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Safety_Drance May 10, 2026 +1562

Smash cut to the opening of 28 Days Later.

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Alternative-Ending_ May 10, 2026 +161

Two passengers from the cruise ship left the day the wife of the first guy who died got off the cruise. They were on the ship for 3 weeks. They are in Houston and have been roaming around without quarantine of any kind. Their temperatures are being monitored.

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stupidio_the_return May 10, 2026 +44

Just drink brawndo it's what plants crave.

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PinkCigarettes May 10, 2026 +8

I’m NotSure

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JJBeans_1 May 10, 2026 +88

Complimentary hantavirus outbreak compliments of DOGE CDC.

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Rinaldootje May 11, 2026 +7

The Dutch passengers are in daily contact with the local health health organization. But are "required" to self isolate for 6 weeks at home. At the same time, it was announced they are free to go outside if they wish to do so. So yeh up until that point the "requirement" to self isolate.

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SuperSuppleDude May 10, 2026 +11

Similar thing happened during Trump’s first term with Covid being brought back on cruise ships and airplanes.

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cantstandya100 May 11, 2026 +1

The movie backed by Soros?

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CreekPrincessBitch May 12, 2026 +2

Same thing with a passenger who flew back home to Arizona that day. But they won’t say where in Arizona that person lives. Which is double fucked, because if you’re gonna leave them to roam free and “self-monitor”, at least tell us which city so we can protect ourselves.

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Old_Boah May 10, 2026 +3

Yeah that’s normal. Hanta is not going to spread widely.

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Alternative-Ending_ May 10, 2026 +10

I'm confused what your point is by saying it's not going to spread widely. Are you saying you don't care about the ppl in Houston that may be exposed? Just because it's not a mass casualty event doesn't mean it should be normal to let ppl with a deadly contagious disease walk around freely

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Old_Boah May 10, 2026 +20

\>They are in Houston and have been roaming around without quarantine of any kind. Their temperatures are being monitored. I'm saying the method of observation is normal. They don't need to live in a bubble. They're not being irresponsible. Hanta does not spread widely. It's not like COVID. As long as they are responsible and check in with health authorities and follow their advice there's no broad risk. Get your COVID shot and flu shot each year and vote for robust social wellfare and healthcare programs. Those things are far, far bigger killers right now than Hantavirus. \>Just because it's not a mass casualty event doesn't mean it should be normal to let ppl with a deadly contagious disease walk around freely COVID will kill more people this summer than Hantavirus.

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BritishAnimator May 10, 2026 +68

All those immune carrier's sticking their heads through the smashed door shouting HEY HONEY, IM HOME! Oh wait, noooooo, that's a Mandela effect!

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Valianne11111 May 10, 2026 +6

More like that movie with Gwyneth Paltrow, Contagion.

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kookiemaster May 10, 2026 +576

Meanwhile Madagascar and Greenland are ripping their hairs out "wtf people ... close everything, close it now!"

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sultan-of-ping May 10, 2026 +120

Hello fellow gamer of culture

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CronosWorks May 10, 2026 +6

Madagascar always wins.

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Mike_Huncho May 10, 2026 +6

Not if thats where you start

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kookiemaster May 10, 2026 +6

Then Greenland gets you.

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pinklavalamp May 10, 2026 +4

I just keep all symptoms hidden until 1 case on each island and then boom! Overnight takeover with the superspreader.

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JConRed May 10, 2026 +204

How about no? You keep them there in isolation until they are cleared And the whole crew too.

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CaptainObvious110 May 10, 2026 +37

Exactly, that's what would make sense. Keep it contained and not allowed to spread all over the world.

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Spiritual-Matters May 10, 2026 +13

But someone has to pay for that. It would be a lot cheaper for all governments to fund it, but instead they’ll let it spread and cut billions off the economy

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CaptainObvious110 May 11, 2026 +2

Multiple countries that the people come from could pay for it.

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Fast_Grass_5178 May 11, 2026 +2

This is what makes the most sense to me too, genuinely seems like the most plausible scenario.

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Dblcut3 May 10, 2026 +816

I’m tired of everyone in the comments still failing to understand Hantavirus simply doesn’t present the same threat of mass-transmission that COVID did

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Operation_Neither May 10, 2026 +620

Why stick to facts when mass panic is an option?

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rocketbunny77 May 10, 2026 +158

We want an escape from our lives. That's why

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Qyuus1 May 10, 2026 +36

So when can I escape? I need this escape real bad

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Philip_Marlowe May 10, 2026 +38

Do you like piña coladas and getting caught in the rain?

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ZenoxDemin May 10, 2026 +20

I'm not much into health food I am into champagne

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Feckless_Moron May 10, 2026 +6

I'm rather fond of making love at midnight in the dunes on the cape.

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GuruPandaPrisonBear May 10, 2026 +5

Come with me and escape!

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internetdeadaf May 10, 2026 +2

Ooo… hate to say it but the actual message to that song is you already have what you feel is missing and are looking for, and the secret is learning to be more open and appreciate what you have 😬

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lookingup9 May 10, 2026 +14

Idk about other people… but I don’t want an escape from my life into contemplation about a hantavirus pandemic, which is basically my worst nightmare scenario

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rach15goated May 10, 2026 +17

I’m the same, but I think for certain types of people the idea of another pandemic is a stimulating and novel escape from their miserable and boring lives I personally know people who are so bored and empty that they spend their free time researching terrifying conspiracy theories and secretly long for WW3 Many people would rather be scared than bored

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BMonad May 10, 2026 +5

Same; world wars, economic collapse, deadly pandemics, alien invasion, etc. Keep in mind this is also Listnook and the vocal minority here could easily be medicated or undiagnosed for severe depression, sociopathy, schizophrenia, etc.

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VersaceSamurai May 10, 2026 +6

Yeah I think most of it is people just wanting a return to the freedom we had during Covid lmao probably the last time many of us enjoyed free time or took a “vacation”

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Rich_Housing971 May 10, 2026 +3

so go watch a movie or something instead of spreading medical misinformation and FUD.

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Firestorm0x0 May 10, 2026 +1

Let's just do a lockdown flashmob

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myetel May 10, 2026 +2

That’s one way to bring down gas prices.

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Commonpigfern May 10, 2026 +430

And yet it has spread in the environment of the cruise ship and it does represent a 40% fatality rate. Yes it's not COVID. No a ship full of potential carriers should not be sent back home until they have shown they're not a threat.

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snark-owl May 10, 2026 +401

Ya, it doesn't have to be global pandemic level for us to want these people to quarantine *before* they get on a plane. Even just one other death that could be avoided through quarantine is a good enough reason.

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Maybe_In_Time May 10, 2026 +86

It just reminds you that if organizations and governments can’t work together to quarantine a cruise ship - pretty much the ideal environment to have to deal with - over a deadly virus outbreak…they seem to the general public like they’re ineffective and unprepared for the Big One 2.0

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chokokhan May 10, 2026 +62

I don’t understand. They’re already in the perfect quarantined environment. Just keep them on the damn boat until they’re cleared.

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DoctorJJWho May 10, 2026 +25

Seriously, it’s where the word “quarantine” even comes from!!

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BadahBingBadahBoom May 10, 2026 +14

40 days and 40 nights. Even before people knew anything about germ theory, transmission or infection routes, this worked very effectively. I mean sometimes most of the people on the boat also died but everyone on land was fine lol.

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RozeTank May 10, 2026 +4

Except now we know about germ theory, and a lot more, so we don't have to be so draconian. Also, we can actually treat the sick people safely.

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RozeTank May 10, 2026 +1

Probably because keeping them all cooped up on a boat would be difficult. What happens when a passenger needs actual treatment? Then you have to try and get medical staff into a contaminated environment to get them out. It might sound crazy, but getting the people off the ship and into actual quarantine areas with actual medical equipment is probably safer. This isn't yet COVID, we have the luxury of trying to save everybody. Also, its only a perfect quarantined environment if you automatically decide everyone onboard is infected. That is by no means guaranteed.

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simanthropy May 10, 2026 +1

Doesn’t really work unless every single person on the ship quarantines from each other… which is extremely difficult/impossible on the ship.

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orobsky May 10, 2026 +3

I think this is why you couldn't just shut the world down for 14 days or whatever during covid. Family members would be infecting each other and would probably require like a 60 day quarantine or so

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canonanon May 10, 2026 +1

Yeah, basically a bunch of people who don't have it will end up with it by the end.

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BoolImAGhost May 10, 2026 +4

Just an FYI, the “pan” in pandemic implies global. “Global pandemic” is redundant

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BadahBingBadahBoom May 10, 2026 +10

> *before* they get on a plane. Should point out they're being returned on specialised small infection-control aircraft that are chartered. Not commercial flights.

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tears_of_fat_thor May 10, 2026 +6

But infected people already were on a couple of commercial flights. Airline 4Z 132. And the other ship passengers who already disembarked.

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BadahBingBadahBoom May 10, 2026 +3

>But infected **people** already were on a couple of commercial flights. Source for this? The only person confirmed to be infected who took a commercial flight was the Dutch wife of the husband who first died. That was one person not people. And at that was 7 days before anyone knew this was a suspected hantavirus outbreak. Two suspected cases from the her second KLM flight she never ended up taking have since both tested negative. Nobody on her first flight you cited I believe has tested positive or is a suspected case as of now. There was one more case today of a French citizen who started to develop symptoms whilst on a evacuation flight from the Canary Islands to France but as I said that was [**not a commercial flight**](https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c3r2p70jdy7o). Every other person who was potentially exposed on the ship and went on to take a commercial flight disembarked back on 24 April before anyone even knew they were at risk of spreading hantavirus (and before even the wife started showing symptoms). It would be bit harsh tbh to criticise them retrospectively for getting on a commercial flight at that point with none even showing symptoms.

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a500poundchicken May 10, 2026 +4

I don’t know about other places but four are returning to my home province in Canada and are being quarantined the whole time. In a plane with no other passengers to my understanding

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El_Tormentito May 10, 2026 +42

People said the same shit ad nauseum about COVID for weeks. It's not airborne! Bullshit.

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bm_200659 May 10, 2026 +15

WHO & CDC did a huge disservice to science by trying to "calm" people down by downplaying COVID communicability. Then again in their "investigation" into how it started.

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ODaysForDays May 10, 2026 +7

Who said covid wasn't airborne? It was known to be SARS-like from day 1...SARS being very contagious. It was the effects I remember being drastically downplayed.

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El_Tormentito May 10, 2026 +21

WHO said it wasn't airborne. That statement caused an enormous amount of public damage. That you can't remember it isn't my fault.

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user_of_the_week May 10, 2026 +11

I just wanted to back you up here, they did say that. Maybe it‘s easier to remember if you think about the cloth masks we made because we thought it would avoid spreading via droplets.

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ODaysForDays May 10, 2026 +5

> That you can't remember it isn't my fault. Not remembering it is why I asked

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cubsgirl101 May 10, 2026 +2

That’s not even true it was only the CDC who downplayed Covid. WHO was already recommending quarantines etc and within three weeks of it hitting east Asia, government health bodies were issuing urgent warnings.

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BrucetheFerrisWheel May 10, 2026 +11

It was the WHO that advised countries to not close borders

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El_Tormentito May 10, 2026 +11

WHO said it wasn't airborne.

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swallowyourtongue May 10, 2026 +15

For real, people have seemingly forgotten that two things can be true at once. Also, I remember a lot of pre covid discourse about it being overblown, that it would get handled, people were panicking for nothing. If I were in a leadership position, I wouldn't make the same mistake twice.

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Honest-Grab5209 May 11, 2026 +1

Yep....sure was...bs radar is activated......lotta lies told then....and sounds similar...

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fansonly May 10, 2026 +5

And nobody is mentioning that there is a significant background seroprevenlance in Chile for example leading people to believe that there are many non lethal infections that go unreported which is exaggerating the fatality rate.

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poop-machines May 10, 2026 -10

Bro on cruise ships, during norovirus outbreaks, sometimes 80% of people on the ship get it. Measles can spread to people 100m away. Even Covid spread to people 20m away in a superspreader event. This was on a cruise ship, the worst place to be during a virus outbreak, and just 8 people got it out of almost 200. Its not very scary at the moment. Unless the doubling rate picks up, this will lose steam.

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Sciuridaeno3 May 10, 2026 +44

Yeah, where are you getting this 900 people number? A quick search shows 147 people on board, which includes staff and crew.

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DoctorJJWho May 10, 2026 +21

They edited to “almost 200” so they’re still being disingenuous lol.

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Sciuridaeno3 May 10, 2026 +14

Lol. It really hurt their "less than 1%" argument.

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LadyCheeba May 10, 2026 +34

there weren’t 900 people on this ship, there were 150

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shakeyshake1 May 10, 2026 +27

The incubation period can last up to six weeks. It’s way too early to judge who could end up with it. It’s not like a typical virus where if you’re exposed, it would be obvious in a couple of days.

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lardman150 May 10, 2026 +33

Just 8 people....so far. That's the problem people have with this decision.

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Trail_Goat May 10, 2026 +8

All of this is wrong.

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Lamuks May 10, 2026 +129

And? Ebola also isn't exactly as mass transmitable as Covid but we absolutely cause panic because it's so deadly. I remember working at a hospital during one of the Ebola outbreaks and even if there no cases in Europe other than in Spain I was terrified

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zetstar May 10, 2026 +39

Ebola is much more deadly and much more easily spread by bodily fluids.

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Lamuks May 10, 2026 +81

No, Ebola is far more _understood_ on how it transmits. With hanta we don't even really know the exact timing and when and how. That said Ebola is terrifying, I was working with tools back then and the thought of accidently touching my face or something with dirty gloves was existential.

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MissMormie May 10, 2026 -5

I'm sorry you were terrified. But your emotions aren't a good way of determining actual risk. Not for ebola and not now. The people returning to their himes are quarantined, just in their homes instead of on a ship. This is also not a new virus, there's about 300 deaths from it every year and it hasn't caused major outbreaks any of if those times. Why would it now in a much more controlled environment.

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No_Conversation_9325 May 10, 2026 +8

The Spanish are being quarantined in a military hospital special unit, not in their homes.

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Rrraou May 10, 2026 +5

Makes sense. Don't trust people to do the right thing. They will disappoint you every time.

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Garbage_Out_Of_Here May 10, 2026 +1

How are they getting home?

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Eldar_Atog May 10, 2026 +2

Well.. RFK is sending a fleet of transport planes filled with immunocompromised individuals and then loading 1 cruise passenger on each plane. Then speciity air masks will be used to insure each passenger breathes airborne spittal from each other passenger. Afterward arriving in Atlanta, each passenger will be flown home on flights with at least 10 connecting flights to insure maximum coverage. The worm has been quoted as saying the plan is fool proof.

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No_Conversation_9325 May 10, 2026 +1

Evacuation flights. Only US and Australia left by now. The Netherlands will also pick up abandoned citizens of other countries.

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Alarming_Ask_244 May 10, 2026 +40

What threat would it pose if we left them on the ship for a few more weeks?

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No_Conversation_9325 May 10, 2026 +26

Threat to their lives should they develop symptoms. Plus higher chance of transmission because the ship doesn’t have quarantine level isolation between passengers

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Dblcut3 May 10, 2026 +11

Well first off, the healthy people on the ship would have a much higher likelihood of dying when we easily could have prevented that

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Eitarris May 10, 2026 +74

Yet it also has a very long window before symptoms show which helps it spread. Stop pretending you know more than everyone else and are unique

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Kairit_ May 10, 2026 +37

Except from what we know, it's not really contagious unless the person is already showing symptoms. So it is unlikely to spread like COVID did.

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JConRed May 10, 2026 +66

I've read that it's contagious from 2 days prior to symptoms showing and has a initial peak infectivity on the first day of symptoms. And what do you think these people are gonna do in their home countries? Isolate properly? Nah, they'll live their lives, and when they get sick in 2-8 weeks time we'll have the salad.

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20150614 May 10, 2026 +11

>I've read that it's contagious from 2 days prior to symptoms showing and has a initial peak infectivity on the first day of symptoms. Do you remember where you read it?

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PrestigiousGoat78 May 10, 2026 +9

Mein amerikanischer Mann liebt es, wenn wir unsere Sprichwörter auf Englisch übersetzen 😂

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BadahBingBadahBoom May 10, 2026 +2

As a Brit I made dinner for a German exchange student once. "Magst du Bolognese? Ist es gut?" "Ja, kann man mal essen." 🤨

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I_am_pyxidis May 10, 2026 +5

This is no time to order a salad! (JK I have no idea what that saying means but it's funny to me.)

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OrangeSpaceMan5 May 10, 2026 +41

I mean we can't really discard the possibility of a mutation in the virus , due to the long incubation time we wouldn't know until several weeks later Precaution doesn't cost anything

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Dernom May 10, 2026 +7

Well... if we're being realistic it does have a cost. Every person in quarantine is not working, and have needs that must be fulfilled (food, water, etc.). But the cost of precaution is really low compared to even mild consequences, so we really should be doing it.

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Ok_Landscape_3958 May 10, 2026 +10

Who guarantees that these people quarantine when they show symptoms? Or will they just ho down the pub because you can't trust experts?

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DeliverySoggy2700 May 10, 2026 +16

But Covid is just a mutation from coronavirus which was pretty much the same ordeal. If it hits enough bodies stealthily enough it could mutate into properties that make it more virulent

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cubsgirl101 May 10, 2026 +1

People with hantavirus generally end up too sick to be able to go about their day. So during that peak transmission period they’re probably too sick to get out of bed instead of up and around coughing on other people.

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Scriefers May 10, 2026 +4

Yet it also has a very small contagion window in which it is only able to spread for a short time AFTER symptoms begin. Stop pretending you know more than everyone else and stop fear mongering.

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smackson May 10, 2026 +4

[This strain has been known to reach an R number of 2.1](https://english.elpais.com/health/2026-05-07/andes-hantavirus-deadly-2018-outbreak-shows-it-is-not-only-transmitted-through-close-contact.html) Concern is warranted, stop calling it fear mongering.

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Scriefers May 10, 2026 +1

That number is from incredibly rare ‘super spreader’ individuals who cause those infectious rates because of their viral load and living conditions. Whereas COVID on average, from average individuals with quarantine measures in place early, had an infectious rate of 3+. Get better reading comprehension, and critical thinking. There is minimal concern. Quit fear mongering.

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bageltheperson May 10, 2026 +10

These people want another pandemic so bad. It’s ridiculous.

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orobsky May 10, 2026 +5

They all just wanna go back to WFH

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Galappie May 11, 2026 +2

It’s like we went from “trust the experts/science. They know this better than anyone” with covid to “f*** the experts and science I know this better than anyone!” with hantavirus. We should try trusting them about both viruses.

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Hobbies-tracks May 10, 2026 +8

Remember early 2020 when everyone was trying to at covid wasn't any worse than the common cold? Then millions of people proceeded to die? Yeah, I'll stick to being cautious, thanks. Shouldn't have let anyone off that boat until everyone onboard were healthy, or they all croaked. And FYI, covid had a mortality rate of 2-5%. Hanta, 40~%.

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CaptainObvious110 May 10, 2026 +3

Absolutely

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Honest-Grab5209 May 11, 2026 +1

Ditto..

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orobsky May 10, 2026 +3

China was welding apartment complex doors shut and went into full lock down mode. I think we should just pay attention to what they are doing

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Hobbies-tracks May 10, 2026 +2

If this came out of china, sure. Considering this outbreak is believed to have come out of Argentina, we should be watching them. And to anyone paying attention to them lately, we should be worried.

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kawaii22 May 10, 2026 +8

Did you know what was covid's potential when it first started?

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cubsgirl101 May 10, 2026 +4

That’s the difference though. Scientists have a firm idea of the potential for hantavirus. It’s not particularly contagious even in the Andres strain, which humans can catch from other humans. Basically someone sick with the disease has to be feverish and coughing in the same room as you for 20 minutes straight for you to be at real risk of infection and in the time period where a potentially infected person is asymptomatic, there’s a near zero chance of transmitting the virus.

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TrogdorBurns May 10, 2026 +4

I think the 40% fatality rate outweighs the fact that one has to have a visibly sick person spit in their mouth to get it.

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CaptainObvious110 May 10, 2026 +5

Ok so how did the people get sick in the first place

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3rd-party-intervener May 10, 2026 +2

We don’t fully understand hantavirus and as such precautions should be taken.

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Minor-Gold-npc May 12, 2026 +1

The reality is we are getting news of more and more individuals involved or had contact with another with the virus. The number of individuals isolating grows daily. in addition there’s the not so small up to eight weeks. It is not a trifling matter. The spread is happening.

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BathFullOfDucks May 10, 2026

shouting into the wind at the moment I'm afraid. People just love to make other people scared.

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CanWeNapPlease May 10, 2026 +1

Do you live in the US or Canada? In European countries, everyone is a lot more compact together. Houses, walking paths, train stations, restaurants... Everyone is a lot closer together all the time. I do agree that it doesn't have the same threat. But some places harbour faster disease infections and transmission than others for a reason.

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Dblcut3 May 10, 2026 +2

Even then, scientists understand Hantavirus pretty well already unlike COVID. It’s not a new disease by any means, and even in close quarters, it’s very difficult to spread person to person

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silviam May 10, 2026 +2

Can we just rename it the Epstein virus?

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buttchugreferee May 10, 2026 +8

There's already the Epstein-Barr virus

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Old_Boah May 10, 2026 +1

People get their entertainment by making a big deal out of this stuff these days.

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____trash May 10, 2026 +234

Keep them motherfuckers on the boat.

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Lunaris_Von_Sunrip May 10, 2026 +157

"we're people too" the other 8 billion people on the planet are also people who don't want hantavirus

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Hvarfa-Bragi May 10, 2026 +90

You chose your floating coffin, don't make this our problem

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Sask_mask_user May 11, 2026 +7

Canada few its citizens home on a private plane. Health officials will meet them at the airport for assessment. Then they will be taken to a pre-determined location to isolate for 21 days.

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Cocoricou May 11, 2026 +3

Even if it's true, that doesn't mean all countries will do as good.

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NorthbyFjord May 10, 2026 +28

Quick question; **How about no?**

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Lotsavodka May 11, 2026 +3

So it begins.

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Denim_in_dago May 11, 2026 +4

Um, speaking from experience here: Keep them in the damn boat until they are all better. That’s the chance you take going on them lame ass things

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calstanfordboye May 11, 2026 +3

Dumbest f****** idea ever. But yea that's the world we live in anyways.

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sharpsicle May 10, 2026 +25

These comments show just how much Listnook has turned into a hive mind mentality, and for the worse. Forget critical thinking and applying facts to the conversation, let’s just parrot what sounds good instead!

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BigPlunk May 10, 2026 +14

If this wasn't a paywalled article, I'd be in there grabbing the paragraph that gets to the core of the issue. Every article I've read so far has some mention of scientists saying they don't perceive a risk of a pandemic, based on the evidence and understanding of this strain. I honestly think there's a swath of bots on Listnook whose main goal is to doom-hype, make people feel powerless, and perpetuate the negative emotions that keep people engaged on social media. The majority of Listnookors/bot accounts seem to want to bathe in complaints, grievances, doomerism, cynicism, and complacency. Very few seem willing to present, propose, or participate in meaningful solutions. It's making a good case for unplugging from all forms of social media because I know there's platforms far worse than Listnook in terms of toxicity.

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Galappie May 11, 2026 +2

While some could be bots there’s probably a fair amount of real people saying this stuff too. The sad reality is a lot of people get their news almost exclusively via reading just headlines and social media posts which are almost always going to be exaggerated and sensationalized all to hell. That leads to a lot of people genuinely believing that we’re just 2 months away from a deadly global pandemic again.

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BigPlunk May 11, 2026 +1

I agree with you. A little due diligence and critical thinking goes a long way.

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vitaminz1990 May 10, 2026 +1

Listnook is a shit-hole and has been for years. There’s threads on major subs that align to the Listnook “consensus” that will have 5k+ upvotes and like 15 comments. You can’t tell me that’s not bots just upvoting stories in mass to push agendas. 10+ years ago on Listnook, a post with 5k upvotes was at the top of the site and had hundreds of comments. This site likes to think of itself as better than other social media platforms (like twitter/X) but it’s not.

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Bladder-Splatter May 11, 2026 +5

Eh, the most consistently said and upvoted comments on Listnook I see tend to be the ones complaining about Listnook and its hive-mind mentality. It is a very strange circular import.

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sharpsicle May 11, 2026 +2

Might I counter this by pointing to the top comments in this very post?

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clearline27 May 10, 2026 +23

Few deaths and cases across multiple continents already. Hope the disembarkation protocol is airtight, one slip and this gets a lot messier.

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hungariannastyboy May 10, 2026 +55

No cases of people not on the ship previously getting sick.

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PrestigiousGoat78 May 10, 2026 +62

How is this upvoted?! It's inaccurate

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Scriefers May 10, 2026 -59

No, it won’t. This is being blown way out of proportion, hyped up for clicks and views. This isn’t some novel disease. This is a nothing burger. Just chill.

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thenotanurse May 10, 2026 +82

Yeah, a disease with up to 8 week incubation, no vaccines and no actual treatment protocol and a 40% mortality rate? Lmao yeah, super overblown.

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Milkmartyr May 10, 2026 +40

Short contagion window though. Contact tracing is much easier

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kaityl3 May 10, 2026 +8

One would hope, but there was that case (not from the current outbreak but the same "Andes" virus/strain) where someone got it just by being at a table in a restaurant the sick person walked by. I keep seeing "only contagious through prolonged close contact" but there are several instances of it spreading between humans without that

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rocketbunny77 May 10, 2026 +1

What is the contagion window?

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DeliverySoggy2700 May 10, 2026 +23

24 hours they believe, but they don’t really know bc it’s composition is pretty unique and not widely studied

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20150614 May 10, 2026 +13

According to one of the doctors who worked on the 2018 outbreak, it seems to be a day: >Palacios said the window for transmission of the Andes virus appears to be short, about a day. People are at their peak of infectiousness on the day they develop a fever. [https://edition.cnn.com/2026/05/06/health/andes-strain-hantavirus-explained](https://edition.cnn.com/2026/05/06/health/andes-strain-hantavirus-explained) Covid-19 was contagious for a couple of days even before symptoms and up to 10 days afterwards, so that's an advantage we have now.

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BasicMatter7339 May 11, 2026 +1

Yeah and the other difference between Hanta and covid is that covid is airborne, it primarily spreads through small aerosols, breathed or coughed out, that hover and linger in the air for minutes at a time, up to an hour. Hanta, as far as we know, is not. It only spreads in "very specific, close contact situations" so it's likely either droplet (big droplets of saliva that fall down within a feet) or skin-to-skin (kissing, sex, exchanging of bodily fluids) transmission.

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Milkmartyr May 10, 2026 +9

Suspected to be about a day around first symptoms

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Scriefers May 10, 2026 -15

No treatment protocol? Tell me more about how you have no idea about treating viral infections. And its transmissions among humans is incredibly rare and only possible in ideal conditions. Something like, prolonged, repeated exposure in contained, dense environments where isolation isn’t viable. But by all means, please continue to worry and panic and make wild comparisons to epi- and pandemics of recent past.

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Yachtttstew May 10, 2026 +32

Somewhere prolonged, repeated and contained…like an airplane?

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BrilliantPatient6160 May 10, 2026 +26

Or an office

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Media_Browser May 10, 2026 +6

Or a train .

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Scriefers May 10, 2026 +1

Perchance, but transmission is very unlikely, as its capability to do so human to human is quite low. Once the ‘exposed’ individuals are at end destination, they isolate/test, then end of story.

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Yachtttstew May 10, 2026 +13

While you may think it’s being blown out of proportion, can we appreciate that we’ve quite recently gone through a global pandemic and the governmental agencies that handle that type of thing have been greatly altered since then. That fact alone causes a huge amount of anxiety and so while you think it’s being overhyped people have first hand, anecdotal evidence of how bad things could get if this virus were to get out of control. The general unease that people are feeling is not overblown.

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Scriefers May 10, 2026 +9

I understand exactly how bad things were first hand. I was in my 3rd year of residency in intensive care rotation when Covid hit. This is not that. Relax.

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Tiddlychinks May 10, 2026 -2

There are different kinds of viruses. The unease is overblown. You are reliving trauma. Your anxiety is not the world’s problem, sorry.

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Inanimatecarbonrod96 May 10, 2026 +1

Do you understand risk? The chance is low but the consequence is massive

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Nosiege May 10, 2026 +3

Why not just quarantine them for 8 weeks, frankly.

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Scriefers May 10, 2026 +4

That’s what I said. Isolate and test.

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Media_Browser May 10, 2026 +5

45 days …later - has less zombie apocalypse vibe .

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Slave35 May 10, 2026 +18

It's ok guys, some guy on Listnook said everything's cool.

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Scriefers May 10, 2026 +12

Remind me! 1 month

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Operation_Neither May 10, 2026 +9

So about 28 days

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ProbablyBanksy May 10, 2026 +2

If you're right, and it turns into a pandemic, there's lots of money to be made on polymarket!

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DeliverySoggy2700 May 10, 2026 +2

Actually unironically not a bad bet. 97% right now. $100bet gets you almost $10,000USD if it goes pandemic. Better than playing the l****** or gambling in a c*****. I’m in. $100 for a c**** thrill

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ProbablyBanksy May 10, 2026 +2

Except, it’s not a good deal. Even for a lark. Because it won’t become a pandemic. If you want shitty odds with huge payouts, there’s better options.

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Scriefers May 10, 2026 +4

It’s ok guys, panic and sow discourse, some guy on Listnook doesn’t understand virology and epidemiology.

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Garbage_Out_Of_Here May 10, 2026 +3

Man I remember February of 2020 like it was 6 years ago.

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EL-YEO May 10, 2026 +2

Maybe quarantine them for a few weeks to find out if any of them show symptoms or get better if they're sick first? Just an idea

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Guilty_Cow5673 May 10, 2026 +1

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justaddwhiskey May 10, 2026 +1

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tmotytmoty May 11, 2026 +1

Oh well that’s a stupid idiotic decision

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Kappaman1902 May 11, 2026 +1

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Bushboy2000 May 11, 2026 +1

World War Z starting before World War III, whocouldaknown

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Ok-Spirit-4074 May 11, 2026 +1

I would like to think theres a timeline where the WHO said "were going to airlift you in supplies. Please self isolate on the boat for 2 months for the good of the human race." And then they did and they just ate cheetos and taco bell and watched cable tv and played skyrim on the Nintendo Switch and went sunbathing on the deck and enjoyed another 2 month vacation. But it is not this timeline...

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OleDoxieDad May 10, 2026 +1

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