Hey I've seen this one before!
I'm looking forward to the western media campaign about the evils of China's zero-monkeypox strategy and how we just need to learn to live with it
“While China is shutting down entire cities and forcing people to stay home in draconian Confucian policies, the west is embracing the free market solution and entrusting Elon Musk to discover the cure using his NeuralLink monkeys”
It's going to be fine, I've heard that the theta strain is only 70% as deadly as the gamma strain!
So covid makes you dumb and gives you smoker lungs, what does this one do?
Don't forget the gigantic pustules! Can't wait to see my CHUD coworkers trying to sneak into the office with those while claiming that they're just hives from seasonal allergies as they blindly stumble around the open-floor cubical farm and leak monkeypox sore juice all over the walls.
You can use multiple monkeypox sore juices on your apes!
Tonight's virus juice mint event is essentially a minting event for both Lab Covids and Special Poxes
the absolute foreshadowing that is the ape NFTs and this showing up now is one of the closest things I've ever seen to give evidence that their is a god, and they are fucking blackpilled
Counterpoint: nothing pizza with left beef foreshadowed the attempts by Domino's workers to unionize that devolved into worker/organizer infighting.
I have had a visceral fear of pox-based illnesses for most of my life. I've gone actually kind of insane thinking about this the past few days.
I would have to be strapped down and sedated if I got this
Yep, I'm right there with you. I have chronic dermatitis, which basically means this shit's going to spread like wildfire if I get it. Thankfully, the new version of the smallpox vaccine is enough to protect against it (and is safe/approved for people with skin conditions), but I don't think there's enough in the stockpile to start rolling it out yet.
Jesus fucking christ this is going to be the second "once in a century" pandemic where I am double fucked then. If it's going to be like this could the fourty days and nights of rain just fucking come already because I am beyond sick of this shit.
I'd say at least these symptoms are much harder to ignore than covid symptoms (a lot less people saying "it's just a bad flu!") but I think people, especially Americans, will find a way.
yeah i've realized that everyone in the US is capable of processing anything as long as you hide it under the guise of non-whites suffering more somewhere else. china being the covid example
I'm hoping that at least seeing peeps with open pustules and sores will put fear into them to keep away from the public, but honestly nothing surprises me anymore.
The virus, which causes distinctive pustules but is rarely fatal
:doubt:
"It kills less people than the metal death traps 60% of people use every day therefore it is not deadly"
The news: "It only killed 1 out of 10 cases in the African Congo because no healthcare/terrible healthcare"
Meanwhile US Healthcare: :elmofire:
Bruh, WTF does this shit keep happening? Am I the only motherfucker to wash their hands regularly in this goddamn hemisphere?
Climate Change does allow new diseases to proliferate beyond their typical ranges.
People and animals are encroached upon by capital, are less well fed, are less immune to infections. Poor people start hunting for bushmeat, diseases tranfer species and evolve. Globalisation means that there are less vectors preventing spread, so diseases go global more quickly.
In all honesty? Climate change and reduction of living space for animals and human encroachment will trend towards more of this in the future as diseases bump around more frequently. Hell we haven't even reached the antibiotic resistant bacteria outbreaks yet in this story.
Sure is a good thing most of the world got infected, and reinfected, with a disease that fucks the immune system.
waiting for the covid variant that pops up when someone invariably contracts both diseases at the same time0
I don't think we have to worry about that with monkeypox, since they are different types of virus.
MERS on the other hand... :doomjak:
If I were more conspiratorial-minded I would be positive this was planned.
good news is the smallpox vaccine is very effective against it
it also doesn't spread nearly as much as covid
Bad news: we got a good chunk of the US without the vaccine (we also need to order some and have it shipped and deployed on time) and also the smallpox vaccine does cause serious to threatening side effects out of every 100,000 and 1 million peeps given to statistically (CDC states 40-50 for every million develop life threatening side effects). This type of stuff is prolly gonna fuel a huge anti-vax misinformation campaign on this.
Maybe this is the sacrifice that has to be made for ape communism to live.
I'm more of a 12 Monkeys fan, feels especially appropriate now...
That'd probably be about as bad for your mental health as being a meteorologist. How'd you enjoy working a super important job, but fucking nobody listens to you
This is unironically something I hoped I'd become in the future, become a researcher and through my research teach the public some cool stuff and suggestions on what to do.
Unfortunately, things are fucked so no one respects people who actually study the material and would rather listen to businessmen or celebrities who would tell them exactly what they want to hear, which is surprisingly how doing nothing would protect "the economy".
So OP, I would just LARP as a busimessman or a boat salesman and then your opinion on anything will be more valid than actual researchers.
I think that sometimes, I seriously considered it for years. It'd be cool to be a CDC whistleblower, apart from getting tarred and feathered before disappeared into a blacksite
Seems like it, lot of :reddit-logo: tinfoil shit about Russian bio weapon similar to covid being a bio weapon from the evil "Chinese gommunists".
Whats the saying? Life is suffering then you die? Only a nearly infinite multiverse could randomly come up with the insanity of this worlds set of bad dice rolls. Maybe in the next one we can all love and live. In a way nonexistent perminate death would be mercy.
Looks like a new strain.
https://nitter.net/babarlelephant/status/1527859836809011200#m
https://nextstrain.org/community/babarlelephant/cov/monkeypoxvirus-small
So that means there's been enough time for a new strain to diverge between what is circulating here versus what has circulated in Portugal as well as the rest of Europe then?
From what I can tell, they are both related, but highly mutated compared to when they last sequenced monkeypox in 2018, i think? Whatever is going on, it is unusual for it to be so infectious and spreading so quickly. I guess we'll find out how dangerous it is compared to previous outbreaks.
We just need people to wear masks and sanitize their hands, especially on flights, and we'll have it under control... so... oh, right. :bear-despair:
Honestly still hoping this doesn't go to crazy, but watching the CDC be like "oh hey it's rare don't worry about it" all the while they just confirmed a case in New York just feels like 2020 all over again. Waiting for the eventual "you don't need masks, it's okay if you only wash hands" and then it turns out this shit is droplet or aerosolized.
