{"id":2602858,"date":"2026-05-14T17:36:01","date_gmt":"2026-05-14T21:36:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/cnn-network-which-stoked-covid-fears-constantly-warns-against-calm-mongering-on-hantavirus\/"},"modified":"2026-05-14T17:38:45","modified_gmt":"2026-05-14T21:38:45","slug":"cnn-network-which-stoked-covid-fears-constantly-warns-against-calm-mongering-on-hantavirus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/cnn-network-which-stoked-covid-fears-constantly-warns-against-calm-mongering-on-hantavirus\/","title":{"rendered":"CNN, Network Which Stoked COVID Fears Constantly, Warns Against &#8216;Calm-Mongering&#8217; on Hantavirus"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fcnn-network-which-stoked-covid-fears-constantly-warns-against-calm-mongering-on-hantavirus%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2602858&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Discusses a CNN report about the 2026 hantavirus outbreak on a cruise ship (the *MV Hondius*) and criticizes CNN\u2019s framing as \u201ccalm-mongering\u201d-the idea that messaging downplays the threat to avoid public panic. The piece argues that viewers and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/dems-lost-all-credibility-on-social-distancing-after-biden-celebrations\/\" title=\"Dems Lost All Credibility On Social Distancing After Biden Celebrations\">public health officials<\/a> should acknowledge similarities to COVID-19 (and therefore public skepticism and \u201cpost-COVID fatigue\u201d), while still clarifying that hantavirus is not COVID-19. It highlights commentary from a crisis\/risk communication expert (Peter Sandman) suggesting health messaging should include uncertainty and a clear description of how decisions are made. The article also points to WHO statements about transmission requiring close, prolonged contact and uses prior CNN COVID coverage as context to suggest CNN and public audiences have been inconsistent or partisan in how they communicated risk.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><br \/>\n<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\"><br \/>\n<?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><html><body><\/p>\n<section> \t\t\t\t<script>console.log(\"ad slot (AC1)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC1)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC2)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC3)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC4)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (REP_0)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (REP_1)\")<\/script><\/p>\n<p>CNN, the network that helped bring you the fear-mongering which prolonged the worst parts of the last pandemic, would like you to know that they\u2019d like a sequel and would you please stop \u201ccalm-mongering\u201d about hantavirus?<\/p>\n<p>In a ludicrous story about the Andes strain of the disease \u2014 the first (and hopefully only) outbreak of which appeared on a cruise ship called the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/hantavirus-verge-another-plandemic\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">MV Hondius<\/a>, which docked in the Canary Islands and transferred patients back to their country of origin \u2014 CNN noted that people were being too goshdarn <em>normal<\/em> about things while noting that \u201cstill-fresh memories of the loss and disruptions of the Covid-19 pandemic\u201d might be affecting our response.<\/p>\n<p>Yes, whatever may have given you that idea, CNN?<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">If you\u2019re at high risk of serious illness or death from Covid-19, it\u2019s time to dust off those N95 masks. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/6qpqTSGoYM\">https:\/\/t.co\/6qpqTSGoYM<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/LpKe7LFdPP\">pic.twitter.com\/LpKe7LFdPP<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 CNN (@CNN) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CNN\/status\/1694401885594112467?\">August 23, 2023<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>That call for masking was in 2023, for those of you who didn\u2019t check the date.<\/p>\n<p>Anyhow, <a href=\"https:\/\/edition.cnn.com\/2026\/05\/12\/health\/hantavirus-public-health-officials-calm-mongering\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">CNN<\/a> bills itself as \u201cThe Most Trusted Name in News,\u201d but its tagline really should be Rahm Emanuel\u2019s timeless motto: \u201cNever Let a Good Crisis Go to Waste.\u201d So, even though there are three people dead out of 11 confirmed or suspected cases, according to World Health Organization <a href=\"https:\/\/www.who.int\/emergencies\/disease-outbreak-news\/item\/2026-DON601\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">data<\/a> as of Wednesday, that didn\u2019t mean it wasn\u2019t time for a piece with a title like \u201cHantavirus is not Covid-19, but \u2018calm-mongering\u2019 risks triggering post-Covid anxiety.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s the \u201ccalm-mongering\u201d that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/fact-check-hantavirus-poised-become-covid-style-pandemic\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">poses the biggest risk<\/a> to these people, with CNN averring that \u201csome health experts say that at points, the messaging has been overly confident and too willing to dismiss the possibility of a threat.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Ah, yes: The return of \u201csome health experts\u201d! I missed you, fellas. Can you get the Faucinator out of retirement to do his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/watch-fauci-laughs-like-villain-discussing-lab-leak-theory-proves-learned-nothing\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u201cI am the science!\u201d<\/a> bit?<\/p>\n<p>One of these CNN-consulted experts said that health officials should be absolutely clear that this isn\u2019t COVID-19 while treating it like it might be kinda a little sorta if you squint like COVID-19, maybe possibly:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><em>Dr. Peter Sandman, who was a professor at Rutgers University for almost two decades and is one of the founding fathers of the field of crisis and risk communication, said that to be effective now, health officials first need to earn the right to explain why this hantavirus outbreak isn\u2019t Covid.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cEvery reassuring message should have a verbal asterisk: \u2018We don\u2019t know as much about hantaviruses as we wish we did,\u2019\u201d Sandman said in an  to CNN.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Health communicators would be wise to start every news conference by acknowledging that this feels like Covid redux, he said. \u201cMention a few ways it echoes Covid and agree that people are wise to be a bit skeptical about official \u2018nothing to worry about\u2019 messaging,\u201d Sandman wrote.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Then acknowledge the uncertainty and describe the decision-making process. For example, \u201c\u2019We\u2019re thinking about <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/ahole-twitter-employees-melt-down-quit-over-musk-takeover-new-internal-messages-reveal-report\/\" title=\"\u2018A**hole...: Twitter Employees Melt Down, Quit Over Musk Takeover, New Internal Messages Reveal: Report\">worst case scenarios<\/a>, checking and double-checking to make sure we still think this is a big deal only if you were on that ship or came into close contact with someone who was,\u2019\u201d Sandman wrote.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Again, perhaps CNN\u2019s viewership might be \u201cskeptical\u201d about \u201cnothing to worry about\u201d messaging coming from Donald Trump\u2019s administration, but the same messaging is coming from the WHO, the people who genuflected to China while encouraging \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/op-ed-world-health-organization-full-ideologues-masquerading-experts\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">heck, practically forcing<\/a> \u2014 the entire world to lock down during the COVID pandemic.<\/p>\n<p>Indeed, WHO Director-General <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/dr-tedros-appears-set-keep-top-job-despite-handling-pandemic-problems-home-country\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus<\/a> \u2014 remember <em>him?<\/em> \u2014 said that transmission had been limited to those in \u201cclose and prolonged contact.\u201d As in, on a cruise ship in close quarters.<\/p>\n<p>Also, not just any cruise ship. \u201cThe Hondius was far from the Love Boat,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/world\/the-33-day-atlantic-odyssey-that-turned-into-a-hantavirus-nightmare-ae8c7f48\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Wall Street Journal<\/a> noted in an article about the cruise that catered to \u201cnature enthusiasts\u201d and \u201cwas set to take passengers to remote islands from the South Atlantic to Cape Verde.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSome passengers d small, quadruple-occupancy cabins with strangers, complete with bunk beds reminiscent of a <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\" >cut-rate youth hostel<\/a>,\u201d the Journal reported. A 33-day cruise in a floating hostel with a virus that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/new-stamp-sized-stickers-permit-continuous-ultrasound-imaging-for-2-days-while-patient-moves-normally\/\" title=\"New Stamp-Sized Stickers Permit Continuous Ultrasound Imaging For 2 Days While Patient Moves Normally\">requires close contact<\/a> for transmission. You can perhaps see how things went very wrong for these people while still noting that this isn\u2019t COVID-2: N-95 Boogaloo.<\/p>\n<p>However, CNN noted that maybe \u2014 maybe! \u2014 people were just a little tired of this stuff, especially from them.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><em>But the echoes of Covid will be hard for health officials to escape.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cI think we\u2019re definitely in a post-covid fatigue moment,\u201d said Dr. Traci Hong, a professor of media science at Boston University\u2019s College of Communication. On her social media feeds, she sees headlines referring to the \u201crat virus\u201d and decrying \u201ccalm-mongering.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cAnd there is this real sort of tug of war,\u201d Hong said. \u201cYou don\u2019t want to frighten people.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Yes, how could this possibly have happened?<\/p>\n<p>In September of 2020, one CNN journalist, Kyle Feldscher, predicted we\u2019d need 5,836,679 deaths to get to herd immunity from COVID. That was just from the initial strain, of course. The last time the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.worldometers.info\/coronavirus\/country\/us\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Worldometer<\/a> Coronavirus Tracker was updated in April of 2024, long after the virus had mutated, the number of U.S. deaths attributed to COVID was 1,219,487. (This is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/musk-truth-finally-coming-reporting-covid-deaths-hospitalizations\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">probably still too high<\/a>.)<\/p>\n<p>Remember, too, that CNN also blamed Republicans for this. Jim Acosta, then the network\u2019s White House correspondent, said that the delta variant should be known as the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/dont-dare-call-covid-china-virus-republican-cnn-wants-name-delta-variant\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u201cDeSantis variant\u201d<\/a> because he\u2019d stopped masking and lockdown measures. For that measure, here were <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/cnn-slammed-trump-covid-death-rate-estimate-4-weeks-later-making-claim\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Brian Stelter\u2019s headlines<\/a> at CNN on COVID over just a week at the start of the pandemic:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>March 25, 2020: \u201cHow the Fox News presidency has politicized a national health crisis\u201d<\/li>\n<li>March 30, 2020: \u201cAs coronavirus death toll rises, Trump focuses on a different set of numbers: TV ratings\u201d<\/li>\n<li>March 30, 2020: \u201cTrump is self-isolating at his safe space: Fox News\u201d<\/li>\n<li>April 1, 2020: \u201cJournalists challenge Trump\u2019s \u2018revisionist history\u2019 regarding coronavirus response\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Imagine us wanting to calm-monger against CNN\u2019s carefully calibrated \u201cpanic, you fools! <em>Panic!<\/em>\u201d response to both this and COVID, in different (and likely equally wrong) ways.<\/p>\n<p>This parade of \u201cexperts\u201d goes on, but I needn\u2019t. The TL;DR from CNN here is: \u201cThis totally isn\u2019t COVID. Except in the way that we\u2019re going to pretend it is. Or maybe worse! Who knows? 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