The Hantavirus is Terrifying

Added: 2026-05-11

[00:00:00]Hi again, guys. I hope you're feeling well because if you are, you better cherish the feeling because you might never feel well again. Why? Because it's time for the plemic 2.0.

[00:00:11]On May 5th, 2026, seven people in a cruise ship were suspected of having the haunt virus. And by that point, articles were coming out that three of those cases were already confirmed dead. And I got to be honest, this whole thing sounds like the worst vacation ever. The voyage started in Argentina all the way back in early April this year. And apparently a ticket to get on this cruise was going to run you somewhere from like 16,000 to $25,000. The cruise ran a month long and at the point that we were all finally all hearing about it. These guys were apparently supposed to dock at Cape Verde, but ended up anchoring in place outside of the port because of the level of risk posed by the outbreak on the cruise. At Cape Verde, they took some medical staff on board before they eventually left to go to the Canary Islands where they were opposed by the local government because of the risk posed by docking. Not in the penis wag. That's how we usually talk about docking on this channel. Sorry, had to get out of my head. The haunt virus itself, first and foremost, has a wicked sounding name. It's practically begging for me to fearmonger over it.

[00:01:12]Like, it's one of the few disease names that without ever having known that it's a disease, sounds like it'll kill you.

[00:01:17]It's not one of the ones that has to ravage communities on a mass scale and that it has to have affected somebody close to you to come off as something dangerous. Apparently, the haunt virus is found in rodents for the most part.

[00:01:29]And the way that it gets into animals that aren't other rodents, including humans, is through direct consumption, like eating contaminated food or getting an infected rodent's poop, pee, blood, fur, and or spit into your system. For those who contract the haunt virus, the prognosis is not great with a 30 to 60% fatality rate. It causes a thing called haunt virus pulmonary orthotto virus, but we're going to just talk about it as haunt virus for the sake of this video.

[00:01:56]The good news is that humanto human contact rarely occurs with the haunt virus with only one known haunt virus observed to be able to transfer from human to human contact. That one being the Andes virus found mainly in Argentina. Do you want to take a guess which haunt virus was confirmed to be on the cruise ship? Okay, I I I've talked a lot of doom and gloom so far, but but before you go doom spiraling too much, getting hauntus requires you to be in very close proximity to infected rodent poop, its other bodily fluids and fur.

[00:02:26]It sounds like it's generally just its infected DNA. And I want to make it clear that the humanto human transmission with the Andes virus is also very rare and requires very close contact with someone who's infected.

[00:02:38]That means like direct physical contact, spending a lot of time with an infected person in confined or enclosed spaces, or sharing bodily fluids with them directly. So unless someone with the Indies virus is a person you're sucking face with, sharing forks and knives with, or sleeping in the same bed or washing the sheets they used, it it's very unlikely that it's going to come to you directly, at least with the things we've seen in the past. That said, I don't really like the concept of it even being out there. Like literally any disclaimer I could give does not make the concept or the possibility of it any less scary, especially as we're seeing it spread in the way it is right now.

[00:03:14]Coming off the recent memory and current state of co, it's probably not comforting to hear that even the threat of lockdown 2 adventure DX director's cut featuring Dante from Devil May Cry is going around. And I'm also not saying that some healthy caution isn't warranted. But I feel like right now we're in more of a holding pattern. I'm not going to say nothing will happen because there's genuinely no way for a guy like me to know other than what I hear from other sources. That video I made on CO before it was called CO in like January 2020 from over 6 years ago still gives me chills down my spine whenever I recall any number of poorly aged clips from it. But freaking out probably isn't advisable at the moment because it'll hamper your ability to act if action becomes necessary. So before we get into the shit posts and the funny stuff people have been saying about this virus as we've first been learning about it, I think it's important to once again clarify I am by no means a medical authority and am instead aggregating information from various sources. And if you want to take precautions, the best way to do that is by looking to your countries and also your local state, province or territories respective health organizations for information on best practices. And for more general news, the World Health Organization is also useful for this. The way I'm talking about this thing in this video is more focused on the understandable fear people are feeling right now. Fear that I feel as well instead of the cold hard facts that I simply don't have.

[00:04:35]Because even in the chaos, the way people have been chatting about this has been very amusing. In freaking out over it isn't going to do much good for any of us. As new information comes out, best practices and precautions for what you should do to limit risk might change. and I'm going to recommend you take advice from actual qualified individuals instead of me, which is why I'm limiting the amount of stuff I'm saying you should explicitly do. Anyway, with that disclaimer out of the way, back to the fear-mongering. One of the things that seems to make the threat feel all the more real was the messaging we were getting from people on the cruise ship where the infection first broke out. One passenger from their cabin sent out a message to the world on what ground zero was currently looking like. I normally wouldn't make a video like this, but I feel like I need to say something. So, I wrote a few things down. I am currently on board the MV Hondas, and what's happening right now is very real for all of us here.

[00:05:27]>> Listen, I can immediately empathize with this guy in the position he's in. It has to be scary. He has to have internet access to give us this update video. And because of that, he's not only seen in person, seven people suspected of contracting the haunt virus, but also like a little under half of them die.

[00:05:42]and now he's stuck on a boat with everybody else who's supposedly been exposed to it. So, let's what hear what he has to say.

[00:05:48]>> We're not just a story. We're not just headlines. We're people. People with families with lives with people waiting for us at home.

[00:06:00]>> Listen, man. I understand the fear that you're feeling. You have a family you want to get back to as quick as possible, but is that really such a good idea right now? I get it. You're scared, but so am I. Some of y'all already got off the boat and went to the airport and went back home. If you got a family, then certainly you don't want to potentially bring back the plague to them with you, right? The incubation period for the Hondra virus is something like 45 days. And I can understand that being stuck in the place we were first showed the disease as breaking out is probably terrifying and visceral when you're dealing with it right in front of you. But that's exactly why I don't want to do that myself. So I'm asking you from the bottom of my heart, hold the line. a lot of uncertainty and that's the hardest part.

[00:06:45]All we want right now is to feel safe, to have clarity. I think it's too late for me to call the boat your new home now. I believe the boat has already docked at Tenneref at Spain. But if it were up to me, I think I would have been happy to like drop you all 150 Nintendo Switches with all the games you could ever hope to want currently out on the machine. Hell, I might even personally donate my Steam Deck if it meant keeping you all out there for just a little longer until I we knew it was safe. But I truthfully get it, man. This is a very human story. And if I was in your position, I would probably be freaking out and wanting to be able to talk to those closest to me as well. The thing is, it's a little different for a guy like me because a lot of the people I really care about also have Discord accounts that I can talk to them on. In fact, that's where I talked to them already because I'm an indoor neat loser. Like, we could have run some squads from the gaming laptop if the Wi-Fi was good enough. And you know what? If I had that, I could have gone from there. I'm not saying I want to be in your position or that you're not like feeling a genuine valid emotional response by being in that position, but we all got to deal with some stuff we don't want to at some point.

[00:07:49]>> So, if you're seeing coverage about this, just remember that there are real people behind it and that this isn't something happening somewhere far away.

[00:07:59]Well, to be fair, at the time of you recording this video, this was on the other side of the world for me. My fear is that you'll be correct and that it will be something that is not far away and that I'll have to deal with it close to home if we don't manage this properly.

[00:08:13]>> It's happening to us right now. I'll share more when I can, but for now, I just ask for your kindness and understanding. Thank you.

[00:08:23]>> All right. All jokes aside for me, this guy has my genuine sympathies. I can only imagine how scary it has to be being near the starting point of something as crazy as this. And I'm obviously wishing well to him for both common human reasons and selfish ones that those who are on the ship are well and not infected. That said, whether they're on the ship or like elsewhere on land, they'll probably have to remain in quarantine for some time, even if after they've been disembarked and been repatriated to whatever country they call home. And this is the thing.

[00:08:51]Whenever a disease goes around, even minor ones, I feel like as people, we have a tendency to blame someone we knew who recently had a cold as the reason as to why we end up getting that cold. The comments are saying shit like, "We want to be safe, too, bro. Stay on the ship."

[00:09:05]And we are so sorry, but as a nurse, I just want you to stay on the ship. But it does come to mind that a cruise ship probably doesn't have the facilities to do like long-term quarantine and monitoring of these guys effectively where you can make sure that they're in a truly sterile environment where if they do have the disease, they can safely wait it out and then be released safely if they can be cleared. So, while worrying after my own health and the consequences of the disease spreading, I do genuinely feel for these folk who didn't sign up to get a deadly sickness in their veins when they spent $20,000 to go on vacation. Another comment quotes what this guy said. I just want to go home. Baby, you are home. The boat is your home now. And it reminded me of a skit I saw where some dude was like, listen, I get that they're going through a tough time and we want to make them comfortable. But that's partially so they're specifically incentivized not to leave until it is safe to do so and can reenter society without fucking the rest of us over. And it did have me cackling from Z Dante. I love this guy. His skits are awesome.

[00:10:04]>> They going to have to stay on that boat.

[00:10:05]>> They sure do. It's all love to who they are AS PEOPLE. IT'S ALL LOVE.

[00:10:09]>> I think some of them already got off.

[00:10:11]>> Some of them already got off.

[00:10:12]>> Maybe we can build something around them. They can still live a normal life.

[00:10:15]You know what I mean?

[00:10:15]>> WE CAN BUILD THEM DISNEYLAND.

[00:10:16]>> BUILD THEM DISNEYLAND.

[00:10:17]>> THEN THEY BECOME DISNEY.

[00:10:18]>> I'm going to let you know, you not missing that much out here, son. I say start a new society ON THAT MOTHERFUCKER AND BUILD back better, dog. Nintendo Land.

[00:10:26]>> Pokemon adults.

[00:10:27]>> Pokemon is a really fun game.

[00:10:29]>> In regards to that, multiple of them have already left the ship comment.

[00:10:33]Apparently, people had gotten off the cruise at a time where it this whole thing being an outbreak at all wasn't even clear. Like, some of these dudes who left early had no way of knowing that symptoms that could have been signs of like a common cold or a flu that always pops up on a cruise ship or a similar mass gathering event turned out to actually be the haunt virus. Roughly 32 passengers departed at St. Helena in late April, which funny enough is the island that Napoleon Bonapart was exiled to all the way back whenever that happened. And this was all before we and everybody watching this video right now knew that there was an outbreak of the haunt virus as the culprit. And from all the reading I've done, those who had departed at that time and went back to their home countries have had themselves and people that they have had close contact with monitored closely for symptoms of the haunt virus by multiple health organizations. There's a lot more details in that. Like there's like incredibly detailed timelines people have been able to put together about all this stuff and like people in respective countries have been doing to see if this is spreading beyond its scope. But health professionals are watching those who were on the cruise and left early as well as the people that came in contact with them to monitor what's going on with them. This whole kurfuffle has led to a bunch of admittedly funny jokes about people who get a disease in their system just deciding to run to the nearest airport. dudes get a new unknown virus and the first thing they do is take a flight. If you sit down and think about it for a second, everybody we're talking about were folk who had disembarked from the cruise ship before it became clear that the haunt virus was what we were dealing with, where a bunch of them might not even have shown symptoms. And if they did, it seemed within reasonable bounds of the aphformentioned cold or flu you might get while traveling or going to a convention or some shit. If you do fly often, even if you show symptoms, you're probably not really thinking about carrying the next corona. You're probably thinking, "Damn, I ought to drink some fluids when I get back home."

[00:12:22]That said, I think I'm pretty happy I haven't traveled much this year at all.

[00:12:26]But like, I can run all this defense.

[00:12:28]But for me though, it's still hard to argue that the fear people are feeling of going into another pandemic era isn't like relatable. For me, in the back of my mind, when I'm not busy doing paperwork or working in general, I'm worried about what if we got to do this shit again, man. Htovirus fear-mongering has hit the co-worker discussion sphere.

[00:12:47]This has easily been a major topic of discussion on social media and in the news, which is why people like you and me are talking about it. But we're still in this kind of gestation period of not knowing where this is going to go for certain. But assuming this Twitter poster drug sell on Twitter isn't lying about a having a job in that b their anecdotal story is actually making the rounds and people who go outside circles. It's worth taking into consideration that like a lot of different strokes of folks are take talking about this. I caught the hentai virus and I can't stop jerking off. This kind of talk reminds me of the shit I and others were doing when CO first launched. It was just generically called the Corona virus instead of CO where it's kind of just a light-hearted pun to make because the stakes haven't become clear yet. But even with that being the case, the sense of impending doom hangs over your head all the same. Again, I genuinely could not tell you how this will pan out in the long run, but if you are genuinely worried, try to do so within reason. keep up to date with the latest information on how to mitigate risk. Wash your hands, wear a mask, don't eat rat shit. If I can make this situation about myself, because as a content creator, that's all I know how to do. The worst case scenario is that this video ages poorly because I didn't take the risk seriously enough. But the best case scenario is that this video ages poorly because I was scared of literal rat shit in a way that didn't pan out. I'm obviously hoping for that last one. Stay safe out there. That's all I got. Be sure to drop a like and subscribe with notifications on so you never miss an upload.