Remember how dangerous and deadly Covid-19 was? And how underprepared our country was? Well, there’s another virus that’s even more dangerous and deadly, hantavirus, that was discovered in patients connected to an outbreak on a Dutch cruise ship. This news understandably freaked out Esquire political columnist Charles P. Pierce, who reflected on what would happen if hantavirus arrived on our shores. Read the article below.
—Chris Hatler, deputy editor
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Surely we can’t rely on Secretary Roadkill to protect us.
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Hantavirus will kill you dead. Thirty-eight percent of people who develop symptoms will die from it, and there is no cure for it. It is generally spread through contact with infected rodents. In the spring of 1993, an outbreak connected to deer mice in the Four Corners of the American Southwest killed 14 people by the end of July. The strain behind the current outbreak on the cruise ship spreads from human contact.
It would be nice during the current unpleasantness if the United States were still a member of the World Health Organization, but we left it immediately after the current administration moved in because the WHO was another international organization dedicated to bilking the innocent American people. And also because masks and Dr. Fauci.
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It was about 4 p.m. on a Tuesday or a Thursday. I can’t remember exactly when, only what I felt: drained. I hadn’t just hit the proverbial afternoon wall—I was slammed against it, pancaked by a car. If you drove in reverse, I would fold out like a paper accordion. Green tea and expensive smoothies didn’t feel up to snuff, and the thought of a third cup of mocha from the break room coffee machine sounded unappetizing.
Without giving it any real thought, I wandered to our office bar—a perk of working for a lifestyle magazine—and plundered the minifridge. I assumed I would find a chilled Diet Coke left behind from our many end-of-week happy hours. That’s when I saw it: a can of cold beer. Could I really drink a beer at work? I asked myself. It felt absurd. But then, my eyes fixed on what was printed on the side: “0.0% alcohol.”
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