An outbreak of the monkeypox virus in North America and Europe is primarily spreading through sex among men with about 200 confirmed and suspected cases.
This is a textbook case of psychological projection. The mind has an unacceptable thought, which it must accuse The Other of having in order to relieve damaging cognitive dissonance.
They didn't name it monkey pox because it's from Africa. They didn't name it monkey pox recently. It was named monkey pox because it is a disease of monkeys and it is a pox.
This is literally a parallel to AIDS though, it was portrayed as emerging from Africa and associated with "bush meat." The article also talks about monkey pox being endemic in Africa. It is the same rhetoric and it's going to get exaggerated from here on out.
except it's not nearly as fatal as AIDS and even if it was there were numerous social factors that caused AIDS to spread through the gay community in the way it did that just aren't as in effect now as they were in the 80s.
This is a textbook case of psychological projection. The mind has an unacceptable thought, which it must accuse The Other of having in order to relieve damaging cognitive dissonance.
They didn't name it monkey pox because it's from Africa. They didn't name it monkey pox recently. It was named monkey pox because it is a disease of monkeys and it is a pox.
it is mostly a rodent disease, monkeys were just the first host the virus was detected in
ok but they named it monkey pox because they found it in monkeys
This is literally a parallel to AIDS though, it was portrayed as emerging from Africa and associated with "bush meat." The article also talks about monkey pox being endemic in Africa. It is the same rhetoric and it's going to get exaggerated from here on out.
except it's not nearly as fatal as AIDS and even if it was there were numerous social factors that caused AIDS to spread through the gay community in the way it did that just aren't as in effect now as they were in the 80s.
I'm not talking about the physical properties of the disease, I'm talking about how the mass media is constructing it.