ive been living in my room reading books and i dont know what all this monkeypox shit is, i heard about it like a month or so ago about it being somewhere and people have said maybe it's transmitted sexually or maybe thats some sort of homophobia or idk whats going on
i still wear my mask everywhere theres other people should i just keep doin this
it spreads like smallpox basically and cases are growing quite rapidly. media is treating it like a STD that affects gay men only, which is fake news.
chinese CDC had a guidance that basically said the same thing and that the idea that its an STD is incredibly overblown. their guidance was to avoid prolonged contact with untested port workers, dont try new clothes on at big stores in port cities, and wear masks. but they said no one had tested positive for it yet in china probably because of their strict covid controls.
This thread on Monkeypox / Smallpox makes for a fun Russia conspiracy brained thought experiment. Regardless of the Russia conspiracy stuff, it’s seems that the way that the west has fumbled the Monkeypox response has completely fucked Smallpox surveillance.
the US has way more bioweapons labs than anyone else and they're spread out all over the world
Tbh smallpox escaping from a mismanaged US lab and eviscerating the imperial core due to a poor response to monkeypox is deeply deeply on brand for our times
yeah, this.
STD means "mostly transmitted through sperm or vaginal fluids", and there's no sign that this applies to monkey pox at all. people have been infected during sex parties, namely one on the canary islands, which is a hugely popular holiday destination for Europe's gay scene, but these transmissions could have happened entirely through close physical contact, or maybe even through infected beddings at hotels or w/e.
it's not only stigmatizing when people view this as "another gay disease", it is downright dangerous for the population at large. it creates the mistaken assumption that you need to fuck other dudes to catch this shit and that you're safe if you don't, both of which are provably false.
There seems to be a lot of community spread already, and it's almost certainly more widespread than anybody realizes. It's been detected in kids in several countries in Europe already. It's mainly spread through physical contact, but can also be caught from contaminated surfaces (wash your hands and don't try on clothes at the store) and respiratory droplets. The CDC is downplaying the risk of respiratory droplets, even though it's real and masking would obviously help on that front. But also wear a mask because our dumbass response to covid is letting billions of people get infected and is creating immune escaping variants faster than our vaccines can keep up with.
It's bad comrade, I estimated about a month ago that it would be getting quite bad by the 4th of july and so far its not looking good.
Testing and info is so sparse it's hard to even say, it could be 2-3x the 351 total reported cases in the US (as of today) it could be 10x, hell, it could be higher than that.
Read an NPR article the other day about how abysmal testing was, which featured the story of a not gay and with no obvious exposure man who had to try like 7 times over the course of a WEEK OR TWO to get tested. They kept goin "nah its not that, I'll test for this" and then after all that, yeah, he had the pox.
We're fuckeddon't worry the biden administration is releasing 56,000 smallpox vaccine doses :so-true:well bud, it turns out it’s not just for monkeys anymore
To add to what others said I think it should be kept in mind that with over 3413 confirmed cases globally since Jan 1st there has been just 1 single death among these cases over in Nigeria.
It's spreading and that's bad, it could become more lethal, but right now I feel like there's been enough cases for us to determine it's not killing people as much as we feared it might. It will affect regions without adequate healthcare access quite differently.
