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Title: WTF is up with The Monkeypox?
Post by: ThePAMan on August 15, 2024, 10:43:57 AM
We need Mn to fill us in on The Monkeypox, n/k/a Mpox. It is supposed to be the next big thing since The COVID! There's no way we are ready for this! Thanks, Fauci!
Title: Re: WTF is up with The Monkeypox?
Post by: Custard on August 15, 2024, 10:57:37 AM
Thank goodness it’s no longer known as monkeypox
Title: Re: WTF is up with The Monkeypox?
Post by: ThePAMan on August 15, 2024, 11:11:16 AM
Thank goodness it’s no longer known as monkeypox

That's what they want you to focus on instead of its deadliness!
Title: Re: WTF is up with The Monkeypox?
Post by: murphstahoe on August 15, 2024, 11:12:46 AM
Thank goodness it’s no longer known as monkeypox

What's it called? Custardpox?
Title: Re: WTF is up with The Monkeypox?
Post by: illiniray on August 15, 2024, 11:19:58 AM
It appears smallpox vaccination is effective against mpox.

Smallpox immunity is 95% the first 5 to 10 years. Long lasting but uncertain beyond that.

I wonder which GoF lab funded by American taxpayers created mpox 1b?

Title: Re: WTF is up with The Monkeypox?
Post by: illiniray on August 15, 2024, 11:21:25 AM
What's it called? Custardpox?

mpox
Title: Re: WTF is up with The Monkeypox?
Post by: Custard on August 15, 2024, 12:07:23 PM
What's it called? Custardpox?

Custardpox is the strain your mom has
Title: Re: WTF is up with The Monkeypox?
Post by: alum74 on August 15, 2024, 12:14:35 PM
Thank goodness it’s no longer known as monkeypox

These are confusing times for Custard.
https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2022/11/28/1139403803/who-renames-monkeypox-as-mpox-citing-racist-stigma#:~:text=Hourly%20News-,Monkeypox%20renamed%20mpox%20by%20World%20Health%20Organization%2C%20citing%20racist%20stigma,change%20to%20take%20full%20effect.
Title: Re: WTF is up with The Monkeypox?
Post by: Custard on August 15, 2024, 12:39:59 PM
These are confusing times for Custard.
https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2022/11/28/1139403803/who-renames-monkeypox-as-mpox-citing-racist-stigma#:~:text=Hourly%20News-,Monkeypox%20renamed%20mpox%20by%20World%20Health%20Organization%2C%20citing%20racist%20stigma,change%20to%20take%20full%20effect.

I know exactly why the wokeists renamed it—it’s because monkeys make them think of black people, which feeds their self-loathing, so then they think if they just change the name it’ll put some salve on their feelings. It’s fucking stupid and it’s the mantra and core value of you and your tribe. George Carlin rolling over in his grave at soft language and microaggressions. JFC maybe Golf was onto something with the soy boy shit.
Title: Re: WTF is up with The Monkeypox?
Post by: alum74 on August 15, 2024, 12:45:26 PM
I know exactly why the wokeists renamed it—it’s because monkeys make them think of black people, which feeds their self-loathing, so then they think if they just change the name it’ll put some salve on their feelings. It’s fucking stupid and it’s the mantra and core value of you and your tribe. George Carlin rolling over in his grave at soft language and microaggressions. JFC maybe Golf was onto something with the soy boy shit.

Your grievance is duly noted.   

And "woke", drink. 
Title: Re: WTF is up with The Monkeypox?
Post by: illiniray on August 15, 2024, 12:45:52 PM
It doesn't even actually come from monkeys. It is primarily spread by rodents.
Title: Re: WTF is up with The Monkeypox?
Post by: ThePAMan on August 15, 2024, 01:12:45 PM
Bingo card filling up today between this thread and Nichi's British First Amendment sub thread.
Title: Re: WTF is up with The Monkeypox?
Post by: ThePAMan on August 15, 2024, 01:17:36 PM
Buckle up!

https://www.yahoo.com/news/sweden-reports-first-case-deadly-162458955.html

Sweden reports first case of deadly mpox strain outside Africa

Hope the Swedish Bikini Team is ok!
Title: Re: WTF is up with The Monkeypox?
Post by: Custard on August 15, 2024, 01:18:05 PM
(https://i.ibb.co/2c4VQ4Y/IMG-6689.jpg) (https://ibb.co/zPv9YvH)
Title: Re: WTF is up with The Monkeypox?
Post by: ThePAMan on August 15, 2024, 01:19:21 PM
(https://i.ibb.co/2c4VQ4Y/IMG-6689.jpg) (https://ibb.co/zPv9YvH)

You sure you aren't confusing things?
Title: Re: WTF is up with The Monkeypox?
Post by: Custard on August 15, 2024, 01:20:06 PM
A couple of years ago monkeypox was rife amongst the gays
Title: Re: WTF is up with The Monkeypox?
Post by: ThePAMan on August 15, 2024, 01:23:18 PM
A couple of years ago monkeypox was rife amongst the gays

Wow. Good thing I don't suck cock or let guys suck my cock or get fucked in the ass.
Title: Re: WTF is up with The Monkeypox?
Post by: Custard on August 15, 2024, 01:41:45 PM
Wow. Good thing I don't suck cock or let guys suck my cock or get fucked in the ass.

Should be fine then!
Title: Re: WTF is up with The Monkeypox?
Post by: alum74 on August 15, 2024, 01:46:56 PM
A couple of years ago monkeypox was rife amongst the gays

https://www.cdc.gov/poxvirus/mpox/outbreak/us-outbreaks.html
Title: Re: WTF is up with The Monkeypox?
Post by: ThePAMan on August 15, 2024, 01:50:16 PM
https://www.hrc.org/resources/monkeypox-and-what-you-need-to-know
Title: Re: WTF is up with The Monkeypox?
Post by: Reacher on August 15, 2024, 02:43:12 PM
What's it called? Custardpox?

Whatever that is, you don’t want it.
Title: Re: WTF is up with The Monkeypox?
Post by: ThePAMan on August 15, 2024, 06:15:06 PM
Just in time to spread The MonkeyPox like they did The COVID....

https://chicago.suntimes.com/entertainment-and-culture/2024/08/15/pangolin-pup-brookfield-zoo-chicago-endangered-mammal
Title: Re: WTF is up with The Monkeypox?
Post by: illiniray on August 15, 2024, 06:15:25 PM
https://www.cdc.gov/poxvirus/mpox/outbreak/us-outbreaks.html

You are bringing up facts.
Title: Re: WTF is up with The Monkeypox?
Post by: ThePAMan on August 15, 2024, 06:17:09 PM
You are bringing up facts.

According to The HRC link I found, Custard was correct. You may want to apologize to Custard.
Title: Re: WTF is up with The Monkeypox?
Post by: alum74 on August 15, 2024, 06:26:22 PM
According to The HRC link I found, Custard was correct. You may want to apologize to Custard.

Where does that link say that Monkeypox was "rife" within the LGBTQ+ community two year ago?   
Title: Re: WTF is up with The Monkeypox?
Post by: illiniray on August 15, 2024, 06:32:58 PM
According to The HRC link I found, Custard was correct. You may want to apologize to Custard.

What does rife mean?

The discussion was in the context of changing the name. It's actually spread by rodents. Not by monkeys.

That gay men are more at risk does not contradict that and does not means it is rife. It appears there were 32000 cases in the USA. Assume 90% were LGBT+. That is still not rife.

The Human Rights Campaign Foundation estimates that the US has at least 20 million LGBTQ+ adults. 0.144%
Title: Re: WTF is up with The Monkeypox?
Post by: ThePAMan on August 15, 2024, 06:41:55 PM
Where does that link say that Monkeypox was "rife" within the LGBTQ+ community two year ago?

 
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the current outbreak in the U.S. has high rates of known cases among gay and bisexual men and transgender and non-binary people,

Seems like it was rife, in context of those getting it. There is no date on the link though, but it currently is not a thing. Yet.
Title: Re: WTF is up with The Monkeypox?
Post by: ThePAMan on August 15, 2024, 06:45:30 PM
What does rife mean?

The discussion was in the context of changing the name. It's actually spread by rodents. Not by monkeys.

That gay men are more at risk does not contradict that and does not means it is rife. It appears there were 32000 cases in the USA. Assume 90% were LGBT+. That is still not rife.

The Human Rights Campaign Foundation estimates that the US has at least 20 million LGBTQ+ adults,

Well, if you want to run the risk because it is not "rife" despite the odds of those having The MonkeyPox being LGBTQ+, feel free to suck cock.
Title: Re: WTF is up with The Monkeypox?
Post by: ThePAMan on August 15, 2024, 06:59:44 PM
https://www.barrons.com/news/mpox-killed-548-people-in-dr-congo-since-start-of-2024-cd9df3e4

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In May 2022, mpox infections surged worldwide, mostly affecting gay and bisexual men, due to the Clade 2b subclade.


Title: Re: WTF is up with The Monkeypox?
Post by: illiniray on August 15, 2024, 07:22:03 PM
90% of 3200 = 28,000

28,000 is 0.144% of 20,000,000. That is not rife.
Title: Re: WTF is up with The Monkeypox?
Post by: ThePAMan on August 15, 2024, 07:25:52 PM
90% of 3200 = 28,000

28,000 is 0.144% of 20,000,000. That is not rife.

What about of the people who have The MonkeyPox? Was the Human Rights Campaign engaging in scare tactics?
Title: Re: WTF is up with The Monkeypox?
Post by: Custard on August 15, 2024, 08:33:06 PM
It was mostly in the gay community right around pride season. Also, it was a joke. 
Title: Re: WTF is up with The Monkeypox?
Post by: alum74 on August 15, 2024, 09:16:12 PM
What about of the people who have The MonkeyPox? Was the Human Rights Campaign engaging in scare tactics?

Nobody here is disputing that the LGBTQ population is most affected by the monkeypox outbreaks.  And I think we are all glad that public health officials and interest groups are sounding the alarm. 

But we largely don’t know the extent of the outbreaks among LGBTQ people.  Except for the U.S. and Europe, few national agencies are disaggregating data to confirm the prevalence of monkeypox at the country level among the affected subpopulations, including statistics on gay, bisexual, or other men who have sex with men.
Title: Re: WTF is up with The Monkeypox?
Post by: Reacher on August 16, 2024, 06:13:51 AM
So the men that have sex with other men that aren’t gay or bisexual?
Title: Re: WTF is up with The Monkeypox?
Post by: Custard on August 16, 2024, 08:09:25 AM
So the men that have other sex with men that aren’t gay or bisexual?

(https://y.yarn.co/c97fc85e-90aa-4cf3-a3ec-3a53619132f6_text.gif)
Title: Re: WTF is up with The Monkeypox?
Post by: Judge Judy on August 16, 2024, 11:20:05 AM
Nobody here is disputing that the LGBTQ population is most affected by the monkeypox outbreaks.  And I think we are all glad that public health officials and interest groups are sounding the alarm. 

But we largely don’t know the extent of the outbreaks among LGBTQ people.  Except for the U.S. and Europe, few national agencies are disaggregating data to confirm the prevalence of monkeypox at the country level among the affected subpopulations, including statistics on gay, bisexual, or other men who have sex with men.

So they’re still in the closet after coming out of the closet?! 🤔 interesting. Just when I couldn’t imagine shit getting any weirder…
Title: Re: WTF is up with The Monkeypox?
Post by: alum74 on August 16, 2024, 11:49:50 AM
So they’re still in the closet after coming out of the closet?! 🤔 interesting. Just when I couldn’t imagine shit getting any weirder…

Why do care if they're still in the closet?
Title: Re: WTF is up with The Monkeypox?
Post by: Judge Judy on August 16, 2024, 12:05:49 PM
Why do care if they're still in the closet?

I don’t, they do. And apparently for some reason, they want people to know who they fuck. Like I don’t give two fucks but it’s the first thing they want people to know about them. Fucking weird!
Title: Re: WTF is up with The Monkeypox?
Post by: ThePAMan on August 16, 2024, 12:06:59 PM
I don’t, they do. And apparently for some reason, they want people to know who they fuck. Like I don’t give two fucks but it’s the first thing they want people to know about them. Fucking weird!

As long as you check them before they go into a public restroom, you don't care?
Title: Re: WTF is up with The Monkeypox?
Post by: alum74 on August 16, 2024, 12:10:56 PM
I don’t, they do. And apparently for some reason, they want people to know who they fuck. Like I don’t give two fucks but it’s the first thing they want people to know about them. Fucking weird!

So much angst and bewilderment. 
Title: Re: WTF is up with The Monkeypox?
Post by: ThePAMan on August 21, 2024, 10:01:10 PM
https://www.independent.co.uk/asia/southeast-asia/thailand-mpox-virus-outbreak-monkeypox-symptoms-b2599382.html

The MonkeyPox is coming and it is not just coming for the gays, Custard.
Title: Re: WTF is up with The Monkeypox?
Post by: illiniray on August 22, 2024, 12:05:26 AM
Simple vaccination.

The antivaxxers will go the rest of the way off the deep end.

Title: Re: WTF is up with The Monkeypox?
Post by: ThePAMan on August 22, 2024, 08:58:28 AM
Simple vaccination.

The antivaxxers will go the rest of the way off the deep end.

The chips under our skin need replacing every couple of years!
Title: Re: WTF is up with The Monkeypox?
Post by: Custard on August 22, 2024, 10:32:33 PM
The chips under our skin need replacing every couple of years!

You know Robb isn’t taking any chances!
Title: Re: WTF is up with The Monkeypox?
Post by: ThePAMan on August 27, 2024, 09:32:05 PM
Oh oh.

https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/mpox-warning-worried-expert-says-33549209
Title: Re: WTF is up with The Monkeypox?
Post by: alum74 on August 27, 2024, 10:12:36 PM
Oh oh.

https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/mpox-warning-worried-expert-says-33549209

“'What we are witnessing in Africa now is different from the global outbreak in 2022,' [Dr. Dimie Ogoina] said. While that outbreak was overwhelmingly focused in gay and bisexual men, mpox in Africa is now being spread via sexual transmission as well as through close contact among children, pregnant women and other vulnerable groups."
https://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/mpox-outbreaks-africa-result-neglect-global-communitys-inability-113175886
Title: Re: WTF is up with The Monkeypox?
Post by: Custard on August 27, 2024, 10:52:53 PM
I remember when I caught flak for saying it was rife amongst the gays.

Alum once told me I was just disgusted by the pride parade because I was turned off by hygienic people.
Title: Re: WTF is up with The Monkeypox?
Post by: illiniray on August 27, 2024, 11:04:48 PM
There is a difference between the majority of people who got it were gay, and the majority of gay people got it.
Title: Re: WTF is up with The Monkeypox?
Post by: Custard on August 27, 2024, 11:19:39 PM
There is a difference between the majority of people who got it were gay, and the majority of gay people got it.

Yeah, I know. Nowhere did I ever say the majority of gay people got it.  Not sure why some of you are offended by facts.
Title: Re: WTF is up with The Monkeypox?
Post by: ThePAMan on August 28, 2024, 07:37:59 AM
The thread was rife with discussion about the meaning of the word rife in the context of the MonkeyPox, that's for sure.
Title: Re: WTF is up with The Monkeypox?
Post by: alum74 on August 28, 2024, 09:42:34 AM
Yeah, I know. Nowhere did I ever say the majority of gay people got it.  Not sure why some of you are offended by facts.

Keep digging that hole.
Title: Re: WTF is up with The Monkeypox?
Post by: Custard on August 28, 2024, 01:48:47 PM
Keep digging that hole.

I said it was rife amongst the gays

Everyone including medical professionals and yourself agree that it was primarily amongst the gays

You now say I’m digging a hole

🤔

Title: Re: WTF is up with The Monkeypox?
Post by: Reacher on August 28, 2024, 02:36:36 PM
I remember when I caught flak for saying it was rife amongst the gays.

Alum once told me I was just disgusted by the pride parade because I was turned off by hygienic people.

Are you?
Title: Re: WTF is up with The Monkeypox?
Post by: alum74 on August 28, 2024, 03:28:06 PM
I said it was rife amongst the gays

Everyone including medical professionals and yourself agree that it was primarily amongst the gays

You now say I’m digging a hole

🤔

Good pivot.  Of course the monkeypox was affecting the gay community two years ago.  But it wasn't spreading in an unchecked or widespread manner (aka "rife amongst the gays") in the US, as you suggested.  When confronted with the facts, your response was "I was joking."  That's fine, but there is no need to exaggerate.   
Title: Re: WTF is up with The Monkeypox?
Post by: illiniray on August 28, 2024, 04:11:42 PM
Xenophobia, religious bigotry, cultural chauvinism, and other forms of intolerance are rife among Republicans.
Title: Re: WTF is up with The Monkeypox?
Post by: Reacher on August 28, 2024, 04:33:04 PM
Xenophobia, religious bigotry, cultural chauvinism, and other forms of intolerance are rife among Republicans.

🎯
Title: Re: WTF is up with The Monkeypox?
Post by: ThePAMan on August 28, 2024, 04:51:24 PM
Xenophobia, religious bigotry, cultural chauvinism, and other forms of intolerance are rife among Republicans.

Good use of "rife" here, Nichi.
Title: Re: WTF is up with The Monkeypox?
Post by: Custard on August 29, 2024, 10:22:49 AM
Good pivot.  Of course the monkeypox was affecting the gay community two years ago.  But it wasn't spreading in an unchecked or widespread manner (aka "rife amongst the gays") in the US, as you suggested.  When confronted with the facts, your response was "I was joking."  That's fine, but there is no need to exaggerate.

Semantics much? I was joking and also accurate. They’re not mutually exclusive concepts. It was disproportionately affecting the gay community, by a lot, which we can all acknowledge, and I used the word “rife” to describe it. It’s really not a stretch or an insult to your gay son.
Title: Re: WTF is up with The Monkeypox?
Post by: alum74 on August 29, 2024, 10:54:07 AM
Semantics much? I was joking and also accurate. They’re not mutually exclusive concepts. It was disproportionately affecting the gay community, by a lot, which we can all acknowledge, and I used the word “rife” to describe it. It’s really not a stretch or an insult to your gay son.

Keep digging.
Title: Re: WTF is up with The Monkeypox?
Post by: ThePAMan on August 29, 2024, 11:06:32 AM
Keep digging.

He started in Pekin and should be getting close to Peking!