Monkey Pox News and Commentary

[Schmidt Meister]

2 minutes ago, railfancwb said:

Guess this is a proof of the statement that one’s nose should be kept out of other people’s business. 

AGREED !! And if the article don't convince 'em, maybe the picture will:

[Schmidt Meister]

Biden's New Deputy Coordinator on Monkeypox... Literally Wrote the Article Instructing Health Professionals To Lie About How Monkeypox Is Really Spread, and By Whom, In Order to Spare Gays "Stigma"
And he got the health professionals across the country to lie about monkeypox, too.
He was appointed, without media fanfare, Biden's National Deputy Coordinator on Monkeypox on August 2nd.
He pushed the narrative that speaking plainly about who monkeypox infects creates a "stigma," so we should lie about it and claim "Monkeypox infects everyone!"
Dr. Demetre Daskalakis, Director, CDC Division of HIV prevention, presented at both monkeypox sessions at the conference, and similarly addressed the need to combat stigma associated with the disease. In June, as part of the CDC's Monkeypox Response Team, he published an article in the Annals of Internal Medicine that addressed the issue specifically.
In Monkeypox: Avoiding the Mistakes of Past Infectious Disease, Daskalakis and his co-authors warned "[e]xperience has shown the dangers of characterizing a disease by associating it with a single population or a particular identity. Such associations can create stigma that outlives the outbreak and lost opportunities to detect and address the infection in other populations. Knowledge is power."
He carefully avoided saying "gay sex transmits monkeypox," because that might have lost him the Nasty Pig Hero honor.
He says that we shouldn't make the same mistake as we did with AIDS, permitting people to wrongly believe that monkeypox, like AIDS, is almost exclusively a disease of gay men. (Even though the evidence says that it is) Because you don't want to say, "Gay men have to calm down on the hyperpromiscuity."
So you hand-wave that away and say it's based on vague "social, cultural, and environmental factors."
Accurate description of the epidemiology of an infectious disease is essential to public health efforts. Careful epidemiology helps to increase awareness and use of preventive measures while also avoiding the stigma and discrimination that can occur when conditions are more frequent in specific communities. The epidemiology of an emerging infection may change over time, but early associations with a specific population made by the public, clinicians, and health agencies often persist. This may result in stigma and misguided confidence that an outbreak is contained within that population. The original misnomer for HIV, gay-related immune deficiency (GRID), looms large in the consciousness of many gay men and offers a cautionary lesson for monkeypox and other infectious disease outbreaks.
"GRID" was in fact a perfectly accurate term, AIDS is and was highly "gay-related."
You just didn't like the politics of the accurate descriptor.
So just lie to people and tell them that gay men are of no special danger from monkeypox, and that married straight people are at risk. Same as they did with AIDS to try to avoid that stigmatism and make EVERYONE afraid instead of just the freaks that engage in deadly risk behavior.

[Schmidt Meister]

Monkeypox, rebranded by the Biden administration as mpox to reduce the ‘implied’ stigmatism, is on a major rise in the US … On a totally unrelated note, Pride festivals are on a rise in the US promoting the same perversity that results in a rise in the cases of monkeypox.

The official President Joe Biden tapped to fight mpox, the virus formerly known as monkeypox, said public health officials should not oppose Pride events that end in anonymous same-sex orgies but instead craft a policy that “supports” the “joy” victims find in random sexual encounters. After all, “one person’s idea of risk is another person’s idea of a great festival or Friday night,” said the official, who frequently wears a pentagram in social media posts.
White House National Monkeypox Response Deputy Coordinator Dr. Demetre Daskalakis asserted that any message creating “stigma” for those who like to have sex with multiple strangers would actually increase mpox infections. Cases of the virus, which causes open sores and lesions on the skin, have risen nationwide as Pride Month rolls on.
“I always say that I’ve never made an HIV diagnosis in someone that hasn’t somehow related to stigma. I think mpox is the same,” Daskalakis told Capehart. Public health officials should “get the word out in a way that supports people’s joy as opposed to, you know, calling them risky.”
“One person’s idea of risk is another person’s idea of a great festival or Friday night, for that matter,” the Biden administration official said. “So, we have to sort of embrace that with joy and make sure that folks know how to keep themselves safe.”
“When you think Pride, think joy and happiness,” Daskalakis told MSNBC, but also get “sexual health care lined up” to minimize transmission at mpox super-spreader events.
Monkeypox — which the World Health Organization (WHO) renamed “mpox” last November to combat “racist and stigmatizing language” — has been on the rise, just one month after WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus lifted its status as a global epidemic.
No one disputes that mpox occurs primarily among men who have sex with men, especially those who attend mass events such as Pride Month celebrations that may end in orgies. There are currently 30,487 mpox cases in the U.S., including 42 deaths, according to the Centers for Disease Control.
In all, “95% of the cases in the U.S. have actually been among … gay, bisexual, men who have sex with men” means “this is the right population for us to focus on,” said Daskalakis Sunday. (You can watch Daskalakis’ full interview here.)
One-third of all people diagnosed with mpox reported having sex with five or more people in the past three weeks — as many sexual partners as the average American has in a lifetime. Yet Daskalakis said officials should talk about “the behaviors that potentially lead to mpox transmission without necessarily pinning them on one population.”
Far from stigmatizing or discouraging people from having sex with numerous strangers, Biden administration officials are “encouraging the orgies by giving out the vaccine at the scene,” Peter LaBarbera, founder and president of Americans For Truth About Homosexuality, told The Washington Stand. “Virtually every case of mpox is tied to homosexual or bisexual behavior tied to orgies. But they don’t ever say, ‘Don’t go to mass Pride events that feature orgies.’ They say, ‘If you go to mass Pride events ….’”

Read the rest at:
https://washingtonstand.com/news/embrace-anonymous-samesex-orgies-with-joy-bidens-mpox-adviser

[Rellik]

On 5/24/2022 at 4:03 PM, Huaco Kid said:

You deserve a beatin' for dat!

[DAKA]

On 9/9/2022 at 3:43 PM, Schmidt Meister said:

Biden's New Deputy Coordinator on Monkeypox... Literally Wrote the Article Instructing Health Professionals To Lie About How Monkeypox Is Really Spread, and By Whom, In Order to Spare Gays "Stigma"
And he got the health professionals across the country to lie about monkeypox, too.
He was appointed, without media fanfare, Biden's National Deputy Coordinator on Monkeypox on August 2nd.
He pushed the narrative that speaking plainly about who monkeypox infects creates a "stigma," so we should lie about it and claim "Monkeypox infects everyone!"
Dr. Demetre Daskalakis, Director, CDC Division of HIV prevention, presented at both monkeypox sessions at the conference, and similarly addressed the need to combat stigma associated with the disease. In June, as part of the CDC's Monkeypox Response Team, he published an article in the Annals of Internal Medicine that addressed the issue specifically.
In Monkeypox: Avoiding the Mistakes of Past Infectious Disease, Daskalakis and his co-authors warned "[e]xperience has shown the dangers of characterizing a disease by associating it with a single population or a particular identity. Such associations can create stigma that outlives the outbreak and lost opportunities to detect and address the infection in other populations. Knowledge is power."
He carefully avoided saying "gay sex transmits monkeypox," because that might have lost him the Nasty Pig Hero honor.
He says that we shouldn't make the same mistake as we did with AIDS, permitting people to wrongly believe that monkeypox, like AIDS, is almost exclusively a disease of gay men. (Even though the evidence says that it is) Because you don't want to say, "Gay men have to calm down on the hyperpromiscuity."
So you hand-wave that away and say it's based on vague "social, cultural, and environmental factors."
Accurate description of the epidemiology of an infectious disease is essential to public health efforts. Careful epidemiology helps to increase awareness and use of preventive measures while also avoiding the stigma and discrimination that can occur when conditions are more frequent in specific communities. The epidemiology of an emerging infection may change over time, but early associations with a specific population made by the public, clinicians, and health agencies often persist. This may result in stigma and misguided confidence that an outbreak is contained within that population. The original misnomer for HIV, gay-related immune deficiency (GRID), looms large in the consciousness of many gay men and offers a cautionary lesson for monkeypox and other infectious disease outbreaks.
"GRID" was in fact a perfectly accurate term, AIDS is and was highly "gay-related."
You just didn't like the politics of the accurate descriptor.
So just lie to people and tell them that gay men are of no special danger from monkeypox, and that married straight people are at risk. Same as they did with AIDS to try to avoid that stigmatism and make EVERYONE afraid instead of just the freaks that engage in deadly risk behavior.

Another Demo  FREAK