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My name is Sara, born in 2003 from Al-Shuja’iyya neighborhood. I am the eldest daughter in a family of eight, and I carried responsibility from a young age. I worked hard in my studies and graduated high school with a score of 95, dreaming of building a better future. After graduation, I got married and continued my university education. In 2022, I was blessed with my first daughter, Iman. We were living a simple, stable life, and my husband worked as a taxi driver.When the war began in October 2023, everything changed. We were displaced, and our home was completely destroyed. My husband also lost his car and his only source of income. We are now living in tents under very harsh conditions, facing fear and lack of basic needs. During the war, I gave birth to my second daughter, Masa, who is an infant and needs special care and essential supplies that are difficult for us to provide

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Do you understand the horror of this?

After 2020, we all know;

1. The experts can and will lie to the public if they think it’s in the interests of capital or a particular government

2. The government neither gaf nor really has the capacity to do much, and they have less capacity and fucks to give now than in 2020.

3. The American public will not comply with a long term lockdown and trying just causes massive civil unrest

4. The medical industrial complex loves money and pandemics are a great moneymaker but the frontline medical workers are absolutely not down for working another pandemic

5. Ordinary people will be told by The Experts to spend their last days working to keep the stock market up and left to die alone. The government will tell us there’s nothing to worry about as the elite stock their bunkers. We are on our own. Nobody is going to save us but ourselves, assuming that is even possible.

"I am writing to you today to register a complaint about Starbucks' policies, specifically the "Facial Covering Guidance" policy for your employees. I do not feel comfortable shopping at any store that aims to prevent the spread of COVID-19. Public health is all of our responsibility. I will not be shopping at any Starbucks location until I am sure that employees have the right to protect themselves from a deadly SARS virus without requiring a doctor's note (which can be expensive to obtain!) I hope you are able to forward this upwards in some way, and I appreciate your time today. Thank you!"

you may have to copy/paste that as two separate messages because there seems to be a character limit in the online chat portal idk.

It is much more difficult for employers to enforce mask bans IF MASKS ARE COMMONLY WORE BY PEOPLE. Covid is still killing & disabling daily whether you acknowledge it or not, and there is no cure for long covid. As the previous reblog pointed out, not wearing a mask is being complicit in the spread of covid.

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‘Patient Zero’ identified in hantavirus cruise ship outbreak - Newsweek

Along with some....rather sensational fear mongering about this being a new pandemic or whatever.

Let's clear a few things up.

Person to person spread is suuuuuper rare with hantavirus. it basically requires direct contact with infected rodent urine, feces, or saliva.

Now, SOME news stories are making the claim that the Andes Variant can have person to person transmission. HOWEVER, despite these claims popping up often, evidence is limited- there's 1 paper that looked at a cluster of 3 cases of the Andes strain in 2014 which indicated that 1 of the cases might have been a person to person transmission.

HOWEVER a more recent metastudy that found no real evidence of human to human transmission in the Andes variant. So if it's happens, it's VERY rare

And for the record, this is what the WHO is officially saying:

Further investigations are ongoing. The outbreak is being managed through coordinated international response, and includes in-depth investigations, case isolation and care, medical evacuation and laboratory investigations. Human hantavirus infection is primarily acquired through contact with the urine, faeces, or saliva of infected rodents. It is a rare but severe disease that can be deadly. Although uncommon, limited human to human transmission has been reported in previous outbreaks of Andes virus (a specific species of hantavirus). WHO currently assesses the risk to the global population from this event as low and will continue to monitor the epidemiological situation and update the risk assessment.

Now, apparently today in a press conference, someone from WHO said they are looking into whether person to person transmission is responsible, which is what's creating all these scary sounding headlines. It's a possibility, they are looking into it. Ok.

But given that the incubation period can be weeks long, only 3 cases here have been lab verified, and these folks have been on an international luxury nature cruise for 5 weeks now...I think there's a lot of possible explanations (shared exposure event, contaminated food, etc), and even IF this is a rare confirmation of actual person to person transmission, it would be one the requires prolonged and very close contact.... it's definitely not a new pandemic. It's not new covid. It's not new flu. It's just not.

So. Please. Be thoughtful if you see this story going around. Follow any updates back to the source.

First, what is a Hantavirus?

Hantaviruses are a group of viruses that is spread by rodents that cause severe respiratory disease or kidney disease. They can spread to people through urine, saliva, or droppings from an infected rat. Spread from person to person is not super common and usually involves prolonged close contact.

What is the situation?

A cruise ship left the port in Ushuaia, Argentina on April 1, 2026. The vessel carried a total of 147 individuals, including 88 passengers and 59 crew members. On April 6, a passenger reported fever, headache, and mild diarrhea. By April 11, the passenger developed severe respiratory problems and died the same day on board. On April 24, the body was transported to Saint Helena (a British overseas territory).

On April 24, another passenger, who was in close contact with the first case, went ashore at Saint Helena on with gastrointestinal symptoms. She subsequently deteriorated during a flight to Johannesburg, South Africa, on April 25. This passenger later died upon arrival at the emergency department on April 26. On May 4, the case was subsequently confirmed by PCR with hantavirus infection.

Another passenger presented to the ship's doctor on 24 April 2026 with febrile illness, shortness of breath and signs of pneumonia. On 26 April, their condition worsened. He was medically evacuated from Ascension to South Africa on 27 April, where they are currently hospitalised in an Intensive Care Unit (ICU). Laboratory testing on an extensive respiratory pathogen panel was negative; however, polymerase chain reaction (PCR) testing confirmed hantavirus infection on 2 May 2026.

So far there have been three deaths and seven cases (two confirmed, five suspected) have been reported.

Is this going to be the next pandemic?

Most likely, no. Even with this specific variant spreading from person to person, this disease is not well suited to cause a pandemic level outbreak due to the low level of transmission. This is a terrible outbreak, and people in affected areas should listen to their local health authorities for specific instructions to stay safe, but there is a very low chance of this going global.

If you have any specific questions, I will try to answer new asks in my inbox regarding the situation but please check with WHO for more information.

Edit: People have validly pointed out that I didn’t cite my sources so I am linking them below

there is delaware (state) and delaware (river) 

both are equally strange

the state is a tiny little cryptid thing

the rive is a monster that spans new york, pennsylvania, new jersey and delaware. also washington crossed it once and that was like kinda a big deal i guess. like crossing the rubicon in rome.