Leah Feiger

Maybe six and a half.

I think part of it for me is, you know, look, this is a developing situation.

We had a really helpful check-in about it with Wired's Emily Mullen in last week's episode.

And she's put out some really good reporting in the last few days as well, talking to an infectious disease expert and also looking very specifically about hantavirus test developing that's happening in Nebraska, where some of these people who have perhaps contracted the virus are being sent from the ship.

So other people are thinking about this, too, which is perhaps all I wanted, Brian.

Like this was like two weeks ago when I was like, guys, this is happening.

Where is the CDC?

Where is the U.S.

response on this?

Like what is happening?

And now finally this week, I'm like, oh, good.

There's like a shit ton of international concern.

And that's kind of all I wanted here.

I wanted attention on this.

So that's that's perhaps what's making me feel slightly better about it.

But I will say there's another pattern that has really been bringing up, especially like in the last, I would say, five, six days or so, which is the rise of conspiracy theories around it.

Look.

Conspiracy theories around health are nothing new.

I think that we all experienced a very intense rash of them during the COVID pandemic.

Wired's David Gilbert, this week he reported on how conspiracy theorists, wellness influencers, and grifters have all started promoting wild claims about the outbreak.