Hanta Me, Baby
" Very different presidents, very different precedents " Disinformation spreads just like a virus —it knows no borders and can accelerate exponentially. I was on a phone call with a friend in México, and she asked if my ecovillage in Tennessee would like a young couple with children. She had some friends who were looking to move. She said they were anti-vax and wanted to live somewhere that didn’t force you to vaccinate. I guess she thought because I was a hippy and lived in an ecovillage, I naturally would be anti-vax. I said that I considered the couple’s choice not to vaccinate their children to be reckless. I said our ecovillage in Tennessee definitely did not need to acquire any child abusers. She hung up on me. From what I’ve recently read in The Atlantic and watched on the This Week in Virology vlogcast, the CDC is being allowed to handle the cruise ship hantavirus outbreak appropriately, mostly. The zoonotic reservoir is the long-tailed pygmy rice rat...
