They are really determined to get us to panic again.
The global monkeypox outbreak has been declared a public health emergency of international concern by the World Health Organization (WHO) – the strongest call to action the agency can make.
So how bad is it?
Globally, there have so far been 16,016 monkeypox cases – 4,132 of which were in the past week, according to WHO data. It is now in 75 countries and territories and there have been five deaths.
Right. That’s out of a population of 7.9 billion. This is a disease that spreads via close contact, so not a big risk at all.
The WHO said the outbreak was largely among men who have sex with men who had reported having sex recently with new or multiple partners.
So promiscuous gay men, then. In which case, for the vast majority, it is insignificant risk. So, as you were.
If you are not a prolific bum-sexer then it appears to be somebody else’s problem.
No doubt a ‘vaccine’ will be available soon. Maybe the covid vaccines will work against this pox, as they appear utterly useless against Wu-flu?
Monkey pox is PRIMARILY a sexually transmitted disease between men who have sex with other men. We had this same bollocks with HIV/AIDS.
What’s the easiest way of not catching Monkey Pox? Don’t have sex with other men. Job done.
I doubt you’ll see that advert popping through your mailbox though. Doesn’t play well with the LGBT+ narrative.
I seem to recall ads with big black blocks and we were left wondering what that was all about.
Hhmmm…I think I’ve figured out how to avoid this one…i wonder if this realisation is homophobic.
I’m sure you will be offered a jibby-jabby anyway.
I’m not going to panic about this. It’s afflicting a tiny number of people and doesn’t transmit by air but by contact which limits its available destructive power. However, bearing in mind that where there is one Orthopox virus that is circulating more prevalently then there might be others, which could also circulate more prevalently and without the need for gay sex to be involved, say by general social contact or by fomites, then I might look into having a Smallpox booster jab and a primary Smallpox vaccination for my child.
At present and with the availability of a well established Smallpox vaccine then one way to deal with this would be cohort vaccination of gay and bi men as this is where the main bulk of cases has come from.
As an aside, I’d be very very interested in seeing the age profiles of those British gay and bi men who’ve contracted Monkeypox. One question I’d like answered is are these cases primarily in middle aged and younger gay and bi men, men born after the early 70’s, after which routine Smallpox vaccinations stopped or are the cases in a very broad age range and are also occurring in men whose prior smallpox vaccination has faded?
The smallpox vaccine appears to work against Monkeypox and this would be a relatively easy way out of the problem, provided that is there are enough Smallpox vaccines available and it can be given to those who both require and want them. I think that reaching the bulk of the community of gay and bi men who are open and honest about their sexuality will be relatively easy but those men who are still closeted and I include many of those married men who ‘dabble’ with gay sex, might be harder to reach and might represent a route to wider sexual transmission.
Monkeypox needs to be countered but so far it’s relatively small numbers of people and transmission is linked a subsection of the population. We have a long established vaccine against Orthopox viruses and this can be contained with cohort vaccination but I see no benefit, unless we find that there is a massive change in transmission routes, for mass vaccination using the current Smallpox virus. It would be wasteful overkill.
I agree that there’s little need for panic about Monkeypox. It’s not an airborne virus, it’s a virus that has been studied for years and is closely related to a disease that has been wiped out by vaccination. This is not the Black Death and neither is it a novel disease like SARS Cov2 and we should act appropriately and not surrender to panic.
’As an aside, I’d be very very interested in seeing the age profiles of those British gay and bi men who’ve contracted Monkeypox.’
Me too. But if any such research is being done, I wonder if it’ll see the light of day?
Exactly. The LBG Alliance, a group that regularly gets monstered and slandered on social media and places like Pink News by the Establishment LGBT types, picked up a whole load of abuse from the Establishment LGBT orgs and individuals when they called for a temporary one month shutdown of public sex venues in order to halt the spread of Monkeypox. This policy should at least have been able to be debated even though there is a counter argument that says that these venues because they often attract closeted men are good places to promote awareness of monkeypox and how to avoid it or even refer people to vaccination providers.
The point is that on this occasion the political correctness of the Establishment LGBT activists trumped a policy suggested by an LGB organisation that is quite plainly outside of that LGBT Establishment. The LBG Alliance were attacked not because their argument had no merit or was beyond debate, but because of political reasons which in the case of the LGB Alliance are that the LGB Alliance oppose the wilder shores of the cult of trans.
Panic is not necessary but sensible precautions might be and free debate must be allowed about Monkeypox in order to remove or restrict the conditions in which it transmits.
I read this this morning: https://www.samizdata.net/2022/07/a-modest-proposal-for-containing-monkeypox/
“…a modest proposal (and it truly is modest, as it would be dishonestly vain of me to pretend it was my idea; I owe it all to the inspiration of Professor Neil Ferguson and Dr Fauci).
“Why don’t we just ban male homosexual sex – for three weeks “to Flatten the Curve” or fifteen days “to Slow the Spread” or whatever period sounds good? (How long hardly matters, provided it’s long enough to prepare a case for banning it for a lot longer. Here again, I must modestly disclaim all inventiveness of my own. I owe the idea of banning briefly, then using that time to get the ban extended to Dr Deborah Birx.)”
“…the rules would be easier to draft, since I’ve a vague notion that there’s an old law that could be revived to ban this unhealthy behaviour.”
Sounds like a plan. 😀
I saw that. Made me smile.