from prayin **inside** your homes where you're **not** endagering the lives of other people??? There's literally no reason for you to do this other than to show off! Christ, there's literally a passage in the bible condemning this kind of behaviour, and I'm an atheist for crying out loud!
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Formal-Apartment855 May 11, 2026 +40
It's the first time ever that I'm thinking of going back to my home country. I just can't. I love the Netherlands, I love Dutch people, but the society here is full of "oh it's just a little training for the immune system" and I'm not here for training my immune system with whatever they want me to train it with.
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stinkbutt55555 May 11, 2026 +17
Blind faith.
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Loni09 May 11, 2026 +1693
*A dozen workers at the university medical center in Nijmegen will enter a precautionary quarantine after possible exposure to hantavirus. The 12 employees at the Radboudumc hospital were involved in the case of a patient who tested positive for the viral infection after spending time on the Hondius cruise ship, the hospital said in a statement.* *The workers at the hospital did not follow a specific, strict protocol when handling the infected patient's blood and urine. Despite the risk of infection being low, the workers will remain in "preventive quarantine for six weeks as a precaution," the hospital wrote on Monday. It has not been revealed whether the people at risk are nurses, orderlies, doctors, medical students, or if they hold other positions...*
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asujch May 11, 2026 +916
“We’re not sure how this could have happened” energy
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Barkinsons May 11, 2026 +618
I've worked in a hospital environment and the answer is almost always that people are lazy. Quarantine protocols are a LOT of work and in a chronically overworked job this often gets half-assed.
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Chance-Day323 May 11, 2026 +215
Wait, there are consequences to short staffing??
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TheRobot99 May 11, 2026 +129
Do not worry, AI will improve both efficiency and moral for everyone!
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Kim_Jong_Unko May 11, 2026 +32
Not for the administrators
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Ganrokh May 12, 2026 +64
My wife gave birth to twins in March. They've been in the NICU since (but doing well)! Seeing the number of redundant checks and the massive amount of info that NICU nurses need to keep track of in order to take care of preemie babies makes it pretty clear how easy it would be for a ball to get dropped somewhere. I respect any healthcare worker able to keep up with protocols like that.
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-t-t- May 11, 2026 +70
It's like the entire world learned nothing from COVID. Honestly, whenever something truly serious does end up hitting, we're all fucked (except maybe the Kiwis).
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Memitim May 12, 2026 +16
Enough wealthy folks learned that a whole lot of people can needlessly die without them having to take accountability for their direct involvement in impeding and complicating response by local healthcare orgs, stealing supplies, and lying all along the way about damned near everything. Now they're better prepared to take advantage and claim even more of our collective resources for themselves.
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kaoutanu May 12, 2026 +8
Unfortunately we have our own home grown morons down here, and some of them have taken over the government 🤦‍♀️
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Lucky-Reason-569 May 11, 2026 +33
Not sure about hospitals in other countries but in the United States the answer is almost always chronic severe short staffing.
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AntiMatter89 May 11, 2026 +159
I work in infection control and this doesn't surprise me in the slightest. Healthcare workers, IME, are pretty terrible with infection prevention protocols. 
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Vellichorosis May 12, 2026 +52
I am an MLT, so I work in a lab with blood and urine. You would be surprised at how little doctors and admin tell us anything about specimens. Its a common joke that everyone forgets that the lab exists. We are always forgotten or an after thought. I would bet money no one told the lab people about the possibly infectious samples, so they just ran them as normal with minimal PPE.
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Orchid_Significant May 12, 2026 +18
Imagine cutting a 30 second corner and now you are stuck in a 6 week quarantine hahaha
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Blueboygonewhite May 11, 2026 +15
Not surprised at all. I’ve never seen people take proper infection precautions when it’s indicated consistently in the Hosptial. It’s not enforced so complacency develops and people are lazy af. I said a few days ago “watch them mishandle the precautions and the workers spread it.” Unfortunately too predictable.
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Indole_pos May 11, 2026 +269
Ah, lab workers. Curious if they were given a heads up. I work in clinical microbiology and they did not warn us of a certain organism being on the differential diagnosis. The specimen arrived in a cracked tube. People were also exposed in other parts of the lab due to this not being communicated.
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SealthyHuccess May 12, 2026 +179
I can't tell you how many emails I've gotten that read something like "lmao remember that er patient you had five weeks ago? Well they had a horrific and highly contagious illness. Better run along to employee health! XOXO get fukt Love, Management"
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Haystack67 May 12, 2026 +87
"We would've let you know earlier but we just got back from our week long lunch break. You know how it is!"
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stingeragent May 11, 2026 +60
I got dropped off a csf specimen. No tags on the bag or anything. Hopped on the patient chart to check all the orders and the dx was to rule out CJD. 
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shakeyshake1 May 12, 2026 +42
I think I interpreted this correctly by looking up the first abbreviation. Brain fluid for mad cow disease?
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dogfaced_pony_soulja May 12, 2026 +43
correct, cerebrospinal fluid for the prion disease commonly known as mad cow disease.
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Mean_Insect_6995 May 12, 2026 +13
That’s f****** crazy.. that’s the one that needs to be handled so carefully. Dear god.
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MeijiDoom May 12, 2026 +35
It's an illness where contact has the potential to cause 100% fatal prion disease that is horrifying and traumatic. Crazy that such a specimen wouldn't be labeled.
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mochafrappa May 12, 2026 +17
I work in clinical microbiology too. Sometimes it really does feel like I'm rolling the dice with each specimen that comes in lol.
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AliceLunar May 11, 2026 +1560
Whilst I get this isn't anything like covid, I don't get why they just can't take it more seriously for a couple weeks and be done with it instead of this weird casual approach to it that is going to have this simmer on for a while for no good reason.
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Formal-Apartment855 May 11, 2026 +308
It's Dutch people, everyone else should give up expectations on how the authorities will handle it here. They prefer freedoms over lives.
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Covfefetarian May 12, 2026 +39
Sadly, I agree. Can’t wait to live through another season of pandemic inc in this country. This time around, however, I can see the hospital this article talks about from my window, so I’ll be right there when we get started again.
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Prairiegirl321 May 12, 2026 +97
One major problem is that it’s a lot more than a couple of weeks. The incubation period can be as long as \*eight\* weeks. That’s a mighty long time to isolate and have no contact with anyone, especially if you’re feeling fine and don’t really believe that you are infected. And now it sounds a lot more contagious than they’ve been letting on, plus the 35% to 50% fatality rate. That’s well over ten times the fatality rate for Covid when it first got started. Yikes!
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ThatDudeShadowK May 12, 2026 +112
2 months is a small ask to make sure they don't accidentally kill someone. We can give them all the food and entertainment budget they need during those 2 months, it'd be a rounding error on a nations budget, and could prevent human lives being lost.
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Covfefetarian May 12, 2026 +41
You are right, but this still won’t fly with lotsa Dutch folks. People have and will again prefer their personal comfort over the safety of others.
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Lapcat420 May 11, 2026 +775
Is it just me- or did they literally empty that ship and send everyone back home to their countries all over the world? Why can't I get games like this in plague inc.
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stephalupagus May 11, 2026 +166
Did anybody make it into Madagascar?
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ssm316 May 12, 2026 +110
They already closed their borders. You will need to evolve the virus.
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LeonAguilez May 12, 2026 +28
Or even better the notorious Greenland?
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BigDickedAngel May 12, 2026 +131
Lol exactly what im thinking...this is exactly what you don't do.  Like...it was contained on a floating box in the ocean...you started with the best possible conditions
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Rocketeer006 May 12, 2026 +21
It's incredibly idiotic. People don't want to be inconvenienced, but they sure as shit are going to pay for this.
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Conscious_Friend7602 May 12, 2026 +30
You'll never win with this high of a mortality rate so early
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Lunarcomplex May 11, 2026 +1191
New Animal Crossing better be ready to drop
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JustSatisfactory May 11, 2026 +165
We have Tomodachi Life this time. 
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kindnesswillkillyou May 11, 2026 +41
Omg it's really happening 😬
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Rich_Bluejay3020 May 11, 2026 +196
Pokopia just came out in March… And every story about this gets me one step closer to buying it lol
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RareAnxiety2 May 12, 2026 +64
There's something comfy about playing a game set after humanity is wiped out.
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Train_Wreck_272 May 12, 2026 +12
If you get nostalgic at all for Pokemon, it is absolutely worth buying. Best Pokemon game to come out in a very long while.
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ryonnsan May 11, 2026 +118
Animal Dropping
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TheRobot99 May 11, 2026 +27
Tomodachi Life: Living the Dream and Pokopia are here to save us from boredom!
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OhhNoYouNintenDidnt May 11, 2026 +115
"Never underestimate the predictability of stupidity"
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classicnikk May 11, 2026 +402
I’m quitting my healthcare job this time. F*** going through this again lol
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Juxix May 12, 2026 +178
The fact that pretty much everyone save very young children have Covid in living memory and this shit is STILL happening is absurd.
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inucune May 12, 2026 +68
Massive survivor bias. "I didn't get covid, my immune system is build different!" [person who totally got covid and claims they had a severe flu.]
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oops_all_memes May 12, 2026 +17
Misdiagnosis played a role in that as well I'm sure. I was diagnosed with pneumonia in 2020 by a doctor who when I asked "Should I be concerned about covid?" replied to me "There's no such thing as covid", refusing testing and any covid protocol We were two months into covid shutdown. As in "you can't leave house" shutdown How many people were diagnosed by that single doctor and how many of them recovered to spread the idea that covid was a hoax? How many of the people spread the idea to other people? How many doctors like the one I met are around?
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astralseat May 11, 2026 +70
Good to see we learned absolutely nothing from COVID
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T-Mart-J May 11, 2026 +775
Is all of this actually worrisome or is it just being over reported because of covid ptsd? Genuine question.
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Tricky_Condition_279 May 11, 2026 +229
From what I have read, it’s highly unlikely to cause a pandemic in its current form. The big concern is recombination with a highly contagious virus or a mutation that increases transmission rates.
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Eeeef_ May 12, 2026 +277
Not taking this seriously is a lethal gamble. Even if the odds of it actually becoming an issue are small the consequences are devastating and these early countermeasures will cost us almost nothing.
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HistoryBuff678 May 12, 2026 +135
Best comment. Anyone considering gambling with a virus of 40% fatality rate is foolish. Downplaying this virus is gambling.
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WittyTiger7 May 12, 2026 +33
Exactly my thoughts. Why the f*** not take it seriously? What do you have to lose? The World Cup?
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eisenburg May 12, 2026 +88
I feel like that was what was said during the early Covid days. Nothing to worry about out. It’s contained and early sick people are being monitored and quarantined.
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SaltMage5864 May 11, 2026 +400
It's mainly an overreaction. Hanta isn't nearly as contagious as covid. It's also a lot worse if you do get it so it makes a lot of sense too keep an eye on anyone who you think might be exposed
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beanpoppa May 11, 2026 +468
Pros- Not nearly as contagious Cons- Very long incubation period, 40% mortality rate
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LoganNolag May 11, 2026 +514
God it was the easiest thing in the world to contain. Just keep the damn boat parked in the middle of the ocean for 6 weeks and don’t let anyone off. It’s how they treated infected boats for all of history.
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salt-her-mouth May 12, 2026 +279
The (now dead of hantavirus) widow of the first man who died on the cruise was on two planes as she tried to fly home with his body. She was removed from the second plane because she was too visibly ill and she died the next day. [https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/other/race-to-trace-dozens-of-people-who-were-on-flight-with-widow-who-died-of-rat-virus-after-landing/ar-AA22stxI](https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/other/race-to-trace-dozens-of-people-who-were-on-flight-with-widow-who-died-of-rat-virus-after-landing/ar-AA22stxI) Those passengers from those 2 planes, who came into contact with this visibly sick woman have returned home by now. Some of them have been identified. Two are from my state and are not under any quarantine orders but my governor says they're being "monitored." These 200ish people walking around now in multiple countries all over the world are who we should be concerned about. Still, you're correct. Lock these people down now.
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ValveFan6969 May 12, 2026 +215
Motherfuckers will pick up the worst virus and suddenly have more daily flights than Taylor Swift.
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cinnabunnyrolls May 12, 2026 +39
The virus causes a shift in behavior such as the tendency to go on unplanned holidays. Gotta call it the travel bug
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Physicle_Partics May 12, 2026 +18
Doesn't the Plague Inc Brain Worm have a trait that makes the person impulsive and adventurous and thus more likely to go on spontaneous holidays?
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glasser999 May 12, 2026 +20
It really is something. Just once in my life, I want to get on a plane and not have 5 people hacking their lungs out in my immediate vicinity. Hot take: You shouldn't be allowed on planes if you're sick. Or just stuff them in the luggage bay.
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LoganNolag May 12, 2026 +96
Seems like a mistake letting anyone leave the boat after a mysterious illness killed someone. In a post Covid world I feel like it should be standard practice to not let anyone off until it's clear it isn't some contagious disease.
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PaperMoonShine May 12, 2026 +38
We just had a Pandemic, surely everyone knows what not to do if exposed...
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turquoise_amethyst May 12, 2026 +76
No no… let’s dock it on an island, surely no rats or mice will hop off the ship and mingle with the island ones or get eaten by seagulls or anything!
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Itonlyitwasthe90s May 12, 2026 +26
Exactly!! And so soon after the last pandemic it's not like anyone in the whole world isn't aware of how fast something can spread. And how little most people believe it will happen to them. They should have all been made to stay on the damn ship no matter what until the incubation period had passed.
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cryfmunt May 12, 2026 +65
But the people on the boat are important and need to get back to the office you ding dong!
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UnchainedSora May 12, 2026 +34
The problem is it can take up to 6 weeks for someone to become sick, which means *every time* someone gets sick it restarts the 6 week timer. It easily could become several months or even over a year.
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LoganNolag May 12, 2026 +49
So what? The inconvenience of a few people is worth not starting another plague.
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Orzorn May 11, 2026 +168
Why were these people being taken off the ship and then out of the country they docked in? They flew them all around the world just to release them each to their countries. I'm almost prepared to call it malicious with how ridiculous it sounds. And yes, I am well aware they're supposed to be following quarantine procedures, and this article is a great example as to how all the holes in this Swiss cheese of a process can line up to f*** it all up.
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fifi_la_fleuf May 11, 2026 +62
Total f****** clowns. Again.
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JMDeutsch May 11, 2026 +116
The stupid timeline has officially entered “vibe-quarantining”
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Arwenti May 11, 2026 +106
“The team is specialized and trained in the care of patients with severe infectious diseases.” But there are 12 people who will now be quarantining because they didn’t follow protocol for handling blood and urine samples. So will the team looking after them follow the protocols?
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Buckles01 May 11, 2026 +46
Of all things to not follow protocol for… let me just grab this other persons piss and blood without wearing gloves
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va_wanderer May 11, 2026 +85
It's almost as if they're trying to start a pandemic or something.
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-_-0_0-_0 May 11, 2026 +47
"Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity"
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anah007 May 11, 2026 +74
I think I’ve seen this film before and I didn’t like the ending
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shakeyshake1 May 12, 2026 +16
Now these workers are in exile for 6 weeks.
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TopChard1274 May 11, 2026 +32
It's a disaster unfolding live. Astonishing the willing of humanity to shot itself in the foot again 
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MaximusHomerdrive May 11, 2026 +100
It really is just dumb luck that the human race is still around with how inherently stupid we are.
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-Clem-Fandango- May 12, 2026 +39
Turns out we're just really good at breeding
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digitalallstar May 11, 2026 +30
This is gonna be a problem isn’t it?
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Arcturion May 12, 2026 +29
This is why I don't agree with the dispersal of the passengers to all their respective countries. All of them should have ideally been quarantined together at one location. Every country receiving the passengers becomes an additional risk and potential hotspot for further infection. The authorities can promise all they like about how safe and secure their procedures are, but as shown in this article, humans make mistakes. Making sure the procedures are complied with in the 12 or so countries receiving passengers is a logistical nightmare.
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Kaffe-Mumriken May 11, 2026 +203
We got pandemic 2 before GTA6
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heroman3 May 11, 2026 +323
LMAO doing their best in trying to cause a pandemic from a disease that is not supposed to become pandemic. Jesus christ.
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navetzz May 11, 2026 +22
After covid you'd think we'd be a little more careful with pandemic threats. But no, we let people go back home and "self quarantine" sick people.
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asmj May 12, 2026 +24
Protocols from a pandemic 6 years ago already forgotten, no lessons learned?
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multic94 May 11, 2026 +72
Sure are a whole lot of people getting infected for something thats "nearly impossible" to spread. No worries of a pandemic for sure lmao
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Alt123Acct May 11, 2026 +118
Idk I bought a bunch of purell and they had n95 masks for 50 cents a box at Walgreens when RFK was confirmed a year ago. 
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bass248 May 11, 2026 +18
Are they in quarantine for 8 weeks?
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Loni09 May 11, 2026 +19
6 weeks.
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howlongwillthislast_ May 11, 2026 +141
For fucks sake
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windingsand May 11, 2026 +25
2026 is the year of deep sighs
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B-Town-MusicMan May 11, 2026 +53
Not to worry, we fired everyone at the CDC so our numbers are going to look spectacular 🤡
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Ritual619 May 11, 2026 +14
As a type 1 diabetic who lives in the U.S. I might as well get my affairs in order.
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Fukarund May 12, 2026 +12
That’s the problem…… trusting idiots to be responsible lol
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anomanderrake1337 May 11, 2026 +34
Humans are like the dumbest animals on earth.
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Special-Committee100 May 11, 2026 +49
I do not have enough air in my lungs to scream loud enough I TOLD YOU SO. Of the 20+ chains of custody, some of which are branching out even within the same country, some are bound to fail. There was never a good reason to distribute everyone all over the planet. They should have quarantine insitu. And f*** you Tedros.
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Afb3212 May 11, 2026 +102
Shouldn't have let them off that damn boat. Do what you have to do to deliver supplies, but don't let them off the boat.
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Only-Operation-2728 May 11, 2026 +39
Too late, 80% of the people on the boat are off.
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Afb3212 May 11, 2026 +28
I know. I was swearing at the news when they said two of them were already in Virginia.
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Foxtrot_Uniform_CK69 May 12, 2026 +12
You can't help but laugh at utter stupidity sometimes
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IlIlllIlllIlIIllI May 12, 2026 +11
I swear to God if we have to do this shit again
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moschles May 12, 2026 +8
> In addition, it became clear on Saturday, May 9, that the most up-to-date international regulations had not been followed during the disposal of the patient's urine { Dumps the hantavirus infected urine in a drinking fountain. Washes it down with a water bottle. } "That'll do."
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TheParadoxigm May 12, 2026 +8
We have learned nothing. Great.
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ShittyLivingRoom May 12, 2026 +9
Stupid idiots... the boat was supposed to be the quarantine center, not spread it all over the world!
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Future_Literature_70 May 12, 2026 +9
The Daily Mirror (UK) ran a story yesterday that showed one of the people being evacuated with their mask dangling off their ears (while they were sitting in the bus). Doesn't bode well if they're that slack in public. I don't trust people like that to self-quarantine properly. [https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/hantavirus-cruise-passengers-mask-quarantine-37137657](https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/hantavirus-cruise-passengers-mask-quarantine-37137657)
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sovietarmyfan May 11, 2026 +46
At this point we're speedrunning to the next pandemic. If other countries were to completely block all flights with the Netherlands i wouldn't even blame them. It's very sloppy how my country has been handling this virus so far. \- Relying on hope that the home quarantined passengers won't go out. \- Hospital workers being sloppy with the rules. What's next? "100 new cases discovered by Saturday"?
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grnrngr May 12, 2026 +11
Meanwhile the United States has a specialized facility with 20 negative-pressure hotel rooms in a quarantine building designed to house people with very contagious infections. And *they're* the ones that don't have free healthcare. The irony!
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_Xee May 11, 2026 +16
I'm pretty sure a lot of people miss the 2020-2022 hole in time and a total social paradigm shift.
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TheEpicRedCape May 12, 2026 +20
If you worked medical or retail/hospitality/other people facing jobs you just got super fucked during that whole time while being called a “hero” constantly. None of us got any “paradigm shift” it was just hell, only people with cushy jobs got to stay home and play video games all day.
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sharon_dis May 11, 2026 +10
I feel like nobody learned anything from Covid.
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HolyButtNuggets May 12, 2026 +7
These people lived through COVID and they still managed to f*** it up. Incredible.
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Background_Cycle7676 May 12, 2026 +9
so...we're all in agreement that this shit is deliberate, no?
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BlueberryNo6811 May 12, 2026 +9
Such a good idea to spread the infected around the world instead of a quarantine inside the boat
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HSasaki May 11, 2026 +17
it's season 2 baby
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HardcoreKaraoke May 12, 2026 +16
>The workers at the hospital did not follow a specific, strict protocol when handling the infected patient's blood and urine. Despite the risk of infection being low, the workers will remain in "preventive quarantine for six weeks as a precaution," the hospital wrote on Monday. It has not been revealed whether the people at risk are nurses, orderlies, doctors, medical students, or if they hold other positions. Yet the WHO tells us to not worry. It's obvious they just don't want to cause a public panic but things are feeling eerily similar to early covid. Except now we have one direct source so we can all track the mishandling of it. People being flown home in public airports, people being told to quarantine but basing it totally on blind faith. Things are going to get bad. They did not handle this well and with how anti-vax/anti-science the current US administration is we definitely won't see any serious action happen here. So if they're butchering the handling of samples in other countries I'm not hopeful.
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5L0pp13J03 May 12, 2026 +9
I suspect it will get the same exact downplay Covid did. Along with the same exact doubling down in the face of overwhelming evidence to the contrary
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Cold_Specialist_3656 May 11, 2026 +78
Letting these people off the ship might turn out to be one of the worst decisions in the history of our species .  Why didn't we air drop them food, fuel up the ship, and let them cruise around for a few months?????? The ship is specifically designed for long term habitation away from land.  Most of them had already been sailing on it for a month!!! What's the big deal about another month??? 100 bucks says they were disembarked after numerous bribes from the cruise industry. 
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Flimsy-Sprinkles7331 May 11, 2026 +65
Wait until you learn we have fully equipped hospital ships that weren't utilized...
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fifi_la_fleuf May 11, 2026 +24
I thought, after the last six years, I could no longer feel let down by the level of stupidity that's possible from the very people we trust to make smart decisions and keep us safe. I was wrong.
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