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bonyponyride May 9, 2026 +97

I don’t quite understand why the plan is to quickly send the passengers back to their home countries. Wouldn’t 45 days of isolation on Tenerife be a better idea? I understand it’s inconvenient, but we’re still waiting to know if the infection is more contagious than prior strains.

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RaspberryOk448 May 9, 2026 +67

Why does Tenerife have to bite the bullet? What about their residents? They should do quarantine in the boat.

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SovKom98 May 9, 2026 -2

Someone has to and Spain has the resources to care for the ship and its occupants.

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Thenedslittlegirl May 10, 2026 +3

Mainland Spain is thousands of miles from the Canaries.

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SovKom98 May 10, 2026 +4

Yes, that’s kinda irrelevant to the issue at hand though. The canaries is still a part of Spain and has the resources of the national government available for to them which is more then the other surrounding countries.

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Thenedslittlegirl May 10, 2026 +2

Resources include appropriate facilities to quarantine 143 people for 6 weeks with appropriate staff/infectious diseases protocols. Mainland Spain might have that, but the Canary Islands, which are on a completely different continent, don’t. That’s like docking on the Falkland islands and saying that Britain has the resources to quarantine everyone.

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SovKom98 May 10, 2026

The passengers aren’t going to be all be held on the Canary Islands they are just parking the ship there for processing. The passengers and crew are going to be transported to their respective countries for care after being tested.

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RaspberryOk448 May 9, 2026 -16

That is the stupidest thing i heard today. You know nothing about Spain and it shows. People there are still homeless from previous natural disasters AND our health system is collapsing due to poor management money embellishment, inmigration and tourism. “Someone has to” it’s so f****** disrespectful to the tenerifean people who have nothing to do with this and have their own shit to deal with. Why don’t you welcome them in your country? I think it is better that they quarantine there and avoid more death but as we say in Spain “hay días tontos y tontos todos los días”

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SovKom98 May 9, 2026 +5

Regardless of the Spanish health system is facing, the Spanish government likely knows better about then either of us and can has determined to help the ship. No one is forcing Spain to take on this ship they volunteered themselves and they are also getting assistance from WHO so they aren’t dealing with this alone. The people of tenerfean aren’t at risk due the Andes virus being hard to spread from human to human. The highest priority right now is to get the people on the ship to a port where they can provide the people onboard with the proper assistance which isn’t possible while the ship is at sea.

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Throuwuawayy May 10, 2026

The president of the Canary Islands is pushing back against this operation which is coming as a command from the mainland government. The central Spanish government certainly isn’t being forced into anything- they’re the ones forcing Canary Islands to do this. Downvote all you want but know Canarias is a very, very reluctant hero in all this and everyone else only feels warm and fuzzy about it because they’re glad it isn’t them.

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Suspicious-Celery897 May 10, 2026 -2

You know nothing about Spain, the Canary Islands or the Spanish Government. The Spanish Government is corrupt and does not care about our islands. It is not clever to disembark anyone from the ship. They can go treat them on the ship, not disembark people when there is a 4 week incubation period. It's madness.

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umami-boot May 10, 2026 +1

Go Spain! We believe in you

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targetsinmegadeaths May 9, 2026 +44

If you look at the cruise customers, you'll understand. These are all somewhat wealthy people on board and probably demanding things and threatening lawyers. Now if it was a Carnival cruise, they'd just let it drift for a couple months until things settled down.

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ApricotNo5051 May 9, 2026 +11

Isolation on the ship with medical help and food drops would be better. Better to be safe than sorry

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moschles May 9, 2026 +3

I'm bookmarking you. If this turns into COVID Part Deux, I will return here and say what needed to be said.

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bonyponyride May 9, 2026 +1

Ha. If it is that bad, there might not be a society left to say, “I told you so.”

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No_Conversation_9325 May 9, 2026 -8

Thats what countries agreed on. Only makes sense that one country doesn’t have to take on for the team, and it’s perfectly doable to have evacuation flights and quarantines in home countries.

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the_pewpew_kid May 9, 2026 +37

Coronavirus has proven that its really not, not that it would be difficult, but we're too dumb for doing it correctly

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No_Conversation_9325 May 9, 2026 -7

Which country would volunteer for such a thing in your opinion?

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bonyponyride May 9, 2026 +19

This shouldn’t be an “ewww, you deal with it” situation. The country where the ship is flagged should take responsibility in conjunction with the WHO.

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No_Conversation_9325 May 9, 2026 +1

But, unfortunately, it’s exactly a situation like that. That’s why Spain has to be the adult in the room. And ok, MV Hondius is Dutch flagged, they already announced that no self isolation for the flight contacts is required. And here is their official stance: https://www.rivm.nl/en/news/update-hantavirus Are you sure you want the Netherlands to handle the ship?

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bonyponyride May 9, 2026 +1

Yes, I know it’s exactly how it is, hence my frustration.

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No_Conversation_9325 May 9, 2026 -1

It is frustrating indeed, but it is how it is. No government will commit a political suicide by undertaking unpopular actions: hence heavy measure in Spain vs panic control in NL

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bonyponyride May 9, 2026 +20

Leaving it up to 140 different jurisdictions to keep these people isolated and monitored for the next 45 days is much more difficult than monitoring them all in one place. If, and it’s a big if, this virus ends up being more transmissible than thought, this decision could be the difference between a small outbreak and a civilization-altering disaster. When the stakes are that high, why risk it?

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No_Conversation_9325 May 9, 2026 -3

Which country has an isolated hospital with 140 ICU units in case all are infected?

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bonyponyride May 9, 2026 +11

If all people are infected, the virus is highly infectious, and they are released throughout the world, then we’re in for cataclysmic disaster. Figure it out, or every ICU around the world could be shut down in a matter of months due to billions of dying people.

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No_Conversation_9325 May 9, 2026 -2

That’s why countries are responsible for making sure their citizens don’t infect others. Spain got mandatory quarantine court order for their citizens, for example. Other countries will decide how they are going to treat the situation. WHO is supervising

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echodarlin May 9, 2026 +31

If I was on that ship I would be posting about all of this. Is anyone talking about their personal experiences on the ship? Just curious

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Extension-Toe-7027 May 9, 2026 +36

I think this is not your typical high rotation short duration cruise maybe the people are a little bit older and not so inclined to social media exposure

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RabbitOld5783 May 9, 2026 +14

It's very strange. Even heard a friend of someone on the cruise talking on the radio , why not the person themselves? I think they have signed something not to speak about it probably not to tarnish the cruise ship reputation or to minimize panic about this virus. It's so strange in these times not to see much from anyone on board even on morning TV shows.

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No_Classic_3362 May 9, 2026 +3

There was an Arabic speaking guy on TikTok on that ship, I don’t remember his handle, but he talked about the situation and showed how they weren’t allowed to doc in South Africa.

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echodarlin May 9, 2026 +3

Right but someone must have heard that Aunt Pam is stuck on a cruise ship and will be missing her flight. People would be late to returning for their jobs. News travels fast over friends and family social media accounts and there's also gotta be a bored middle-aged man with his laptop and too much time to kill.

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Extension-Toe-7027 May 9, 2026 +9

Do you think corporate is putting a lid on it probably by promising a payout compensation if radio silence is maintained? Maybe. I have not heard from inside except highly efficient vessel with excellent higiene so it's a guessing game

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anbeck May 9, 2026 +12

I think I heard that a "travel influencer" had posted at least one video on social media, and that he seemed pretty distressed. Unfortunately, I don’t know any details, but I imagine that this should easily surface with a web search.

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No_Conversation_9325 May 9, 2026 +11

He posted, yes, after that several people gave interviews. Influencer’s video bot quite some backlash from both passengers and viewers, so he shut up.

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FairManagement2879 May 9, 2026 +7

There's a few people actually. [People magazine wrote an article about them](https://people.com/passenger-on-hantavirus-cruise-ship-addresses-social-media-censorship-speculation-11970416)

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Zealousideal-Toe1911 May 11, 2026 +1

Whooaaa that boat is a lotttt smaller than i was picturing. Id imagine everyone was exposed.

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frugaleringenieur May 9, 2026 +9

That’s one of the conspiracy points that there is too little Karen outcry on social media from onboard.

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larapeaches May 9, 2026 +3

Extremely curious about this as well.

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No_Conversation_9325 May 9, 2026 +3

The American influencer was posting videos, wasn’t he?

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ApricotNo5051 May 9, 2026 +2

There is usually either not much internet access or it's limited and expensive on cruise type ships

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bertehre May 9, 2026 +1

the chef posted stuff

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supermousee May 9, 2026 +1

It could be that the ship cut the wifi and there is no service to internet. Idk, just quessing aswel

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mandeltonkacreme May 9, 2026 +20

I wonder whether the general public knows the etymology of the word "quarantine"

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Ahelex May 9, 2026 +5

If you didn't cut yourself off from the world by being on a hospital ship while being sick, it's just sparkling isolation.

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XennialBoomBoom May 9, 2026 +2

Most of the general public don't know what "etymology" means. Give them 40 days or so and they might figure it out, though

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MeltingMandarins May 9, 2026 +5

The world is far too big (ships are far too slow) for a single quarantine island. It’s 3-4 months to circumnavigate world by cruise ship at normal speed. At worst they’d be on the opposite side to the quarantine island, so call it 1.5-2 months. And they could hustle, rather than stopping at so many ports, but there’s a limit on how much food they carry.

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mr_birkenblatt May 9, 2026 +6

We could do a floating island that only contains the people from the ship. For structural reasons we would build that island out of metal and outfit it with rooms for sleeping, eating, sanitation, etc. waiting on that island could become boring so we could add some additional things for entertainment...

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schlab May 9, 2026 +1

It’s all fun and games until a storm hits your temporary floating island

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mr_birkenblatt May 9, 2026

Or people start to get sick.... wait a minute...

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gearstars May 10, 2026 +1

>The world needs a cruise ship ~~quarantine island just for that purpose, no permanent residents~~ ban.

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Prudent_Link6029 May 9, 2026 +10

Welcome to our face-licking festival! It’s tradition!

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DKsan May 9, 2026 +1

You joke, but it's Maspalomas Pride this week, where much face-licking will occur...

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JarvisModeOn May 9, 2026 +5

Good to see authorities still treating it seriously but not overreacting. WHO calling the wider risk low is reassuring, but the isolation measures seem justified given the uncertainty around person-to-person spread

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SKULL1138 May 9, 2026 +2

Be a lot of cancellations from holidaymakers going to Canary’s this Spring.

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caracarn May 9, 2026 +3

I'm going to Teneriffe in 3 days 🥳

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Icedidit May 9, 2026 +5

Wanta hanta?

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NOT_EVEN_THAT_GUY May 9, 2026 +2

cruise ship jabronis

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GhostGrom May 9, 2026 +1

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xz9pro May 9, 2026 +1

Que locura!

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moschles May 9, 2026 -1

> Passengers will be taken to a “completely isolated, cordoned-off area”, said the head of Spain’s emergency services, Virginia Barcones. But why would authorities do that? If I am to believe the listnookors here, hantavirus is only spread through the most intimate of contact. . . . . *unless??*

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mystic_cheese May 9, 2026 -4

Here we go! Buckle up.

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Garlicbread_god13 May 9, 2026 +2

This is a man who gets all his information from memes

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moschles May 9, 2026 +1

+ 6 to 8 week incubation period + difficult to diagnose + 40% fatality rate + ship passengers are being "cordoned" by Spanish authorities.

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serrsrt3 May 10, 2026 +1

You lack the "it is only transmitted if you have respiratory symptoms" which is essential for the control.

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