Amerikkkan Christofascists: “See? Just mashing the ‘War in the middle east’ button isn’t bringing about the rapture, like, at all! Try exploring options to lock in at least Pestilence and Famine as well!”
There’s still a CDC?
No
Related: https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/health/2026/05/08/hantavirus-updates-outbreak--live/89982270007/
Honest to god I’m trying to trust all the comments I read saying this won’t become Covid 2 for various scientific reasons, but every article I read about this is just screaming Jan/feb 2020 to me.
Its R0 is super low. Hard for a pandemic to start. And people are traveling less, so hopefully that helps
I thought the r0 was like 2? It’s not measles but that doesn’t seem like nothing
I searched and found this
https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa2009040
Looks like this outbreak in 2018 was estimated to have an R value between 1.2 to 3.4 before control measures and 0.6 to 1.4 after control measures. There’s also some analysis of previous outbreaks. Worth noting that this has happened a few times and they’ve all been contained.
I haven’t looked to see if this current strain has any notable mutations. We’ve seen with covid how that can change transmission rates unpredictability.
I still don’t think this is likely to be a widespread issue (relative to other shit like covid and bird flu). But if there was ever a time for something with a low R value to cause disproportionate damage it’s now, what with universally-weakened immune systems and hollowed out disease prevention. The long incubation period and wide dispersal of potential vectors is somewhat worrying too.
Like I know I personally crossed the threshold years ago but I do wonder when the rest of everyone will look at this kind of “negligence” as hostility
They hate us and want us to die lmao, it could not be clearer
Stupid trump establishment. The savings are relative pennies at the cost to lives. Conclusive proof as to what we are, we all know, which is that if you take away the oversight, the money-grabbing operators will cut safety.
It’s because people’s lives are worth nothing to them. Any amount of money is worth more than human life to these ghouls.
yeah, but look at it the way they do. it’s saving pennies at the cost of lives. the beatings will continue until morale improves.
Can’t decide whether to call it the hentai virus or haunted virus.
I think the denial pundits are going to settle on hantasy. I feel like that has some juice
Hant-at-sea
