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- Comment on 🫡🫡🫡 2 weeks ago:
The strain from the cruise ship is the Andes strain.
Avoiding rodents isn’t the answer to this one (still avoid them, that’s just not quite the correct answer here).
The risk to the average person is low for other reasons.
One difference is in the very fact that we can name the virus: we know more about how it spreads and the symptoms to look for. It’s not an unknown virus, unit in 2020 when we were dealing with something we had never seen in humans before.
If someone does start to show symptoms it will be tested for earlier during diagnosis than it otherwise might be since hantavirus is in the news. Earlier detection will reduce spread (if we even reach that point, many of the passengers are in quarantine).
The other passengers being in quarantine is one of the biggest things lowering the risk.
- Comment on Is it really dangerous to fall sleep in the bath? 3 months ago:
There’s more than just drowning.
Hypothermia is a risk of the water isn’t kept warm. And most likely someone’s going to fill the tub and let it sit, so it would quickly lose its warmth. Don’t assume because you’re cold you’d wake up.
- Comment on Can anyone explain why? 3 months ago:
The last gen z are nearly finished with high school. The oldest gen alpha kids are in high school. We’re a year into gen beta being born.