Comment on How social medias are reacting to the hantavirus

enphurgen@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

• mathemachristian@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  you remember the sars scare back in the 90s too?

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  • enphurgen@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    I remember the killer bees that never came as well. The only thing that seems to remain constant is that people like to spread fear and overreact.

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    • Tollana1234567@lemmy.today ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      instead we had giant hornets.

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    • mathemachristian@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Well the sars thing came back with a vengeance didn’t it?

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• Tollana1234567@lemmy.today ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  depends on which one, the hantavirus from korea is the scary one, sin nombre in the states is the next most virulent one.

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• halfeatenpotato@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Idk if I can technically call him my father-in-law because he died before I had the chance to meet/know him, but my husband’s dad caught hantavirus in the very early 90s. It slowly killed him - deteriorating his motor skills and his mind along the way. My husband was his driver at 15 because his dad couldn’t walk by that point. He reached a point where he frequently made some pretty out-of-character and erratic/destructive decisions that negatively impacted their family in a big way. He eventually committed suicide when my husband was 16.

  From everything I’ve heard about my father-in-law prior to hantavirus (and before it wreaked havoc on his body and mind), he was a brilliant, hard working, dedicated, and warm man. Sounds like he was a kickass dad too.

  The scare was for a good reason. It’s not transmissable from human to human, but it’s a good reminder to be FUCKING CAREFUL AROUND RATS AND ANY AREAS WHERE RATS MAY HAVE BEEN.

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