I would probably not attend/invite him to a BBQ tbh
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amateur_mistake4 days ago
+2049
He's under monitoring by the CDC. Which used to be a really reliable thing for preventing diseases. Before this administration gutted it.
But maybe it will still work?
The part of the article that might be more troubling to me is this:
>The ship operator and Dutch officials said on Thursday that more than two dozen passengers from at least 12 countries disembarked on April 24 without contact tracing, nearly two weeks after the first reported death.
2049
sweetplantveal4 days ago
+1039
We learned nothing
1039
ShepardRTC4 days ago
+203
We learned that there's a big chunk of the population that only cares about themselves and their families. And the latter isn't even guaranteed.
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couchjitsu2 days ago
+7
I already knew that before covid
7
chevalier7164 days ago
+596
They learned that dewormer works for viruses (it doesn't) and masks are gay. So yeah, lots of people are gonna die again, because people just refuse to believe experts and now the wellness grifters are in a position of authority.
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fieryembers3 days ago
+108
I work at a p******* and people still ask for ivermectin to treat covid occasionally. The last person who asked got all pissy with me when I told him that we don’t sell it over the counter, but he could check the Tractor Supply store lol.
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double_dangit3 days ago
+29
\*masks are gay \*unless\* you work for a government agency responsible for kidnapping people.
29
karlverkade2 days ago
+8
Didn’t that government agency also execute two citizens in broad daylight, on the street, on multiple cameras released to the world and absolutely nothing has been done?
8
dodofishman4 days ago
+171
Masks are gay unless you're a public servant/officer hiding your identity
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testtdk3 days ago
+20
Or a Nazi. Masks are ok to hide your identity if you’re too much of a coward to profess your hate publicly.
20
dodofishman3 days ago
+13
Right when it was public health it was "muh lungs" but I guess it's fine to hide your identity 🙄
13
Shopworn_Soul4 days ago
+24
Which tracks for the "opposite of reality" set, because that is the one time they actually are.
24
st4r-lord4 days ago
+134
And the people who aren't putting the vaccine poison (as they call it) in their bodies are now being sold supplements by Alex Jones, Dan Bongino, Joe Rogan
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ivyleaguewitch4 days ago
+38
That’s only if the bleach doesn’t work first. 🙄
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CleverWitch703 days ago
+12
I think this treatment isn't utilized enough by the red hats. Are they true believers or not?!?
12
longlivenewsomflesh4 days ago
+23
Everyone who dies simply didn't eat enough red meat and butter...
"Nurse get me 5cc's of homeopathic silver and a taint tanner, stat!"
23
TheSavouryRain3 days ago
+3
Speak to me more about this taint tanner
3
longlivenewsomflesh3 days ago
+5
Taint Tanner was a reliable possession wide receiver who played eight NFL seasons from 1996 to 2003, finishing his career with 412 receptions, 5,187 receiving yards, and 34 touchdowns across 118 regular-season games. Known for his sharp option routes and durability over the middle, Tanner posted three 800-yard seasons and led his team in third-down receptions twice. He retired in March 2004 following the unresolved locker-room controversy widely referred to by local media as “Skidmark-gate.”
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McNalienBro4 days ago
+14
Unless they are ICE, then it’s not gay and they can breath wearing them.
14
ChantilyAce4 days ago
+93
We learned that humans are selfish dicks. At least, I learned that.
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Charlie_Mouse4 days ago
+17
And that a dismally large percentage of the population apparently can’t wrap their brains around the concept of exponential growth curves. Even with each new variant providing real world worked example.
17
RonaldoNazario4 days ago
+67
The collective “we” are maybe worse off than 2019. I feel like the pendulum swung back so far some people would practically go out of their way to expose others to illness. Personally I learned a ton about masks and ventilation and air filtration and have a stock of all sorts of masks.
67
EddieVanzetti4 days ago
+23
There is no possibility of a lock down this time around, unless the orange man thinks he can use it to stop democrats from voting.
23
Charlie_Mouse4 days ago
+29
I’m still amazed how people aren’t more angry at some of the c*** the Trump administration pulled during the last pandemic. Like deliberately slowing testing and other public health measures at the start of the pandemic because they assumed COVID would kill more Democrat voters in cities than rural Republicans.
Or stealing ventilators and PPE from States who ordered them and giving (sometimes selling) them to supporters.
29
zzyul3 days ago
+6
People were upset, then Biden won so many figured they did their job punishing Trump and didn’t need to vote against him in 24.
6
TaborToss3 days ago
+13
If hanta spreads like covid (which it doesn’t appear to be as virulent), with a 50% mortality rate, the world is fucked. Society comes unraveled.
13
Rich_Fisherman_84444 days ago
+8
That’s how viruses work tho. It wants to spread…. “Hey gary.. you should uh probably go to the bar tonight and cough on a bunch of people”
8
thefranklin23 days ago
+12
They didn't know it was Hanta until may 2.
12
bdjohn063 days ago
+6
There’s a lot of “hindsight is 20/20” going on when people talk about what passengers did in April. Like… why would they think they need to take precautions when they didn’t know they’d been exposed to a communicable disease?
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Intrepid-Oil-8984 days ago
+24
Absolutely nothing.. considering who’s lives at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave speaks volumes about our ability to learn.
24
Killahdanks14 days ago
+5
They know they can’t have a sitting ship be profitable and someone else will help clean up the mess they helped expand.
5
sharrrper4 days ago
+4
We are currently led by people incapable of learning
4
NAh944 days ago
+79
CDC advises as long as he gets plenty of sun (without sunscreen!) and takes Ivermectin he will be fine!
I wish this were more of a joke than it is.
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RonaldoNazario4 days ago
+22
Does the sun have to be on his b hole?
22
twinoaksBandB4 days ago
+11
Gotta sun the taint to unlock your secret powers, it will cure cancer and supercharge your hormones. It's not carpe diem its Carpe sunny butthole.
11
dichron4 days ago
+3
Quick! What peptides are good for hemorrhagic fever?
3
ImPrettyDoneBro4 days ago
+6
RFK will visit him personally, do a jeans sauna session with him, and clear him to go out into the wider population.
6
Seraphim994 days ago
+46
A reminder that they also gutted the Vessel Sanitation Program that is tasked with regular health inspections on cruise ships. You could not pay me to go on a cruise.
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S1mpinAintEZ4 days ago
+29
This wasn't an American cruise ship it's Dutch and the virus came from Argentina. US policy had absolutely nothing to do with it.
29
Cautious_Ad_56594 days ago
+20
I would not trust any health related information under the current administration. Does anyone honestly think we are safe with Roadkill FK in charge?
20
Royaltyyyy4 days ago
+11
There are still many many doctors in the CDC following standard medical protocols/science. Don’t let the forward facing mouthpiece corrupt your view of a critical organization.
11
SodaSaint4 days ago
+23
The CDC currently being run by a guy who literally ate a dead bear?
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JesusSavesForHalf4 days ago
+11
By the guy that drove miles with a decaying whale carcass on the roof of his car. And dumped a dead bear in central park. Who claimed he couldn't pay alimony because he had brain worms. Who swam in sewage last year.
11
showmiaface4 days ago
+3
They will have a hantivirus party to build immunity amongst the community. /s
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Lucius-Halthier4 days ago
+3
I’m expecting RFK to go into the room and lick their face because he thinks it will make him stronger
3
AlpineAvalanche4 days ago
+80
It's ok RFK will make him a guest of honor at his super spreader BBQ
80
ClankingRobotCheeks4 days ago
+8
And probably share some milk in a hot tub with them.
8
AlpineAvalanche4 days ago
+4
Only if it's untreated raw milk.
4
JaneksLittleBlackBox4 days ago
+17
Now I'm remembering all the dumbasses promoting "COVID parties" like it was as simple a virus as chicken pox that'd make their innocent children immune after a "minor" illness.
17
rdldr14 days ago
+5
Or accept donuts from a stranger, like in Pluribus
5
Gummyrabbit4 days ago
+14
He should be ok. RFK Jr has him on ivermectin and powdered squirrel d***.
14
WhatHaveIDone274 days ago
+3
We should invite him to a ~~chickenpox~~ hantavirus party
2020-2023 showed us that those are useful, right?
3
Ok_Plastic99094 days ago
+1575
Everytime trump is in office god sends a plague.
1575
dominiqlane4 days ago
+351
Signs are sent, humans ignore it. Rinse and repeat.
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DetBabyLegs3 days ago
+69
Old Testament all over again smh
You’d think the generation raised on Prince of Egypt would get it
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snowbit3 days ago
+27
We’re playing with the big boys now
27
RocketTater3 days ago
+7
Most of us do, its the first thing we started memeing about last pandemic lol
7
HandsomeB3 days ago
+14
Wasn't there a cruise ship f*** up and the very beginning of Covid too?
14
FakeGamer24 days ago
+46
This headline is the type of shit you'd read in a Plague Inc game
46
PokeYrMomStanley3 days ago
+9
I said this to my partner this morning. Then I googled swarms of insects and amphibians falling out of the sky.
9
OgthaChristie3 days ago
+5
There have been a lot of videos of insect swarms lately…
5
MsBelleMae3 days ago
+9
This is the funniest, saddest, and most truthful thing I’ve read in a long time.
9
Penguin-Monk4 days ago
+15
And yet they never learn
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Potato2713 days ago
+3
Clearly he’s lost the mandate of heaven, if he ever had it
3
soelsome4 days ago
+859
Were they quarantined properly? If not, why in the world are we just letting this shit happen again?
859
Accidental-Hyzer4 days ago
+712
C’mon. You know the answer to this.
712
soelsome4 days ago
+260
But like, if the guy f****** knows he could be infected, why is he putting Americans at risk of a new epidemic/pandemic?
And why the f*** did we just let him do that?
260
anonyoudidnt4 days ago
+489
People don't care about anything but what they want in the moment
489
Malaix3 days ago
+16
We’re all dopamine dopes it seems.
16
Tibreaven4 days ago
+350
The world went through an entire pandemic and a not small amount of Americans decided that they're actually totally fine with a lot of people dying as long as they're not personally inconvenienced
The reality is that a lot of people, and probably this guy himself could be personally responsible for the deaths of hundreds and they would not care in the slightest.
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Kahzgul4 days ago
+178
Some of those same morons were saying covid was a hoax *as they were dying of covid*.
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littlebittydoodle4 days ago
+46
Literally had a friend lose their parent to Covid/pneumonia early in the pandemic (pre-vaccine) and now they’re aggressively anti vaxx in general which makes absolutely no logical sense.
It’s just some excuse to be selfish and spew nonsense.
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PM_ME_PAMPERS4 days ago
+43
During the winter of 2020/2021, I had 2 coworkers who were married (super common at this company).
The wife was actually a pretty sweet lady. Her husband though was a full blown MAGA “election was stolen and Covid is fake” nut job. I was a remote employee though, so luckily I rarely had to interact with him. However I was friends with him on Facebook and I saw the absolutely unhinged conspiracy theory bullshit he shared on an almost daily basis.
Well they both suddenly stopped showing up for work. We found out that they caught covid and were hospitalized. The husband recovered after about a week (well, enough to not be bed bound), but wife was not doing well. He still wasn’t showing up for work, but he was posting daily updates about his wife’s status on Facebook.
It was a bit of a roller coaster for about 2 weeks, but then she went on a ventilator. Husband stopped posting for about a week, then came the “(Wife) has lost her battle with Covid.” Very sad time.
I naively thought that he learned his lesson about listening to Trump and all the antivax, covid hoax BS. But then a few months later, he was back to sharing shit like “REOPEN AMERICA! DONT LET THEM JAB YOU! COVID VACCINE MAKES YOU MAGNETIC!” Oh and he was sharing photos of his new girlfriend.
Absolutely disgusted me. Needless to say I blocked him. I’m glad I left the company not too long after.
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malarky-b3 days ago
+7
He still got a girlfriend after all that? What did she even see in him, knowing he'll treat her the same way if she got sick?
7
TrickiestToast4 days ago
+73
Rest in piss Herman Cain
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Kahzgul4 days ago
+76
His f****** twitter saying it was hoax *after* he died was the height of Republican idiocy.
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TrickiestToast4 days ago
+39
Goes to a rally unmasked and gets covid a week later
His team: No idea where he got it
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bowser9864 days ago
+15
I see you met my MiL
15
jumpinjahosafa4 days ago
+14
My old bosses dad died of covid, and a week later my boss was posting about how it was all a hoax
14
Takkarro4 days ago
+7
Some of those morons are still saying that COVID was a hoax and that anybody who is worried about diseases spreading is a weird lunatic or something.
That whole situation made me realize just how much I hate how stupid people are in this situation is making me realize how much more I hate how stupid people are.
7
JJDirty4 days ago
+5
Had a coworker's husband die and she nearly died of COVID. She was still super vocal about being anti-vax and that COVID is no worse than the flu after her return from a six-month sick leave.
5
djwurm3 days ago
+4
my wife's grandmother did this..even as they were about to intubate her due to lungs where full of fluid and her knowing she was probably going to die. she was screaming at the docs and nurses that it was a hoax and they were just trying to make her a number to make more money.
She got COVID because she couldnt miss church and the church she went to in Tacoma was having services / singing with no masking and distancing. They had a huge outbreak and lots of older people died her grandmother was one of them.
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Takkarro4 days ago
+7
It's because people are stupid literally everybody is stupid.
I said the same thing about the wife of the first guy who died that they just let go not only was she stupid because she didn't think hey my husband just died of this random disease that he can attracted maybe I should stick around in case I got it too, but every medical professional that deals with the case involving her husband also didn't think to stop her does not matter whether or not they thought the disease could be spread from person to person or not a person died and they just let somebody who spent a lot of time with that person who died disappear.
Frankly there's a whole thing is stressing the hell out of me cuz at least last time we had enough decent people in control of things that there was at least some measures put in place to prevent full out wildfire spreading, now we have a bunch of idiots in power who will just pretend everything is fine
7
OMGzKakaniz4 days ago
+6
Were you around in 2020? The American MO is to live free and selfishly
6
eastcoasternj4 days ago
+45
Because he is a selfish c***? It's the American Way™
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Interjessing-Salary4 days ago
+15
1.) the average American is as dumb as a bag of rocks.
2.) the average American also does not give a flying f*** about other people.
And this is coming as an American myself.
15
DoubleCyclone4 days ago
+11
We had people so mad about social distancing in the last pandemic, they attempted to kidnap government officials.
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jcpopm4 days ago
+8
Hi, ICU doctor here. Do you know how many COVID patients tried to cough in my face to prove they weren't dying of COVID? That's why he did that.
8
tsrich4 days ago
+12
It would be inconvenient for him to quarantine. Anyways, hantavirus is fake news, nothing worse than a cold.... /s
12
ferpyy4 days ago
+6
Because he doesn’t care and this is the same unqualified administration that fumbled the COVID response.
6
Del_30304 days ago
+13
We're not gonna have a hantavirus pandemic, relax
https://www.today.com/health/news/hantavirus-cruise-ship-pandemic-risk-covid-2026-rcna343854
>One of the largest documented Andes virus (the strain in question) outbreaks occurred in 2018 in Patagonia, Argentina and resulted in 34 cases and 11 deaths.
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DisillusionedPatriot4 days ago
+27
Probably not on the scale being imagined, but it's important to remember how, generally speaking, dumb and selfish americans are. Measles, and polio were both gone until social media experts and podcasters convinced a bunch of selfish idiots that they knew better.
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Silent_Data43744 days ago
+13
Small isolated village vs. international travelers. It’s not the same thing. I’m not terribly concerned but your comparison isn’t valid.
Also, Andes is a species of hantavirus, not a strain. Andes can have multiple strains and this, mutations. Again, I’m not really worried but the lack of scientific understanding in the general public is astonishing.
13
Autisum4 days ago
+6
He’s an American… land of the free and maskless.
Source: An American
6
caracs4 days ago
+53
Considering the incubation period can be up to 2 months and it's been a week-ish?
53
jbarchuk4 days ago
+34
In mid-Jan '20 the word from China was '10 day asymptomatic carrier.' So they decided to let it rip.
34
freedcreativity4 days ago
+37
We have a pretty good fix that Covid was circulating in China by October or November 2019. If there was any hope we needed to close travel before Chinese New Year. But that just didn’t happen. No one in power cared or had the foresight to deal with the problem.
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jbarchuk4 days ago
+5
I saw that too in the fall. I think this all supports the idea that covid happened naturally, nobody's conspiracy.
5
eden_sc24 days ago
+13
So it can be but unlike covid you aren't contagious during the entire incubation period. It makes this a lot less likely to go super spreader
13
CFBCoachGuy3 days ago
+5
Also this strain of hantavirus is really tough to transmit person-to-person, so even under the best circumstances it’s unlikely to lead to a super spreading
5
Extension-Ad-17304 days ago
+41
Correct me if I’m wrong but they didn’t even know there was a contagion until very recently. Like the first case was only confirmed as hantavirus as of may2ns. So probably not because they just thought an old guy died from complications of a viral sickness.some of yall are trying to blame the passengers who left and officials but they just didn’t know anything was amiss at this point. Some passengers disembarked the cruise around April 24. The second death happened 2 days later. You can’t be telling me none of y’all visited friends or been around people with mild sickness or even traveled right after.
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thefranklin23 days ago
+15
That is correct. If they quarantined everybody for weeks every time a 70+ year old dies of pneumonia...
15
Wiseduck54 days ago
+24
You cannot quarantine someone properly on the cruise ship.
You need to isolate them from possible sources of infection, ie other people and rodents, and monitor them for the length of the incubation period to determine they are disease free.
Is this CDC doing that? I doubt it, but they do need to find someplace to offload people where they can be safely quarantined.
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Kelsusaurus4 days ago
+5
IIRC, the incubation period for this virus is 40-60 days, so...no.
5
FALCONX0N4 days ago
+10
I keep telling everyone these billionaire fucks are eugenicist morons who watched Moonraker too many times as children and now it's their life work. They probably see a society-collapsing virus as divine providence.
10
KPDog4 days ago
+101
Did the “traveller” just pop on to a commercial flight?
101
Iggy_R3d3 days ago
+20
You know it. Wanna place bets on if they bothered to wear a mask?
20
thisismynewacct4 days ago
+63
Hope he doesn’t have to travel through grand central like that one guy did in NYC at the start of COVID
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jortfeasor3 days ago
+10
I bought a copy of The Stand around the start of COVID, thank God I didn’t read it until last year, I would have flipped out lol. Kind of trying not to worry about this one…
10
Verratcat4 days ago
+235
Patient Zero, Part 2: Electric Bugaloo
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+784
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Karamazov_A4 days ago
+399
Holy f****** christ, this is going to give me flashbacks to working in a rural ED during Covid. Church choir practice lead to super spreader events with multiple deaths more than once.
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RonaldoNazario4 days ago
+177
There were some studies about how singing basically generates order of magnitude more aerosols than regular breathing or talking. A choir is basically a worst case scenario for viral spread unfortunately
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crastle4 days ago
+36
So if you wanted to infect someone with a contagious, airborne virus, you should hire a large choir to sing to them in an enclosed space?
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PredatorRedditer4 days ago
+18
Infected Choir sounds like a metal acapella ensemble.
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Brcomic4 days ago
+3
Dibs on singing bass and any deep harsh vocals.
3
crunkadocious4 days ago
+35
note that the commenter made that up, it isn't in the article
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ExoticWeapon4 days ago
+33
Well because that’s a deities house silly, nothing bad can enter there.
Heavy /sarcasm if not evident
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dj92wa4 days ago
+12
We need Kenneth Copeland up on stage heavily rebuking Hanta like he did COVID-19, demonic growls and all. I say this from a selfish point though because I want another metal cover of it (if you’re unfamiliar, go look up Andre Antune’s metal version of Kenneth Copeland; it’s hilarious)
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oxfordcommaordeath4 days ago
+30
I think you misunderstand how to use quotation marks.
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PigeonWitch4 days ago
+27
This is not a real quote or in the article. Disregard.
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RonaldoNazario4 days ago
+48
I know someone who sees some of the contact tracing for measles cases in my state and this is depressingly accurate. Probably a mall in there and don’t forget a packed restaurant too.
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zombies-apocalypse4 days ago
+18
Stop spreading misinformation
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scoobertsonville4 days ago
+79
Remember during Covid that person who got off the plane from China and immediately went bowling, to church, all kinds of shit - was the busiest day ever.
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icecream_specialist4 days ago
+17
The bowling thing really rings a bell but I think that was during the ebola scare. Or maybe a side effect of every highly infections disease is wanting to go bowling... with your cousin
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rdldr14 days ago
+14
Or how about that woman who flew from Wuhan, China, to France. She reported on social media that she had a fever and cough before leaving, but took medicine to reduce her symptoms in order to avoid detection by airport temperature checks.
[https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-51231593](https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-51231593)
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Itchy_Ritch4 days ago
+34
That's not in the article.
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statslady234 days ago
+24
you made that up
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rdldr14 days ago
+8
Can you please mark this as sarcasm, because you are terrifying people with your comment. This quote is not at all in the article.
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Tall-Bell-10194 days ago
+332
So let me see:
-USA is about to start a war with Iran
-Nintendo drops a life simulation game
-some kind of virus spreading starting by a mammal
The only thing missing is some kind of documentary about an animal abuser who's portrayed as the hero, another obscure two year old game becoming mainstream, and the Democrats winning the election leading to another January 6
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TaCbrigadier4 days ago
+126
About to start?
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fhayde4 days ago
+67
I hope Bo Burnham has just been relaxing and enjoying some hobbies and doesn't have a special coming out soon.
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SnS_3 days ago
+12
And then....the funniest thing happened
12
WhitePantherXP3 days ago
+3
What's this Nintendo life Sim game?
3
OgthaChristie3 days ago
+5
Tomodachi Life
5
Magmar713 days ago
+3
Tomodachi Life: Living the Dream
3
jaso465713 days ago
+5
I mean if the rumors of Ocarina of Time remake for switch 2 are true I wouldn't mind isolating for a few months
5
Confusionitus4 days ago
+198
Dude, I have no idea what else to say other than this just f****** sucks. Why are passengers being allowed to return home with pretty much zero quarantine. What are we even doing anymore??
It’s not time to freak out yet, but I’m certainly nervous considering Hantavirus has a significantly higher mortality rate than covid. We have the chance to stop this thing in its tracks, but no one in charge can be fucked to do anything.
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StronkMyan3 days ago
+64
Just don't look up
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Extension-Ad-17303 days ago
+41
Yall need to read articles and not make assumptions. These passengers disembarked before they knew there was a hantavirus outbreak. At this point only the first patient died, the wife died 2 days AFTER the 40ppl disembarked. At this point no one could have known there was a serious outbreak or that anything was amiss
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Confusionitus3 days ago
+33
I read the article. The passengers disembarking is not the issue here. It’s that these people are being allowed to return home with no quarantine when the incubation period for hanta can last for weeks.
Why are we not contact tracing every single person who was on that yacht why are we allowing them to return home when it’s all but confirmed that it’s a strain that’s transmissible between humans. A flight attendant who had contact with a man who was deemed too sick to fly has been put in isolation, but how many people was he around before coming in contact with her before he died.
These are my concerns. We treated COVID with the same callousness and a million ended up dying from a virus with a mortality rate of 1%. Hantavirus ranges up to 40%
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OgthaChristie3 days ago
+8
I do know that WHO is doing the tracing, but the U.S. is no longer part of the WHO, so we will know last if anything is happening. The Trump Admin gutted the CDC, so there is no one to go to these people and make them quarantine, because the people left at the CDC are Trump loyalists who don’t even believe in science and therefore don’t give a shit to do anything.
8
Zarelli203 days ago
+6
The mortality rate is exactly why this won’t become a widespread pandemic. It’s way too high to spread efficiently. COVID was the sweet spot of transmission and lethality.
6
Shwalz4 days ago
+25
So one to Virginia and 2 to Texas, any others?
25
Educational_Buy49773 days ago
+19
A̶t̶l̶a̶n̶t̶a̶ Brunswick Georgia
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Sundayx13 days ago
+13
Atlanta… the busiest airport…great!
13
Educational_Buy49773 days ago
+4
I actually think it was misinformation I’m sorry. It was a couple from Georgia but I believe they live in Brunswick Georgia and we don’t know if they went through Atlanta airport or docked at Jacksonville and flew from there
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chainlinkchipmunk3 days ago
+9
Arizona from what I gather.
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Stambro14 days ago
+161
If the US had proper CDC personnel, they would take all of the US passengers off that ship and bring them all in to a quarantine area for observation, treatment and then release!!
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CanWeTalkEth4 days ago
+79
We can do great humanitarian things and we should stop accepting less.
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sanslumiere4 days ago
+31
Big shout out to all of the Americans who voted in a perennial grifter who allowed his largest campaign donor to gut our public health infrastructure in the name of "reducing waste and fraud." Your horrible decision making skills will reverberate for generations.
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sharpbehind24 days ago
+15
Raw milk, vitamin A, a few previous COVID infections and you'll be fine -official White House press release
15
Silly-Low60193 days ago
+14
I hope that person stays quarantined in his home and I hope he believes in science!
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cubsgirl1013 days ago
+4
I believe all state health authorities are requiring close monitoring of symptoms to ensure these passengers don’t end up developing signs of infection. I saw Georgia and California were among the states following filling said protocol.
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Fancy_Possibility4564 days ago
+53
Gotta quarantine for like 2 months to see what happens
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mrsc18804 days ago
+48
I wouldn't hate a 2-month quarantine, tbh. I wasn't prepared for it last time, but I'm ready now!
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littlebittydoodle4 days ago
+18
I’m secretly hoping for one. Let the idiots go out and get sick—I don’t care anymore. But please *pretty please* excuse the rest of us to WFH and school from home so that we at least have the option to protect ourselves and our families.
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jamieschmidt4 days ago
+21
I’m pretty sure there a lot more jobs out there that can’t work from home than those that are. But screw us I guess.
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WeirdJawn4 days ago
+8
Those jobs are for poors and conservatives! s/
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PacoMahogany4 days ago
+35
Sounds like a hero who should be invited to the White House.
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Economy_Link46094 days ago
+10
So along the way - Would have flown from St. Helena to South Africa, then to the U.S.
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peilearceann4 days ago
+74
Ah shit here we go again, I for one welcome our rodent overlords
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Artistic_Emu27204 days ago
+19
Vote Giant Meteor in 2028!
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TheKuMan7174 days ago
+23
Nintendo gonna drop an Animal Crossing sequel
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TransplantedSconie4 days ago
+16
Tomodachi Life: Living the Dream.
There's your pandemic game.
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Murky_Conflict37374 days ago
+7
Does this mean we’re getting a Tiger King sequel too?
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screendrain3 days ago
+11
Incubation time can be up to 8 weeks. Just saying.
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NlghtmanCometh3 days ago
+9
“The ship operator and Dutch officials said on Thursday that more than two dozen passengers from at least 12 countries disembarked on April 24 without contact tracing, nearly two weeks after the first reported death”
Nice
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Exhausted_Skeleton3 days ago
+10
I read today that under Trump, the Dodge Bros fired the 2400 person department charged with inspecting cruise ships and diseases and illnesses, now there’s only 12 people remaining.
Also since Trump made the US leave the WHO, we’re no longer going to get quick info on the virus if it does become a pandemic.
Just like with the early days of COVID in the US, Trump makes things worse.
Just wait any day now we’ll hear some batshit crazy thing on how to fight the virus from RFK jr and Trump will tell people to gargle bleach and inject horse paste.
If this does become another pandemic. MAGA and Republicans are gonna embrace their inner plague rats and spread this shit while yelling about “Muh Freedumbs!”
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mmurry3 days ago
+9
There are 6 US citizens that disembarked. Where are the other 5??
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Qanaesin4 days ago
+17
wtf why in the world do we not individually separate them and monitor them for symptoms for the first two weeks, then consider sending them home
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Humble-Plankton22173 days ago
+7
Will they tour the VA Supreme Court building?
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Ocean_waves7264 days ago
+13
Cool cool cool cool cool
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ConfidentGarden75143 days ago
+6
Hopefully the White House invited him for an in person debrief..
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ch4dr0x4 days ago
+46
We are going to get a post for every single headline, aren’t we?
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MC_Gengar4 days ago
+69
Yes and no one will read the article and no one will listen to the explanations of why this differs dramatically from covid and is thus far far less likely to become a pandemic because we've all become addicted to dooming.
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Joe_Jeep3 days ago
+23
"dooming"
I think people are allowed to be frustrated with the government not engaging with this with an \*abundance\* of caution.
It is much less contagious than covid yes, but what is the downside to containing this person privately \*just in case\* of anything?
The whole "eh it's probably fine" mentality is exactly what lead to many outbreaks in the past.
You act like a paranoid crazy person when it's in the single-digits and the "oops" risk is somebody had to stay isolated for a few weeks more than was strictly needed.
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khowidude873 days ago
+9
Sigh. here we go again.
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Extra_Winner_66703 days ago
+5
It’s a math thing. Didn’t Covid start spreading from sick people traveling to other countries.
5
Bob_Loblawb1 day ago
+4
Don't worry, Donny will inject bleach and use UV rays to stop it.
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turtyurt3 days ago
+11
F*** that guy for coming back. We don’t want him here in Virginia
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ElectronicDoubt99054 days ago
+14
Once again here is where the POS/Trump says it's a flu again Don't worry it will go away in 24 hours. While he hides in his bunker. He lives up to being a f****** piece of shit everyday.
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InterviewNo35383 days ago
+8
Ahhh yes. If this spreads before the election this fall he’s going to use it as a reason to cancel them lol
8
ZonaDesertRat4 days ago
+26
Which country will Trump blame this epidemic on? Surely not his pal from Argentina!
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Babylon4All4 days ago
+23
He’ll blame it on Obama, Biden and the EU somehow.
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Skypirate904 days ago
+3
Covid 19 part 2.
TBH im shocked we "noticed" this at all didn't we essentially dismantle the cdc lol
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huxtiblejones4 days ago
+3
What could possibly go wrong?
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OverTheSunAndFun3 days ago
+3
Send RFK to do the contact tracing.
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_gif_replier3 days ago
+3
Thats what I call lobby for home office /s
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depressedfuckboi3 days ago
+3
Isn't human to human spreading extremely rare?
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OgthaChristie3 days ago
+5
It usually would be, but this is the Andes Strain of Hantavirus. And it looks like it’s spreading quicker than it usually would. The strain could have mutated. We won’t know for a while with the state of things. WHO is doing the tracing, so who knows what’s actually happening right now.
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Adventurous_Motor_453 days ago
+5
We can stay home again
5
blackmobius4 days ago
+12
Patient zero to the rest of us. We are all six weeks out from yet another preventable catastrophe and it will somehow still be Bidens fault.
Edit- they already went to church and bingo night. F*** all of us. Good luck making through this summer, guys.
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spidersilva094 days ago
+2
Well, I would say it was fun while it lasted but that's a lie.
Its inevitable folks, this shit is going to spread. Good luck out there. Hopefully its just media hype and not the next "variant."
2
PraetorGold3 days ago
+3
Are we getting stupider?
3
Kanduriel3 days ago
+5
We get what we deserve
5
Smashmasta4 days ago
+5
Screw all these selfish assholes. They’re inevitably going to end up getting people killed.
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