Sheila Villamil

5/n: We are seeing zoonotic spillover events with increasing frequency, just among the better known ones, the list includes: SARS-1 CoV (2002) MERS CoV (2012) Ebola (2014) Ebola (2019) SARS-2 CoV (2019) MPox (2022) H5N1 (2024) ANDIV (2026)

1/n: I could be wrong, of course, but my take about this hantavirus outbreak is less about the actual outbreak and more about what it means in the context of the last two decades and moving forward. Let me explain...

LET THIS SINK IN—the U.S. now has no confirmed CDC director, no FDA commissioner, no Surgeon General, an NIH director with no medical license, and the last Acting CDC Director was a George Bush speechwriter. In fact—the only doctor/scientist we have in the White House is… Dr Oz.

Womp womp Wonder if this is why Putin is finally floating the idea of the war coming to an end?

Testing "mildly PCR positive" is like testing "mildly pregnant".

FACTS.

ICE deports mom of 2 little kids on Mother's Day—her baby is still breastfeeding. She was holding her 4 year old son's hand—when 7 agents with guns surrounded them. Her husband now feeds their 1 year old baby daughter—but she rejects store bought formula he's forced to use. Anna Catherine Delgado originally filed a request for political asylum from Venezuela. She verified that she attended all of her regular immigration appointments—and still doesn't know what triggered her sudden arrest. "She called and said they were going to deport her to Venezuela on Sunday—Mother's Day." San Antonio, Texas

🧵 Eight hantavirus cases so far. Three dead. WHO says don't panic because "this isn't another COVID." Fine. But here's what should keep you up at night: the next pandemic IS coming. And Trump isn't just less prepared than last time. He's preparing to weaponize it.

The original sin of the Covid pandemic was not acknowledging airborne spread early, despite SARS1 having been airborne (we learned the hard way in Toronto in 2003). It looks like some are finally realizing this, however belatedly and despite the WHO once again trying to downplay it initially with this 'intimate contact' nonsense. Two cases tested positive yesterday from the cruise ship passengers, and this is despite isolation on the ship itself. The 2019 NEJM study on Hantavirus also suggests that this thing might be airborne. If countries don't employ airborne precautions such as isolation of these cases with use of N95/FFP2 and HEPA filtration in quarantine centers, then we are just inviting this thing to spread. Nip it in the bud now.

Lesson from Covid… by the time you realize that you need mandatory quarantines and mass testing… it’s too late for those measures to be fully effective. Waiting until people become symptomatic to test/ isolate is a bandaid on a hemorrhage.

Fascinating how some people are 100% against public health mandates (an enforced quarantine is by definition a mandate)… until they find out someone with a infectious airborne disease could be potentially coming back to THEIR hometown, or flying on THEIR plane… 🤔

🔥This is very INTERESTING: WHO just did a full 180° on the Andes hantavirus cruise ship outbreak. Yesterday: ➡️ No isolation for passengers/crew — even high-risk contacts — unless symptoms. Today: ➡️ ALL from MV Hondius = high-risk contacts, ➡️ Must isolate 42 days from disembarkation (until 21 June for today’s), ➡️ Daily follow-up, no work, minimal contact, ➡️ Masks: Wear FFP2/N95 respirator for any unavoidable interactions 🤔 From nearly zero to maximum precautions! Very special 180° UPDATE, but a far more understandable one, aligning with precautions many countries already took!🙏 Thanks for the info @_CatintheHat👏

NEW: Pope Leo XIV is the son of a Black Creole woman from Chicago’s South Side who earned a master's at thirty-seven, sang contralto in her parish choir, and ran the library at the Catholic high school where her son would later teach. On Mother’s Day, the woman who made an American pope. thelettersfromleo.com/p/the-black-cr…

People been asking me my thoughts on Trump releasing the UFO files. My response? TRUMP’S MENTIONED IN THE EPSTEIN FILES 38,000 TIMES.

(INTENTIONALLY) LOST IN TRANSLATION: Democrats: We'd like cops to stop killing minorities. Republicans: Dems hate police. Democrats: Women should have the right to choose. Republicans: Dems want to kill babies. Democrats: We need reasonable immigration policies Republicans: Dems want open borders. Democrats: We kneel in protest of inequality. Republicans: Dems hate the flag, soldiers and America. Democrats: We should wear masks to protect others. Republicans: Dems want to take away your freedom. Democrats: We should have background checks. Republicans: Dems want to take your guns. Democrats: Feds should not be policing in cities. Republicans: Dems encourage rioting Democrats: People should have a living wage. Republicans: Dems want to give everyone free stuff. Democrats: We want religious freedom for everyone. Republicans: Dems want Sharia Law. Democrats: Taxes should be used for the benefit of everyone Republicans: Dems want socialism. Ain’t this the whole truth! F*ck you MAGA republicans with your spreading of misinformation. Suck on this🖕🏼 #Midterms2026 here we come. 🌊

Babies were found with dead brain tissue similar to what follows cancer and the kind of bleeding seen after a stroke. Their autopsies all came to the same conclusion: Their deaths could have been prevented with the long-standard vitamin K shot. Read our full investigation: propub.li/4ttL0Lw

So… the CDC says the US doesn’t need to quarantine returning passengers unless they start showing symptoms, but the European equivalent of CDC, which hasn’t been gutted by an anti-vaccine zealot, says people can spread hantavirus before they start showing symptoms.

You can’t really argue this. They believe in investing in the people and infrastructure.

Reminder: One study showed 96% of commercial flights had Covid on board And long flights ⬆️ transmission 26X There's a good chance that virtually 100% of commercial flights have at least one communicable disease on board Wear an N95 when flying "Gate to gate" at least