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      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.

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        Avoid rodents

        Me, who was juggling feral rats with my bare hands “This is fucking bullshit!”

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      Ohhhhh

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

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    I cross the street whenever I need to, without checking for danger. I never lock the doors. I don’t check to make sure I turned off the stove. I don’t wear seat belts. I go into the homes of sketchy strangers. CAUSE I DON’T LIVE IN FEAR/S

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    Every single MAGA fucknut should follow their pedo and the toilet seat cocaine snorter’s instructions. Bleach is going to be in short supply.

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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

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        Wasn’t that said to minimise the authority of experts rather than as a statement on the public? Specifically, Gove was trying to pass policies that the so called ‘experts’ were saying wouldn’t work so he tried to spin the narrative by saying politicians shouldn’t listen to experts and people should do what they’re told.

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        It seems to be a common social phenomenon, something about how our human brains are wired. People have expert knowledge - burn the witches! China’s Great Leap Forward, the Cambodian genocide under Khmer Rouge, and on and on. I hate that we as a society haven’t figured out how to avoid this yet.

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    I can provide LIBERTY FREEDOM coffins at a discount for true patriots. Each coffin comes with an engraved American flag and a gun holster. Today’s your can pre-order your LIBERTY FREEDOM coffin for $4,747.47. Don’t 86 your rights!

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      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