The version on the cruise ship is the Andes strain.

The strain from the cruise ship is the Andes strain.

Avoiding rodents isn't the answer to this one (still avoid them, that's just not quite the correct answer here).

The risk to the average person is low for other reasons.

One difference is in the very fact that we can name the virus: we know more about how it spreads and the symptoms to look for. It's not an unknown virus, unlike in 2020 when we were dealing with something we had never seen in humans before.

If someone does start to show symptoms it will be tested for earlier during diagnosis than it otherwise might be since hantavirus is in the news. Earlier detection will reduce spread (if we even reach that point, many of the passengers are in quarantine).

The other passengers being in quarantine is one of the biggest things lowering the risk.

Oh yeah, I don't want to see people die BUT the human population has reached a point where survival of the fittest isn't a thing, so how we have complete morons all over.

Case in point. A plastic bag from a grocery store has "Do not put on head" printed on it. Here's the problem 1. If you're a small child that legitimately doesn't know better, you can't read, this is zero help. 2. If you can read it, you're old enough to understand not to do it in the first place, and you're a dip shit.

Just take the warning labels off obvious shit and let nature fix things. It's that big of a deal to wear a mask at a minimum? Sure.

Like the majority of Boomers? I’m in.

Or how about only wealthy elites getting away with having parties while everyone else is expected to quarantine?

This but unironically

🦅🦅🇺🇸🇺🇸IGNORANCE🇺🇸🇺🇸🦅🦅

This was said by a British politician about the UK, but it feels a lot like it applies to the US too:

I think the people of this country have had enough of experts

Ohhhhh

That's why Trump chose a penis enlargement specialist for it instead of some competent virologist

Yup. There's also deaths from hantavirus every year in California. The problem is the variant, its the first time a lot of these countries are being exposed to the more contagious than usual form of hantavirus that in Chile & Argentina is known as Andean Hantavirus.

Chile has a long history of dealing with this and usually takes all the necessary precautions, but add some dumbass gringos (north americans and Europeans) into the mix and they basically go into a remote area and snort lines of mouse shit and then are surprised when they caught a really bad virus.

Argentina doesn't really take any precautioms afaik.

distractions to keep us from a few things.

The US was lucky to have an administration change when it did right as COVID19 took hold. Had the pedophile been running things any longer, the entire country would have burned to the ground.

"Inject bleach to kill the virus?" "Fire our smartest guy for.. reasons.." etc. etc.