The Strange Timeline Behind the Hantavirus Outbreak

Hello, everyone. Hi, welcome to Lazy Row Talk. All right. A cruise ship outbreak, missing virus samples, a mysterious prediction, and a hentai virus drill in China years earlier. At one point, do coincidence stop feeling random? As you know, none of the virus is suddenly making headlines across the world. By now, you have probably heard about the cruise ship MV Hondius and the hentai virus outbreak linked to it. The reason this outbreak is attracting global attention is because of the specific strain involved, the Andes virus. And that matters because unlike most hentai viruses, this strain has a documented history of human to human transmission and a high fatality rate. And here's the timeline of events. I want to give you an overview of the outbreak before getting to my analysis of China's possible role in this. All right. So April 1st, the MV Hondius departed from the southernmost city in Argentina. It's called Ushuai. I hope I'm pronouncing it right. And on April 11th, the first death occurred on board. And on April 24th, the body of the first deceased passenger was removed from the ship on St. Helena Island. His wife also disembarked there. The next day, she flew to Johannesburg, South Africa, and died in a hospital. On April 27th, another patient had to be airlifted urgently to Johannesburg for treatment. And then on May 2nd, a German woman died on board and becoming the third fatality linked to the outbreak. And here's the part that made the situation even more complicated. On April 24th, 13 days after the first death occurred on board, 29 passengers disembarked on St. Helena Island and then travelled onward to countries including the UK. The United States, Australia, Taiwan, and so on. At that point, the scale of the outbreak had not yet been publicly disclosed. Many passengers resumed normal life or returned to their life without realizing they might have been exposed to a virus with a reported fatality rate as high as 38%. Some reportedly travelled back to the U.S. states, including California, Arizona, Texas, Georgia, and Virginia. And monitoring operations have now been launched in the U.S. Swiss authorities also confirmed that a passenger who travelled on the ship tested positive and is currently being treated in Zurich. Now, after multiple countries refused docking permission, the cruise ship spent days drifting at sea with 146 passengers and crew still on board. And it is now heading towards Spain's Canary Islands, where authorities and the CDC are preparing medical screening and possible quarantine operations. But local opposition has also emerged, with many residents worried about allowing the vessel to dock. Now, the biggest question is, where exactly did the dangerous virus aboard the MV Honduras, where did the virus come from? So let me give you the official explanation. Investigators found no rodents on board the ship itself, making it unlikely that the virus originated from infected animals already living on the vessel. And according to the WHO and other experts, the suspected patient zero in the outbreak was a 70-year-old Dutch onthologist named Leo. Now, Leo and his wife were on a five-month journey across South America. And according to reports from American and Dutch media, the couple returned to Argentina on March 27th and visited a landfill site outside the world's southernmost city called Ushua. I hope I'm saying it right. Although heavily polluted, the area was well known as a destination among bird watchers because it attracted rare white-throated caracaras. Argentina authorities suspect the couple may have inhaled virus-contaminated particles from the droppings of long-tailed pygmy rice rats at the site. So on April 1st, the couple, after their visit to watch the birds, they boarded the ship liner together with 112 other passengers. Then on April 6th, Leo developed fever and gastrointestinal symptoms. Five days later, he died, becoming the outbreak's first fatality and possibly patient zero. His wife later deteriorated during a flight to Johannesburg and died shortly after arriving at a hospital. Testing later confirmed that she had been infected with hantavirus. Afterward, more people on board, including the ship's doctor, began showing symptoms of infection. Now, let's briefly talk about the virus itself because expert opinions are beginning to diverge. Public health agencies have tried to calm fears by emphasizing that hantavirus is normally spread through rodents rather than sustained human-to-human transmission. They also stress that although the endless strain can spread between people, transmission appears limited and relatively difficult. In other words, the fatality rate is very high, but transmissibility appears relatively low. However, some experts are raising more serious concerns. One of them is Joseph Allen from the Harvard School of Public Health. Oh, I have a picture of the ship. I'm not even showing the ship. Here's the ship. And this is, oh, this is tiny. Okay. You know what? Let's make this bigger. Yeah, that works perfect. So this is actually a post by Professor Joseph Allen. He suggested that virus may have airborne transmission potential under certain conditions. Allen pointed to cases from previous antivirus outbreaks where transmission appeared to happen without direct physical contact. And in one case, two individuals reportedly only crossed paths briefly and exchanged greetings. And in another, infected individuals were seated at separate tables that were about one to two meters apart. He also noted that one of the ships or the ship's doctor became sick despite using goggles, gowns and hand washing protocols, raising broader questions about the virus airborne quality and ventilation and air filtration in enclosed environments. And if the virus truly has airborne capability under certain conditions, then this becomes a very different story altogether. Okay, so now that you have a basic overview of the outbreak, let me move to the part that really caught my attention. Beijing's possible role in all of this. What triggered my curiosity was a post circulating from a pro-Beijing account on X. The post aggressively emphasized one particular point, saying that this time the West cannot blame China. All right, I want to. And the moment I read that, this one Chinese expression immediately came to mind. It's called 此地无银三百两. In other words, trying too hard to deny something can end up making people even more suspicious. And my first reaction was, oh, no, not again. So I started looking deeper into whether there were any unusual links, coincidences or historical connections between the CCP and this outbreak. To be clear, I'm not making any conclusions about the origin of this outbreak. I'm simply going to walk you through a series of known facts, strange coincidences and events that many people are now beginning to connect together. You can decide for yourself whether there is a link. So beyond what I want to say is beyond experts' explanations, there is a series of suspicious events that deserve our attention. So let me walk you through them one by one. The first one is from Australia. In or before 2021, a major incident involving missing virus samples reportedly occurred at a laboratory in, I think, Queensland, Australia. Someone said Brisbane. I saw an earlier post in the comments. Someone said Brisbane. Basically, a total of 323 virus samples. Yeah, this is the official Australian government's investigation notice. So a total of 323 virus samples, including hantavirus and rabies virus samples, reportedly disappeared. The loss was not discovered until an internal audit conducted almost two years later in August 2023, when investigators realized that hundreds of virus samples previously stored in laboratory freezers had somehow vanished. In December 2024, Australian media publicly reported the shocking incident. At the time, Australia's health minister acknowledged that virus samples had indeed gone missing and announced an independent investigation. However, investigators ultimately could not determine whether the samples had been lost, stolen or destroyed. To this day, the incident reportedly remains unresolved. According to the investigation, the samples likely disappeared no later than 2021. When a freezer malfunction occurred, though, analysts believe the disappearance may have happened even earlier before the freezer failure itself. The question then becomes, where did those virus samples go? Australia's chief health officer pointed out that over the past five years, neither Queensland nor the rest of Australia had recorded human infections linked to those missing viruses. That statement indirectly ruled out the possibility that the samples had simply been naturally lost or casually got mixed up or destroyed. One of the biggest concerns is that the virus samples might have been stolen. As for who might have taken them, I do not know. But there are precedents involving individuals connected to the CCP stealing or transferring virus samples. For example, there's already a real-world precedent involving Chinese-linked scientists or virologists and the transfer of dangerous pathogens. In July 2019, six months before COVID outbreak, Canadian authorities suddenly escorted Chinese-Canadian virologists. I have their pictures. Her name is Qiu Xiangguo, and her husband, biologist Chen Keding, they were escorted out of Canada's National Microbiology Laboratory in Winnipeg, the country's highest security infectious disease lab. At first, the Canadian government revealed very little about the case, which immediately triggered intense speculation. Later, investigations and media reports showed that the couple had maintained extensive connections with multiple Chinese institutions, including the notorious Wuhan Institute of Virology and researchers linked to the Chinese military. What made the case especially alarming was that before being removed from the lab, Ms. Qiu had reportedly arranged shipments of highly dangerous pathogens from Canada. Now, officially, Canadian authorities said the shipment itself had gone through administrative procedures, but the real concern was broader. What exactly was the nature of the operation between the Canadian lab and the Chinese institutions who approved these relationships? And how deeply were Chinese state-linked organizations embedded inside Western research systems? In 2021, the situation actually became even more sensitive because later reports suggested that Chinese military researchers had also worked with the couple through scientific collaboration programs. And in 2021, Canadian intelligence agencies reportedly concluded that the couple had posed a potential threat to national security. And by 2024, partially unsealed intelligence documents and parliamentary investigations revealed concerns that sensitive scientific knowledge, classified procedures, and biological materials may have been transferred to China through the couple. And this is exactly why some people become nervous whenever they hear about missing virus samples, unexplained pathogen transfers, or unusual outbreaks involving viruses connected to past laboratory research. Again, to be absolutely clear, this does not prove any connections between the current antivirus outbreak and the CCP, but it does establish something important. There is already a documented history of Chinese-linked researchers gaining access to highly sensitive pathogen research in Western laboratories. Which means when strange events happen, people no longer automatically dismiss those possibilities anymore. Instead, let's continue with what happened after those virus samples disappeared in Australia. Now here's where the story starts getting even stranger. Just one year after the virus samples went missing in Australia, on March 10, 2022, Guangzhou Baiyun Airport in China suddenly carried out a special emergency drill specifically focused on antivirus contamination linked to rodents. According to reports published at the time by the airport's official WeChat account, the airport's environmental management department worked together with a disinfection company to stimulate an antivirus outbreak scenario at the airport's wastewater treatment facility. The exercise reportedly included both indoor and outdoor decontamination zones. Now here's the strange part. Today, that original article is gone. The WeChat account that posted it has also been deleted. However, on March 12, just two days after the drill, someone had already taken screenshots of the report before it disappeared. It's as if people knew that it would disappear. And that immediately raised a question. Why would authorities treat what looked like an ordinary public health exercise as something sensitive? Or sensitive enough to erase later? And remember, this was not a general anti-rodent sanitation exercise. This drill was highly specific. It was specifically targeting antivirus. So naturally, people ask, why was one of the busiest airports in China suddenly conducting a antivirus-focused emergency drill out of nowhere? And why was it so sensitive that it was deleted? And the timing makes people even more suspicious. Because this happened only months, or perhaps a little longer, after antivirus samples reportedly disappeared from the Australian lab. Now, there is a parallel from the past that we can draw. Remember, before the COVID outbreak, on September 18, 2019, Wuhan Tianhe Airport also conducted an emergency antivirus drill that specifically simulated the response or the response procedures for a novel coronavirus or other respiratory infectious disease. The exercise reportedly created a real-world scenario in which airport authorities discovered a passenger infected with a novel coronavirus. At the time, Chinese authorities claimed that the exercise was conducted to prepare for the Seventh Military World Games, which were scheduled to happen in Wuhan the following months. But what many people later found striking was how unusually specific the drill was. It was not a general infectious disease exercise. It was specifically focused on a novel coronavirus outbreak scenario. And then only weeks later, between November and December of 2019, COVID-19 erupted in Wuhan. So that makes the Baiyun Airport antivirus drill in 2022 eerily suspicious. Then, just three months after the Baiyun Airport drill, another bizarre event happened. A mysterious online account posted, what many people now call a prophecy, it was posted on June 11, 2022. An NX account, back then it was called Twitter, posted a message consisting of only two short lines, COVID ends in 2023, antivirus in 2026. What makes this even stranger is that the account has only posted four times since, I mean, I think it's history. It only has four posts. It doesn't look like one of those typical attention-seeking accounts chasing traffic and followers online. So people naturally wonder what exactly was the motivation behind that post in the first place. To this day, nobody really has an answer. At the time, almost nobody looked at it. I mean, nobody paid attention. People dismissed it as nonsense. But now, after the cruise ship outbreak, the post has resurfaced and gone viral again online. And what unsettles people is this, COVID did largely fade as a global emergency in 2023. So the first half of the prediction is correct. And so people are now asking, was the second prediction also pointing to something real? But what you just saw is not the only so-called prediction. Back on April 7th, 2020, during the height of the COVID outbreak, exiled Chinese businessman Miles Guo, I have a picture of him, said something unusual during a live stream. And he said, today, it's called coronavirus. I mean, he basically was saying that there will be different kinds of viruses coming out. And so he said, this is what he said. He said, today, it's called coronavirus. Tomorrow, it could be called hantavirus. At the time, almost nobody paid attention to that remark. But now, after the recent outbreak, people have started digging the cliff back up online. And what makes it strange is this. Now, Miles Guo is a businessman. He is not a virologist. He has no background in infectious disease research. Yet during a live stream back in 2020, he casually mentioned hantavirus by name. Because hantavirus is not a common name, unless you're in the field. But he nevertheless mentioned it by name years before the current outbreak. And the businessman claimed at the time that he had obtained internal intelligence and top secret CCP documents for him to say this. And this man reportedly has extremely deep political and business connections inside the CCP system. Now, whether his remarks meant anything or not, looking back today, many people find the timing unsettling. And this man, Bill Gates, also has repeatedly warned in recent years that the next global pandemic could be far worse than COVID. Now, individually, any one of those things might sound random. But when people see the scattered fragments across the internet, all pointing in a similar direction, it inevitably creates a strange sense of unease. And then comes another disturbing coincidence. On March 30th of this year, China's Air Force Medical University, better known as the Fourth Military Medical University, publicly announced that it had successfully developed a new hantavirus nucleic acid vaccine. According to the announcement, the vaccine achieved strong and long-lasting immunity in experiments and could serve as an enhanced booster for people previously vaccinated with older inactivated hantavirus vaccines. Now, it's possible that this is the vaccine China had developed for certain Asian strains that cause a disease called HFRS. But people can't help but pay attention to the timing here. The Chinese Military Medical University announced its hantavirus vaccine breakthrough just two days before the MV Honduras departed from Argentina. About one week after that, the suspected patient zero died on board. And shortly after, the hantavirus outbreak exploded into international headlines. I'm not saying these events prove anything. I have no evidence showing the direct links between them. I'm simply laying out the timeline and the sequence of events because, frankly, many Chinese find the pattern difficult to ignore. And the Chinese are really asking, what kind of vaccines did they really develop? And the Chinese just find the timing eerily suspicious. So if people think this sounds like a conspiracy theory or made-up story, that's fine. But the reason people are nervous today is because the early timeline of COVID has contained a long series of strange coincidences, warnings, denials, missing information, and unexplained events that people initially dismissed. And that's why people are paying close attention to anything they could find coming out of China. Now, the story doesn't end there. On April 28, which is only, what, two weeks ago? Less than two weeks ago, the CCP's Politburo, its highest-ranking, its highest-governing body, held its 25th collective study session, focused specifically on improving disaster prevention, emergency response, and crisis management capabilities. What many observers found unusual was this. At the time, China has a whole bunch of issues that need to be addressed. Economy is the number one concern. But the regime is focused on disaster prevention, emergency response, crisis management. And also, right now, China is not dealing with any major flood or wildfire. In other words, the high-level emergency preparedness meeting was held without any obvious ongoing natural disasters. Then, shortly after the meeting, Chinese authorities quickly appointed a new disaster management chief. And then, only days later, on May 6, the WHO officially confirmed newly detected antivirus infections linked to the cruise outbreak. Again, maybe all of this is just a coincidence. But when people place all of them side by side, the timing inevitably starts raising questions. Now, just as the world assumes that there were no Chinese nationals on that cruise liner, Chinese media reported a Chinese passenger on that cruise ship. He is—I actually have a picture of him. Where is he? Oh, yeah, this is the Politburo meeting. Notice. Here's the man. There's a 52-year-old Chinese traveler. His name is Cheng Yong from Sichuan, who is known for his global adventures. He had also traveled on that ship during an Arctic expedition from March 20 to March 31. He spent 12 days on that ship. He disembarked on March 31. What makes the timeline notable is that the Dutch passenger who later confirmed positive for antivirus boarded the ship on April 1, just one day later. The man said that when he left the cruise ship, the Chinese man, he did not have any known interactions with the suspected patient zero. But the Chinese netizens are still concerned. If the man had brought the virus back to China, but I don't know. I don't know if he did or did not. But I just want to show you that this man was actually on the boat, on the same boat, and he disembarked the day before patient zero boarded the ship. Okay, but I want to tell you, there was a suspicious antivirus outbreak in China, I think during COVID. So there's a case that was widely reported by state media back in March 2020. China recorded a antivirus outbreak in Yunnan province. And this is all over the Chinese media, you can still find it. So this is what the media reports say. In the early morning of March 23, 2020, a chartered bus transporting migrant workers from a town in Yunnan back to Shandong for work. There were 33 people on board. A worker surnamed, let me get rid of him, he's not related to this. There's a worker whose last name was Tian, he suddenly became ill on the bus. And a couple of others also got sick, they had fever. So four people were sent to the hospital. And then shortly after at around 7am, that same day Tian died. Meanwhile, the remaining 29 passengers on the immediately placed under quarantine. However, Tian, the one who passed away, tested negative for COVID, but positive for antivirus. Authorities also stated that at the time, the samples from the other passengers were still being collected and tested. But after that initial report, almost no follow up information could be found online regarding whether anyone else on the bus became infected, whether additional cases were discovered, or what ultimately happened to the quarantined passengers. In other words, a deadly antivirus outbreak had already appeared inside China in March 2020, right in the middle of the massive COVID outbreak. I mean, this case was widely reported by Chinese media, but we know nothing more than what I just told you. So let's step back and look at the events. Maybe all of them are unrelated. Maybe every single one is a pure coincidence. But after COVID, people no longer look at strange timelines the same way. Because once trust is broken, every unexplained event starts raising larger questions. And that may be the real story behind the global reaction to this antivirus outbreak. I think we should keep asking questions and keep demanding answers until we are satisfied with the answers. So that's what I have for you. This is everything I've gathered related to the outbreak. I hope it's helpful. I want to mention that we released a video in the Looking Glass channel just an hour ago. And this video is especially interesting for the upcoming trip for Trump to China next week. He's going to China on the 14th, which is Thursday. And it's about a prophecy book that has so much impact on Chinese politics. Because this book has a tremendous impact on Xi Jinping's psychology. And it has triggered so much debate among Chinese about who the Terminator is or will be. And I just offered you various different interpretations. And I think it's quite an interesting story. It also tells you how the book came about. It's a Tang Dynasty prophecy book written by probably two of China's most famous astronomers, astrologists, fortune tellers. Yeah, so hopefully you'll check it out. Nicole, if you could copy the link for people, I'd appreciate it. All right. Let's see. All right, let me thank the people who awarded me with super stickers. All right. Someone says, we made it. All right. Questions? No, there are no questions. Okay. Oh, here's one. Louise Raymond. Well, thank you. Thank you very much. Airborne. No, sorry, that's not a question. All right. Let me see if people have questions for me. The conspiracy analyst work at home time. I needed to get one of those felt. I mean, what I presented you is not conspiracy. They're all facts. I am able to back up everything, you know. So I'm not drawing any conclusions. I'm just telling you, the Chinese are saying these are things that the Chinese netizens have dug up related to hantavirus that I found. And they're saying, is there a connection? So, okay. Questions? Comments? Nothing? All right. D Glass 2008. China has plausible deniability for COVID. But the history of swine avian flu and now hantavirus outbreaks show a pattern. Is there an underlying cause for population management and control? You mean, is the virus outbreak tied to population management and control? Not from China, because China certainly does not want to control its population. I mean, China is desperate. The regime is desperate to increase its population because it has shrunk so much. So there's no way that the CCP of Beijing has secretly launched this hantavirus to reduce its population. I do not think so. Someone say, Lei, I like your haircut. Okay, good. I like it too. Shorter. Okay. No questions for me. Oh, by the way, there's no program tomorrow. I want to take a break. Tomorrow is Mother's Day. I want to take a day off. I've been working nonstop for a couple of weeks now. All right. All right. No questions. That's good. I'm late. Someone say, I'm late. No questions. All right. Well, that's good. Wow. Oh, here's a question. China works very closely with the UN. Okay. Oh, here's a question forwarded by, oh, I already answered that. I answered that. Oh, here's a question from Agent Mulder5. Lei, if you were to speculate beyond the facts, what is your theory regarding these seemingly connected events? Don't forget a sip of water. You're right. Here we go. Sip of water first. I'm not a conspiracy theorist. I like to base everything on facts. I just find it's hard to ignore all of these events. I mean, it's the pattern that bothers me. It's hard to say that. Once you present all of these sequential events, from the missing of the Australian lab samples, virus samples, to the recent Politburo meeting calling for disaster recovery management, all of that. I mean, how can we convince ourselves that we shouldn't look into that? I cannot say for sure that they are involved, but it's hard for me to dismiss the call for attention and investigation. That's my point. I think that's the best way to put it. I cannot ignore that, you know, because it's very difficult to convince me that there is a connection. I mean, when I first heard it, I said, oh, yeah, that's maybe just a coincidence. And then I heard another one. I said, oh, that's a coincidence. And then I started to hear more and more. And once you hear four or five of them, you start to connect the dots. And that's when I decided to tell you about them. I mean, there can be so many coincidences. So I think it's hard to dismiss it. That's all I can say. But I cannot say for certain that there is definitely a link. I cannot say that. Okay. All right. But that's a good question. Happy Mother's Day. Happy Mother's Day for those of you who are in Australia and in Asia. All right. Someone said I sent a question. Hopefully I've answered it. A question, any news from General Liu? I answered that. No, we have not heard anything about them. What I want to tell you, what I almost want to tell you about is the recent explosions at that firecracker factories, because it looks very suspicious. My team has been compiling a list of unnatural disasters in China, and some of them look very suspicious. I was going to talk about that tonight, but then I think this is more important because this is public health issue. So maybe tomorrow I'm off. So maybe Tuesday I'll talk about that. Yeah. If you are a mom, happy Mother's Day. I am a mother. I'm a mother. So inductive reasoning is your strength. Thank you. Thank you. Okay. This clean slate. Happy Mother's Day. Well, thank you. All right. Thank you for all the Mother's Day wishes. I wonder if my trip to Bangkok will be postponed by the Australian government. Okay, that's not addressed to me. Okay. Well, I don't see any questions. All right. That's all for tonight. Is that it? Oh, Yushi, I'm a bit skeptical of if hantavirus will result in a pandemic on the scale of coronavirus, but do you think China may see it differently or are just taking precautions? Well, that's what experts are saying. Most experts are saying that it is deadly, but the transmissibility is lower, because normally when a virus is deadly, then it's less likely or its ability to spread is limited. And if something COVID spreads quickly, but the fatality rate is only, what, 1%? But then Professor Joseph Allen from Harvard, his point, he shows the documents, the research paper that has already tracked previous cases, and it shows that it has airborne capability. Because if this virus can be transmitted through air, then I think it's a real public health hazard. It's a serious problem. Yeah. And if you look at the fact that a ship with 100, what, 40, 150 people among them, you already have three fatalities. I think it is concerning. I think we should pay attention to what Professor Allen said. I think it is a serious outbreak. Someone said, Lei, any news from Hu Chunhua? Everything I've heard are rumors. Half of them say that he's in trouble. Half of them saying that he's doing well. So that's why I didn't really give you an update. I think they are probably all half-truth. All right. Someone, okay. May human maniacs. Thank you. Wow. All right. Let's see. Happy Mother's Day. You are the best. Well, thank you very much. Someone said, I'm afraid of Trump's trip to China. I do too. I really think that, I don't think he should go. But he probably will go. Who knows? I still have a feeling that it will be, the trip will be canceled last minute. I have a feeling that when the trip is scheduled for Thursday, I think it might be canceled on Wednesday. Yeah. I think there's still a 30% chance of being canceled on Wednesday, right before the trip. So let's see if that happens. Lisa M. Blue. Well, thank you very much. All right. Oh, here's one. BTS59. Well, thank you. Glad you answered this. I did. I think someone says, silent murmur. I think Trump should definitely refrain from visiting any country this year. I think he shouldn't go. I mean, he could just send Marco Rubio to go, or his VP. I do not think he should go because it's just not safe. Yeah. And the CCP is capable of doing anything. All right. I reached the bottom of all the comments. And let's see, I think the world is a crazy place. So much is happening. And next week, we'll talk about the mysterious explosion in China, or explosions in China. And also about Trump's trip, whether or not it happens. So stay tuned. Subscribe if you haven't. All right. That's all. That's all we have for tonight. And enjoy the rest of your weekend. Happy Mother's Day to all mothers. Thank you. Bye.