A 2022 Viral Post Is Fueling A Bigger Conversation About Hantavirus, COVID And Prophecy
A strange little post from 2022 has now become the internet’s newest “wait a minute” moment.
The X account “iamasoothsayer” posted just four words that are now making their rounds again: “2023: Corona ended 2026: Hantavirus.” Now, with a deadly hantavirus outbreak tied to the M/V Hondius cruise ship leaving three people dead and several others sick, the post has gone viral.
2023: Corona ended
— soothsayer (@iamasoothsayer) June 11, 2022
2026: Hantavirus
But before people start building bunker shelves and dusting off their 2020 toilet paper trauma, hantavirus is already becoming less about panic and more about whether this administration can be trusted to handle fear with facts.
When COVID-19 started to make it rounds in 2020, it spread quickly and quietly. It moved through the air as people could spread it before they even knew they were sick.
Hantavirus is different. According to the CDC, the virus is usually connected to exposure to infected rodents, including droppings, urine or saliva. The Andes strain tied to this cruise ship outbreak is rare but health officials say that usually requires prolonged close contact. The CDC has said the risk to the American public remains extremely low.
So while this is not yet a “COVID Part Two,” it is already becoming a political comparison because the country remembers what happened the last time a virus, fear and politics collided.
Trump’s Own Words Will Follow Him Now
Donald Trump spent the COVID years attacking Joe Biden and Democrats over shutdowns, masks, vaccines, scientists and public health caution. He mocked Biden for wearing masks. He warned that listening to scientists would destroy the economy. He criticized mandates and painted himself as the man who understood freedom, business and common sense better than the public health establishment.
Now with Trump back in office, a rare virus is making global headlines on his watch.
Trump has already said the hantavirus situation is “under very good control.” Maybe it is. Health experts agree this virus does not spread like COVID 19, and that alone gives the administration more breathing room. But the issue is not only whether hantavirus becomes a pandemic. The issue is whether Trump’s government can communicate clearly, move quickly and tell the truth without turning the moment into another political performance.
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That is hard when the CDC is already being questioned for its quiet response. The Associated Press reported that experts wondered why the agency was not more visible early on, with Lawrence Gostin of Georgetown University saying, “The CDC is not even a player.”
It is even harder because Trump pulled the United States out of the World Health Organization earlier this year, ending a decades long relationship that helped coordinate international outbreak response.
So this moment is not just about hantavirus. It is about the house Trump built from RFK Jr. being The Secretary of Health and Human Services to the response to legit health organizations such as WHO and the CDC.
Contained Or Not, The Politics Are Already Here
If the outbreak stays contained, Trump will likely use it as proof that he handled a health scare better than Biden handled COVID. If it gets messy, he will likely blame the WHO, the media, the CDC he helped weaken or their new director Dr. Erica Schwartz.
Either way, the public should watch closely. Hantavirus may or may not be the next COVID, but it will be used as leverage in someway by the Trump administration to push forward their agenda.
Until then, goodnight and good luck.
