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We’re asking the wrong question about the hantavirus outbreak

Vox·Bryan Walsh·19 days ago
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If you’ve been following the coverage of the hantavirus outbreak aboard the cruise ship MV Hondius, these are the questions you’ve seen posed in headlines. And a small tip from inside the media: If a question is posed in a headline, the answer is almost always “no.” (It’s such a common trope that there’s even an informal law about it .) Future Perfect Explore the big, complicated problems the world faces and the most efficient ways to solve them. Sent twice a week. So, unless you’re a passenger or close contact of someone on the Hondius, you shouldn’t really worry about the hantavirus outbreak. You shouldn’t really fear it. You definitely shouldn’t panic. And do I really need to tell you that freaking out generally stops being acceptable behavior after the age of 15? As my colleague Dylan Scott has reported , by far the most likely outcome is that the hantavirus outbreak will ultimately be controlled and won’t become something that will disturb the general public.…

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