Should Australians Be Worried About Hantavirus?

Hinzugefügt: 2026-05-10

[00:00:00]Right now, there is something happening and either people are not paying attention to it or they're actively trying to not even think about it. And I get it. Most people are exhausted. We have the war going on in the Middle East. The fuel prices are going up.

[00:00:13]Grocery prices are going up. Everyone's budget is getting stretched. But now there is a new wild card in the mix. I guess we say welcome to the world stage.

[00:00:23]The hivirus.

[00:00:30]It is starting to look like the co playbook all over again. But here's the thing. If this actually kicks off, it is not going to be like 2020. It is going to be worse because this time we're already dealing with a stressed supply chain. We're already dealing with an energy crisis. We're already dealing with the public who are exhausted. So, in this video, I'm going to break down what this virus is, how it got here, and what I'm doing to prepare for it. So, if you enjoy videos like this, I urge you to like and subscribe as I post practical preparedness content like this every single week. And if you want to stay uptoate with what's happening around the world, what gear I'm buying, and what skills I'm learning, you can subscribe to my weekly newsletter with the link in the description. Let's get into this. Let's start with the facts.

[00:01:11]Normally, the hivirus is something that you get from mice. You breathe in dried rodent droppings and you get sick. It's rare and it's dangerous, but it doesn't spread from human to human except one specific strain, the Andes strain. And unfortunately for us, that is the exact strain that we are dealing with right now. This strain has confirmed humanto human transmission. It has a fatality rate of anywhere between 25 and 40%. So to put that into perspective, that is a civilization level threat if it gets out of hand. So how did we actually get here? It started on a cruise ship. A ship set sail from Argentina at the start of April. A passenger got sick and then they passed away. But because the incubation period of the virus is anywhere between 1 and 8 weeks, nobody knew what it was at first. So what did they do? They let the people off the ship. Dozens of passengers disembarked and flew home to the UK, to the Netherlands, to South Africa, to Singapore, to New Zealand, to Canada, and to Germany. And some of those people were already symptomatic when they got on the plane. So now we have confirmed cases across more than a dozen countries. But as of right now, me making this video, there is no confirmed cases in Australia. But given how quickly this has already spread across the world before anyone even knew what it was, I would not be sitting back assuming that we are safe because the virus is already out of the box. Now the authorities are out there right now telling everyone to be calm, saying this is not another CO 19. And maybe they're right. I genuinely hope so. But watching this unfold, I cannot help to feel a massive sense of deja vu. We've seen this exact playbook before. It starts with a cruise ship and then it's a few isolated cases and then they say the risk to the public is low. We are just monitoring it. And then suddenly everything shuts down. We know how this goes. We know what the government does when they panic. They lock things down.

[00:03:09]They restrict movements. And they close borders. But here's why this time is completely different. In 2020, when the world shut down, the supply chains were relatively healthy. Energy was cheap, the food was plentiful, and the system had a buffer. We do not have that buffer right now. We are in the middle of the Iran war, and the straight of Hamoose is effectively closed. Diesel prices are through the roof. Fertilizer is in short supply. And we have farmers saying that we are going to have lower crop yields.

[00:03:36]So if the government tried to run the co playbook again right now, we are not just looking at a medical lockdown. We are looking at energy lockdowns. We are looking at genuine food shortages.

[00:03:47]Because if they force people to stay home, transport stops, if the ports freeze up, the fragile supply chain that we have right now will simply snap. It will not bend like it did in 2020. It will break. So then this actually brings me to the biggest question of all. If they told us to lock down tomorrow, would people actually do it? Honestly, I don't think they would. People are exhausted. People are financially stressed. People are sick of being told what to do. And the trust in all of these institutions is completely gone.

[00:04:21]Sure, some people will follow the rules, but I feel like a massive chunk of the population will simply just say no. And when you have a government that's trying to enforce lockdowns on a population that refuses to comply while food prices are spiking and fuel is scarce, that is a recipe for chaos. That is civil unrest. And that is why you cannot simply sit back and just wait to see what happens. So what am I doing about this right now? And I want to be clear about something. I am not dropping everything and going completely panic mode. I'm still doing everything that I've already been doing. food preps, water preps, general household supplies, all of that is still happening because the war in the Middle East has not gone away. The supply chain is still under pressure. Fertilizer is still expensive.

[00:05:09]The price of diesel is still very high.

[00:05:12]All of those reasons to prep are still very much alive. But right now, I'm just adding a layer on top of that.

[00:05:19]Specifically, I'm just upping my medical supplies because if the hivirus does escalate, I want to be ready for that on top of everything else. So, here is what I'm focusing on. Firstly, N95 masks, proper ones, not cheap ones. If this is spreading from human to human through respiratory droplets, a proper mask is one of those basic and effective preps that you can have. Secondly, just some more heavyduty disinfectants, even gloves, eye protection. If someone in my household gets sick, I need to be able to properly clean and isolate that. Now, the next is going to be my food and water. Not because of the virus, but because of the panic that will follow it. If they even hint at lockdowns, Coohl's and Woolworth, Aldi, all of them will be stripped bare in a few hours.

[00:06:03]And because of the war going on in the Middle East, the supply chains are already stressed. Those shelves will not be restocked as quickly as we need them to be. I'm just making sure that I do not need to go anywhere near a supermarket if the panic does start. The bottom line of this is I'm not prepping for one chaos. I'm prepping for the fact that we have multiple things happening at the same time. The war, the supply chain, the energy crisis, and now the hivirus. All of these things on their own, they could be manageable. All of them together.

[00:06:34]This is why we prep. I hope this fizzles out. I hope that contact tracing works.

[00:06:38]I hope that they find and isolate all the cases and we never hear of the Andes strain again. But hope is not a strategy and we've seen this playbook before and we know how quickly things can change.

[00:06:51]And this time the system is too fragile to be able to take another hit. So I urge you not to panic. Just use the quiet time that we have now to get your household in order. Stock up your medical supplies, stock up your pantry, and just pay attention. And if you found this video useful, I urge you to like and subscribe.