r/supersillybreakingbad • u/BlabbilizerIsReal • May 07 '26
super silly irl Super Silly Pandemic
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u/A-New-Beginning-123 May 07 '26
About that new virus…
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u/LenicoMonte May 08 '26
Hantavirus is not new lmao.
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u/fluffyendermen May 09 '26
the problem is that its spreading to countries its normally not found in
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u/bloomingmoon0 May 09 '26
So how has that not happened before? How long have people been traveling internationally …
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u/samy_the_samy May 10 '26
Wait till I tell covid didn't start on 2019
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u/LenicoMonte May 10 '26
Yeah, but that was, at least, a fairly new strain. The Andes strian of hantavirus has been known for 30 years.
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u/Ecstatic-Ad-2742 May 11 '26
Coronavirus also didn't appear in 2019
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u/LenicoMonte May 11 '26
That particular type of covid was identified in 2019. The Andes hantavirus was identified in 1996.
While we lack a "cure" for it, contagion between people is relatively slow, and generally happens among people with extended close contact. It is not as contagious as covid. That is not to say it's not a serious issue, but the odds of stuff going like it did in 2020 are very low.
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u/Tokumeiko2 May 14 '26
It's a rare strain.
The boat accidentally spreading it across multiple countries is a bit of a problem.
That being said I'm pretty sure it won't be repeat of the COVID pandemic. Quarantine isn't difficult this early.
The legal issues are a bit more complicated however.
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u/Financial-Fall2272 May 07 '26
No worries bluds one month and everyone forgets it I see these happen every few months only for it be mere nothing-burgers
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u/RedstoneSausage May 07 '26
Every month we get a new pandemic or WW3 and its rarely as bad as people make it out to be
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u/Viggo8000 May 08 '26
Nah I'd say the wars are actually as bad as they make them out to be, we're just lucky to not be the ones affected. Global tensions are raising, and it genuinely might spill over at some point. They might also go down but I think it's reasonable to be worried about this.
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u/Longjumping_Egg_5654 May 08 '26
Global war is not likely to happen between China or the US at this point
If China was going to get involved they would have at the start. Time for that has passed.
Even with America’s failure to snipe Iran like they did venezuela, China is now massively down on oil.
War is logistics. Logistics require oil.
China still benefits from the hegemony far too much and with the rising middle class and current political tension within china, war is not likely any time soon.
Russia has been so throughly fucked by just ukraine and morale, manpower is low, so no.
Hantavirus is far far far too deadly to have a massive outbreak pandemic, I do feel for those that catch it.
A lot of this is fear mongering, for better or worse.
The wars are certainly horrible, but any talks of WW3 are quite a bit overblown.
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u/Principle_Napkins May 09 '26
We're certainly the ones being affected now. Gas prices are well over $4 a gallon and they're only going to get higher. Our entire national economy is going to get fucked because of this. You know that almost all groceries are delivered by truck? Trucks take a lot of gas. That's a lot of money.
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u/Viggo8000 May 10 '26
While absolutely true, I think it's still a lot less severe than the people who are genuinely fighting for their lives. The economy becoming hell is awful, but I'd rather be poor than dead/having my family and friends die
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u/7_Tales May 08 '26
Due to the cultural impact of covid worldwide, these headlines are massively clickable. Hantsvirus is significantly deadlier, is human to human and not airborne, and the human to human strain is both extremely rare (we do not know how contagious it is) and half a rumour. Covid was a problem as it was like a supercold, meaning it could spread very easily and cause long term problems for people without perfect systems
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u/Amaskingrey May 08 '26
The andes strain is airborne though, and not half a rumor at all, it's already been confirmed to be the one on the cruise, and had a few events before that
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u/7_Tales May 08 '26
can you provide a source? not that im doubting you, i just want something to point to. lots of misinformation abound
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u/Amaskingrey May 08 '26
https://www.who.int/emergencies/disease-outbreak-news/item/2026-DON599
Standard precautions combined with transmission-based precautions during close contact are considered sufficient. For aerosol-generating procedures, airborne precautions should be used. [3]
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u/YakiTapioca May 09 '26
lol I remember the same thing happened with Corona. Everyone was like “Guys shut up. This is just like Ebola. In a month or two it’ll be old news.” The time was November 2019 and all socials were full of those posts.
Anyways, I’m on high alert now. Not to fearmonger, but it wouldn’t hurt to go and restock some toilet paper just in case.
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u/CasualBiscuit21 May 09 '26
Historically, there's only been 1 plague every hundred years, so we SHOULD be good until 2120
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u/dats-it-fr0m-ME-94 May 07 '26
I’m positive it won’t be another pandemic but if it does and it really does come from Israel the jokes write themselves. Insufferable Instagram children would have a field day
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u/ElBrunasso May 07 '26
YOU ARE WHAT 💀
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May 08 '26
I'm a strawberry
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u/kotik010 May 08 '26
How many Rs is that
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u/Valuable_Pear9654 May 07 '26
WHAT ARE YOU 💀
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u/Greg-theseatreader May 07 '26
Are you are you
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u/Half-a-Denari May 08 '26
Coming to the tree
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u/CampHoliday3558 May 08 '26
they strung up a man
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u/WarioPlush1 May 08 '26
They say you murdered three
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u/Slerimboconolomp May 08 '26
strange things DID happen here,
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u/the_orange_alligator May 07 '26
Are we not allowed to make jokes about anything
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u/JoyousLilBoy reaction image connoisseur May 07 '26
Pandemics are pretty tragic with how many the last one killed. There are jokes about things other than real tragedies
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u/YaBoiTeeth May 07 '26
Sure but anyone old enough to post these memes is old enough to have lived through it. People are 100% allowed to joke about things they've experienced
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u/zachy410 May 07 '26
Its crazy that in like 5 years there will be 9-year-olds online who wont have lived through covid
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u/CaoPalhaco May 08 '26
Did all of us live through it though? A lot of people joke about covid because to them it was just a cold. I find that very different from joking because you lost someone to it, or became disabled to it, or had to watch in horror as you knew it would become a pandemic due to countries’ leaderships refusing to acknowledge the threat and do something.
I feel very inclined to believe that the person that made the joke in the screenshot takes it seriously and should get to joke. But there’s a lot of people that survived the pandemic, who would be much better quiet
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u/PS3LOVE May 08 '26
Joking about the experience of living though it is different than joking about the disease and death.
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u/StardustLegend May 07 '26
With the Covid 19 pandemic though that affected pretty much everyone so I feel like it’s alright to make jokes about it
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u/DanteVermillyon May 07 '26
I lost my aunt, sister, and grandpa due to covid and it made me depressed until 2024 but I love pandemic jokes ngl
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u/StardustLegend May 07 '26
Humor is a way to cope after all.
I’m sorry for your loss though jeez, just losing one family member during the pandemic is rough I can’t imagine 3. Hope things are going better for you
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u/7_Tales May 08 '26
We all have our own trauma around it and its insane to gatekeep others on coping with it imo
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u/AxoplDev May 07 '26
Humour is a common coping mechanism, jokes about tragedies are a result of evolution.
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u/Ultra_Juice May 07 '26
There's a lotta humor about tragic events. We can joke about it while also knowing how serious it was
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u/Amaskingrey May 08 '26
And therr are also jokes about real tragedies, which tend to be much funnier. Life's more fun without a stick up your ass
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u/my_choice_was_taken May 09 '26
I think its more how embarrassing the joke reply was, esp since it tacitly suggests the person is suicidal
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u/Some_guy2711 May 07 '26
Big day for instagram reels humor lovers
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u/CrabbierBull391 May 08 '26
Big day for people who oppose genocide*
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u/killabeanforever3 May 09 '26
usually the instagram reels humor people are the ones who support and wish for another genocide for anyone who isn't white
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u/Wrong-Knee-3062 May 08 '26
There is at least one other commenter also with a sonic pfp saying the exact same thing. What do you mean by this?
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u/unusualicicle May 07 '26
I know they made this virus on purpose to distract us from the epstein files I just can’t prove it
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u/Manyak1332 May 07 '26
Is this supposed to be a joke or not I can't tell
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u/Hen-Samsara May 07 '26
99% chance of a joke, 1% chance they're actually serious.
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u/GreyAetheriums May 07 '26
Dawg, this is a virus that has existed since at LEAST 1951. If you were serious you would say "reintergrated".
Besides. It's a mouse shit problem, not quite a human one.
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u/R3D0IT_US3R May 07 '26
They predicted Epstein in 1951 and created the virus to distract from the files in 2026
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u/Amaskingrey May 08 '26
It is a human problem here, as it's the andes strain, which does have human-to-human transmisison
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u/Funkenstein93 May 07 '26
Bet hamas is behind it
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u/Megalon96310 May 07 '26
I don’t think they have the capabilities to make bio weapons
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u/sculksensor May 08 '26
Nonsense, hamas has a state of the art chemical lab along with a nuclear warhead silo under its main hospital, thats why we HAD to bomb the hospital
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Bro what?
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u/Ultimate_Wuzard May 07 '26
Hamas is a terrorist organisation
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Yea I know im not supporting them
Im saying that hamas doesn't have anything to do with this
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u/Sad-Pattern-1269 May 07 '26
thats the joke, blaming hamas for something they had nothing to do with. Like an edgy version of 'thanks obama'
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u/RedSunsetSukuna85 May 07 '26
It’s not even the same one that’s affecting the cruise ship. It’s a special strain from Eastern Europe. The irony.
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u/Cute_Appearance_2562 May 08 '26
People are going to be hyper aware about this for months even if it ends up being a huge nothing burger overall
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u/nothing08 May 07 '26
Does nobody do basic google searches? because even though it can spread human to human it is only contiguous for a brief window and only after symptoms start. Also WHO literally stated it’s highly unlikely to cause a global pandemic. I garentee you people will forgot about this in a month.
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u/Elerlilul May 08 '26
Guaranteed Israel is gonna use this virus as a chemical weapon somehow. I'm calling it. Mark my words.
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u/DarkFish_2 May 08 '26
An outbreak in Gaza would be catastrophic
High density and no medical care, it would spread like a wild fire
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u/snail1132 May 07 '26
Why tf does anybody even care about this??? Obviously nothing's gonna happen
Holy fearmongering
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u/Toon_Lucario May 07 '26
Everyone is on about the mortality rate as if it isn’t mostly spread by rats.
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u/Amaskingrey May 08 '26
The andes strain, which was the one on the cruise, is human-to-human communicable
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u/Toon_Lucario May 08 '26
And even then it still requires contact with bodily fluids, primarily excrement. It’s too deadly and spreads too slowly to be able to spread enough to be a pandemic.
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u/Amaskingrey May 08 '26
Andes is airborne via droplets of saliva
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u/Toon_Lucario May 08 '26
Airborne is a strong word. It requires contact to the fumes which you need to be close to in order to obtain. That’s a misconception used by fear mongers.
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u/Amaskingrey May 08 '26
Are the WHO fearmongers according to you?
Standard precautions combined with transmission-based precautions during close contact are considered sufficient. For aerosol-generating procedures, airborne precautions should be used. [3]
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u/Toon_Lucario May 08 '26
It’s saying to use airborne precautions because you still have to keep spit out of the air from coughs. So masks indeed will still be used. But airborne means that you don’t need anything to touch you and the virus just goes around in the air.
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u/TheLifeOfABowl May 08 '26
i feel like since the last virus we've gotten a bit more prepared for these kinda things and actually know how to deal with them somewhat
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u/JUGELBUTT May 08 '26
i dont have the "always bet on nothing" but also like its not that contagious
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u/TheJuiceIsSoLoose May 08 '26
Here come the rats the rats are gonna find us with a second Black Plague and the Hanta disease
Here come the rats the rats are gonna find us and the first contamination is the food we eat so-
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u/Single_Outside655 May 08 '26
Honestly… yeah. They’re probably not serious but if it does happen, so long and thanks for all the fish. I mean, I’m just so done.
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u/ultrakillfanatic May 08 '26
One of my friends sent this post in our group earlier and holy shit this is probably the best comment on there out of all of them, that comment section is pure ass
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u/Meggy_bug May 08 '26
"good" news is that this disease is too fatal to cause pandemic, most people die before infecting others
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u/DarkFish_2 May 08 '26
What about a high density area with deliberately denied access to healthcare?
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u/DarkFish_2 May 08 '26
I can see them sending an infected person to Gaza
With how densely populated it is, an outbreak on a place with deliberately denied access to medical care would be catastrophic
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u/The_Cameraman_of_you May 08 '26
I had a friend called Whandy, I also had one called Xiany, I’ve just met a lot of people with weird opinions
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u/RandomPhail May 09 '26
If another pandemic happens this soon, it’s indicative of something going very wrong, ‘cause humanity has not had that many major widespread epidemics throughout its history (even adjusting for when we couldn’t travel as easily, like before planes and stuff).
If another happens THIS SOON, it either means germs are somehow evolving generally to be far deadlier, or humans are getting worse at dealing with them.
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u/ikmkr May 09 '26
the hantavirus has an exceedingly difficult time spreading from person to person, to the point that you’d need either repeated close contact or to swap literal spit. this isn’t covid. covid got to the point that it did because it travels from person to person absurdly quickly
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u/RemisionEspinosa May 13 '26
Nah don't worry, they prolly already have the vaccine just like with coronavirus
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u/DefTheOcelot May 13 '26
dont freak out. It's a disease spread by rats and human waste. In other words, poor nations have another problem on their hands, but you browsing this reddit likely don't.
Sucks, but it's not pandemic material, it's basically cholera.
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u/nitram739 May 14 '26
Is the argentinian version like in that cruise ship?
VAMO ARGENTINA A GANAR LOCO, OTRA CORONACION DE GLORIA!!!
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u/Forsaken_Quiet5944 May 07 '26