Monkeypox Thread I

[Yohaulticetlia]

Reminds me of this juicily pessimistic Watts story about how the world ends.

https://www.patreon.com/posts/new-decameron-37158539

[Thethen]

Dang. Nature really wants to kill us this decade. Though I suppose we had it coming.

[San Lumen]

Dang. Nature really wants to kill us this decade. Though I suppose we had it coming.

Monkey pox has a very low mortality rate there is also a vaccine for it in existence already. Antivirals exist too.

[Drago Soviet Russia]

https://www.bbc.com/news/health-61506562

Have a strange traditional disease?

And some 2021 material for conspiracy theorists

https://www.nti.org/analysis/articles/s ... l-threats/

https://www.nti.org/wp-content/uploads/ ... _Final.pdf

After the United States reported its first human case of monkeypox this year, U.S. media Newsweek reported on the 19th that the U.S. health department has ordered millions of doses of monkeypox vaccine worth $119 million.

On the 18th, Danish vaccine company Bavarian Nordic issued a statement saying that the company had signed contracts worth hundreds of millions of dollars with the U.S. Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority (BARDA).

This time the show should come as planned.

The elites aren't done killing us off, so now it's Plague Deux to succeed the first one and the disrupted supply chain.

[Tinhampton]

BBC:

The monkeypox outbreak has been declared a global health emergency by the World Health Organization.

The classification is the highest alert that the WHO can issue and follows a worldwide upsurge in cases.

It came at the end of the second meeting of the WHO's emergency committee on the virus.

More than 16,000 cases have now been reported from 75 countries, said WHO director general Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus.

There had been five deaths so far as a result of the outbreak, he added.

There are only two other such health emergencies at present - the coronavirus pandemic and the continuing effort to eradicate polio.

Dr Tedros said the emergency committee had been unable to reach a consensus on whether the monkeypox outbreak should be classified as a global health emergency.

However, he said the outbreak had spread around the world rapidly and he had decided that it was indeed of international concern.

"The WHO's assessment is that the risk of monkeypox is moderate globally and in all regions, except in the European region, where we assess the risk as high," he added.

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To be absolutely clear:

1. This DOES NOT mean that monkeypox is officially a pandemic. There are many pandemics, such as HIV/AIDS, that are not PHEICs.

2. Articles 12 and 49 of the International Health Regulations have always put PHEIC declaration in the hands of the Director-General. He is bound to consider both "the advice of the Emergency Committee" and "an assessment of the risk to human health, of the risk of international spread of disease and of the risk of interference with international traffic" (among many other factors) in Article 12 procedures.

[Armeattla]

I'm trying to be skeptical and not believe everything I read about this.

Isn't this like when AIDS was in the 1980s, when medical technology was not as advanced as today?

AFAIK the size of the AIDS outbreak was mostly to blame on the government intentionally ignoring it, because "it only affected gay people".
And then it became a problem once cishet people got infected.

Can't wait for people to blame bi people again "because they gave the hets the gay disease".

[Fartsniffage]

Dang. Nature really wants to kill us this decade. Though I suppose we had it coming.

Monkey pox has a very low mortality rate there is also a vaccine for it in existence already. Antivirals exist too.

It also presents as a painful and itchy rash on your cock and balls.

Let's stamp it out now.

[Thomasi]

WHO declares Monkeypox a public health emergency

Thank you Men in Europe for kicking off another global health crisis right as Covid19 was winding down.

[Ifreann]

WHO declares Monkeypox a public health emergency

Thank you Men in Europe for kicking off another global health crisis right as Covid19 was winding down.

You're welcome.

[Thomasi]

WHO declares Monkeypox a public health emergency

Thank you Men in Europe for kicking off another global health crisis right as Covid19 was winding down.

You're welcome.

You're not British but speak English, and are European, Ah HA, you're Irish! Right?

[Ifreann]

You're welcome.

You're not British but speak English, and are European, Ah HA, you're Irish! Right?

Yes, but lots of people in Europe speak English.

[Juristonia]

You're not British but speak English, and are European, Ah HA, you're Irish! Right?

Yes, but lots of people in Europe speak English.

Nonsense. I'm European and I don't know a word of English.

[The United Penguin Commonwealth]

Monkeypox has recently grown from a disease affecting some regions of Africa to one affecting most of the world. It has spread to 81 new countries and is on every continent except Antarctica. The US case count has reached 7,500, with new case numbers rising every week. It can be found in nearly every state. Discuss measures that should be taken to slow or stop the spread of the disease.

Useful links:

• Official US case counts and map
• Official US case trend
• CDC world case counts and map
• WHO monkeypox info
• CDC monkeypox symptoms
• CDC monkeypox transmission
• Suggest others

[The Black Forrest]

Let the locks downs, social distancing and enforced masking begin!

Seriously traffic starting to get annoying again!

[Vavlar]

Let the locks downs, social distancing and enforced masking begin!

Seriously traffic starting to get annoying again!

No one cares about Monkeypox. Monkeypox doesn't even seem to be as dangerous as COVID. To be honest, it should have been Ebola. It would have been far more interesting...

[Neutraligon]

Let the locks downs, social distancing and enforced masking begin!

Seriously traffic starting to get annoying again!

It isn’t spread through the air so that won’t do a thing

[The United Penguin Commonwealth]

Let the locks downs, social distancing and enforced masking begin!

Seriously traffic starting to get annoying again!

No one cares about Monkeypox. Monkeypox doesn't even seem to be as dangerous as COVID. To be honest, it should have been Ebola. It would have been far more interesting...

while that's largely true (although it can have complications such as eye damage), potential for permanent scarring in a society that puts so much emphasis on appearance is going to make many people fearful, especially for their children.

[Thermodolia]

Let the locks downs, social distancing and enforced masking begin!

Seriously traffic starting to get annoying again!

Social distancing might help but masks will do absolutely nothing. It’s spread via close contact not the air

[Tinhampton]

Monkeypox is not "Pandemic 2." Even if we are using the WHO's much less(?) generous PHEIC criteria, it's only Pandemic 3.

No one cares about Monkeypox. Monkeypox doesn't even seem to be as dangerous as COVID. To be honest, it should have been Ebola. It would have been far more interesting...

while that's largely true (although it can have complications such as eye damage), potential for permanent scarring in a society that puts so much emphasis on appearance is going to make many people fearful, especially for their children.

I haven't seen anything, anywhere else, that (officially) suggests that either of those things are side-effects of monkeypox.

[Ethel mermania]

Let the locks downs, social distancing and enforced masking begin!

Seriously traffic starting to get annoying again!

It isn’t spread through the air so that won’t do a thing

If it keeps people off the long Island expressway on a Friday evening....

[Ethel mermania]

A pox on those damn monkeys..

hey, they suffer too

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[Tinhampton]

This thread was entitled "monkeypox are being investigated in several countries". (Make that 81.)

Bold to assume that there's going to be a Monkeypox Thread II, with that said.

[San Lumen]

Let the locks downs, social distancing and enforced masking begin!

Seriously traffic starting to get annoying again!

it would do nothing as its not an airborne disease.

[The Black Forrest]

It isn’t spread through the air so that won’t do a thing

If it keeps people off the long Island expressway on a Friday evening....

You understand!

[Kerwa]

If it keeps people off the long Island expressway on a Friday evening....

You understand!

Probably should restrict air travel too, just to be safe.