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It's not just in the gay community. Children are catching it. Straight people are catching it. Some people are bi, so it's not just going to stay in the gay community. I would be curious to know how many are catching it via casual contact, and not just intimate contact.
Unfortunately children are active sex participants these days... both willingly and unwillingly.
To mitigate monkeypox, health experts have long recommended avoiding close contact with infected people and contaminated objects. But amid an unusual global outbreak of the disease, scientists are investigating whether the rare disease is spreading in other ways.
But the current cases don’t all look like traditional monkeypox, and scientists are investigating the unusual ways in which the virus may transmit.
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While COVID-19 can linger in the air in tiny aerosolized particles that can travel some distance, monkeypox is mostly spread through direct contact with open wounds, sores, and scabs from the infection. It can also spread via respiratory droplets, which don’t travel far.
I follow a few 'gay' guys on talk radio and many of them are curbing their activities, abstaining and getting the pox vaccine. Actually it was about two weeks ago listening to someone's podcast and they were casually mentioning how they are feeling like they are avoiding crowds, etc. (It's a guy with two small children so he is making a choice to avoid crowds, especially gay ones). Lots of reference to how can they meet someone if they are avoiding contact. I didn't understand what they were talking about until they menioned monkey pox killing the vibe for the summer.
It is true lots may not heed the warning but I think you'd be surprised how many are worried.
It's not just in the gay community. Children are catching it. Straight people are catching it. Some people are bi, so it's not just going to stay in the gay community. I would be curious to know how many are catching it via casual contact, and not just intimate contact.
Yup it is spreading more rapidly in the gay community but of course, like aids, it is spreading outside of those communities.
Don't forget kids spread germs so easily. It is a given that they will share 'spit' with an adult caring for them. They put hands in mouth and then put those hands all over people, etc.
I love how delicately this is worded because there’s more concern about ensuring that folks aren’t offended than concern about being honest. By now we all know that this isn’t a “gay” disease, but that the majority of cases happen to be men who have sex with men. Not sure why the CDC or anyone else wants to tiptoe around this fact.
I’m gay and people I know who aren’t in monogamous relationships are taking this seriously.
At least here in Colorado, since the Biden administration botched this and vaccine supplies are low, they are trying to prioritize certain situations so that those who are most in need of the vaccine can be prioritized. However, one of the criteria is “recent exposure” or “recent anonymous encounter” and I know some people who are lying about that, just so that they can get the vaccine sooner. THAT is unfortunate.
Kind of reminds me of one of my friends who lied to get the COVID vaccine sooner even though there was no reason for it, other than being afraid of COVID.
Luckily, other than being extremely uncomfortable, this is something that people can recover from.
A few years ago they came out with “prep” for HIV. It’s taken by people who don’t have HIV but engage in unprotected sex with high risk people (basically gay and bisexual men) to prevent them from getting it. I think this has led to more carelessness in safe sex practices in that group and likely the resurgence of old diseases like monkeypox.
I love how delicately this is worded because there’s more concern about ensuring that folks aren’t offended than concern about being honest. By now we all know that this isn’t a “gay” disease, but that the majority of cases happen to be men who have sex with men. Not sure why the CDC or anyone else wants to tiptoe around this fact.
I’m gay and people I know who aren’t in monogamous relationships are taking this seriously.
At least here in Colorado, since the Biden administration botched this and vaccine supplies are low, they are trying to prioritize certain situations so that those who are most in need of the vaccine can be prioritized. However, one of the criteria is “recent exposure” or “recent anonymous encounter” and I know some people who are lying about that, just so that they can get the vaccine sooner. THAT is unfortunate.
Kind of reminds me of one of my friends who lied to get the COVID vaccine sooner even though there was no reason for it, other than being afraid of COVID.
Luckily, other than being extremely uncomfortable, this is something that people can recover from.
I think it has been made very clear that it isn't just a 'gay' disease and that it is being spread more quickly within the gay community because of physical contact -- not just specific sex acts.
That is how AIDS started. Nobody worried when it was just in the gay community. Then it spilled over to everyone else.
Warnings are good.
Do we need lessons again on how contagious diseases spread? I thought most people understood the concept of contagion by now. At least this disease doesn't spread by breathing on each other.
70% of new HIV cases are in gay men. 20+% are in intravenous drug abusers. HIV has never really spilled in the heterosexual community because it’s not an easily sexually transmitted disease.
Of course, comparing monkeypox to HIV is absurd. HIV supposedly wipes away your immune system (cd4+ cells) over time whereas monkeypox gives you an itch for 2 weeks.
I rather have monkeypox then wear a mask on a 12 hour flight. That’s how little of a deal it is. I doubt gay men care about this given the other STDs that come with their behavior.
Telling gay people they shouldn't have sex is racist
But in all seriousness, we need to get back to just telling people the truth instead of worrying about how people will react to the truth.
However, conservatives quite strongly believe people should have the right to risk getting sick with covid as much as they see fit without interference from the government requiring vaccines, masks and business shutdowns. I don't see why homosexuals shouldn't believe it should be the same way with them as it applies to Monkeypox. Unlike covid carriers, they have it easier to judge risk from seeing they need to avoid people with all those sores on their bodies.
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