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

  • TheModerateTankie [any]
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    2 years ago

    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.