Pic Of The Moment: Hantavirus Update From RFK Jr.

[EarlG]

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Hantavirus Response Shows Effects of Trump Cuts

Hantavirus misinformation runs rampant as the US is unequipped to respond to infectious disease health scare

Why Experts Are Worried About the U.S. Response to Hantavirus

[orangecrush]

1. A pandemic before the mid terms

Why wouldn't they want that?

[Ray Bruns]

2. OMG!

[Cheezoholic]

3. And they want to send another 20 billion to Argentina. Wtf man? n/t

[BumRushDaShow]

4. LOL

Sewage swimmer.

[highplainsdem]

5. RFK Jr. is raw sewage.

[Biophilic]

6. This is brilliant!

[wnylib]

7. There's a CNN article online regarding what medical researchers have learned

about the Andes hantavirus from an outbreak in Argentina. Describes a 2 to 8 week incubation period, symptoms, death rate, and when an infected person is contagious.

According to the article, there is only one day when an infected person can transmit the virus. It is on the day when a fever first develops. On that day, somebody can catch it just by walking past the infected person. No vaccine. No medicine for it.


What doctors know about how the Andes hantavirus spreads | CNN https://share.google/HCKSj8z7ht83nrj0v

[FakeNoose]

12. So face masks aren't going to help us?

Isn't hantavirus airborne? I guess this means we're all doomed.

[wnylib]

17. Why wouldn't a face mask work?

If you walk past someone who is contagious that day and you are not wearing a mask, you would pick up whatever amount of the virus the person was shedding into the air from their nose and mouth. But if you were wearing an N95 or KN95, you probably would not pick up airborne virus particles. Or not get enough to contract the disease. The article does not say that masks won't work.

But, it is also possible to pick up the virus through physical contact. If their clothing or hands have viral particles on them, or if they have any of the dust from rodent feces or urine on them after their initial contact, and you touch the clothes or the person's hands you could transfer the virus to your own clothes or body. If you rub your eyes, or eat something without washing your hands after contact, you would transfer the virus inside your own body.

So, the virus can travel in the air the first day that the infected person develops a fever. Or, it can enter your body if you touch infected clothing or body of an infected person and then touch your hands to your eyes or mouth.

I would definitely wear a mask if there was any indication of risk.

But the virus is not common. Not all rodents are infected with it, only 10% to 30% of them. The chances are that most people would not encounter it unless near a nesting or feeding area of an infected rodent.

[Initech]

8. With the sick demented brain worm fuckhead in charge...

[Auggie]

9. EarlG: well-executed photo montage!

From one Photoshop user to another.

[highplainsdem]

13. It's brilliant. That's a beach in the UK, but then RFK Jr. is polluting the entire world...

[underpants]

10. It's bad news. Dear Leader not like bad news. Make him look bad he think.

Just like COVID.

[calimary]

11. I see a quack in there.

[Vinca]

14. Nailed it again, Earl.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

15. Love it

Bobby Brainworm swims in shit hoping to build a resistance.

[Bengus81]

16. Eh....It's getting warmer,it will all go away soon enough

Going to tell those going to Nebraska to quarantine that line of shit again Trump?

[CatWoman]

18. HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

[johnnyfins]

19. In between gags, this made me laugh.

What a weak, mediocre, human.

[DFW]

20. Hanta what?

Hanta warn ya Bobby--you're being quarantined for the next six months. THAT'S what.

[Skittles]

21. *SNORT*

[dlilafae]

22. Good one, Earl!

[Jack Valentino]

23. The "acorn that fell far far FAR too away from the TREE"...

but too close to dead whales, dead raccoon penises, and TRUMP and other such things.......

[Dave Bowman]

24. What will be their miracle cure this time, rat poison?