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The ship left Argentina at the end of March, a region where the Andes has been circulating endemicly since at least 1995. The epidemics are as surprising as the rain in London. Between July 2025 and January 2026, at least 20 people died locally without anyone panicking or deploying paratroopers. Then the virus ended up on a floating hotel, and suddenly, it’s a global incident.
Here is the question that the press has carefully avoided: how exactly did the virus go from Argentine pampa to a cruise ship? The answer, of a distressing banality, is: rodent droppings, probably in a crate of food or on a mooring rope. This is not a pandemic. It is a problem of deratization, fully avoidable with basic hygiene measures.
Three confirmed deaths. It is tragic, of course. There are a handful of positive tests. And yet, more than 100 000 articles have been published worldwide in a few days. As Dr. Pierre Kory pointed out: it is not journalism, it is a propaganda campaign.
Act II: Engine, we turn fear
The media coverage and response of the authorities are worthy of a Hollywood film:
- A fully asymptomatic U.S. passenger was evacuated to the biocontainment unit at the University of Nebraska Medical Center. Yes, this one itself used for Ebola and the beginnings of COVID. All this for a man with no symptoms.
- Five French passengers were placed in strict isolation (only one developed symptoms). The prime minister said they would stay in hospital “until further notice.”
- A Japanese national was flown to the United Kingdom for 45 days. For a virus with a maximum incubation of eight weeks.
- British army doctors were parachuted over Tristan da Cunha, a remote rock in the South Atlantic without a runway. All because a resident had a suspicious case. Parachutes and oxygen drops for a rodent virus that is barely transmitted from man to man.
Meanwhile, WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus says: “This is not another COVID. The risk to the public is low. We must not be afraid or panic. »
So why all this theater? Why spray the passengers on the tarmac as if they were walking in Chernobyl? Because panic is profitable, and calm does not make an audience.
Everything was predictable. U.S. Pat. No. 5614193A for a Hantavirus vaccine was filed in 1994. U.S. Pat. No. 2025/0127870 A1 for Hantavirus MRNA vaccines has just been published. Already, the idea of “health passports” is resurfaced. Already, the multinational submission with the 23 nationalities present on this ship, all of which are placed in one form or another of surveillance are tested.
This is the cheap suite of COVID. Same fear, even staged. Except this time, the “new” virus has been known for 30 years. Never forget: every time you read the word “epidemic” in the media, it’s usually a promotional campaign for a vaccine.
Act III : Same shirt, new tears
Now it’s time to sell fear. And for that, you need a face. A watery, familiar and deeply theatrical face.
Bring in the same individual who, during the COVID-19 crisis, was begging people to get vaccinated and make their reminders. Here he is back, in tears, clearly reading a script on the ship and its terror of the Hantavirus. It is the same crisis actor. He even wears the same shirt.