New pandemic fears erupt over hantavirus outbreak on cruise ship
Hantavirus on a cruise ship: new pandemic or a hoax? The WHO has activated an alert over an outbreak with a 40% mortality rate. Is the 2020 script repeating itself?
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Bicho on a cruise ship: new pandemic or a hoax?
The bicho that has put the WHO on alert after an outbreak on the cruise ship MV Hondius does not spread from person to person, but there is already one death and 23 passengers missing. The 40% mortality rate sounds like a joke, but the protocol is identical to that of ELbichito-19: WHO in a state of alert, contact tracing, quarantines and contradictory messages from health authorities.
The numbers that don't add up
Bicho is transmitted through aerosols from rat feces, not through human contact. However, the WHO has already activated the emergency protocol and is looking for passengers who flew from Ascension Island. The paradox is that person-to-person transmission is extremely rare, documented only in cases of close contact. The 40% mortality rate does not fit with massive spread: lethal diseases do not spread well because the carrier does not move. Even so, the media repeat the 2020 script: alert, panic and border closures.
The 2020 script repeats itself
The same arguments from six years ago are back on stage: "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 control 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 the rise in oil prices does not go unnoticed.
Contradictions in the quarantine
Defense Minister Margarita Robles announced that the quarantine of the 14 Spaniards from the cruise ship would be "voluntary." Minutes later, Health Minister Mónica García assured that it would be mandatory. Health sources clarified that "they trust that those affected want to be protected." A lack of coordination that fuels suspicions that the plan is not designed to protect health, but to rehearse population control.
The question that remains is whether this time the population will fall into the same trap or whether accumulated skepticism will prevent confinement.
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The bicho that has put the WHO on alert after an outbreak on the cruise ship MV Hondius does not spread from person to person, but there is already one death and 23 passengers missing. The 40% mortality rate sounds like a joke, but the protocol is identical to that of ELbichito-19: WHO in a state of alert, contact tracing, quarantines and contradictory messages from health authorities.
The numbers that don't add up
Bicho is transmitted through aerosols from rat feces, not through human contact. However, the WHO has already activated the emergency protocol and is looking for passengers who flew from Ascension Island. The paradox is that person-to-person transmission is extremely rare, documented only in cases of close contact. The 40% mortality rate does not fit with massive spread: lethal diseases do not spread well because the carrier does not move. Even so, the media repeat the 2020 script: alert, panic and border closures.
The 2020 script repeats itself
The same arguments from six years ago are back on stage: "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 control 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 the rise in oil prices does not go unnoticed.
Contradictions in the quarantine
Defense Minister Margarita Robles announced that the quarantine of the 14 Spaniards from the cruise ship would be "voluntary." Minutes later, Health Minister Mónica García assured that it would be mandatory. Health sources clarified that "they trust that those affected want to be protected." A lack of coordination that fuels suspicions that the plan is not designed to protect health, but to rehearse population control.
The question that remains is whether this time the population will fall into the same trap or whether accumulated skepticism will prevent confinement.
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