"The cultural taboos that someone like Alex Jones might use monkeypox to further stigmatize the gay community is not a good reason to keep the fact that monkeypox’s spread has been almost exclusively through that community some secret."
I keep seeing this charge, but is it actually true? From an NY Times article yesterday[1]:
"Monkeypox, a virus similar to smallpox but with symptoms that are less severe, has in the past primarily been found in parts of Central and West Africa. But in the current outbreak, the United States has the world’s largest number of monkeypox cases, and the virus is spreading fast. Less than a month ago, there were about 700 cases; now there are nearly 10 times that many."
"More than 99 percent of people infected with monkeypox in this country are men who have sex with men, which has posed a delicate task for public health officials communicating with the public about the threat. They do not want to stigmatize gay people, as happened in the early days of the H.I.V./AIDS epidemic, but neither do they want to downplay their particular risk."
In an article lambasting Jones for his conspiratorial lies, it seems odd to declare the monkeypox pandemic and "Elites"[2] keeping secret the fact that the spread is among the gay community from men having sex with other men, when it's so easily disproved as shown above. I've been seeing this charge since monkeypox popped up on our radars, along with no shortage of news or coverage including the fact above that transmission is happening among gay men.
"The cultural taboos that someone like Alex Jones might use monkeypox to further stigmatize the gay community is not a good reason to keep the fact that monkeypox’s spread has been almost exclusively through that community some secret."
I keep seeing this charge, but is it actually true? From an NY Times article yesterday[1]:
"Monkeypox, a virus similar to smallpox but with symptoms that are less severe, has in the past primarily been found in parts of Central and West Africa. But in the current outbreak, the United States has the world’s largest number of monkeypox cases, and the virus is spreading fast. Less than a month ago, there were about 700 cases; now there are nearly 10 times that many."
"More than 99 percent of people infected with monkeypox in this country are men who have sex with men, which has posed a delicate task for public health officials communicating with the public about the threat. They do not want to stigmatize gay people, as happened in the early days of the H.I.V./AIDS epidemic, but neither do they want to downplay their particular risk."
In an article lambasting Jones for his conspiratorial lies, it seems odd to declare the monkeypox pandemic and "Elites"[2] keeping secret the fact that the spread is among the gay community from men having sex with other men, when it's so easily disproved as shown above. I've been seeing this charge since monkeypox popped up on our radars, along with no shortage of news or coverage including the fact above that transmission is happening among gay men.
What am I missing here?
[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/04/health/monkeypox-emergency-us.html
[2] Quotes used not to quote you, Steve, but to indicate the faceless folks that are being charged with keeping the secret from the public.
Luckily the 4 million was just the compensatory damages. The jury has yet to order the punitive damages.
Man those republicans are sure in the mood for another insurrection.