Can’t wait for us to try nothing to stop this and then be all out of options with a disease that has an up to 10% mortality rate in certain strains :covid-cool:
Good news: smallpox vax is ~85% effective against monkeypox, monkeypox tends to be less transmissible than other poxes
Bad news: young people tend to no longer be vaccinated for smallpox, human to human transmission of monkeypox is rare which means we are likely dealing with a new strain (of all cases in Britain, only one has recently been to west Africa but no other patients have or have been in contact with the patient who travelled)
Good thing society is well prepared to make slight behavioral modifications to prevent its rampant spread... :doomjak:
its just more and more different disease outbreaks from here on out huh?
the 10% mortality rate figure comes from the Congo strain of monkeypox and bear in mind that's in a country with one of the very worst healthcare systems in the world. this strain is almost certainly the west african one, which is more like 1% fatal (and the same caveat about healthcare infrastructure applies there too, so most regions will be better off still)
This is still v worrying and it's ridiculous how badly it's being downplayed by western media. The western response (or lack of one, rather) really has me appreciating china's covid response back in 2020 a lot more - imagine if they'd delayed the lockdown a few more days and allowed exponentially more infected people to seed it across the world, the spring 2020 wave would have been apocalyptic.
Yeah I’ve been thinking out that a lot lately. If China didn’t shut down fucking immediately the shit the world would have gone through with the first wave would have been apocalyptic
We're so fucked lol
Xi pls let me in, I'll do literally any job if it means I can live in a country that won't be permanently ravaged by disease
Bad news: young people tend to no longer be vaccinated for smallpox
That's an understatement. It's been eradicated for decades, almost no-one gets vaccinated for smallpox.
Yeah, since the disease is no longer extant the harms of the vaccine outweigh its benefits*. The smallpox vaccine was the first vaccine invented by humanity and as a result it's relatively primitive and dangerous.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/the-most-dangerous-vaccine/
*if monkeypox becomes prevalent that might change.
Today, smallpox is a potential weapon of mass destruction that could be wielded against the U.S. by enemies like Iraq and al Qaeda.
:wtf-am-i-reading:
First published on December 11, 2002
This was written during the height of the war on terror and not long after
the CIA and Ft. Detrickunknown terrorists sent anthrax to US congresspeople who were against the Patriot Act.The whole anthrax thing is unbelievably sus. The anthrax was a particular kind of weaponized form that could've only come from a US bio """defense""" lab ala Detrick and it ended up in the mail of key politicians and media figures.
:sus-deep:
There's so much forgotten history about Bush Jr and the smallpox vaccine. Robbie Martin of Media Roots Radio did a long run down of the entire administration push for the vaccine and it's pretty wild.
The illness typically lasts for 2−4 weeks. In Africa, monkeypox has been shown to cause death in as many as 1 in 10 persons who contract the disease.
https://www.cdc.gov/poxvirus/monkeypox/symptoms.html
:oh-shit:
:ussr-cry: no longer exists so there won't be an eradication program :yea: :lets-fucking-go:
i know i probably shouldnt be concerned but i had both of my arms randomly rash up the other day :soviet-bashful:
Definitely read up on the symptoms and if you are still concerned it would be wise to contact a doctor. Worst case scenario is that you are properly treating a run of the mill rash
I genuinely think people would care more about this one because it makes you LOOK fucked up. The ranking of how people will react goes as follows:
Will it permanently disfigure me? -real shit
Will it be clear I have an illness by how I look? - I will take the proper precautions
Will I keep looking normal but it’ll be a shitting disease? - I take it pretty seriously
Will it be like covid? - I sleep
Goddamn, that shit causes some nasty lesions. Look up at your own risk, for real.
Also, looks like we have our first confirmed case in the US (CW: lesions in thread comments)
I've got a remote gig and some freelance skills I can use, I'm dropping out of society as much as I can at this point.
Fuck this, to the hills
