u/Jehoseph

Getting her checked for a chip tomorrow.

She is incredibly sweet and timid.

Definitely not an outdoor cat.

She is also incredibly affectionate and loving when you gain her trust. Absolute love bug. She needs a quiet household likely with no children if i were to suspect, or older children who are respectful.

She definitely can still be playful.

Estimated to be one year old.

If she is not verifiably claimed through a chip or responsive owner, I am committed to following proper Oregon found property guidelines, including documented public notice and a veterinary chip scan, before considering rehoming her for a fee. I want to ensure this is handled responsibly and legally for everyone involved.

As a side note I have seen signs that she may have been hurt by a human or humans before based on a few key behaviors she has. Can discuss further but she needs a calm home and likely best as an only cat.

Message me for more information.

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Prince (aged 13) passed away yesterday morning at home, in our bed, at my feet. He had just jumped up to be with us and within moments his heart gave out. It was sudden and terrifying, and it was , in looking back, peaceful in the sense that he was where he wanted to be, with the people he loved, in his safe place at my feet. And it was so quick when it happened... I wasn’t even convinced he was gone until I drove him in emergency to the vet 5 minutes away.

I want to share his story here because he deserved more years and I don't want him to disappear quietly.

Prince came into our lives in 2021. He was already 8 years old when we got him, originally adopted in Alabama in 2013 before making his way to Oregon. His previous family couldn't give him the space he needed, and somehow he found his way to us. From the moment he arrived he became the center of our home. Morning head bumps. Endless chatter. A specific window he claimed as his observation post. He watched nature documentaries with us. He had opinions about everything.

In April 2024, just months after a routine vaccination, Prince was diagnosed with feline injection site sarcoma. FISS is a rare but devastating cancer caused by vaccine site inflammation. He had surgery to remove the tumor, then traveled with us seven hours to Washington State University in Pullman for 18 rounds of radiation. He handled it all with a grace that astonished his vets.

The cancer came back in late 2025. A second surgery. Then a recurrence again in early 2026 that infiltrated into muscle tissue and couldn't be safely removed a third time. Conventional oncology had run out of options.

That's when we found Dr. Jim Bridge in Gold Beach, Oregon, who's been pioneering an experimental treatment using ozonated glycerin for cancer in animals. We made four trips across the mountains to the coast. Each trip was a full day of driving with gabapentin and a cat carrier and hope. Prince became a seasoned traveler. He settled into the Airbnb like he owned the place.

The treatments were actually working. Dr. Bridge felt the main mass was smaller at our last visit. The smaller tumor behind it had become noticeably more mobile. We had a fourth injection appointment scheduled for the morning he died. That appointment never happened.

What ultimately took Prince wasn't the cancer. It was his heart. He'd been diagnosed with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy back in June 2024. His murmur had been progressing for almost two years. HCM in cats can go from manageable to fatal in minutes and that's exactly what happened. He had a brief episode a week ago that he came back from. Yesterday morning's didn't resolve.

Through all of it Prince was just himself. Affectionate. Vocal. Demanding. The kind of cat who would sit on whatever you were trying to read or look at because how dare you focus on anything other than him. He had grown to trust humans in ways he hadn't earlier in his life. We watched him transform through love over five years.

I keep replaying his last night. He slept cuddled with us like he always did. He had no idea it was the last time. Neither did we.

If you're reading this and you have your cat next to you right now, give them some extra attention today. Tell them everything you want them to know. You never know which night is the last one.

Prince was a warrior who sought for years for people who would call him his own and a sweetheart and the best cat I've ever known in my entire adult life. The house feels too quiet now. We're not moving any of his things yet. He's still very present in our hearts. I hope he finds his way back to us. 💜🐈‍⬛️

Thank you for letting me share him with you.

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Assumptions for this scenario:

- Andes virus mutates or is confirmed to spread via casual airborne contact (COVID-level R0 of ~2.5-3+)

- CFR remains in the 30-40% range without ECMO; ~15-20% with it

- No existing vaccine, no specific antiviral treatment

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## Week 1-3: Detection Lag & Denial Window

This is the most dangerous phase. Because Andes hantavirus symptoms (fever, muscle aches, fatigue) are indistinguishable from flu for the first 4-7 days, and because the current framing is "contained cruise ship outbreak," widespread community transmission would likely go undetected for **2-3 weeks minimum**.

The US specifically has a problem here: the CDC has undergone significant budget cuts and restructuring under the current administration. The pandemic early warning infrastructure — particularly PREDICT and related programs — were already gutted after COVID. Surveillance capacity is genuinely degraded compared to 2020.

Internationally, WHO's capacity is also hampered. The US formally re-withdrew from WHO under Trump's second term, which fractures the coordination layer that actually matters in the first 30 days.

**Realistic outcome:** Silent spread in South America (Argentina, Chile especially, since that's the endemic rodent zone), Europe from the Hondius passengers, and potentially early US seeding through travel — all before any coordinated alarm is raised.

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## Week 3-6: Alarm Without Coordination

Hospitals in multiple countries start seeing unexplained severe pneumonia clusters. The pattern gets recognized. This is where it diverges hard from COVID based on the current political environment.

**US-specific:**

- RFK Jr. is HHS Secretary. His instinct on novel pathogen response is deeply skeptical of institutional public health framing. Expect significant internal friction before any federal mobilization.

- The current administration's ideological posture is strongly against mask mandates, lockdowns, or anything that reads as "COVID 2.0" — politically toxic. That messaging will delay federal action by **weeks**, not days.

- ECMO capacity in the US is approximately 200-300 centers with maybe 2,000-3,000 machines nationwide. At a 30-40% CFR with COVID-level spread, those fill within **days** of a true surge. ECMO is not scalable like ventilators.

- No federal stockpile protocol exists for hantavirus PPE escalation.

**Europe:**

Faster and more coordinated response than the US, but post-COVID political fatigue is real. Germany, France, Netherlands have functional public health infrastructure. Expect European nations to move toward containment measures 2-3 weeks ahead of the US.

**Global South:**

Argentina and Chile are ground zero if this is circulating in rodent populations across the continent. Their healthcare systems — particularly ECMO capacity — are extremely limited. Sub-Saharan Africa, South Asia: essentially no ECMO infrastructure. This becomes a mass casualty event in those regions almost immediately upon spread.

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## Month 2-3: The Pivotal Window

This is where the 30-40% CFR changes everything compared to COVID. COVID's ~1% IFR allowed governments to delay, hedge, and half-measure their way through. **A 30% CFR cannot be politically managed the same way.** Bodies are visible fast.

At COVID-level spread with this CFR, projecting even conservatively:

- US with COVID's first wave pace (~30M infected in 6 months): **9-12 million deaths** in that window without effective intervention. That's not a scenario any administration can spin.

This is where the Trump administration dynamic gets complicated and somewhat unpredictable:

- The initial instinct will be to downplay (economic, political reasons)

- But the death toll visibility at 30% CFR makes denial untenable faster than COVID — probably by **week 6-8** of recognized community spread

- Expect an abrupt pivot to aggressive nationalism: border closures, domestic production orders (DPA invoked), and a blame-China or blame-WHO framing regardless of the actual origin

**What won't happen quickly:**

- Coordinated international response (US-WHO estrangement is real)

- A national mask mandate (politically impossible in this administration)

- School/business closures at federal level — this will be pushed entirely to states, creating a red/blue divergence in outcomes that is statistically measurable and brutal

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## Month 3-6: Vaccine Race Under Different Constraints

Here's a key difference from COVID: **mRNA platform exists and proved itself**. Moderna and BioNTech could theoretically develop an Andes virus mRNA vaccine candidate in 60-90 days of intensive work. The platform is there.

But:

- RFK Jr.'s FDA is more skeptical of accelerated approval pathways

- The EUA framework that allowed COVID vaccine emergency authorization could face internal political resistance

- Anti-vax sentiment in the US is now significantly higher than 2020 — even if a vaccine arrives fast, uptake would be materially lower

Realistically, a functional vaccine at scale is **12-18 months out** — similar to COVID — but with worse uptake and more political friction around mandates.

**Globally:** COVAX and similar equity mechanisms are weaker now. Expect a repeat of the vaccine nationalism from 2020-2021, likely worse because the US is less engaged with multilateral frameworks.

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## The Honest Macro Picture

If this goes COVID-level transmissible, the honest answer is: **this would be the worst infectious disease event in recorded human history**, likely surpassing the 1918 flu in absolute death toll given global population size. The 1918 flu had roughly a 2-3% CFR and killed 50-100 million. A 30% CFR pathogen at COVID spread is a civilization-level event.

The saving grace — and it's the reason this scenario probably doesn't materialize — is that viruses with very high CFR tend to burn through their hosts too fast and face strong evolutionary pressure to attenuate. Andes becoming both highly transmissible AND maintaining 30-40% lethality would be somewhat unusual virology. High CFR and high transmissibility are generally in tension.

He also says the following on (SOURCE) his official Telegram group: (SEARCH "serhii flash telegram" via Google FOR HIS OFFICIAL CHANNEL to confirm this post)

"In 2023, I published a video from the frontline, in which aerial reconnaissance observed an unidentified flying object.

An hour later, I received a message from... representatives of a state structure that has been dealing with these issues in Ukraine since Soviet times.

With the start of the war, the study of UFOs in our space has become more of a military task than a civilian one. The Armed Forces even have a special comprehensive document on this topic, approved by the Chief of the General Staff.

Therefore, it's not just the USA that is dealing with such issues, because a UFO could potentially hide a new weapon of our enemy.

If you have witnessed a UFO and have video footage, please send it to the email uap(no spam) gur.gov.ua. Your observations could prove to be very important."

Then with the video in question I'm sharing here:

"After the previous publication, videos from the military arrive.

May 2025, altitude 800 meters.

What will be the thoughts?"