[ArcadeQuarters]

That’s it - I’m never going bird watching at an Argentinian trash dump again!

[ProtectOurFreedom]

Birdwatching! I can see getting gored while running with the bulls in Pamplona or trampled by the moose you are trying to pet in Yellowstone. But dying of birdwatching!?

That’s the newest World’s Deadliest Hobby.

[House Atreides]

“… The hantavirus cruise continues to stay on everyone’s mind…”
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NO IT DOESN’T! I personally never think about it until yet another article pops up. Much ado about nothing and way overblown.

[Ronaldus Magnus III]

Dr. Kurtzweil: "Are you familiar with the Hantavirus, Agent Mulder?"

Fox Mulder: "Yeah, it was a deadly virus spread by field mice in the Southwestern United States several years ago."

Dr. Kurtzweil: "It's not the Hantavirus. It looks for all the world like the Hantavirus, but I can promise you that it's not. It's a smokescreen... A plague to end all plagues, Agent Mulder."

The Truth Is Out There

[alexander_busek]

When the Schilperoords returned to Argentina on March 27, they visited a landfill four miles outside the city of Ushuaia.

I generally avoid those independent shore excursions. The local tour operators just can't be relied upon to give you access to "authentic" Third-World landfills. I mean, if you want to get up really close to the long-tailed pygmy rice rats and their aerosolized feces, it's best to go with the ship‑sponsored excursions every time!

Regards,

[Nateman]

The Hantavirus has been in Arizona for awhile. Apparently the version out there is not as contagious or as deadly. You hear about a few handful of people with it every now and then.

[Adder]

Just fish, people!
No rats...no landfills!
Just the occasional tick bite that makes you sick for years or snake bites that kill you in minutes!

/s

[Libloather]

Quarantined with no booze. What fun.

Outraged cruise passengers erupt as Bahamas booze ban impacts major voyages

https://nypost.com/2026/05/09/world-news/outraged-cruise-passengers-erupt-as-bahamas-booze-ban-impacts-major-voyages/

[cotton1706]

Yeah, an environmental loon and his wife visiting a garbage dump on their vacation. Now they’re dead.

Don’t be a loon!

[Erik Latranyi]

Because people will not distinguish between the generic hantavirus and the Andes strain (human to human spread), there is likely to be a crackdown on rodents.

PETA will oppose the efforts to clean out rodent infestations.
The WHO will conflate generic hantavirus with the Andes strain.
Democrats will sow fear, panic and division.

Situation normal.

[PGalt]

Floating experiment, unsuspecting passengers.

[Uncle Miltie]

“prepare for the possibility of experts enforcing mask mandates and quarantine protocols.”

I plan to never wear a mask again, and go about my business.

I don’t believe there is law for enforcing masks.

[Uncle Miltie]

ChatGPT:

The outbreak you’re referring to is the current 2026 outbreak of Andes hantavirus linked to the cruise ship MV Hondius, which appears to have originated in southern Argentina or nearby Patagonia. The key concern is that the Andes strain is the only hantavirus known to spread person-to-person under some circumstances.

Looking at previous outbreaks of the same strain gives a fairly clear picture of how these events usually unfold in humans and how they are contained.
What happened in previous human outbreaks?

The most important historical example was the 2018–2019 Epuyén outbreak in Patagonia, Argentina. It became the first well-documented large hantavirus outbreak with confirmed human-to-human transmission.
Course of the outbreak

The outbreak caused 34 confirmed infections and 11 deaths.
Investigators later found that transmission mainly occurred through:
prolonged close indoor contact, family caregiving, social gatherings, and shared exposure during symptomatic illness.

Several chains of infection were traced to:
a birthday party, a funeral, and close personal interactions with symptomatic patients.

Unlike airborne viruses such as measles or COVID-19, spread was relatively inefficient. Most casual contacts did not become infected. Transmission usually required close exposure to respiratory secretions during the early symptomatic phase.

Clinically, people typically developed: fever, muscle aches, fatigue,
then in severe cases rapidly progressive lung failure (hantavirus pulmonary syndrome).

Fatality rates in Andes virus outbreaks have often approached 30–40%.

How was it stopped?
The outbreak was contained through aggressive classical public-health measures rather than medication or vaccination.

Authorities used:
rapid case isolation,
intensive contact tracing,
quarantine of exposed people,
movement restrictions,
and masking/respiratory precautions.

Specific measures in Epuyén included:
mandatory home quarantine for exposed residents,
monitoring contacts for symptoms during the incubation period,
restricting gatherings, isolating patients in medical facilities,
and encouraging mask use.

One judge reportedly ordered 85 residents to remain at home for a month to interrupt transmission chains.

The outbreak eventually burned out because:
the virus does not spread efficiently between humans,
transmission usually requires close contact,
infected people become very sick quickly,
and strict quarantine interrupted the small transmission chains.

What experts learned from that outbreak
The 2018–2019 event fundamentally changed scientific understanding of hantaviruses because it proved:

Andes virus can sustain limited human-to-human transmission,
but it still does not behave like a highly contagious respiratory pandemic virus.
That’s why health agencies currently describe the public risk from the 2026 cruise outbreak as low, despite the international contact tracing effort.

[Skid289]

“A CDC official said the federal government doesn’t plan to have the repatriated American cruise ship passengers quarantine upon arrival in Nebraska.”

This tells me they WANT another pandemic! I’m sure Pfizer, et al are feverishly working on a new mRNA vaccine as we speak, to be rolled out only when there are enough cases to make it highly profitable.

[Ezekiel]

We Know How the Hantavirus Outbreak Occurred on That Cruise Ship

It's all in the timing coordination with multiple world events.

"That cruise ship" certainly has attracted the world's attention in its time. And Hantavirus is not just a word play on hunt a virus...

Hondius is a Dutch surname, predominantly found in the Netherlands, that serves as a Latinized form of the Flemish/Dutch name de Hondt, meaning "the dog" or "hound". Originating in the late Middle Ages, it likely functioned as a nickname for a hunter, a dog trainer, or someone with, or a person with, loyal or keen traits, later Latinized to Hondius during the Renaissance.

Then there's the king of the beasts, the symbol for the tribe of Judah:

HONDIUS , just move the N:

HOD IN US

Hod = majesty, a characteristic symbolized by a lion. Regal splendor, as in the glory of the First Temple. Not like that bit of information is floating around in "isolation", in the desert -- the same could be said for the Jews:

Yehudim -- hod literally inside:

יהודים

Reminds me of Cyrus. Why would a royal, majestic people even need permission?

If you turn things around, Babylon [בבל] reverses to levav, heart [לבב], and more related to blaze up.

2 Chronicles 36, the last words of the Tanakh:

18 And all the vessels of the ❤️ house of God, great and small, and the treasures of the ❤️ house of the LORD, and the treasures of the ❤️ king, and of his princes; all these ❤️❤️❤️ he brought to Babylon [בבל].
19 And they burnt the house of God, and broke down the wall of Jerusalem, and burnt all the palaces thereof with fire, and destroyed all the goodly vessels thereof.
20 And them that had escaped from the sword carried he away to Babylon; and they were servants to him and his sons until the reign of the kingdom of Persia;
21 to fulfil the word of the LORD by the mouth of Jeremiah, until the land had been paid her sabbaths; for as long as she lay desolate she kept sabbath, to fulfil threescore and ten years.
22 Now in the first year of Cyrus king of Persia, that the word of the LORD by the mouth of Jeremiah might be accomplished, the LORD stirred up the spirit of Cyrus king of Persia, that he made a proclamation throughout all his kingdom, and put it also in writing, saying:
23 'Thus saith Cyrus king of Persia: All the kingdoms of the earth hath the LORD, the God of heaven, given me; and He hath charged me to build Him a house in Jerusalem, which is in Judah. Whosoever there is among you of all His people--the LORD his God be with him--let him go up.'

(Who's been barking orders at Persia these days? The defacto king.)

Also in the timing is President's Trump's proclamation for a National Sabbath to be kept this upcoming weekend, falling in with Parshat Bamidbar. In the desert...

BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA -- A PROCLAMATION

... which has attracted the Jewish world's attention in its time:

Trump's Latest Action Could Usher in the Moshiach

A wise man not only knows the importance of synonyms for usher, he knows that usher = asher [אשר] when it comes to the entire timeline of world history from the beginning (כרונולוגיית אשר).

For as long as she lay desolate she kept sabbath

From the earlier post about the quarantine (Q = 70, specifically as threescore and ten) and that 702 (no man's land) reverses to 207:

Sabbath (שבת)

= 702

"No man's land is wasted, unowned land, an uninhabited or desolate area that may be under dispute between parties who leave it unoccupied out of fear or uncertainty."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_man's_land

(figurative) A place where no one can or should be present.

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/no_man%27s_land

שטח הפקר

= 702

Turn it around and let there be light:

Also in the timing, the third time's the charm as for assassination attempts, because try #3 was perpetated by a darkness-lover named Cole [קוֹל].

the LORD stirred up the spirit of Cyrus king of Persia, that he made a proclamation [וַיַּעֲבֶר־קוֹל] throughout all his kingdom...

Strong's H5674 matches the Hebrew עָבַר (ʿāḇar).
Strong's H6963 matches the Hebrew קוֹל (qôl).
proclamation* AND H5674 AND H6963
occurs in 4 verses in the KJV.

LINK

Think beyond without leaving home. ❤️

And check the image on the half-shekels.

[trebb]

“The spot, overrun with trash, is avoided like the plague by its residents, but serves as a pilgrimage point for birdwatchers from all over the world...”

When the locals avoid a plague-ridden area “like the plague”, maybe a smart person would take the hint....

[mewzilla]

We know...

Seems to me we’ve heard that before.

And coming from the same people, we believe them at our peril.

[bk1000]

I will fight anyone who demands I wear a mask. I’m simply not going to do it.

[voicereason]

Who in their right mind says, “Let’s on vacation! I know where there is a great landfill!”

WTF?

[daku]

Birdwatching ?
More like Turdwatching, amirite ?