Monkeypox Is The Left’s ‘Don’t Say Gay’

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The Federalist

Chief Covid nag Dr. Leana Wen is back to lecture about the spread of a contagious virus, which can only mean one thing: Ignore her and every other “expert” because she likely has nothing helpful to say.

Writing in the Washington Post on Tuesday, Wen declared that “containing” the relatively harmless “monkeypox” virus that’s going around “must be a top priority for the Biden administration.” In case you didn’t get the message, Wen wrote later in the same column, “Preventing this virus from taking hold and spreading broadly must be a top focus.”

 

I think that’s about enough from Wen and the “experts.” The last time they told us what we “must” do, we voluntarily wrecked the economy, retarded the development of an entire generation by keeping them out of school, and turned half the country into scared and miserable mask mongers.

I’m not sure how even the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is supposed to ever regain its credibility. Right now the CDC’s website describes monkeypox, another flu-like illness that comes with a bonus rash, in a way that suggests almost everyone will be infected at one point or another.

According to the CDC, monkeypox can transmit via body fluids, touching an infected person’s rash, “prolonged, face-to-face contact,” and even by handling objects that made contact with someone who has the virus.

By my calculation, that means about 100 percent of the country’s population should have the new gorilla AIDS by now. And yet there have only been, according to the CDC, a total of 3,500 confirmed cases. That’s .001 percent of the U.S. population.

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It’s Bananas to Pretend Monkeypox is Dangerous to Everyone

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NBC is Homophobic

Monkeypox is being driven overwhelmingly by sex between men, major study finds

The global monkeypox outbreak is primarily being driven by sex between men, according to the first major peer-reviewed paper to analyze a large set of cases of the virus.

The outbreak, which epidemiologists believe initially began in mid-spring gatherings of gay and bisexual men in Europe, has since alarmed such experts by ballooning to nearly 16,000 cases worldwide. 

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No one has died of monkeypox infection outside of Africa during this outbreak. And for many people, the disease is relatively mild and resolves on its own in a few weeks without any need for medical intervention. However, the new paper reports that monkeypox can cause pain so intense that a substantial proportion of people with the virus require hospitalization for pain management. 

“We have seen patients with severe rectal pain that worsens every time they go to the bathroom, *genital pain every time they urinate and throat pain every time they swallow,” said Dr. Jason Zucker, an infectious disease specialist at Columbia University Department of Medicine. 

 

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