Was that really your prompt?

Love that's your takeaway from this clearly satirical image.

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.

The version on the cruise ship is the Andes strain.

🦅🦅🇺🇸🇺🇸IGNORANCE🇺🇸🇺🇸🦅🦅

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.

Nah, Sontarans are smarter than that.

~~hantavirus parties~~ party

Honestly: The most modern denialist version of 'survival of the fittest'
Sadly those are the most likely to procreate :|

I've made my choice.

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.

When the terrorists get that bio weapon, just expect absolute destruction of this Nation.

The Maga cult has fucked our ability to respond.