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ApricotNo5051 May 13, 2026 +291

Selfish cow. She knew she was at risk and American health authorities had asked her to self monitor and stay indoors in place but she took 4 flights . This is why we can't trust people to self quarantine. If this turns into a pandemic it will be because of selfish people like her

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MeadowMellow_ May 13, 2026 +107

And the government for not taking the right measures.

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ApricotNo5051 May 13, 2026 +20

100% agree

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Delicious-Window-277 May 13, 2026 +12

WHO and government have failed their duties.

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kohnan May 13, 2026 -25

While I personally agree with you, I feel like if they did take the right measures and forcefully quarantined her and it made the national news, I'm not sure the average person would be okay with it. People tend to not think rationally, especially with all of the deportation stuff happening, forcing someone to do something probably wouldn't go over well.

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MeadowMellow_ May 13, 2026 +19

In Europe we are quarantining them without issues, shouldn't be a problem for USA. This is just taking risks for the sake of it but I mean, your gov probs doesnt care if a few plebs die and they didnt particularly care for their fellow rich during covid either.

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mach1alfa May 13, 2026 +6

aren’t the dutch just letting people self isolate and hope they will stay at home?

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kohnan May 13, 2026 +4

We are still in our feudalism days, need a few hundred more years to figure our shit out.

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MeadowMellow_ May 13, 2026 +2

My condolences.

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narium May 13, 2026 +5

We lost our minds over having to wear masks in public here. Quarantine… eh.

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leela_la_zu May 13, 2026 +11

Yeah USA is literally detaining thousands of people against their will. Mandatory quarantine should be nothing.

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ithinkitslupis May 13, 2026 +42

Yeah, should really be a prison sentence if that's the case that she was told to quarantine or present herself to local health officials. Not sure if any laws directly cover it, maybe reckless endangerment? Really showing the shitshow of how we're still not prepared for the next possible pandemic even if this hantavirus strain isn't likely to cause one because of its lower transmissibility.

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DrakneiX May 13, 2026 +15

There is a good % of people that still denies Covid, same crowd that says vaccines were chips or even say that the covid vaccine actually was the hantavirus hidden. I don't understand how these people were educated in the same country as me.

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Night-Storm May 13, 2026 +41

Average American

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teddycatto May 13, 2026 +5

maga say otherwise xD

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DavidPuddy666 May 13, 2026 +107

Some rich American tourist getting quarantined on Pitcairn sounds like a great sitcom premise.

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Head_Asparagus_7703 May 13, 2026 +1

Catherine O'Hara would've been perfect 😢

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Intotheapocalypse May 13, 2026 +1

Sitcom? Pitcairn is no sitcom location. Try psychological horror.

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DumbMidwesterner1 May 13, 2026 -97

>cruise >rich Choose one

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TheNumberOneRat May 13, 2026 +39

The Hondius isn't a standard c**** holiday cruise. It's a polar expedition ship which is designed to take small groups to Antarctica. It isn't c****.

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mizukagedrac May 13, 2026 +28

If I remember correctly, the cruise they were on runs 16-25k. That was not a poor person's cruise.

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FriendlyArachnid6000 May 13, 2026 +39

Holy shit the lack of awareness, do you think poor Americans are going on cruises? They're barely getting Christmas off these days dude

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serg06 May 13, 2026 -8

Uh yeah, that's pretty standard American culture in warm cities with ports. C**** cruises cost less per night than most hotels. Here's a 5 night Caribbean cruise for under $100/night: [Link](https://www.royalcaribbean.com/cruises?itineraryPanel=FR05MIA-3040554279&country=USA&icid=myfs35_tctclp_myf_hm_hero_4624) People who can't afford a plane ticket + resort just go for a cruise, that's where the "poor" reputation comes from. Obviously that wasn't the case on this INSANELY expensive Antarctica cruise!

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DumbMidwesterner1 May 13, 2026 -61

Yes I do. My poor friends are the group exclusively taking cruises. The ones that can afford actual vacations take those

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Struckmanr May 13, 2026 +13

Cruises are vacations too. You sound like you have no idea what it is like to be like 98% of the human race

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DudeWheresMyCart May 13, 2026 +7

There comes a certain level of wealth that circles back around to cruising as a main form of vacation. Ultra-luxury cruise lines like Silversea, Seabourn, Crystal exist to cater to these people.

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Falloutfan4070 May 13, 2026 +5

Not as poor as me I guess

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FriendlyArachnid6000 May 13, 2026 +15

What a joke, don't even recognize the privelege they have. Gonna run our country into the ground too.

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QuaccDaddy May 13, 2026 +24

For context, the costs of this cruise are like $10k-$36k per person. [Oceanwide Expeditions - MV Hondius](https://oceanwide-expeditions.com/trips/dates-rates?ship=m-v-hondius&year=2028) The average American spends about $2,000 for vacation.

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TheNumberOneRat May 13, 2026 +7

Plus at the lower end of the costs, you're sharing a bunk bed in a room with strangers - something nobody would accept on a standard cruise. I've been to Antarctica on the Hondius' smaller sister ship (the Plancius) and it isn't remotely comparable with a normal cruise. You pay a lot more and sacrifice a lot of comfort (a wonder if the relatively tight conditions help HV transmission) in order to spend more time off the ship on Antarctica or in a zodiac.

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Plenty_Structure_861 May 13, 2026

Your poor friends also fly on airplanes. The difference is, rich people have their own planes, or fly first class, and poor people wear several pairs of underwear to avoid the 40 dollar bag check charge on a d******* airline.

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shumpitostick May 13, 2026 +16

Wait what? Who is this person? Were they on the ship before? The article doesn't say. They flew from San Francisco, so they were leaving the US, not flying into it. But all the Americans which were on the ship are now in Nebraska, are they not?

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ziirex May 13, 2026 +13

A number of people left the boat before it was known to be hantavirus. There are some positives that were found already on their home country like the one in Switzerland.

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No0nesSlickAsGaston May 13, 2026 +14

I only know where this island is because of Tradle and if I get to choose where to de board a ship and start a new country, this place was already taken for that.

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Defiant-Peace-493 May 13, 2026 +8

I was thinking it was involved in Captain Cook's expedition, but he was never there; some of the current residents are descendants of sailors from a certain HMS Bounty.

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cantproveidid May 13, 2026 +6

I think Fletcher Christian chose it because it was misplaced on the charts. He and his men did not want to go home.

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Commercial_Name_7900 May 13, 2026 +1

he and his men would have been hung if they went home lol

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cantproveidid May 13, 2026 +1

Some were, that stayed in Tahiti. https://famous-trials.com/bounty/392-story.

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Lagoon___Music May 13, 2026 +3

Yes and it's still their descendants who live on Pitcairn. Only 47 people total.

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honig_huhn May 13, 2026 +3

I know it from one of the worst true crime documentaries that I’ve ever listened to. I would hat to be stranded there. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pitcairn\_Islands?wprov=sfti1#Sexual\_abuse\_in\_modern\_times

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Lagoon___Music May 13, 2026 +6

Only 47 people on Pitcairn, will get ugly very fast if they get sick.

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TheSpecialApple May 13, 2026 -14

the andes strain is the only strain of hantavirus that is known to spread from person to person and requires close prolonged contact to spread.

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DC-3Purple May 13, 2026 +1

Wow thank you Gemeni.

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Doctor_Saved May 13, 2026 +5

Madagascar still open?

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knick_and_dime May 13, 2026 +16

You know Madagascar has more people than the entire continent of Australia?

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Carbonga May 13, 2026 +9

Today I learned!

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BP080808 May 13, 2026 +1

Tahiti huh, Im sure they have a plan so have some goddam faith!

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honig_huhn May 13, 2026 +2

For everyone not familiar with this island check their wiki page or one of the documentaries. Not a place you wanna be stuck on. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pitcairn\_Islands?wprov=sfti1#Sexual\_abuse\_in\_modern\_times

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Hantavirus 'contact' case quarantined in Pitcairn after short transit in Tahiti

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