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Despite vast amounts of data showing that the spread of Monkeypox is occurring predominantly among gay men, CNN went to great lengths to explain that it is absolutely NOT sexually transmitted.

As reported here in The Scientific American, Monkeypox Is a Sexually Transmitted Infection, and Knowing That Can Help Protect People.

The piece notes that “Black and Latino men who have sex with men are most vulnerable to monkeypox,” and cites data that finds “Outside Africa, 99 percent of the cases have been in men, and 92 to 98 percent have been in self-identified men who have sex with men.”

“A study published in the BMJ in late July found 196 of 197 cases of MPX in London were in people who identified as men who had sex with men,” the article also notes.

The evidence is so voluminous that the World Health Organisation is on the verge of classifying Monkeypox as an STI.

The author of the article, Steven Thrasher warns that by “not naming, researching, preventing and addressing how transmission is happening,” people will be kept “from understanding how to prevent infection, allow unnecessary worry, and exacerbate racist and homophobic social determinants of health.”

“In the past few months, there has been considerable backlash to naming MPX an STI [sexually-transmitted infection] out of the usually well-intentioned but ultimately misguided belief that doing so will increase stigma,” Thrasher also explains.

And that’s where CNN comes in.

The network’s national correspondent Dianne Gallagher lectured viewers Tuesday (albeit not that many of them) that “monkeypox is NOT a sexually-transmitted infection.”

Gallagher added that”If the Biden administration wants its outreach to be a success, celebrating [pride] while educating, without discriminating, is the only way to approach it.”

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Originally posted by whozit:
Watch the new owners turn CNN into a home shopping channel

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Originally posted by SIGNYM:
You can get AIDS through a variety of mechanisms too, but it is PRIMARILY spread thru unprotected sex, and because anal intercourse involves tissue-tearing, it is spread more easily among those who practice anal intercourse (mucus-to-blood exposure. AIDS is a fragile virus that doesn't spread by towels or toilet seats.)

And it's spread fastest among those who engage in anonymous anal sex with multiple partners. A practice which seems especially common with some (many?) gay men. Anal sex with multiple partners is also common in jails, and anonymous sex with mutliple partners (not anal) is the hallmark of prostitution. But all of these involve having sex.

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Originally posted by SIGNYM:
I mean, you can get all kinds of diseases while having sex, but having sex is not closely associated with all dieases. (All dogs have fours legs. Not all four-legged animal are dogs.) Some diseases are spread most easily by having sex, which makes them "sexually transmitted diseases".

Unless you're trying to do away with the classification altogether? This is not a slam on all gay men. I've known some outstanding, compasionate, intelligent gay men (You're not one of them.) but they're in steady relationships and unlikely to get AIDS or monekypox or any of the other STDs.

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Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:

It's like a self inflicted Scarlet Letter. We know exactly which people to never have a conversation with in real life.

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CAPN: Sooooo, that's aids and this is not aids. Capice?

The rest of your post is just boring repeat, self serving, "and I know because I have gay friends" worthless as usual, noise for noise sake. I have no idea why post other than the obvious Agitate.

SIGNYM:
I mean, you can get all kinds of diseases while having sex, but having sex is not closely associated with all dieases. (All dogs have fours legs. Not all four-legged animal are dogs.) Some diseases are spread most easily by having sex, which makes them "sexually transmitted diseases"...

I've known some outstanding, compasionate, intelligent gay men (You're not one of them.) but they're in steady relationships and unlikely to get AIDS or monekypox or any of the other STDs.

CAPN: Oooh! Gay slur!

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CAPON: How modern, how sophisticated, how Russian!

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CAPN: Sooooo, that's aids and this is not aids. Capice?

The rest of your post is just boring repeat, self serving, "and I know because I have gay friends" worthless as usual, noise for noise sake. I have no idea why post other than the obvious Agitate.

SIGNYM:
I mean, you can get all kinds of diseases while having sex, but having sex is not closely associated with all dieases. (All dogs have fours legs. Not all four-legged animal are dogs.) Some diseases are spread most easily by having sex, which makes them "sexually transmitted diseases"...

I've known some outstanding, compasionate, intelligent gay men (You're not one of them.) but they're in steady relationships and unlikely to get AIDS or monekypox or any of the other STDs.

CAPN: Oooh! Gay slur!

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How weasely! How dishonest! How much like you!
I would be shocked if you EVER behaved like a decent human being! When will you?

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Not only wasn't that as funny as you thought it was while you were posting it, but it doesn't even make sense in current year.

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Not only wasn't that as funny as you thought it was while you were posting it, but it doesn't even make sense in current year.

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CAPN: Sooooo, that's aids and this is not aids. Capice?

The rest of your post is just boring repeat, self serving, "and I know because I have gay friends" worthless as usual, noise for noise sake. I have no idea why post other than the obvious Agitate.

SIGNYM:
I mean, you can get all kinds of diseases while having sex, but having sex is not closely associated with all dieases. (All dogs have fours legs. Not all four-legged animal are dogs.) Some diseases are spread most easily by having sex, which makes them "sexually transmitted diseases"...

I've known some outstanding, compasionate, intelligent gay men (You're not one of them.) but they're in steady relationships and unlikely to get AIDS or monekypox or any of the other STDs.

CAPN: Oooh! Gay slur!

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How weasely! How dishonest! How much like you!
I would be shocked if you EVER behaved like a decent human being! When will you?

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As usual, you skip past the part where you're exposed for being an anti US agitator and go for the petty and small - shocking! Get well soon.

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People who still wear masks NOW when even the Democrats and the corrupt CDC/WHO isn't recommending them are fucking Lemmings who's brains have been hollowed out by Leftist Media.

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People who still wear masks NOW when even the Democrats and the corrupt CDC/WHO isn't recommending them are fucking Lemmings who's brains have been hollowed out by Leftist Media.

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Originally posted by JAYNEZTOWN:
‘Virus season is here!’ CDC sounds the alarm about new, deadly monkeypox strain

https://www.bizpacreview.com/2023/12/10/virus-season-is-here-cdc-sound
s-the-alarm-about-new-deadly-monkeypox-strain-1418806/

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EDITED TO ADD: Viruses are on a spectrum in terms of transmissibility. How they're transmitted depends on how rugged they are and under what conditions they survive. Some, like AIDS, are really very fragile and almost need mucus-to-blood exposure bc they die when they get just a little cold or dry. Most often even mucus-to-mucus exposure, like kissing, isn't enough to spread the virus. Some, like measles, are hardy little buggers that can float in the air as naked little virus particles and still remain infectious for hours. Most are somewhere in-between.

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J Med Virol
2023 Dec;95(12):e29296. doi: 10.1002/jmv.29296.

In the study, the stability of MPXV on different kinds of commonly contacted surfaces was determined. MPXV was observed to have a surface-dependent stability pattern. Viable virus was detected on both glass and stainless steel for up to 5 days, and on plastic surfaces for up to 3 days. In contrast, no viable MPXV was detected on wooden board and cardboard, which are porous and water-absorbent surfaces, after 1 and 2 days of incubation, respectively.

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I heard report that CNN viewership was even further down, compared to only last year.

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What's Really Happening With Monkeypox
Tuesday, Aug 20, 2024 - 02:40 PM

Authored by David Bell via the Brownstone Institute,

The World Health Organization (WHO) acted as expected this week and declared Mpox a Public Health Emergency of International Concern (PHEIC). So, a problem in a small number of African countries that has killed about the same number of people this year as die every four hours from tuberculosis has come to dominate international headlines. This is raising a lot of angst from some circles against the WHO.

While angst is warranted, it is mostly misdirected. The WHO and the IHR emergency committee they convened had little real power – they are simply following a script written by their sponsors. The African CDC, which declared an emergency a day earlier, is in a similar position. Mpox is a real disease and needs local and proportionate solutions. But the problem it is highlighting is much bigger than Mpox or the WHO, and understanding this is essential if we are to fix it.

Mpox, previously called Monkeypox, is caused by a virus thought to normally infect African rodents such as rats and squirrels. It fairly frequently passes to, and between, humans. In humans, its effects range from very mild illness to fever and muscle pains to severe illness with its characteristic skin rash, and sometimes death. Different variants, called ‘clades,’ produce slightly different symptoms. It is passed by close body contact including sexual activity, and the WHO declared a PHEIC two years ago for a clade that was mostly passed by men having sex with men.

The current outbreaks [the current clade] involve sexual transmission but also other close contact such as within households, expanding its potential for harm. Children are affected and suffer the most severe outcomes, perhaps due to issues of lower prior immunity and the effects of malnutrition and other illnesses.

Reality in DRC

The current PHEIC was mainly precipitated by the ongoing outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), though there are known outbreaks in nearby countries covering a number of clades. About 500 people have died from Mpox in DRC this year, over 80% of them under 15 years of age. In that same period, about 40,000 people in DRC, mostly children under 5 years, died from malaria. The malaria deaths were mainly due to lack of access to very basic commodities like diagnostic tests, antimalarial drugs, and insecticidal bed nets, as malaria control is chronically underfunded globally. Malaria is nearly always preventable or treatable if sufficiently resourced.

During this same period in which 500 people died from Mpox in DRC, hundreds of thousands also died in DRC and surrounding African countries from tuberculosis, HIV/AIDS, and the impacts of malnutrition and unsafe water. Tuberculosis alone kills about 1.3 million people globally each year, which is a rate about 1,500 times higher than Mpox in 2024.

The population of DRC is also facing increasing instability characterized by mass rape and massacres, in part due to a scramble by warlords to service the appetite of richer countries for the components of batteries. These in turn are needed to support the Green Agenda of Europe and North America. This is the context in which the people of DRC and nearby populations, which obviously should be the primary decision-makers regarding the Mpox outbreak, currently live.

An Industry Produces What It Is Paid for

For the WHO and the international public health industry, Mpox presents a very different picture. They now work for a pandemic industrial complex, built by private and political interests on the ashes of international public health. Forty years ago, Mpox would have been viewed in context, proportional to the diseases that are shortening overall life expectancy and the poverty and civil disorder that allows them to continue. The media would barely have mentioned the disease, as they were basing much of their coverage on impact and attempting to offer independent analysis.

Now the public health industry is dependent on emergencies. They have spent the past 20 years building agencies such as CEPI, inaugurated at the 2017 World Economic Forum meeting and solely focused on developing vaccines for pandemics, and on expanding capacity to detect and distinguish ever more viruses and variants. This is supported by the recently passed amendments to the International Health Regulations (IHR).

While improving nutrition, sanitation, and living conditions provided the path to longer lifespans in Western countries, such measures sit poorly with a colonial approach to world affairs

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in which the wealth and dominance of some countries are seen as being dependent on the continued poverty of others. This requires a paradigm in which decision-making is in the hands of distant bureaucratic and corporate masters. Public health has an unfortunate history of supporting this, with restriction of local decision-making and the pushing of commodities as key interventions.

Thus, we now have thousands of public health functionaries, from the WHO to research institutes to non-government organizations, commercial companies, and private foundations, primarily dedicated to finding targets for Pharma, purloining public funding, and then developing and selling the cure. The entire newly minted pandemic agenda, demonstrated successfully through the Covid-19 response, is based on this approach. Justification for the salaries involved requires detection of outbreaks, an exaggeration of their likely impact, and the institution of a commodity-heavy and usually vaccine-based response.

The sponsors of this entire process – countries with large Pharma industries, Pharma investors, and Pharma companies themselves – have established power through media and political sponsorship to ensure the approach works. Evidence of the intent of the model and the harms it is wreaking can be effectively hidden from public view by a subservient media and publishing industry. But in DRC, people who have long suffered the exploitation of war and the mineral extractors, who replaced a particularly brutal colonial regime, must now also deal with the wealth extractors of Pharma.
Dealing with the Cause

While Mpox is concentrated in Africa, the effects of corrupted public health are global. Bird flu will likely follow the same course as Mpox in the near future. The army of researchers paid to find more outbreaks will do so. While the risk from pandemics is not significantly different than decades ago, there is an industry dependent on making you think otherwise.

As the Covid-19 playbook showed, this is about money and power on a scale only matched by similar fascist regimes of the past. Current efforts across Western countries to denigrate the concept of free speech, to criminalize dissent, and to institute health passports to control movement are not new and are in no way disconnected from the inevitability of the WHO declaring the Mpox PHEIC. We are not in the world we knew twenty years ago.

Poverty and the external forces that benefit from war, and the diseases these enable, will continue to hammer the people of DRC. If a mass vaccination campaign is instituted, which is highly likely, financial and human resources will be diverted from far greater threats. This is why decision-making must now be centralized far from the communities affected. Local priorities will never match those that expansion of the pandemic industry depends on.

In the West, we must move on from blaming the WHO and address the reality unfolding around us. Censorship is being promoted by journalists, courts are serving political agendas, and the very concept of nationhood, on which democracy depends, is being demonized. A fascist agenda is openly promoted by corporate clubs such as the World Economic Forum and echoed by the international institutions set up after the Second World War specifically to oppose it. If we cannot see this and if we do not refuse to participate, then we will have only ourselves to blame. We are voting for these governments and accepting obvious fraud, and we can choose not to do so.

For the people of DRC, children will continue to tragically die from Mpox, from malaria, and from all the diseases that ensure return on investment for distant companies making pharmaceuticals and batteries. They can ignore the pleading of the servants of the White Men of Davos who will wish to inject them, but they cannot ignore their poverty or the disinterest in their opinions. As with Covid-19, they will now become poorer because Google, the Guardian, and the WHO were bought a long time back, and now serve others.

The one real hope is that we ignore lies and empty pronouncements, refusing to bow to unfounded fear. In public health and in society, censorship protects falsehoods and dictates reflect greed for power. Once we refuse to accept either, we can begin to address the problems at the WHO and the inequity it is promoting. Until that time, we will live in this increasingly vicious circus.

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