Anonymous wrote:I mask in crowded public places.

I usually have a stock of TPs and tissue boxes. But if there is a lockdown, my toilets have all been retrofitted with handheld bidet sprayer. Good ol water will wash my bum.

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I mask in crowded public places.

I usually have a stock of TPs and tissue boxes. But if there is a lockdown, my toilets have all been retrofitted with handheld bidet sprayer. Good ol water will wash my bum.

I still mask in crowded places and there's always been masking since Covid.

There is no real threat for Hantavirus now, and it's very unlikely. It $#!++s for those on the boat, and maybe for those who deparked too early, but this is not a pandemic thing- it's being fueled by social media.

This is more about cruise ships, petti dishes of everything gross floating on open water, than anything else, including the actual virus. The couple came onboard alresdy infected and no one knew. That vast majority of boaters on this ship will not be affected.

Anecdotal but I feel like I saw more than average masking flying through Denver. But being crammed in a tiny tube with 250 other people kinda made me feel like wearing a mask as well. Just a lot of sick people out there in general - not just hantavirus.

Anonymous wrote:Yeah, I'm sure this will spread like wildfire, just like monkeypox did.

Monkeypox was met with an extremely robust public health response across the world. Had it not been it would have been ugly, not necessarily COVID ugly, but definitely bad.

ANDES Hantavirus is unlikely to be the next major pandemic, but it is showing us how badly worldwide public health infrastructure has eroded. It's being handled very badly and none of the lessons that should have been learned from SARS, Ebola, and COVID are being applied. ANDES Hantavirus is the only hanta virus that can transmit human to human. It has a long incubation period and far too many people have been exposed. Because it's been confined to Argentina and Chile, and like other hantaviruses is pretty rare, it hasn't been studied extensively. We do know that transmission can occur with fairly limited contact, but with supportive treatment, it is much less lethal than the hantavirus we have in the US. Unless there's a mutation event this is probably in the dozens category but could go to the hundreds. They really effed up on the failure to quarantine and subsequently contact trace, and the instructions being given to known contacts aren't great. So it's going to be worse than it would have been.

The next pandemic is very much a when not if question. But I don't think this is it. There's not much you can do on this aside from avoiding obviously sick people. They're contagious before symptoms, but once symptoms hit, they are extremely contagious. The early onset signs are very generic, headache, fever, diarrhea, progressing quickly to respiratory and death. Given the 100% mortality rate without supportive treatment vs 40% with I would not hesitate to ask for testing if I even thought it was a possibility.

Anonymous wrote:Can people really not comprehend the differences between this and Covid?

People voted for Trump the US is stupid

Anonymous wrote:I wear a face mask every single day, so it's not a special hantavirus protocol, just a daily "protecting my damaged immune system from sick idiots in public" protocol.

You do understand how your immune system works?

Are we not allowed to buy toilet paper at Costco?

Yeah, I'm sure this will spread like wildfire, just like monkeypox did.

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Anonymous wrote:Can people really not comprehend the differences between this and Covid?

The media isn't helping. I've been seeing hysterical headlines for days. And we know how few people actually read the article...

When covid was first in the news, I thought that it would blow over like sars. I thought people were overreacting when they talked about stocking up. I ended up in a toilet paper crisis and I also bartered my hand sanitizer with my neighbors to get eggs and other supplies.
I don't know if hantavirus will reach pandemic status. I'll never say never again.

You're much more in danger from anti-vaxxers than hantavirus.

And gun culture. And reckless drivers.

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Anonymous wrote:Can people really not comprehend the differences between this and Covid?

The media isn't helping. I've been seeing hysterical headlines for days. And we know how few people actually read the article...

When covid was first in the news, I thought that it would blow over like sars. I thought people were overreacting when they talked about stocking up. I ended up in a toilet paper crisis and I also bartered my hand sanitizer with my neighbors to get eggs and other supplies.
I don't know if hantavirus will reach pandemic status. I'll never say never again.

You're much more in danger from anti-vaxxers than hantavirus.

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Anonymous wrote:Can people really not comprehend the differences between this and Covid?

The media isn't helping. I've been seeing hysterical headlines for days. And we know how few people actually read the article...

When covid was first in the news, I thought that it would blow over like sars. I thought people were overreacting when they talked about stocking up. I ended up in a toilet paper crisis and I also bartered my hand sanitizer with my neighbors to get eggs and other supplies.
I don't know if hantavirus will reach pandemic status. I'll never say never again.

Anonymous wrote:Can people really not comprehend the differences between this and Covid?

The media isn't helping. I've been seeing hysterical headlines for days. And we know how few people actually read the article...