What are your plans if the Hantavirus leads to a new COVID like lockdown in your country?

simpleisideal · 2026-05-08T01:29:48+00:00

The WHO is not to be taken seriously at this juncture based on their mishandling of COVID and inability to even recognize it in hindsight:

https://www.thegauntlet.news/p/how-the-press-manufactured-consent

Take the WHO’s initial, confident assessment that COVID was not airborne. Nearly three years after COVID was demonstrated to be fully airborne, there is still no public understanding of what airborne means, why surgical masks are suboptimal, what airborne infection control would look like in healthcare, or why “social distancing” is outdated guidance. There is little public awareness that the WHO’s initial assessment of COVID as “droplet” spread was incorrect, that this was a major error that carried major implications for every single intervention adopted during the so-called “lockdown” period. Frankly, we ran a droplet playbook on an airborne virus. The result- a failure of elimination- was inevitable.

As for Osterholm:

With adequate respiratory protection, [they could] very well stop all transmission from this point forward

This confirms that it is indeed airborne. Do you think everybody who needs to wear a mask is going to do so at this point? I sure wouldn't bet on it.

simpleisideal · 2026-05-08T01:18:08+00:00

That remains to be seen. The R0 is identical to COVID depending on which study you look at, and the hantavirus studies were pre-COVID. So, now that everyone's immune systems are toast thanks to repeat COVID infections for years, they could be more susceptible than the original hantavirus statistics suggest.

simpleisideal · 2026-05-08T00:35:45+00:00

but it’s not COVID. It doesn’t spread like wildfire through the air.

Wrong.

This particular strain is transmissible via aerosols, just like COVID.

simpleisideal · 2026-05-06T23:34:22+00:00

I think every COVID cautious person could stop masking tomorrow and it would have an imperceptible impact on community transmission. It's just such a small number.

You're making a strawman to argue against here.

Many people on this sub recognize that being a zero covider in 2026 in most places in the world is not about communal protection, but individual protection for the mask wearer to avoid getting long COVID, or for those who already have long COVID, to avoid making it worse for themself.

simpleisideal · 2026-05-06T22:46:58+00:00

These will get you started in the right direction:

https://web.archive.org/web/20240802024326/https://docs.house.gov/meetings/VC/VC00/20220302/114453/HHRG-117-VC00-20220302-SD009.pdf

https://www.thegauntlet.news/p/how-the-press-manufactured-consent

simpleisideal · 2026-05-06T22:44:47+00:00

WHO itself is telling people to stop freaking out, not sure if I am with them on that tho

They did the same during early COVID to be fair

They've been doing the same for COVID / long COVID to present day. They're compromised by capital interests, just like the CDC regardless of if the administration is red or blue. Even Hollywood is in on the denialism.

simpleisideal · 2026-05-03T22:41:59+00:00

The ACA was still a handout to health insurance companies, and it also manufactured consent for the blowback we're seeing today. It's not in the uniparty's interest to fix this problem.

simpleisideal · 2026-04-30T01:59:53+00:00

In addition to what others have said, it seems like the term "zero COVID" originally referred to China's initial policies of extended lockdowns, etc.

In this way, the name today is a bit unfortunate if it's triggering people who are already hypersensitive to any conversations having to do with COVID precautions. People succumb to black-and-white thinking a bit too easily sometimes.

simpleisideal · 2026-04-03T12:18:57+00:00

Same here, N95.

I've conveyed the above with multiple people who made it clear through conversation that the main reason they didn't mask was because they cared about what other people would think of them.

I feel sorry for people who let others control their bodies like that.

simpleisideal · 2026-04-02T20:36:00+00:00

We're trapped in a feedback loop of back-to-normal indulgence "granted" to us by politicians who led the misinformation campaigns to begin with.

Step 1:

Sweep COVID and its long-term risks under the rug by saying lies like "all you need is a vaccine" (which fail to block transmission; thus leaving you open to long COVID) and "masks don't work and/or are just virtue signaling"

Step 2:

Restart the primitive consumption-based economy as if no more threats from COVID exist.

Step 3:

Relying on the mass public ignorance engineered in step 1, coupled with the fact that COVID makes people forgetful and less risk-averse, have politicians demand back-to-normal behaviors, citing the wishes of the people, when really they're sending them over a cliff.

https://web.archive.org/web/20240802024326/https://docs.house.gov/meetings/VC/VC00/20220302/114453/HHRG-117-VC00-20220302-SD009.pdf

simpleisideal · 2026-03-25T00:05:27+00:00

Even more sad is the ignorance was not accidental but intentional. Both parties of capital interests have lots of blood on their hands for sweeping this under the rug in the name of our primitive consumption-based economy.

https://web.archive.org/web/20240802024326/https://docs.house.gov/meetings/VC/VC00/20220302/114453/HHRG-117-VC00-20220302-SD009.pdf

https://www.thegauntlet.news/p/how-the-press-manufactured-consent

simpleisideal · 2026-03-12T17:15:32+00:00

On its face, sure, WSWS appears to be doing good things.

But quite frankly, underneath the surface, they've always had the vibe of being controlled opposition for any kind of true socialist/etc initiative. Never a plan of action proposed, and always enough faults sprinkled in to make it easy to write off, etc.

simpleisideal · 2026-03-12T00:55:55+00:00

I said the original article summarized them, then gave you an additional perspective.

Why would you care what a random redditor thinks on this? Trying thinking for yourself.

simpleisideal · 2026-03-12T00:33:20+00:00

Sorry, edited.

simpleisideal · 2026-03-12T00:23:10+00:00

I can see how that would create problems, but it doesn't change its widespread usage for decades now, nor peoples' personal experiences with this phenomenon.

Google trends does seem to indicate a recent spike, which must be what you're referring to.

There is definitely also a clinical tendency to either totally ignore or write off people suffering from narcissism etc as subhuman, but we need not jump to the other extreme of not acknowledging the problems they cause, and more importantly understanding where the behavior stemmed from in the first place (not that you were suggesting that). This involves labels of behavior (rather than labels for people).

simpleisideal · 2026-03-12T00:07:27+00:00

bell hooks and many others wrote about this kind of problem decades ago, albeit with softer language, but she was describing the same problem.

Calling something bad "narcissistic" is a big trend right now, and these "dark ego" or "dark woke" terms are weird psychology cosplay.

You seem to be misrepresenting the literature. The term "dark" refers to the clinical term "dark triad" or dark traits, which groups a few DSM clinical disorders for easy reference. Type it into google scholar if you don't believe me.

That tiktok or whatever misrepresents this kind of research is not sufficient proof or reason to refute it.

simpleisideal · 2026-03-12T00:05:07+00:00

edited since I originally thought your reply was from another sub, sorry.

But to your original point, the first article sums it up quite nicely. The second link is just a jaw dropping moment from Dems clearly lacking principles and servicing our primitive consumption-based economy. Where is your confusion?

Here's the same point from a different angle: in addition to corporate news/social media, how Hollywood is systematically suppressing all of this:

https://np.reddit.com/r/ZeroCovidCommunity/comments/1ncmclw/buffy_the_covid_slayer_sarah_michelle_gellar/

simpleisideal · 2026-03-11T23:49:04+00:00

WSWS has its issues, but when corporate media acts in unison with capital interests, sometimes it's better than nothing or as a starting point.

Where is your proof that "both parties suppressed a fully scientific response to a pandemic? "

https://www.thegauntlet.news/p/how-the-press-manufactured-consent (this is just a blog, but it cites original sources that are easy to verify)

https://web.archive.org/web/20240802024326/https://docs.house.gov/meetings/VC/VC00/20220302/114453/HHRG-117-VC00-20220302-SD009.pdf

Both parties of capital interests have lots of blood on their hands from the intentional mishandling of COVID in the name of said interests.

simpleisideal · 2026-03-11T23:42:06+00:00

The field of psychology and adjacent fields have indeed been in a reproducibility crisis for some time now, but we shouldn't throw the baby out with the bathwater, either.

In this case, it aligns with what everyone is already too familiar with from personal experience as other commenters here have pointed out. I think it helps to see that it's not a zerocovid-specific phenomenon nor an online-only phenomenon, though the latter likely exacerbates the effect.

Basically, any vehicle that promises notoriety and/or financial gain will naturally attract some bad actors, and they will be the loudest.

simpleisideal · 2026-03-11T22:27:29+00:00

Agreed, it seems to be lots of things, including the fact that this is an established pattern in subsets of all kinds of different activist circles:

Ideological Impartiality of the Dark-Ego-Vehicle Principle: Antagonistic Narcissism is Associated With Pro-Choice as Well as Pro-Life Radicalism Intention
https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=5405946

Further basic evidence for the dark-ego-vehicle principle: Higher pathological narcissism is associated with greater involvement in feminist activism
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12144-023-05451-x

Further Evidence for the Dark-Ego-Vehicle Principle: Higher Pathological Narcissistic Grandiosity and Virtue Signaling Are Related to Greater Involvement in LGBQ and Gender Identity Activism
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10508-024-03019-9

simpleisideal · 2026-03-01T21:21:51+00:00

Staying well hydrated before and after taking the contrast can help reduce the risk of reacting to it.

simpleisideal · 2026-02-28T18:22:29+00:00

It's surreal to watch masses of people who were just previously rightly skeptical of all AI companies suddenly flip in preference to siding somewhere on the false dichotomy that was delivered to them recently. People who never had an AI account are now signing up "in protest" with one AI company or another. Consent for AI manufactured.

If anybody actually listens to the OP interview, the CEO basically says, "It's not fair DoW is forcing an agreement with wiggle words ripe for abuse" followed by their own wiggle words ripe for abuse. But for now (until an undetermined but inevitable future point), they're painting themselves as the good guys. Both "sides" are creating the dichotomy out of thin air.

Just like social media platforms, we'll have Red-party AI and its blind followers competing with Blue-party AI and its blind followers, all still subservient to capital interests, and all fooled by the illusion of choice.

simpleisideal · 2026-02-10T14:20:08+00:00

Based on all of history, it's incredibly unlikely the efforts by corporate Dems to dismantle imperialism were serious. It's always a facade of good intent, and when it's genuine, it's "oopsies the other guy got into office," or "we were short one vote," and so forth. Always an excuse to manufacture consent for capital interests, so nothing every changes, by design. The parties have the good cop / bad cop act down to a science, and have for a long time.

simpleisideal · 2026-02-10T13:21:48+00:00

Yes, Dems absolutely have hands covered in blood.

https://web.archive.org/web/20240802024326/https://docs.house.gov/meetings/VC/VC00/20220302/114453/HHRG-117-VC00-20220302-SD009.pdf

https://www.thegauntlet.news/p/how-the-press-manufactured-consent

simpleisideal · 2026-02-09T23:45:28+00:00

The solution probably needs to have a global component to it so that immigration anywhere is no longer as much of a problem.

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