Who had simians on their Bingo card for 2022? Monkeypox!
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The World Health Organization was holding an emergency meeting on Friday to discuss the recent outbreak of monkeypox, a viral infection more common to west and central Africa, after over 100 cases were confirmed or suspected in Europe.
In what Germany described as the largest outbreak in Europe ever, cases have been reported in at least nine countries – Belgium, France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Portugal, Spain, Sweden and the United Kingdom - as well as the United States, Canada and Australia.
Spain reported 24 new cases on Friday, mainly in the Madrid region where the regional government closed a sauna linked to the majority of infections. read more
A hospital in Israel was treating a man in his 30s who is displaying symptoms consistent with the disease after recently arriving from Western Europe.
First identified in monkeys, the disease typically spreads through close contact and has rarely spread outside Africa, so this series of cases has triggered concern.
However, scientists do not expect the outbreak to evolve into a pandemic like COVID-19, given the virus does not spread as easily as SARS-COV-2.
Monkeypox is usually a mild viral illness, characterised by symptoms of fever as well as a distinctive bumpy rash.
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@Larry said in Who had simians on their Bingo card for 2022? Monkeypox!:
I heard that it's not easily spread, though. Don't know if that's true or not.
For now. The more cases there are, the better the chances that'll change.
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Side note: we’re definitely on the steep downslope of civilization. Dude boasts of going to a pride event, having sex with multiple men, getting gonorrhoea and monkey pox, describes his anorectal lesions, complaining that the medical system is so unfair, and brags of his privilege, and a major international newspaper publishes it…. while the same media machine assures us that it’s not a gay problem.
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Side note: we’re definitely on the steep downslope of civilization. Dude boasts of going to a pride event, having sex with multiple men, getting gonorrhoea and monkey pox, describes his anorectal lesions, complaining that the medical system is so unfair, and brags of his privilege, and a major international newspaper publishes it…. while the same media machine assures us that it’s not a gay problem.
@Ivorythumper yuck!
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Side note: we’re definitely on the steep downslope of civilization. Dude boasts of going to a pride event, having sex with multiple men, getting gonorrhoea and monkey pox, describes his anorectal lesions, complaining that the medical system is so unfair, and brags of his privilege, and a major international newspaper publishes it…. while the same media machine assures us that it’s not a gay problem.
@Ivorythumper said in Who had simians on their Bingo card for 2022? Monkeypox!:
Side note: we’re definitely on the steep downslope of civilization. Dude boasts of going to a pride event, having sex with multiple men, getting gonorrhoea and monkey pox, describes his anorectal lesions, complaining that the medical system is so unfair, and brags of his privilege, and a major international newspaper publishes it…. while the same media machine assures us that it’s not a gay problem.
You, sir, are right.
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Side note: we’re definitely on the steep downslope of civilization. Dude boasts of going to a pride event, having sex with multiple men, getting gonorrhoea and monkey pox, describes his anorectal lesions, complaining that the medical system is so unfair, and brags of his privilege, and a major international newspaper publishes it…. while the same media machine assures us that it’s not a gay problem.
@Ivorythumper said in Who had simians on their Bingo card for 2022? Monkeypox!:
we’re definitely on the steep downslope of civilization. Dude boasts of going to a pride event, having sex with multiple men, getting gonorrhoea and monkey pox
Reminds me of a story I heard on NPR in the mid 1980s. Excuse me if I've told this before...
As HIV was running rampant through the gay community, there was a story about "The Meat Market." The Meat Market was a gay bar in New York, in the meat packing district where one could go, have anonymous sex with as many partners as you wished.
They interviewed a worker in the packing plant who said something along the lines of, "You know, it's really disgusting when you walk out, having finished your shift at 6 AM, and see two guys having sex on the hood of your car."
NPR also commented that there was a sign above the entrance of the club that said, "FUCK AIDS! GOOD SEX NOW!!!"
(Side note: Does anyone think that NPR would run a story like that today?)
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Side note: we’re definitely on the steep downslope of civilization. Dude boasts of going to a pride event, having sex with multiple men, getting gonorrhoea and monkey pox, describes his anorectal lesions, complaining that the medical system is so unfair, and brags of his privilege, and a major international newspaper publishes it…. while the same media machine assures us that it’s not a gay problem.
@Ivorythumper said in Who had simians on their Bingo card for 2022? Monkeypox!:
Side note: we’re definitely on the steep downslope of civilization. Dude boasts of going to a pride event, having sex with multiple men, getting gonorrhoea and monkey pox, describes his anorectal lesions, complaining that the medical system is so unfair, and brags of his privilege, and a major international newspaper publishes it…. while the same media machine assures us that it’s not a gay problem.
Pride cometh before the fall…
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Side note: we’re definitely on the steep downslope of civilization. Dude boasts of going to a pride event, having sex with multiple men, getting gonorrhoea and monkey pox, describes his anorectal lesions, complaining that the medical system is so unfair, and brags of his privilege, and a major international newspaper publishes it…. while the same media machine assures us that it’s not a gay problem.
It’s a bit jarring the bluntness at times but mostly I read this thinking “Jesus the public health people are screwing up again”
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It’s a bit jarring the bluntness at times but mostly I read this thinking “Jesus the public health people are screwing up again”
@jon-nyc Indeed -- just release the TPOXX widely and generously.
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Here's what I don't understand...The gay advocates have done a very good job in the larger cities such as NYC and San Francisco, shouting from the rooftops that this disease is spreading because of promiscuous sex in the gay community.
And a large part of that community seems not to give a damn.
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