Aludicrous headline from Yahoo! News this week: “Trump says he thinks the U.S. is in ‘very good shape’ amid hantavirus outbreak.” Ludicrous that he was even asked in the first place, I mean. You’d think forklifts and front-loaders were gathering up the dead for bonfires on the edge of town. We’re talking about a small outbreak on a cruise ship on the other side of the Atlantic. Nineteen people are in quarantine in the U.S. The attention paid to this story makes it seem as if enemy crop dusters are spraying liquified Ebola in every major city in the world.
Are you worried? No, you are not worried. But you get the feeling that you’re supposed to be worried about the hantavirus. Of course, some are. There are people who swaddled themselves in plastic wrap and didn’t leave the house for six weeks when monkeypox was the next big thing, but they’re the people who still congregate in the zero-Covid subreddits and worry about looking at themselves in the mirror without a mask, lest they auto-infect.
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