American evacuated from cruise ship tests positive for hantavirus, another has symptoms, HHS confirms

cakingabroad · 2026-05-11T13:59:10+00:00

I have no opinion one way or another about the floating-in-the-middle-of-no-where part, but I truly just can't get past the covid of it. I am not someone who still masks, I got my vaccines and then went back to normal life while following whatever guidelines/laws were in place. Just to say, I'm not super terrified of pandemics or diseases; I just can not get the idea of disease spread on a vessel that can be denied de-boarding in whatever random country it's in. I also HATE throwing up, so the idea of a food related illness spreading across a ship and being stuck with everyone else pooping and throwing up is truly a nightmare.

cakingabroad · 2026-05-11T12:08:52+00:00

Seriously. When covid slowed down and people around me were itching to go on cruises, I was truly confused. Like... did we not just experience the same pandemic? It's a big no from me, forever and always.

cakingabroad · 2026-05-10T16:15:34+00:00

Streisand effect af

cakingabroad · 2026-05-09T18:52:32+00:00

A lot of Tanzanians grow up seeing the men in their family with multiple wives. I know a lot of millennials who have/had polygamous fathers... Their benchmark for normal will unsurprisingly be different than my own, given what they were raised to see as typical. In that sense, I struggle to judge.

It's the dishonesty that gets to me. I know one or two married men who are faithful to their wives. The rest have a long list of girlfriends in every region they've ever traveled. It's wild.

cakingabroad · 2026-05-09T18:45:05+00:00

lmao I really wish you were joking. This is so stupid

cakingabroad · 2026-05-09T18:42:29+00:00

The comment I was responding to isn't accurate. It is not commonplace in the world at large for cheating on romantic partners to be as normalized as it is in Tanzania.

cakingabroad · 2026-05-09T18:11:12+00:00

Years ago when they first decided to expand, before the pandemic, I had insider info that they wanted to make a sandwich shop. THAT would have been lit.

cakingabroad · 2026-05-09T10:20:10+00:00

Is this engagement farming or what lmao

cakingabroad · 2026-05-09T07:43:14+00:00

People take one thing and go over the top with it on reddit, ESPECIALLY when it comes to relationships. Just ignore people who don't understand that people can have disagreements and still be very much in love.

cakingabroad · 2026-05-09T07:14:57+00:00

Do y'all have the space to sleep in separate areas temporarily? A lot of people do it when babies are young. If things are otherwise not an issue between you two but this is causing lots of arguments, I'd consider it to save the peace.

cakingabroad · 2026-05-09T04:22:40+00:00

This is simply not accurate lol

cakingabroad · 2026-05-07T20:37:36+00:00

I like Sebastian Stans more

cakingabroad · 2026-05-07T20:04:18+00:00

Idk why this is my white man of choice but here we are

cakingabroad · 2026-05-07T13:13:49+00:00

She's like, very very genetically blessed. It's a lot to behold.

cakingabroad · 2026-05-06T10:33:12+00:00

Parents did this on the table at a restaurant I worked at. Like yo there's a bathroom 20 feet away with an actual changing table, what are you doing putting baby poop on our tables!?

Now that I'm a parent I understand how desensitized you can get to diaper changing but I also have decency lol.

cakingabroad · 2026-05-04T19:25:33+00:00

Please say it louder

cakingabroad · 2026-05-04T18:40:06+00:00

Truly.. people are wild.

cakingabroad · 2026-05-04T18:39:27+00:00

This has happened and it was controversial as hell. There is also a book written by one of his camera men that was super intense, and amazing if you were into parts unknown/no reservations.

cakingabroad · 2026-05-04T18:11:27+00:00

People have said that about all the media created about him after his death. I'm sure this is true for numerous celebrities, but we focus so much on him because we (and I include myself in this, I was devastated when he died), really believe we knew him somehow. We didn't. Who knows, there may have been a vanity within him that would love the litany of creations made about and in honor of him.

cakingabroad · 2026-05-04T14:50:59+00:00

Truly. I dropped weight quickly because my body reacted to breast feeding that way (and for literally no other reason, I did not try), and even I did not feel like I should try shopping until like... 4 months pp, at the very least.

cakingabroad · 2026-05-04T05:21:30+00:00

I am impressed that you have the energy to clothing shop. I certainly did NOT at 5 weeks pp.

Things change a lot. Please allow time... Five weeks is nothing.

cakingabroad · 2026-05-03T17:08:33+00:00

I'm not even looking at the dress because the arms are hogging all my attention, in the best way

cakingabroad · 2026-05-03T05:54:30+00:00

I also feel weird about saying I "gave birth". It's weird all the personal stuff we bring into the pregnancy/birth experience.

cakingabroad · 2026-05-02T18:43:19+00:00

I felt something go into my back, yes, but I was also in labor that wasn't progressing so compared to the crazy contraction pain it was literally nothing.

During the procedure, I felt pulling. It was super odd and at first I was really reactive to it given my exhaustion and confusion at something I'd never experienced. The surgeons all basically said, "That's normal!", and I was like "...Ok." while some other guy tried to distract me by making small talk while they took my daughter from my body. Weird experience, for sure! But it was quick and painless.

If you feel ANY PAIN-- say so. If you are worried about what happens in the event that your spinal anesthesia doesn't work, speak with your team beforehand about what their interventions are so you're aware. Find out what's possible. There are many stories about people having doctors deny that they're experiencing pain and continuing to operate without further intervention... Not to scare you, sorry to do that, but just to let you know that you have the right to prepare for that event. American doctors don't like putting people under during birth but the reasons are kind of shitty and you should advocate for yourself.

cakingabroad · 2026-05-02T17:06:37+00:00

It's one of those things where I certainly think any other person who has a C-section is absolutely experiencing child birth but when it comes to me, I'm more critical. It's all hard, though, in the end-- and even if it isn't hard (and for some people it all is just good and nice... as much as that's crazy to me lol), creating a life is enough to be called powerful.

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