Feels like covid in late 2019/early 2020. I’m half expecting to read some Reddit post from some guy in a major city saying that he has some weird cold and his doctor told him not to go outside but he’s unable to test so he’s unsure what it is. Of course I said the same thing about bird flu last year and that has yet to pop off. The difference of course being that hantavirus has confirmed human-to-human transmission, bird flu never did.
Thoughts? Are you preparing for covid 2? Think it’ll fizzle out?
they know who was on the boat and have a pretty easy way to track them down, it’s a lot different from covid where heaps of "patient zero"s were untracable and investigated months after the epidemic had started
The big issue is that the disease has a long incubation period, the people who left the boat have had a lot of time to interact with others and at that point who knows what happens next. It’s not so much tracking people down, now that the damage is done
well no the ‘damage’ is not done in the same way, there’s a lot of work involved but it’s quite possible to trace where these people went and alert local health authorities and the people they interacted with. compared to covid, where it isn’t even yet agreed where it came from, this is a much smaller heap of work.