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mumstheword1x · 2026-05-11T18:58:01+00:00

I’ve just seen that the Hantavirus is in Liverpool?! They’ve been brought to Liverpool? I’ve got a 2 day work conference there and now I’m worried 😢 I suffer terribly with health anxiety. AIBU?

ShizeItsWeegie · 11/05/2026 23:49

Unreleasedbillable · 11/05/2026 20:46

I agree it was a nasty comment but Northeners aren’t a class - we don’t all live in terraced houses, with our flat caps and our whippets.

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You forgot t'euphphonium and t'sparking clogs.

Fiddlesticks357 · 11/05/2026 23:45

didntlikeanyofthesuggestions · 11/05/2026 20:00

If I had to go up north Hantavirus would be the least of my worries.

Haha rage bait. We don't want you h... oh wait we'd be lovely and welcoming to you anyway as we're just like that. However you'd be too busy staring at our stunning scenery and landscapes to notice. North york moors, north york dales, the whole of Northumberland, the Peak District oh and erm, the Lake District. Haha the south has nothing on the north. Nothing at all. Everyone loves the north now, your rhetoric is old and boring.

GenialHarrietGrouty · 11/05/2026 23:37

Focacciaisyum · 11/05/2026 23:26

Do you REALLY believe the word 'suoervised'? It will be a daily phone call. People will go out and take their mobile phone with them! No way they'll stay in for 6 weeks if theyre feeling ok still after 2.
If thats all it takes why are other countries doing it differently? Also listen to the wording. They're being 'asked' not -'instructed' BIG DIFFERENCE

You do know that it's very easy to track where a mobile phone is, don't you?

ZenNudist · 11/05/2026 23:26

Seems you'll do anything to get out of this conference. Calm down!

Focacciaisyum · 11/05/2026 23:26

Do you REALLY believe the word 'suoervised'? It will be a daily phone call. People will go out and take their mobile phone with them! No way they'll stay in for 6 weeks if theyre feeling ok still after 2.
If thats all it takes why are other countries doing it differently? Also listen to the wording. They're being 'asked' not -'instructed' BIG DIFFERENCE

GenialHarrietGrouty · 11/05/2026 23:22

Focacciaisyum · 11/05/2026 22:43

Oh my god. The amount of people.playing it doen and claiming it doesnt spread between people! It does! Thats why these people SHOULD be quarantined for the full time in proper facilities NOT trusted to do it at home. They wont. Not for 6 weeks. Some might, sure but not all of them. We can't afford the risk of another lockdown in the future.
Its absolutely a political nit scientific decision to 'ask them to stay home. All yhe other countries except the US and the UK are doing a proper quarantine.

Why is supervised isolation at home not a "proper quarantine"? Exactly how is it less risk free than whatever you deem a proper quarantine to be?

GenialHarrietGrouty · 11/05/2026 23:19

FasterMichelin · 11/05/2026 21:17

I can see all the sofa scientists are back out. Its as though Covid never happened.

Telling people to isolate at home is pointless, as we saw in Covid, people don’t behave and won’t follow rules.

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It was extremely difficult to enforce during Covid against the entire population. However, enforcing isolation for 20 identified people, some of whom live together and can therefore be in isolation together, will be a doddle.

LongDarkTeatime · 11/05/2026 23:15

This virus is completely different to Covid.
With this one you need to be in close proximity for long periods of time … like in a cruise ship. I’m not even sure if they’ve tested positive let alone being symptomatic and shedding.
As others have said, the people are not in Liverpool, they’re in the Wirral.
I think your health anxiety is impacting on your feelings. Please seek some support for this.

GenialHarrietGrouty · 11/05/2026 23:11

mumstheword1x · 11/05/2026 20:02

But it says they can be let out in 72 hours which will be when I’m at the conference 😢

They will go home under supervised isolation. They are not going to be allowed to wander off to sample Liverpool's nightlife or whatever delights your conference hotel might have to offer.

AInightingale · 11/05/2026 23:10

All things considered, and given how close mainland Europe is, the UK and Ireland have done a bloody good job in keeping rabies out of the British Isles all these years. Amazing that no idiot has smuggled an animal in with the condition.

GenialHarrietGrouty · 11/05/2026 23:08

mumstheword1x · 11/05/2026 20:05

Exactly, it didn’t do a very good job at containing Covid!

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Covid was all over the world by the time it started spreading here. Hantavirus has been found on one ship and, er, that's it.

Bikenutz · 11/05/2026 23:04

mumstheword1x · 11/05/2026 20:05

Exactly, it didn’t do a very good job at containing Covid!

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It is far less infectious than Covid

JustAnotherWhinger · 11/05/2026 22:54

Dragracer · 11/05/2026 22:48

I mean, I don't agree with the panic, but at the same time. This ain't exactly reassuring 😂

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The folks who isolated at Arrowe park didn’t spread Covid anywhere. The process worked with them just fine.

It was the thousands of others travelling in and out via airports and ferries unchecked that caused the issues.

ghostyslovesheets · 11/05/2026 22:53

Dragracer · 11/05/2026 22:48

I mean, I don't agree with the panic, but at the same time. This ain't exactly reassuring 😂

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Why - COVID didn’t spread from the small group of people quarantined in Arrow Park

bittertwisted · 11/05/2026 22:52

TinyGingerCat · 11/05/2026 22:30

I heard that the only reason they are going to Arrowe Park was because some of the cruise passengers had an important conference they needed to get to in Liverpool, and that’s why they only need to isolate for 72 hours.

🤪🤪🤪

LizzieW1969 · 11/05/2026 22:52

Dragracer · 11/05/2026 22:48

I mean, I don't agree with the panic, but at the same time. This ain't exactly reassuring 😂

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Not exactly reassuring, no, but in reality hantavirus is nothing like COVID.

UnctuousUnicorns · 11/05/2026 22:52

UnctuousUnicorns · 11/05/2026 22:50

Woollybacks are what Wirraliens call people from over the river (west, not east).
But yeah, people from Wirral aren't Scousers. The PPs New Brightonian uncle was just trying to be a plazzy Scouser. Sad.

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Or is it sheep shaggers? I forget. 🤔

Happyjoe · 11/05/2026 22:50

mumstheword1x · 11/05/2026 20:02

But it says they can be let out in 72 hours which will be when I’m at the conference 😢

Let us know where your conference is and we can let them know to come visit!

Come on, in the nicest possible way, you're being daft.

UnctuousUnicorns · 11/05/2026 22:50

Miranda65 · 11/05/2026 22:40

No, you're a woollyback.

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Woollybacks are what Wirraliens call people from over the river (west, not east).
But yeah, people from Wirral aren't Scousers. The PPs New Brightonian uncle was just trying to be a plazzy Scouser. Sad.

mjf981 · 11/05/2026 22:49

You're more likely to catch hantavirus from a mouse in your house than the returning passengers from a cruise ship.

Dragracer · 11/05/2026 22:48

TedTookVows · 11/05/2026 20:01

They haven’t been brought to Liverpool. Arrowe Park Hospital is on the Wirral and has a special block where they isolated Brits who came from China and tested positive for COVID. It’s been done before. They have the experience. It’ll be nowhere near your conference.

I mean, I don't agree with the panic, but at the same time. This ain't exactly reassuring 😂

UnctuousUnicorns · 11/05/2026 22:44

Serencwtch · 11/05/2026 20:48

Mine was from Birkenhead, which was DEFINITELY NOT The Wirral or Liverpool.

She was Welsh speaking & very proud but definitely what we would call working class.

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Eh? Birkenhead is most definitely in Wirral!

Lifeomars · 11/05/2026 22:43

Pedallleur · 11/05/2026 21:21

We eat our own young here.

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I'm in the Midlands, we don't go as far as that but we do rear them outside

Focacciaisyum · 11/05/2026 22:43

Oh my god. The amount of people.playing it doen and claiming it doesnt spread between people! It does! Thats why these people SHOULD be quarantined for the full time in proper facilities NOT trusted to do it at home. They wont. Not for 6 weeks. Some might, sure but not all of them. We can't afford the risk of another lockdown in the future.
Its absolutely a political nit scientific decision to 'ask them to stay home. All yhe other countries except the US and the UK are doing a proper quarantine.

Penniesfromheaven77 · 11/05/2026 22:42

didntlikeanyofthesuggestions · 11/05/2026 20:00

If I had to go up north Hantavirus would be the least of my worries.

Rude