This is great news. The tourists stranded on the cruise ship have finally returned to land.
PrincipledNeerdowell on
Three more test positive. I now it’s close quarters, but the low transmissibility we were told about this disease seems suspect.
send420nudes on
I don’t understand why people are acting like this has been happening forever when hantavirus has existed for a long time and was never considered especially alarming before like it is now.
Ok_Flan4404 on
They’ve been advised by health expert ‘dr.’ Robert F. Kennedy to drink plenty of raw milk…
radkattt on
Whyyyyyyy are we letting them all go home and then immediately finding out some are symptomatic??? This is literally the kind of stupid we used to laugh about in zombie movies/apocalypse movies because how would we ever be that dumb? And now we’re just sending infected patients all around the world. How can we blame people for panicking about another pandemic that’s supposedly unlikely when this is how we’re handling it?
Left_Ambassador_4090 on
The wealthy (passengers paid between $8000-27000) and their egos. Of course, only a fraction of them can be bothered to agree to 3rd party isolation. Hard for me to sympathize.
Haru1st on
So we had all these people neatly quarantined on a isolated vessel and we just let them disembark before all passengers were tested and returned a negative result?
4_max_4 on
The biggest question here isn’t how many people are going to be infected. It’s whether the virus evolved into a different/more transmissible strain. There was an outbreak in Argentina in a birthday party in 2018/2019 and I recall there were more than 34-35 people infected at the end. They were able to contain it. And it didn’t make the news that much because it wasn’t post-pandemic level of histeria related to outbreaks, but the strain was the Andes itself. IF this is the same strain, containment is possible.
Intelligent_Slip_849 on
So, uh, if more people keep testing positive, WHY are we sending them everywhere?
silentbargain on
All the panicking people in the comments dont understand that the fearmongering news cycle is meant to whip you into a frenzy on the back of our pandemic trauma. This isnt going to be a pandemic, despite the botched response
Maoleficent on
No gloves tells you how serious these people are about containment. Take precautions them start telling people not to worry. Have we learned nothing from Covid. Things will be markedly worse with Secretary Beef Jerky and the grifting coffee bean Oz.
leezahfote on
why didn’t they leave the people on the ship?
roderickli on
What did the west eat this time?
aeraen on
We need legal protection for quarantined individuals so they don’t risk losing their jobs and their paychecks. Its a lot cheaper to cover a dozen people for eight weeks than it is to risk another covid. The main reason people try to get out of quarantine is because they need their job and paycheck.
ElydthiaUaDanann on
Well, it has a statistical 35 to 50 percent mortality rate. Somewhere between one in three and one in two statistically die, if infected. I don’t think the situation is being handled properly for this kind of risk factor. The trouble is that the situation is being responded to by multiple high level organizations, nationally and internationally. And then I wonder why that is. Is it not as bad as they say, and it’s just hype? Are the statistics wrong? Or are they releasing it for public review and intentionally trying to fan this? If, on the low end, it gets into the public and it has a one in three mortality rate, were talking about a third of a billion people dying *at least*.
Something’s definitely not right, here.
Skin4theWin on
What’s gonna be super fun is when someone gives it back to a mouse and it becomes endemic here
NorthbyFjord on
Sink the ship!
GreenConstruction834 on
Of course more are testing positive.
CollegeFootballGood on
Cruise ships suck lol I feel bad for these people. I just don’t really understand the logic to send them home. Couldn’t we have setup like a field hospital somewhere for them?
royale_wthCheEsE on
Real question : the official medical line is, transmission requires prolonged, close contact, right ? How are unrelated people contracting this? Did someone sit next to an infected person at a bar? Line up next to them at the buffet ? Is this a new, more virulent strain? Something doesn’t add up.
PanicProne on
WTF is everyone doing? This is turning out to be more contagious than everyone thought, and yet we’re treating this as an almost non-threat instead of treating it as an absolutely deadly infection (which it is!), unless proven otherwise?
Seriously, what is even happening right now?
JeffBoyardee69 on
I’m not a scientist but this doesn’t seem to be planned out very well
Complex_Variation_ on
I wish they pulled a Japan and quarantined the entire ship.
zffjk on
Now I know this virus “isn’t COVID” but can we all at least agree this is being managed as poorly as COVID and speaks volumes about how politicized health strategies are?
natedogjulian on
Great movie 🍿
linkman0596 on
By my count, this brings the total confirmed cases up to 10, after the first person got sick in early to mid-April.
So after a month on a cruise ship, considered the ideal place for a virus like this to spread, out of around 150 people, 10 caught it.
KixStar on
Forget human rights. Should have kept them all on that ship until it was over.
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This is great news. The tourists stranded on the cruise ship have finally returned to land.
Three more test positive. I now it’s close quarters, but the low transmissibility we were told about this disease seems suspect.
I don’t understand why people are acting like this has been happening forever when hantavirus has existed for a long time and was never considered especially alarming before like it is now.
They’ve been advised by health expert ‘dr.’ Robert F. Kennedy to drink plenty of raw milk…
Whyyyyyyy are we letting them all go home and then immediately finding out some are symptomatic??? This is literally the kind of stupid we used to laugh about in zombie movies/apocalypse movies because how would we ever be that dumb? And now we’re just sending infected patients all around the world. How can we blame people for panicking about another pandemic that’s supposedly unlikely when this is how we’re handling it?
The wealthy (passengers paid between $8000-27000) and their egos. Of course, only a fraction of them can be bothered to agree to 3rd party isolation. Hard for me to sympathize.
So we had all these people neatly quarantined on a isolated vessel and we just let them disembark before all passengers were tested and returned a negative result?
The biggest question here isn’t how many people are going to be infected. It’s whether the virus evolved into a different/more transmissible strain. There was an outbreak in Argentina in a birthday party in 2018/2019 and I recall there were more than 34-35 people infected at the end. They were able to contain it. And it didn’t make the news that much because it wasn’t post-pandemic level of histeria related to outbreaks, but the strain was the Andes itself. IF this is the same strain, containment is possible.
So, uh, if more people keep testing positive, WHY are we sending them everywhere?
All the panicking people in the comments dont understand that the fearmongering news cycle is meant to whip you into a frenzy on the back of our pandemic trauma. This isnt going to be a pandemic, despite the botched response
No gloves tells you how serious these people are about containment. Take precautions them start telling people not to worry. Have we learned nothing from Covid. Things will be markedly worse with Secretary Beef Jerky and the grifting coffee bean Oz.
why didn’t they leave the people on the ship?
What did the west eat this time?
We need legal protection for quarantined individuals so they don’t risk losing their jobs and their paychecks. Its a lot cheaper to cover a dozen people for eight weeks than it is to risk another covid. The main reason people try to get out of quarantine is because they need their job and paycheck.
Well, it has a statistical 35 to 50 percent mortality rate. Somewhere between one in three and one in two statistically die, if infected. I don’t think the situation is being handled properly for this kind of risk factor. The trouble is that the situation is being responded to by multiple high level organizations, nationally and internationally. And then I wonder why that is. Is it not as bad as they say, and it’s just hype? Are the statistics wrong? Or are they releasing it for public review and intentionally trying to fan this? If, on the low end, it gets into the public and it has a one in three mortality rate, were talking about a third of a billion people dying *at least*.
Something’s definitely not right, here.
What’s gonna be super fun is when someone gives it back to a mouse and it becomes endemic here
Sink the ship!
Of course more are testing positive.
Cruise ships suck lol I feel bad for these people. I just don’t really understand the logic to send them home. Couldn’t we have setup like a field hospital somewhere for them?
Real question : the official medical line is, transmission requires prolonged, close contact, right ? How are unrelated people contracting this? Did someone sit next to an infected person at a bar? Line up next to them at the buffet ? Is this a new, more virulent strain? Something doesn’t add up.
WTF is everyone doing? This is turning out to be more contagious than everyone thought, and yet we’re treating this as an almost non-threat instead of treating it as an absolutely deadly infection (which it is!), unless proven otherwise?
Seriously, what is even happening right now?
I’m not a scientist but this doesn’t seem to be planned out very well
I wish they pulled a Japan and quarantined the entire ship.
Now I know this virus “isn’t COVID” but can we all at least agree this is being managed as poorly as COVID and speaks volumes about how politicized health strategies are?
Great movie 🍿
By my count, this brings the total confirmed cases up to 10, after the first person got sick in early to mid-April.
So after a month on a cruise ship, considered the ideal place for a virus like this to spread, out of around 150 people, 10 caught it.
Forget human rights. Should have kept them all on that ship until it was over.