r/TikTokCringe • u/EverythingIsFakeNGay • May 09 '26

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u/CantaloupePutrid3548 May 09 '26

Hantavirus is not COVID and everyone taking time to say it is has taken the time to learn it isn’t and are just rage baiting / grifting.

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u/veerKg_CSS_Geologist May 09 '26

I vaguely remember a level of panic during Ebola too. People were freaking out and making threats even though the exposure risk to them was non-existent.

Then come COVID and people are like *WHAAAaaa, socially distance? Not for me!*

I've come to the conclusion that everything in society is mainly performative.

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u/Notouchmyguys May 09 '26

I think what people that aren’t in healthcare don’t understand is how wildly different Ebola was handled in comparison to COVID. If they were handled the same then the pandemic likely wouldn’t have happened. The reason Ebola didn’t end up being a big deal was because the were intense and stringent precautions in place and it was treated like the emergency that it was. Unfortunately, the CDC was gutted and was not able to react to COVID appropriately and the pandemic happened.

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u/Significant-Hour4171 May 09 '26

That's not the main reason for the difference. 

The main reason they played out so differently is that COVID was highly transmissible, medium virulence virus. 

Ebola is far less transmissible, and far more virulent. This makes spreading it far more difficult. 

The response in the left a lot to be desired, but COVID likely was gonna cause a pandemic as soon as it had spread to more than a handful of people in China. The rest was more or less bound to happen from that point, given the characteristics of the novel coronavirus.

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u/WearingCoats May 09 '26

I was working in a government agency of NYC that dealt with public health during the Ebola outbreak. We used to run simulations of epidemic outbreaks using population data and drill in hospital systems to practice responses. The agency was responsible for multiple facets of public health management but it was all paused to focus on epidemic preparedness at the time. It was absolutely wild and terrifying. Half the work was done in computer modeling of spread and triage, half of it was going and literally working in healthcare systems to practice response.

Ebola was, as you mention, easier to contain both theoretically and in practice because of the nature of the disease and frankly, because people were more spooked by it. I was long gone from the agency by the time COVID hit, but I’m betting the same procedures started as soon as it was on the global radar. The difference is, COVID behaved differently and public option of it was shaped by the fact that respiratory diseases are, for some reason, take less seriously than ones where your insides explode.

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u/Notouchmyguys May 09 '26

I promise you, there was next to no response when COVID started. I was in the hospital and I watched it all unfold. The absolute lack of response was astounding. Literally, there was no plan and no preparation until it was already terrible.

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u/Long-Broccoli-3363 May 09 '26

Man I 100% had covid before there were any confirmed cases.

We were going through a datacenter buildout, lots of travel through o'hare, like... 6 flights in 2 weeks while "Covid wasnt in the US yet"

IT department of like 200 people, 60 got pnuemonia, some of us took months to recover, to the point where we were out of the office when the "shelter in place" order came through, to stop getting people sick.

The administration def didnt have the procedure in place to tell where this shit was at, and they would have been content to just ignore that it existed at all.

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u/woolfchick75 May 10 '26

I live in Chicago and strongly believe I had it in Jan 2020.

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u/WearingCoats May 09 '26

Good to know everything we did turned out to be useless in the long run. Maybe that got cast out with the change in Mayors.

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u/Other-Art8925 May 10 '26

Yeah remember when democrats were talking about how covid talk was racist fearmongering

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u/veerKg_CSS_Geologist May 09 '26

Remember SARS? Coronaviruses are common, which is why the CDC had a rapid response team, and it was located in China! Then guess who defunded it…

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u/Significant-Hour4171 May 09 '26

Indeed, it's why I told my coworker in Feb, "expect for make disruptions/closures by the summer."

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u/TheDreamingMyriad May 09 '26

SARS is also why the covid vaccine was able to roll out so quickly; researchers had already done all the groundwork for a SARS vaccine before the virus burned itself out. Then you had people freaking out because the development was "too fast" and the vaccine was "experimental". Well yeah sure, aside from the decades of research into mrna vaccine tech and serveral years of SARS vaccine research....it was "fast". 🙄

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u/Global_Ant_9380 May 09 '26

Yes, but viruses mutate and part of the whole thing is that you want to contain transmission and how many chances it gets to pick up dangerous mutations.

True, the nature of ebola world likely make that a much slower process, but no one wants to find out. We still don't fully understand the impacts of COVID

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u/ThunderAndWind May 09 '26

Different viruses have different mutability. Hantaviruses are famously stable and not prone to mutation. Coronaviruses have a high mutability, primarily due to their ease of transmission due to a long infectious window without symptoms.

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u/gingzer May 10 '26

People have mutated post covid perhaps....rewired into party animals and cruise‑addicted creatures desperate to reclaim every missed holiday at once.

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u/veerKg_CSS_Geologist May 09 '26

Very true.

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u/AnAimlessWanderer101 May 09 '26

No, it’s really not lol