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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

Nah, Sontarans are smarter than that.

They both have a habit of misgendering people. At least the Sontarans do it because they’re a single-gender spices, rather than spite.

I've made my choice.

You joke, but some gullible idiot will buy that.

I know people who get their phone service through "PureTalk" to escape the "liberals at AT&T". I'm still not sure which is the greater irony: the fact that AT&T is an extremely conservative stick in the mud Corpo of the fact that PureTalk is an MVNO whose network is provided by -- wait for it -- AT&T

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

The Maga cult has fucked our ability to respond.

Was that really your prompt?

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.

All the losers are having sudden flare-ups of their persecution complex and are desperately using something that will never happen to create a feeling of power in their sad empty lives.

We've known about coronaviruses since the 1960s

At the moment, there is no cure or vaccine. Just like with Ebola, until a few years ago when some non-African people got infected, and they suddenly whipped up something.

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.