Is Hantavirus the Next Global Pandemic?

0:00 Should you be masking up?

0:00 No.

0:01 Should you be worrying about shutting down your business?

0:02 No.

0:02 Should you be worried about sending your kids to school?

0:04 No.

0:04 You should go about your life.

0:05 The media have an incentive to act as though every

0:08 new antivirus or disease is going to turn into COVID.

0:12 So, I want to begin with antivirus.

0:14 I know there are people who are freaking out about antivirus.

0:16 Lots of headlines.

0:17 Is it the new co?

0:18 No, it's not the new co.

0:20 Stop it.

0:20 Just stop.

0:21 Okay.

0:21 So, what happened is that there is a cruise ship called the MV Hondas.

0:26 And according to the WHO,

0:27 and I know the minute I say the World Health Organization,

0:29 you throw up your hands and start screaming like

0:31 a banshee because they did such a horrible job on CO.

0:34 Agreed.

0:35 Agreed.

0:36 But here is the information we have thus far.

0:38 Eight cases have been reported, including three deaths.

0:42 Five of the eight cases were confirmed as havirus.

0:45 So the hivirus involved is the Andes virus.

0:48 This is the only species known

0:50 to be capable of limiting transmission between humans.

0:53 It's linked to close and prolonged contact.

0:55 Typically antivirus is transmitted by somebody ingesting rat poop.

1:00 Basically, apparently the way this started is that some

1:02 of the people who are aboard this cruise

1:03 ship got off the cruise ship in Argentina and they went to a dump to bird watch.

1:08 Folks, don't go to places where there's tons of poop.

1:11 It's just not a great thing to do.

1:12 It's just not great.

1:13 Anyway, so people got back on the ship and tragically there were some

1:16 people who had hands virus and it started passing person to person apparently.

1:22 Now, this Andes strain apparently has a mortality rate of something like 40%,

1:28 which is super scary, right?

1:29 The COVID mortality rate was extremely low.

1:31 The Andes strain of antivirus has a mortality rate of 40%.

1:35 Meaning, if 10 people get it, four will die.

1:38 However, according to the CDC and the WHO,

1:42 hirus has a reproduction number of less than one.

1:44 Now, again, I know this brings back bad memories.

1:47 We all have PTSD from the COVID days.

1:50 The R rate is the rate at which a disease spreads.

1:53 If it is less than one, it will die out.

1:55 If it is more than one, it may slightly grow.

1:57 The flu is like 1.2.

2:00 CO was like four at times,

2:03 like the less strains of CO, meaning it spread really, really fast.

2:06 Now, there's a weird thing about viruses,

2:08 which is the more deadly they are, typically speaking,

2:10 the lower the reproduction rate because you die

2:13 before you can pass it on to other people.

2:16 And very often you only get a a very deadly

2:21 form of a disease from a person who is symptomatic.

2:24 That is true of antivirus.

2:26 The incubation period is something like 1 to 8 weeks anywhere in there.

2:29 But during that incubation period when it's just kind of growing in your body,

2:32 it is not contagious.

2:34 So only when it starts to manifest, which is pretty severe, is it contagious.

2:41 So you're not going to be going

2:42 out to birthday parties typically with antivirus, right?

2:45 But once it starts to actually harm you,

2:47 once you start to be really, really sick, you're going to be in a hospital,

2:50 you're going to be stuck in your bedroom, right?

2:52 You are not going to be out there partying it up.

2:54 A cruise ship is a different story

2:56 because obviously even as you become symptomatic,

2:58 you're in close contact for prolonged periods of time with other human beings.

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4:16 From 1993 to 2003, there were about 890

4:19 cases of antivirus reported in the United States.

4:22 About 35% of those resulted in death.

4:24 Again, that those were mostly not humanto human.

4:28 So, here is a timeline of what happened here.

4:30 March 20th, the ship departed Argentina.

4:34 By April 6th, the first passenger had started getting sick.

4:37 The ill passenger, who was 70 years old, died on board.

4:40 The ship then docked in St.

4:42 Helena and 23 passengers got off.

4:45 Then the wife of the dead passenger also died.

4:47 Again, close contact for prolonged period of time.

4:49 And then a third passenger, a British man,

4:51 became seriously ill and was medically evacuated in South Africa.

4:55 A German woman died on board and a British

4:57 man became the first to test positive for Hivirus.

5:00 That is full on a month later.

5:04 And then the ship denied docking at Cape

5:06 Verie and the Dutch woman's body tested positive.

5:09 And then a departed passenger tested positive in Switzerland.

5:12 Some people got on planes, they flew.

5:15 The ship is now headed for the Canary Islands.

5:17 Okay.

5:18 But the chances that this is like

5:21 a pandemic level virus that it's human to human

5:24 contact that somebody went to a birthday party

5:26 and spread it everywhere very very very low.

5:29 So again, I always hesitate now because of the poison that is

5:32 the WHO in the public discourse to bring sources from the WHO.

5:37 That's how bad they are at their jobs and how

5:39 horribly they abuse the trust of the American people.

5:41 But here is the WHO director of pandemic prevention,

5:43 a woman named Maria Van Kirkov.

5:48 This is not corona virus.

5:50 Uh this is a very different virus.

5:52 We know this virus.

5:53 Hunter viruses have been around for quite a while.

5:56 There's a lot of detail that we know.

5:58 I'm going to ask Naise to come in and say

5:59 this, but I want to be unequivocal here.

6:01 This is not SARS KV2.

6:03 This is not the start of a COVID pandemic.

6:05 This is an outbreak that we see on a ship.

6:07 There's a confined area.

6:09 We have five confirmed cases so far.

6:13 Okay.

6:13 So, should you be masking up?

6:15 No.

6:15 Should you be worrying about shutting down your business?

6:17 No.

6:18 Should you be worried about sending your kids to school?

6:19 No.

6:20 You should go about your life.

6:21 The media have an incentive to act as though every

6:25 new antivirus or disease is going to turn into CO.

6:29 And let's be real, even CO wasn't CO.

6:32 Meaning the way that the media portrayed CO

6:34 that it had an exorbitantly high death rate.

6:37 That it was going to kill legitimately millions of people,

6:40 particularly young people.

6:42 It turned out that a lot of that was exaggerated,

6:44 particularly in the United States.

6:46 The early estimates were just wrong.

6:48 There was so much bad data and it abused the trust of the American people.

6:51 Anthony Fouchy abused the trust of the American people.

6:53 Hell, Fiser in its initial statements about the the efficacy

6:57 of the vaccine and stopping transmission

6:59 abuses the trust of the American people.

7:01 Do not be taken in by the media panic that is

7:04 currently happening about pantairus because there is no evidence at this point.

7:08 Now the evidence can change but at this point there is

7:10 zero evidence that you should be freaked out about this antivirus.