Another issue with pushing monkeypox as a “gay and bi disease” is it tells cishets they don’t need to be careful it’s not an std it can be easily spread if cishets start spreading it rapidly thinking they can’t get it cause there not gay then it will eventually reach vunrable people who can’t fight it
Still amazed at how the gay community mobilized and self-advocated access to vaccines and preventative measures hard enough that the whole 2022 Monkeypox outbreak is barely a memory.
Did people not learn from HIV? When you blame queer and trans people you’re just making it more likely to spread because most straight people will seriously believe they can’t get it because they’re straight! Guess what?! Queer and trans people’s HIV numbers are going down while straight people's are going up! That’s how monkeypox will be! Stop saying it’s a gay disease! It’s not a sexually transmitted infection! You don’t have to have sex to catch it! That means everyone can get it!
Since Google is only showing monkeypox on Black skin or really severe cases in white skin (you know, if you go out of your way to include the word "white" in your search). Here's some images of a "less visual apparent" case of monkeypox (because I don't want to call it mild because this guy was really sick).
I know it's gross, but visual cues like this is really important to know who you need to stay away from. Especially with COVID a lot of Republicans have proven they'll outright lie about being sick so they can go out and do what they want (exposing high risk people in the process).
Link to video I got these from for credit reasons.
I will continue amplifying voices like this re: the latest public health crisis, monkeypox, because the media isn’t. I’m not about to watch the LGBTQ community be victimized by our system’s incompetence or be villainized by the Right if this spreads further and we’re then blamed as we were for HIV/AIDS.
Vaccines used during the smallpox eradication program also provided protection against monkeypox. Newer vaccines have been developed of which one has been approved for the prevention of monkeypox
Monkeypox is caused by the monkeypox virus, a member of the Orthopoxvirus genus in the family Poxviridae.
Monkeypox is usually a self-limited disease with symptoms lasting from 2 to 4 weeks. Severe cases can occur. In recent times, the case fatality ratio has been around 3–6%.
Monkeypox is transmitted to humans through close contact with an infected person or animal, or with material contaminated with the virus.
Monkeypox virus is transmitted from one person to another by close contact with lesions, body fluids, respiratory droplets, and contaminated materials such as bedding.
Monkeypox is a viral zoonotic disease that occurs primarily in tropical rainforest areas of central and west Africa and is occasionally exported to other regions.
An antiviral agent developed for the treatment of smallpox has also been licensed for the treatment of monkeypox.
The clinical presentation of monkeypox resembles that of smallpox, a related orthopoxvirus infection that was declared eradicated worldwide in 1980. Monkeypox is less contagious than smallpox and causes less severe illness.
Monkeypox typically presents clinically with fever, rash, and swollen lymph nodes and may lead to a range of medical complications.
Idiots on Twitter claiming bullshit like monkey pox is only a gay virus and isn’t airborne need to do some fucking research. Look at the CDC and the WHO, actually credible websites, which clearly state that it’s airborne and has a fatality rate of up to 1 in 10.
But then again, these anti-science idiots also think the COVID vaccine is going to kill them or whatever bullshit they think.