Don’t let the WHO run Diamond Princess, Part Deux
Jessica Hockett, PhD
While it’s too soon to tell if the WHO and member countries are in the early stages of running another “global spread” scam, an alleged illness outbreak on a cruise ship in the Southern Hemisphere involving hantavirus should catch the attention of COVID analysts for its parallels to the Diamond Princess fiasco in February 2020.
As a reminder, there was no illness outbreak during the Diamond Princess’s voyage. The “first” person to test positive for the entity later named SARS-CoV-21 was a Hong Kong resident who disembarked at Hong Kong and went to the doctor three to four days later with unremarkable symptoms. After his PCR test results were reported positive, the ship was alerted, but, again, there had not been a rash of illness in the meantime. When the ship returned to Yokohama, it was held in port, and the testing charade began.
In the end, we had an indeterminate number of deaths (7-14 depending on which reports one reads and how long a timeline is set), none of which can be divorced from the iatrogenic harms exacted against the hospitalized patients. All occurred off the boat, ex post facto, at a rate comparable to what we’d expect statistically after a cruise, regardless of cause, given the number and age profile of passengers.
A similar pattern could be shaping up with the Dutch ship. The World Health Organization (WHO) held a press briefing today, helmed by Maria Van Kerkhove, a key figure during the COVID event.2
A transcript of the full briefing isn’t yet available, but even the casual listener should recognize words and concepts that were critical to launching and sustaining Operation COVID-19, such as asymptomatic, testing, close contacts, and sequencing. [UPDATE: Transcript here].
The agency is currently treating this situation as a “disease outbreak” involving a “cluster of passengers with severe respiratory illness”. Their 4 May 2026 communication about the episode can be found here. UN coverage is of course emphasizing that “human spread” can’t be ruled out.
A video by a man who says he is on the ship is a strong example of over-acting, if not crisis acting, during what should be viewed as a feigned emergency. Whatever the creator’s intentions, videos like this one effectively function as legitimizing “props” for events being presented to the public as outbreaks involving viruses.
Following reports in early March 2020 that Gene Hackman’s wife died from hantavirus, X user @mapperdan drew attention to the dramatic Hantavirus Origin Story and the ease with which scary statistics involving “new” or “emergent” viruses said to cause respiratory illness are manufactured.
Vaccines and treatments for hantavirus have been sought without success and are currently in development.3 To what extent there are pending “solutions” in need of a soon-to-be pervasive “problem” to solve is anyone’s guess.
My hope is that investors will resist the temptation to aid and abet another racket, if that’s what we’re looking at — and that the public has learned enough lessons to reject a South America/South Africa variation on the spreading-virus-from-afar storyline.
Notes
- Testing on/for the Diamond Princess passengers began before the name SARS-CoV-2 was adopted. https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/69/wr/mm6911e2.htm The virus was still being referred to as 2019-nCoV during the earliest testing of ship passengers. Systematic passenger testing appears to have begun on the same day the name SARS-CoV-2 was announced: 11 February 2020 https://id-info.jihs.go.jp/niid/en/2019-ncov-e/9417-covid-dp-fe-02.html ↩︎
- Van Kerkhove gave what can be viewed retrospectively as an early announcement about a forthcoming “pandemic” in November 2019 (below) and was heavily involved in the initial and subsequent Wuhan-based “investigations” of SARS-CoV-2 and in the naming of COVID-19. https://woodhouse76.com/2024/07/20/the-sars-cov-2-name-game-long-read/ ↩︎
- e.g., https://www.vido.org/research/vaccine-development-for-new-world-hantaviruses.php ↩︎
SELECTIVE DOCUMENTATION
UPDATE, 5 May 2026, evening (Central US)
Without committing to “tracking” the latest WHO-sponsored Adventure, I see a fear-mongering AP story out of Cape Town, posted late this afternoon. Hopefully, residents of Cape Town (especially those with a “microphone”) will speak out publicly about this charade.
The WHO has posted a new page with “key facts” about hantavirus and the “Andes virus” version. Note “renal syndrome” and see comments of Suzanne Humphries & Pierre Kory, respectively, documented here.
6 May 2026: Propaganda
Compare with…
7 May 2026
Gift link to WSJ story. What, exactly, is being signaled to investors here – and why? Note that it is mainstream media aimed at the professional and elite classes selling this narrative.
“Early Treatment” script:
NYT Op-Ed by Caitlin Rivers: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/07/opinion/hantavirus-cruise-ship-virus-outbreak.html
7 May 2026 WHO briefing
World Health Organization. (2026, May 7). WHO’s response to hantavirus cases linked to a cruise ship. https://www.who.int/news/item/07-05-2026-who-s-response-to-hantavirus-cases-linked-to-a-cruise-ship
Gal, I. (2026, May 7). “First case of hantavirus diagnosed in Israel after patient’s visit to Eastern Europe.” The Jerusalem Post.
Complementary & other observations/information via Kit Knightly in Off-Guardian:
11 May 2026
U.S. passengers were brought to the UNMC Nebraska Biocontainment Unit, part of the RESPTC network: “The RESPTC network (Regional Emerging Special Pathogen Treatment Centers) is part of the U.S. National Special Pathogen System (NSPS), a tiered network of healthcare facilities designed to prepare for, train on, and respond to high-consequence infectious diseases (special pathogens) like Ebola, mpox, or hantaviruses.”
12 May 2026: NYT profile of Jake Rosmarin: Day 1 in Quarantine: Tested for Hantavirus, Treated to Starbucks
13 May 2026: U.S. Cruise Passenger Moved Out of Isolation (NYT) | Britons among 1,700 quarantined on cruise ship after mystery illness outbreak (Telegraph)
14 May 2026 : 16 More People in the U.S. Are Being Monitored for Hantavirus, C.D.C. Says (NYT) | Hantavirus may survive in human sperm for up to six years and cause a transmission risk (Telegraph)
15 May 2026: Top WHO official: I’m relieved it isn’t bird flu, but we’re in a ‘make or break’ phase for hantavirus (Telegraph) – Excerpt: But while the world may have escaped a worst case scenario for now, the Andes virus still poses very real risks – and the response has just entered a “make or break” phase, says Dr Van Kerkhove. Soon, it will be clear if the outbreak is going to burn out or spark a new transmission chain.
16 May 2026: Here’s What Science Tell Us About the Risks of Hantavirus (WSJ) – “can spread through the air” | How a Nature Cruise Turned into a Nightmare (NYT)
17 May 2026: Ebola Outbreak Declared Health Emergency ‘of International Concern’ as New Strain Spreads (Telegraph) | WHO Declares Global Health Emergency After Ebola Outbreak in Congo (WSJ)
22 May 2026
9 July 2026: Hantavirus on a Nature Cruise and the Risk of a Pandemic (JAMA)
18 July 2026: The PREP Act declaration expired without being renewed. A one-month wind-down period followed.
18 August 2026: The wind-down period ended. Liability protection continues only for favipiravir obtained for the Strategic National Stockpile during the declaration period and later released or used from the stockpile.
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6 responses to “Hantavirus: Here we go again?”
“Don’t talk or write about the latest so-called outbreaks as if they were physically real and
dangerous. They are neither.”
K. Watt, May 22, 2025 – “Encouraging public contempt for, and civil disobedience to, pandemic and biodefense fear-mongering and law.”
https://bailiwicknewsarchives.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/bailiwick-news-substack-jan.-to-sept.-2025-vol.-9.pdf (p. 219)
Even if one believes that there actually is a hantavirus outbreak on this ship (highly doubt it), this is not a virus that is transmitted human to human but rather by a rodent vector. Are there plenty of rodents on the ship? Guess that’s some good news –the ship isnt sinking:-). By the way, I never believed the story about Gene Hackman’s wife. I’m sorry for the people who fall for this, and will be furious at my physician colleagues if they engage in any fearmongering.
Even if one believes in virus outbreaks, and rodents transmitting stable, disease-causing viruses to humans, the order of events in this scenario is blantantly contrived, if not strategically set-up.
I hesitate to even give it air time, but it is instructive with respect to the COVID event.
Also, I am in no way suggesting we be afraid of what they are doing here – rather, the idea is to realize how these rackets work and what the WHO’s role is.
Wow, I had not even heard of this. Why was that guy in the video crying and hysterical? Seemed way over the top for the situation.
Reading through this gave me Covid flashbacks. I can feel my heart racing. There is no way I could go through all that again.
It is extraordinarily bad acting on his part and should be recognized as such. Show your kids or other Gen Zs. May they recognize how utterly fake it is.
At this point, I don’t think the WHO et al are doing the Pandemic Exercise again, at least not in the same way; however, people need to understand HOW they stage outbreaks…not just on cruise ships, but with myriad captive populations (including during “flu season”), i.e., in nursing homes, prisons, homeless shelters – and in poor countries run by dictators.
Next thing you know, people will need Vaccine X in order to enter South Africa. I’m seeing a very good Opportunity for the anti-mandate residents of South Africa, including podcasters, to speak up.
Here’s AP News, two hours ago: “How a deadly hantavirus outbreak unfolded on a cruise ship for weeks before it was identified” https://apnews.com/article/hantavirus-outbreak-cruise-ship-timeline-a04e0f8097d068a00fe94bf19f840240
Deadly outbreak, killing no one for weeks. Enter: quarantine and testing.
Yikes. Thanks for the heads up.