AIBU? Hantavirus Liverpool

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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?

Why risk the safety of a whole country? Arguably the entire world? If we had isolated Covid from the very start it would have literally saved millions of lives and billions of pounds.

I mean, OP, you're being massively unreasonable but, point of order, the patients aren't in Liverpool, they're on "the leisure peninsula".
But even if you were living next door to them, of course you wouldn't catch it!

No, its been confirmed by testing that this is the human to human South American variant.

I agree with you there’s no need to panic though.

It's not a unit in Liverpool!

No, you're a woollyback.

Rude

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.

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

Eh? Birkenhead is most definitely in Wirral!

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

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

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.

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.

Or is it sheep shaggers? I forget. 🤔

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

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

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.

It is far less infectious than Covid

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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?