Monkeypox

[Jarhyn]

Apparently another disease is starting to make the rounds, and this one is far uglier than Covid.

Next up in the shitty apocalypse seems to be a plague of BOILS! Hooray!

It seems to be stemmed effectively by the smallpox vaccine but the question is, will we have enough in reserve if things get out of control yet again?

Or will people be fucking stupid, yet again?

 

[Cheerful Charlie]

Marjorie Taylor Greene is already publically spreading the claim this is all a plot by Bill Gates and the Democrats to make big money and mandate evil, compulsory vaccination, and mask mandates. Huffing, and puffing, and drooling uncontrollably. There is indeed a monkey pox vaccine available. The worst forms of monkey pox have a 10% morbidly rate. Even Ivermectine can't make the ugly, oozing pustules go away. Survivers will be pox marked for life. If monkey pox takes off big time in America, I will be first in line for vaccnation.

 

[Jarhyn]

Marjorie Taylor Greene is already publically spreading the claim this is all a plot by Bill Gates and the Democrats to make big money and mandate evil, compulsory vaccination, and mask mandates. Huffing, and puffing, and drooling uncontrollably. There is indeed a monkey pox vaccine available. The worst forms of monkey pox have a 10% morbidly rate. Even Ivermectine can't make the ugly, oozing pustules go away. Survivers will be pox marked for life. If monkey pox takes off big time in America, I will be first in line for vaccnation.

I'm certainly not going to fuck around with it.

Like, how do they not see that the ones getting killed by plagues of boils and respiratory disease are... They themselves?!?

If monkey pox takes off big time in America, maybe we can hope to see all these antivaxx covidiots actually win enough Darwin awards to turn the elections?

 

[Trausti]

Monkeypox appears to affect a certain demographic engaged in certain behavior. Most people will be alright.

 

[ZiprHead]

I remember in my youth buying pot called monkeypaw. Tight fat buds that got you high Af. I'm not sure if this is the same thing.

 

[bilby]

Monkeypox appears to affect a certain demographic engaged in certain behavior. Most people will be alright.

Sure.

And obviously, if you don’t expect it to affect you personally, you needn’t give a crap at all. Because that attitude has never ever backfired at all.

In other news, only gay men get AIDS, so it’s not a problem and never will be.

 

[Trausti]

Monkeypox appears to affect a certain demographic engaged in certain behavior. Most people will be alright.

Sure.

And obviously, if you don’t expect it to affect you personally, you needn’t give a crap at all. Because that attitude has never ever backfired at all.

In other news, only gay men get AIDS, so it’s not a problem and never will be.

Clutch your pearls more. But avoid the gay origies.

Monkeypox likely spread by sex at two raves in Europe, expert says

A former head of the WHO’s emergencies department said the leading theory was sexual transmission among gay and bisexual men at two raves held in Spain and Belgium.

www.nbcnews.com

 

[bilby]

Monkeypox appears to affect a certain demographic engaged in certain behavior. Most people will be alright.

Sure.

And obviously, if you don’t expect it to affect you personally, you needn’t give a crap at all. Because that attitude has never ever backfired at all.

In other news, only gay men get AIDS, so it’s not a problem and never will be.

Clutch your pearls more. But avoid the gay origies.

Monkeypox likely spread by sex at two raves in Europe, expert says

A former head of the WHO’s emergencies department said the leading theory was sexual transmission among gay and bisexual men at two raves held in Spain and Belgium.

www.nbcnews.com

Yeah. It’s like the 1980s all over again.

Homophobic morons with no clue about epidemiology, smugly certain that a virus has the same prejudices that they do, and confident that they therefore have nothing to worry about.

Those who refuse to learn from history…

 

[Jarhyn]

Monkeypox appears to affect a certain demographic engaged in certain behavior. Most people will be alright.

Sure.

And obviously, if you don’t expect it to affect you personally, you needn’t give a crap at all. Because that attitude has never ever backfired at all.

In other news, only gay men get AIDS, so it’s not a problem and never will be.

Clutch your pearls more. But avoid the gay origies.

Monkeypox likely spread by sex at two raves in Europe, expert says

A former head of the WHO’s emergencies department said the leading theory was sexual transmission among gay and bisexual men at two raves held in Spain and Belgium.

www.nbcnews.com

Yeah. It’s like the 1980s all over again.

Homophobic morons with no clue about epidemiology, smugly certain that a virus has the same prejudices that they do, and confident that they therefore have nothing to worry about.

Those who refuse to learn from history…

Not to mention that whole spread-by-contact part, and the fact that the pustules leave behind an active infective residue that is persistent just like smallpox does.

I'll laugh though when all us gay folks are vaccinated because we want to have sex, and it's all these antivaxx cucks that are sporting lifelong pox marks proclaiming them to be raging fucking idiots.

 

[Jimmy Higgins]

Monkeypox appears to affect a certain demographic engaged in certain behavior. Most people will be alright.

A million Americans died from Covid-19, and you weren't worried about that. So your concerns aren't particularly worth much.

From what I've read, Monkey Pox is not an alarming thing, like the Omicron variant became instantly. I'll stick to the pros, and not people that have shown the incredible lengths they'll go regarding apathy.

 

[Loren Pechtel]

Monkeypox appears to affect a certain demographic engaged in certain behavior. Most people will be alright.

No reason to think that's anything but chance. The transmission is close contact for a period of time--gay or straight makes no difference, it's just sex does provide sufficient contact for transmission. It's always been around but the younger crowd is more vulnerable (there is cross protection from the smallpox vaccine) and there were a couple of superspreader events that got it in the news. R0 is well below 1, unless we are looking at a mutation this is just a fluke.

 

[The Colourful Jester]

WHO declares monkeypox an international emergency as child cases raise alarm [Updated]

The declaration comes amid new reports of cases in children.

arstechnica.com

Goody gumdrops.

 

[Politesse]

Monkeypox appears to affect a certain demographic engaged in certain behavior. Most people will be alright.

No reason to think that's anything but chance. The transmission is close contact for a period of time--gay or straight makes no difference, it's just sex does provide sufficient contact for transmission. It's always been around but the younger crowd is more vulnerable (there is cross protection from the smallpox vaccine) and there were a couple of superspreader events that got it in the news. R0 is well below 1, unless we are looking at a mutation this is just a fluke.

But of course, "primarily spread by men who have sex with men" is a much catchier tagline than "primarily spread at a handful of social gatherings in Europe". People are more likely to read a headline that makes it sound like their already-distrusted neighbor poses an existential threat, than one which makes it sound like it has nothing to do with them personally.

Evidence: the fact that everyone in the US and Europe utterly ignored monkeypox when it was an "African problem" and gays weren't involved. We have known about this disease since 1956. Without queer white men to blame for it, epidemics just aren't news worth caring about to your average Western news reader. We aren't a fact about the story, we are the story.

 

[TV and credit cards]

The US has enough smallpox vaccine in reserve for everyone. It is in case it is used as a bioweapon. No reason not to get one if you can.

 

[Loren Pechtel]

The US has enough smallpox vaccine in reserve for everyone. It is in case it is used as a bioweapon. No reason not to get one if you can.

If everyone gets the smallpox vaccine you're looking at a few hundred dead.

 

[Jarhyn]

The US has enough smallpox vaccine in reserve for everyone. It is in case it is used as a bioweapon. No reason not to get one if you can.

If everyone gets the smallpox vaccine you're looking at a few hundred dead.

And, the best part about using the vaccine now? Bioweapon use becomes ineffective for at least long enough to refresh the supply.

 

[Loren Pechtel]

The US has enough smallpox vaccine in reserve for everyone. It is in case it is used as a bioweapon. No reason not to get one if you can.

If everyone gets the smallpox vaccine you're looking at a few hundred dead.

And, the best part about using the vaccine now? Bioweapon use becomes ineffective for at least long enough to refresh the supply.

And they can't engineer a variant that evades the vaccine??

 

[Jarhyn]

The US has enough smallpox vaccine in reserve for everyone. It is in case it is used as a bioweapon. No reason not to get one if you can.

If everyone gets the smallpox vaccine you're looking at a few hundred dead.

And, the best part about using the vaccine now? Bioweapon use becomes ineffective for at least long enough to refresh the supply.

And they can't engineer a variant that evades the vaccine??

So, think about that with respect to our vaccine supply...

 

[ZiprHead]

 

[Jarhyn]

We need to immediately, uniformly, loudly demand USE of the national strategic smallpox vaccine reserve.

If we do not, we will see a new wave of vilification of gay people.

All our rights will roll back.

Edit: well, I guess we have our casting pick for "whore of Babylon"

As to Loren since you didn't unfuck your own post:

The US has enough smallpox vaccine in reserve for everyone. It is in case it is used as a bioweapon. No reason not to get one if you can.

If everyone gets the smallpox vaccine you're looking at a few hundred dead.

And, the best part about using the vaccine now? Bioweapon use becomes ineffective for at least long enough to refresh the supply.

And they can't engineer a variant that evades the vaccine??

So, think about that with respect to our vaccine supply...

If an evasive variant is engineered, the vaccine we had was already useless for it, so it's not like having an ineffective vaccine rather than having used it will make any difference to that scenario.

The exact answer to this is to, as non-violently as will work, demand use of the strategic national reserve, and just rebuild it before the next generation of need.

Every gay and queer person, if they wish to prevent this, and any decent person who loves their queer neighbors, must join this demand.