Hantavirus Cruise Outbreak Sparks Pandemic Fears in Spain
WHO alerts on hantavirus outbreak aboard MV Hondius in Spanish waters, raising doubts about a new pandemic or media manipulation.
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Bicho on a cruise ship: New pandemic or hoax?
The bicho that has put the WHO on alert trinc an outbreak on the cruise ship MV Hondius is not transmitted from person to person, yet there is already one death and 23 passengers unaccounted for. The 40% mortality rate sounds like a joke, but the protocol is identical to that of ELbichito-19: WHO in state of alert, contact tracing, quarantines, and contradictory messages from health authorities.
Numbers that don't add up
Bicho is transmitted via aerosols from rat droppings, not human contact. However, the WHO has already activated its emergency protocol and is searching for passengers who flew out of Ascension Island port. The paradox is that human-to-human transmission is extremely rare, documented only in cases of close contact. A 40% mortality rate does not fit with massive spread: lethal diseases do not expand well because the carrier does not move. Even so, the media repeats the 2020 script: alert, panic, and border closures.
The 2020 script repeats itself
The same arguments from six years ago return to the scene: "this is serious, trust the authorities," "vaccines will arrive." But the skeptical population remembers that in 2020 an entire country was confined while mass entry of immigrants without health controls was allowed. The pattern is recognizable: a health crisis just before fuel shortages, in a context of geopolitical pressure on the Canary Islands. The coincidence with the Iran conflict and rising oil prices does not go unnoticed.
Contradictions in quarantine
Spain's Minister of Defense, Margarita Robles, announced that the quarantine of the 14 Spaniards on the cruise would be "voluntary." Minutes later, the Minister of Health, Mónica García, assured it would be mandatory. Health sources clarified they "trust that those affected want to be protected." This lack of coordination fuels suspicions that the plan is not designed to protect health, but to rehearse population control.
The question remains whether this time the population will fall into the same trap or if accumulated skepticism will prevent confinement.
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The bicho that has put the WHO on alert trinc an outbreak on the cruise ship MV Hondius is not transmitted from person to person, yet there is already one death and 23 passengers unaccounted for. The 40% mortality rate sounds like a joke, but the protocol is identical to that of ELbichito-19: WHO in state of alert, contact tracing, quarantines, and contradictory messages from health authorities.
Numbers that don't add up
Bicho is transmitted via aerosols from rat droppings, not human contact. However, the WHO has already activated its emergency protocol and is searching for passengers who flew out of Ascension Island port. The paradox is that human-to-human transmission is extremely rare, documented only in cases of close contact. A 40% mortality rate does not fit with massive spread: lethal diseases do not expand well because the carrier does not move. Even so, the media repeats the 2020 script: alert, panic, and border closures.
The 2020 script repeats itself
The same arguments from six years ago return to the scene: "this is serious, trust the authorities," "vaccines will arrive." But the skeptical population remembers that in 2020 an entire country was confined while mass entry of immigrants without health controls was allowed. The pattern is recognizable: a health crisis just before fuel shortages, in a context of geopolitical pressure on the Canary Islands. The coincidence with the Iran conflict and rising oil prices does not go unnoticed.
Contradictions in quarantine
Spain's Minister of Defense, Margarita Robles, announced that the quarantine of the 14 Spaniards on the cruise would be "voluntary." Minutes later, the Minister of Health, Mónica García, assured it would be mandatory. Health sources clarified they "trust that those affected want to be protected." This lack of coordination fuels suspicions that the plan is not designed to protect health, but to rehearse population control.
The question remains whether this time the population will fall into the same trap or if accumulated skepticism will prevent confinement.
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