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    1. ascerbic-wit on

      Lad! What is a new global pandemic when compared with catching the game and getting a few pints in!

    2. quarantine should not be voluntary.

      we should lock them in a facility, and pay them and their employers for it (to keep their jobs).

      Fucks sake.

      Violating a quarantine should be an extremely serious criminal offense.

    3. confusing_roundabout on

      When I saw that they were sent home for self isolation a few days ago I was disgusted, frankly. Why are we taking the risk? Just chuck them all in a dedicated quarantine facility.

    4. Problematiqueeeee on

      Honestly “wtf?!?!?l” did we learn nothing from Covid? 45 days; isolation; be done with it. If it needs to come to hospital control then so be it.

    5. We live on an island so we have the luxury of controlling our borders. Every person who needs to isolate should be given a tracker bracelet if they wish to quarantine at home or isolate in a hotel/facility. Many other island countries did this during covid e.g. Australia.

      If the quarantine is breached jail time should not be out the question

    6. Fabulous_Can6778 on

      So many comments that haven’t read the article, he’s quarantining in Italy.

    7. They should have all been left on that boat to quarantine. Cant understand why they left them all go home.

    8. We live in a trust based society that depends on people acting responsibly without constant enforcement. If someone is told to isolate because of a potentially serious virus and then chooses to go into a crowded bar anyway, people are obviously going to question that judgement.

      Even if no one was ultimately harmed, knowingly exposing others to unnecessary risk should not just be brushed aside as harmless. We financially penalise for other reckless behaviour that endangers the public. This does not seem fundamentally different.

      At the very least, there should be some accountability if guidance or isolation rules were knowingly ignored.

    9. Few_Construction7048 on

      It’s clearly on purpose and they’re happy for it to get out – when will people realise that malice and inadequacy are two very different things, and usually malice when it’s something glaringly obvious, at the hands of very organised/intelligent people.

    10. Efficient_Sky5173 on

      —- Should I go for a drink… it may stop the world again…yeahhhhh

    11. Bit confused at the translation from metro

      what happened according to all the news I’ve seen in Italian

      * British authorities gave the details of the man to the Italians at 14.14 pm yesterday, two weeks after he was already in Italy
      * he was found in Milan the same night at 8pm after he had already visited 5 Italian cities while going back to the B&B he was in
      * According to him nobody had told him to quarantine, but he was aware he was on the flight with the dutch woman ~~(I can’t confirm this part of the story, it appears only in one of the Italian websites I’ve checked)~~ edit:[ found the part in the video interview](https://www.youtube.com/live/za1lUt8Udzk?si=qIlrPeqb6ZJBk7T6&t=2083) (in Italian, use youtube’s auto translate to English, it’s pretty good)
      * the man was with a friend, both negative to the test – the friend is free to go (apparently because of WHO policies)
      * The man will be in quarantine until the 6th of June

      he was moved into a specialized containment facility as soon as he was found, of course we have those facilities in Italy.

      [Hantavirus, Bertolaso: situazione sotto controllo nessun rischio per i cittadini](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C4NvweqnBD0)
      (interview in Italian)

      edit: to specify what I find confusing on the metro title, it makes it sound like he fled quarantine after being notified, while apparently he was never notified in the first place

      Just in case, of course he should’ve quarantined if he was in the flight, instead of traveling to FIVE different cities!

      edit 2: I’m starting to feel sorry for the guy

      [he wasn’t on the ship and wasn’t on the flight where the dutch woman was taken off, he was on a previous flight with her](https://nltimes.nl/2026/05/06/dutch-woman-died-hantavirus-boarded-klm-flight-johannesburg-airline)

      >The Dutch man first became symptomatic on April 6. His wife was already ill by April 24. **She then flew to Johannesburg on an Airlink flight with 82 passengers and 6 crew members, who are now being sought for contact tracing.**

      >She grew quite ill on the flight to South Africa, but was still allowed on KLM flight 592 to Schiphol Airport in Amsterdam. “After the passenger was removed from the aircraft, the flight departed for the Netherlands,” KLM confirmed.

      I think it’s fair to assume that the guy didn’t know the woman in his flight had hentavirus at all

      edit 3: the stuff I’ve seen on this thread is proof that 95% of people on reddit talk shit without first reading what they’re talking about

    12. Just goes to show the general public are too stupid and/or selfish to be trusted to self-quarantine. It’s sad we’re at this stage but if we don’t want a repeat of COVID then we need to enforce quarantines.

    13. Key_Goal_7589 on

      Escaping from quarantine when authorities trying to hold a deadly virus back from spreading should be bio-terrorism and punished accordingly.

    14. Who let them off the boat, perfect quarantine situation there. Yes, maybe more people would catch it. But eventually it would end.

      Now we have people showing up to bars who are infected. Quarantine should be enforced. Give them whatever they need, but keep them locked away

    15. Covid 2: Electric Boogaloo

      You’d think these selfish pricks would’ve learned the first time. Knowingly breaking quarantine should be classed as biological terrorism and have you thrown in solitary confinement and criminally charged.

      Why the hell where these people even let off the boat in the first place? The whole “plandemic” Facebook boomer conspiracies where absolutely stupid but shit like this really does make you start to think if it’s actually just intentional at this point.

      I’m tired boss, I can’t do another pandemic. I’ve already lived through 2 of them in my lifetime.

    16. FlowRiderBob on

      Imagine you are chilling at a bar chatting with some dude when all of a sudden officials in hazmat suits rush into the bar and take him away.

    17. Fuckers like him would hide the fact they were bitten in a zombie outbreak…

      Darwin must be sitting somewhere, shaking his head.

    18. You know when you’re a kid and you think adults have their shit together and know what’s going on.

      Then you turn into an adult and realize everyone’s just flying by the seat of their pants and the majority of people are dumber than a bag of rocks!

      6 years ago the world shut down over a virus, you’d think people would know better this time around but nope fuck that “I’m going to the pub for a pint and see my mates”.

      He was on the same fucking flight as the woman who died from it. Fucking lock him up until the 6th of June, clearly can’t trusted.

    19. PrincessPlastilina on

      I saw a Tiktok of someone who said that they will be suing whoever was supposed to quarantine but gave them Hantavirus because they didn’t isolate. Of course it was an American, but they have a point. We are not doing this again. Just indiscriminately ignoring safety concerns and quarantines, and just infecting everyone. There’s a reason why Asia flattened the Covid curb almost immediately and the rest of the world lost millions of people.