Checking on getting a monkey pox vaccine because well it's not bad yet but it probably will be. Local disease control board rules currently state your eligible only if you're a gay or bi man who has had sex with someone new in the last 2 weeks. Or maybe if you had contact with a spooky gay. Cool dudes glad this disease won't hit me since I'm not a man. Glad the codification of it's just a gay virus is underway.
Not that it matters anyway since they apparently only had 200 doses to give out.
I mean ya I know it's just frustrating of course. The worst part is honestly that this essentially trivializes the disease in the mind of many chuds and libs by making it a gay thing.
I get what you’re saying.
But from my own country’s public health organisation - with PCR testing criteria having no mention of GBMSM at all and is only based on symptomatic presentation there is a clear demographic bias in positivity rates to the interconnected communities of GBMSM. It’s not because they’re gay - and ofc public health practitioners understand this because we see community specific clusters, or transmission chains restricted to within specific communities all the time.
But its also incredibly frustrating to know how easily things can be twisted and “rhetoricised”, and it’s hard to witness the fear people have over it. Where a single misstep in public coms from public health agencies can endanger peoples’ lives.
:this:
also, its going to cause a revival of gay panic when there's already escalating genocidal rhetoric. there are going to be fucking pogroms over this.