u/mainlytee

Does anyone else find it strange how since 2019 (COVID) there seems to be an uptick in H5N1 (Avian Influenza) and now Hantavirus? I know SARS became a thing in 2002 but then it disappeared and never became a pandemic like COVID did. The first human case of Hantavirus was in 1993. The first human case of Avian Influenza was in 1997 then returning again in 2024.

It just seems like every few years now there's a pathogen of concern when it used to be every few decades. I remember when Swine Flu (H1N1) happened in 2009. That was last pandemic I remember before COVID happened.

Is it overpopulation or climate change giving animals a better chance at making pathogens jump from animals to humans causing a zoonotic spillover? What do you guys think?

For anyone who missed it or is not aware: Health officials in Canada are refusing to do PCR testing on 10 Canadians who were on the MV Hondius cruise. The way these health officials are handling this situation is starting to get extremely serious.

Ever since the United States withdrew from the World Health Organization in January 2025, the way CDC handles this virus is going to be an absolute disaster, especially under the Trump Administration. It's already bad enough that RFK Jr. doesn't believe in vaccines, there is no way in hell he would approve of a MRNA hantavirus vaccine under the FDA. I am convinced that there is something going on behind the scenes that they are not telling us about. Remember how horribly they handled COVID in 2020?
They are being very dismissive about a potential pandemic saying no need to "worry" and saying hantavirus is nothing like COVID yet they are scrambling to do contact tracing in multiple countries and sending infected passengers to a quarantine facility center in Nebraska, and they keep making misleading facts about "close prologned contact" when it seems like this virus is actually way more transmissible than we thought and there's evidence of that. They're now saying it's airborne. It feels like exactly the early days of COVID with the misleading facts coming from the CDC & WHO, and politicians and world leaders are downplaying it. Canada is actually REFUSING to test 10 Canadians who were on the MV Hondius cruise via PCR testing. We now know it’s r0 is as easily transmissible as the early COVID strains with a longer incubation period & higher fatality rate. Why is it with a fatality rate of 50%, they are not taking this as seriously as they should?

There's a weird eeriness of secrecy that we all felt during 2019 - 2020 amidst COVID. I think everyone on this sub notices this secrecy as well. Something just doesn't feel right.

Many years ago, if you said you didn't want to have kids, people would look at you with horror and treat you with disdain and contempt and call you selfish for simply wanting a different life.
Even though life is becoming harder and more expensive, I just LOVE how I won't get chastised by people anymore because more and more people are refusing to have kids because they simply can't afford them due to the high cost of living. I love how I can use that as a legitimate reason. If you say you don't want to have kids because of everything that is going on in the world and with the economy, people actually agree with your viewpoint. More and more people are waking up to the fact that by having kids, they're birthing another future tax-paying wage slave for the elite. Using the economy as a legitimate reason is a great way to avoid being called selfish. People go way easier on you for being childfree if you say "economy bad no kids".

It's a nice feeling knowing I won't be called selfish for being childfree because life is impossible to afford and everyone knows it.

If they truly feel like this won't turn into a full scale pandemic like COVID-19, and haven't declared one yet, why are they already working on a vaccine? Why are they contradicting themselves by telling everyone not to worry yet they are scrambling to do contact tracing in 12 countries and already working on a MRNA vaccine when they haven't even declared a global health emergency? Are these bad signs or just extra precautions they are taking to avoid another pandemic?

Another thing I don't understand is if it takes almost 8 weeks (2 months) to show symptoms.... 3 people out of the 8 confirmed cases have already died. We don't know if they had symptoms or not. Does this imply if people start dying for no reason with zero symptoms it was already too late since it takes 2 months for symptoms to appear? How does that even work? Is it only asymptomatic people who die or once symptoms appear then it's game over?

I have seen so many posts on here from people complaining that their family doctor or endocrinologist won't test their Free T3 even upon request when starting medication to see if their medication is even working or they still don't feel better or are still experiencing symptoms even on medication. I have seen many posts from people on here stating that their doctors say that Free T3 is not important to test, yet it's the most important and active thyroid hormone compared to Free T4?
Is it because doctors don't know how to interpret the results of a full thyroid panel (especially if reverse T3 and both antibodies are tested)? I'm assuming doctors are only taught the bare minimum in medical school when it comes to the thyroid gland hence why some people have to see an endocrinologist for their care.
It took me over 10 years before I could find a doctor to willing to test my Free T3 and the three family doctors I've had over the past 10 years never tested my Free T3 and the only doctor that was willing to test my Free T3 was a doctor at a hospital.