If you follow legacy media, you surely have noticed a deluge of hysterical COVID-esque propaganda about an alleged outbreak of hantavirus infections, usually associated with exposure to rodent droppings, on a cruise ship currently sailing through the Atlantic.
The COVID Karens, nostalgic for their years-long reign of terror, have already broken out the masks and flooded TikTok with their demands.
Tittilated COVID Karens already pumping out mask propaganda over alleged #hantavirus outbreak pic.twitter.com/1y3ddoG6K4
— Ben Bartee (@BenBartee) May 8, 2026
However, unless it’s turbo-charged hantavirus cooked up through illicit gain-of-function research in some offshore NIAID-funded lab somewhere — which certainly isn’t beyond the realm of possibility — it’s probably not going to trigger the next global pandemic, as the virus is notoriously difficult to spread, much to the chagrin of the likes of Anthony Fauci.
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Via New York Post (emphasis added):
The WHO said national governments have begun contact tracing the patients, but experts say there is unlikely to be widespread infection from the outbreak — because hantavirus isn’t nearly as contagious as, say, COVID-19.
“It requires large saliva droplets from talking to people. Close, person-to-person spread,” said Ali Khan, dean of the College of Public Health at the University of Nebraska Medical Center, one of the top infectious disease research hospitals in the world.
He added: “We’re probably looking at more than a ‘Hello, how are you?’
While more difficult to spread than COVID, hantavirus is far more lethal, with an estimated case fatality rate of 40%.
Which makes the WHO-sanctioned call to simply release all the passengers on the infected cruise ship, after it’s docked, into the wild, as it were, with no quarantine period whatsoever.
Via Forbes (emphasis added):
Spanish Health Minister Monica Garcia on Wednesday said passengers of the MV Hondius, the cruise ship linked to a hantavirus outbreak that has killed three people, will be allowed to evacuate the ship after it docks in the Canary Islands later this week and those with symptoms will be quarantined…
Garcia said the ship is en route to the Granadilla port in Tenerife, where all passengers will be evacuated before those without symptoms are allowed to return to their home countries…
Authorities on Wednesday confirmed the disease circulating on the ship is the rare Andes variant of Hantavirus—a rare zoonotic virus carried by rodents—and said there are at least five unconfirmed cases.
In a statement on X, the World Health Organization said Swiss authorities have confirmed a third case of the hantavirus after a man who had traveled on the MV Hondius cruise ship was hospitalized in the country.
WHO announces plan to fly #hantavirus cruise passengers all around the globe in order to milk the terror for all its worth pic.twitter.com/TnDh6XCq6W
— Ben Bartee (@BenBartee) May 8, 2026
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Compounding the illogic is that, as students of etymology will note, the term “quarantine” is derived from the Italian term referring to keeping plague-infected ships at sea for an extended period in order to let the virus rip through the crew and die out.
COVID-infected “citizens” (loosely used in this context) of Australia and other Western states were literally kidnapped and taken to government-run concentration camps, yet the WHO is going to immediately send these international cruise passengers all over the globe?
Make it make sense, please.
