AIBU? Hantavirus Liverpool

Knock it off
😂👏👏

@mumstheword1x are you for real? What a load of rubbish. I’m amazed you leave the house. Although you are more likely to have an accident in the house than catch this virus from a secure hospital in the Wirral? Are you a functioning adult?

Do you really think your posts are helpful for someone already catastrophising? Knock it off

No but 30-50% fatality - ideally not to be fucked around with. Even one person needlessly catching this would be tragedy.

OP, your anxieties seem rather selective. The risks involved in just travelling to work or going out shopping are considerably higher than your risk of contracting hantavirus.

Hanta virus isn't as contagious as Covid

You want me to spell out the difference between being in a quarantine facility far from the general population or indeed anyone other than quarantine staff for three weeks is different to being assessed over 72 hours and deemed worthy to go home (although not by public transport!) and trusted to self-isolate there, or if symptomatic etc being sent on to another hospital facility?

Some people are notoriously poor at self-isolating, history has shown.

Oh, for goodness sake!!!
Going to a conference in Liverpool where some people are being isolated in a hospital on The Wirral 11 miles away is NOT stupid.

Use your logic and stop making up scenarios, stay away from the internet and get some therapy.

Stay away from Liverpool if you must, tell them the real reason you are not going and lose the respect of your peers.

And?

It is merseyside
my parents live in parkgate; just up the road in heswall
it is Merseyside
not that it matters, born in Liverpool and there is nothing wrong with Merseyside

OP where and when is your conference ?

I mean, I wouldn't be worried about it on the personal level - but the shambolic, uncordinated response globally is not exactly reassuring in regards to how the world will handle the next pandemic (of something far more contagious than hantavirus) that does occur.

💯This.

The OP may sound silly and exaggerated, yes.

But anyone who watched the Us press conference will have noticed that it was the journalists who asked intelligent questions but the expert panel came across clueless and inexperienced. One woman kept laughing when she was talking about the ordeal of the passengers, it was all so tone deaf and unprofessional.

Dismissing a passengers symptoms as anxiety isn't too switched don either is it.

Another hantavirus cruise evacuee is confirmed to have the disease, with Spaniard quarantined after it emerges critically ill French patient's symptoms were dismissed as 'anxiety'

Brits evacuated from Hantavirus cruise ship cannot be forced to self-isolate when released from Covid hospital - as 'taped-up door' separates passengers from intensive care unit

These are the sort of shenanigans we remember from Covid. Covid was badly. mishandled by experts and politicians. Let's hope they will contain this awful virus.

This thread had made it into The Times today.

Please @mumstheword1x Just stop. Leave the thread. Put your phone down. Close down your laptop.

You're making your anxiety worse by focusing on any potential negative rather than thinking more rationally (and reading proper news souces) about this.

You are not helping yourself.

OP you have multiple threads being anxious about this, that and the other. Strongly recommend you get help with your anxiety - that’s a much bigger threat to your wellbeing than being in the same metropolitan region as people in quarantine.

Do you think they're going to come for you?

You really need to get some therapy and stop catastrophising.

Jesus SM is fuelling this hanta fear. Calm down dear you are more likely to be damaged from effects of alcohol this weekend.

@Friendlygingercat who would you sue (the rats!) and on what basis?

Yes, an ornithologist on a reddit thread I was just reading debunked that notion. Who knows. But this is the initial comment people have been responding to:

You don't actually know that - if it is, it would likely be a new strain. There is only one known strain of hantavirus that can be transmitted human to human, and that is found in South America. The likelihood is, the source is on the ship and all the patients thus far have had direct contact with the source. I feel for you, since you clearly have anxiety, but your scaremongering is objectionable. You're clearly not an epidemiologist so stop it with your nonsense.

I thought the landfill site was less likely now and it was another place further up

That is the current theory being reported. From the BBC blog a few days ago:

"Infected couple visited sites where rat species carrying hantavirus was present - WHO

Dr Tedros says investigations into the course of the outbreak are still under way.
The first two cases "travelled through Argentina, Chile and Uruguay on a bird-watching trip which included visits to sites where the species of rat known to carry the virus was present," he says.

The WHO is working with authorities in Argentina to understand the couple's movements, he adds."

72 hours! Then off you trot.

They haven't said that. They said that after 72 hours, and depending on test results, they will decide on a case by case basis whether people will go to self isolate at home.

Bird watching on a rubbish dump? Yeah, right.

Yes, right. On a landfill site. It's popular with tourists. But it's not certain that's where the infection came from.

Try reading the news reports.