At this point we need to be vaccinating people (smallpox vaccine is effective against Monkeypox) in the affected areas.
But the government obviously don’t care about illnesses.
The media really is ramping up the scare articles on this now.
How long until r/uk gets excited about wanting lockdowns again?
> Monkeypox is a hard virus to transmit between humans, experts say. It needs very close contact, for example, skin to skin contact with an individual who is infected with a monkeypox rash.
This is the salient point that everybody needs to understand. This isn’t like COVID-19, which is airborne and you can catch just by being in the vicinity of others with the disease. This disease is only spreading amongst people who are in *very* close contact with each other. Seems to be mainly sexual partners currently.
It’s incredibly unlikely that this will become an epidemic.
If you’re engaging in anonymous sexual encounters in one of the affected areas though, it pays to stay vigilant.
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Sometimes when I fly somewhere I have to get vaccianted against various things. Apart from Covid are there any vaccines that people need to have before coming to the UK?
Oh fuck off. Stop trying to make this negligible disease another thing to get people to panic. Sick of hearing about it already with idiots in the office scared of it and theorising the end times.
E – I guess the number of redditors indulging in gay sex is, somehow surprisingly, higher than I thought.
Ahh the doom peddlers are out in force again I see. Hoping for another lockdown are we not?
Side effect of COVID is now everyone thinks they’re an expert virologist, including these media outlets that throw around vaguely scientific terms that have become associated with the pandemic. Which means this will invariably become a massive click source for news outlets, every site reporting on this is leading the headline with some gross image of plague-like buboes, as if that’s not overly gratuitous at all.
The most worrying thing about this virus is that the case fatality rate is apparently 3% which seems incredibly high. I haven’t seen many people mentioning this.
Remember everyone, three out of every four pandemics are animal derived, another of the many reasons to go vegan.
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Enough of this
At this point we need to be vaccinating people (smallpox vaccine is effective against Monkeypox) in the affected areas.
But the government obviously don’t care about illnesses.
The media really is ramping up the scare articles on this now.
How long until r/uk gets excited about wanting lockdowns again?
> Monkeypox is a hard virus to transmit between humans, experts say. It needs very close contact, for example, skin to skin contact with an individual who is infected with a monkeypox rash.
This is the salient point that everybody needs to understand. This isn’t like COVID-19, which is airborne and you can catch just by being in the vicinity of others with the disease. This disease is only spreading amongst people who are in *very* close contact with each other. Seems to be mainly sexual partners currently.
It’s incredibly unlikely that this will become an epidemic.
If you’re engaging in anonymous sexual encounters in one of the affected areas though, it pays to stay vigilant.
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Sometimes when I fly somewhere I have to get vaccianted against various things. Apart from Covid are there any vaccines that people need to have before coming to the UK?
Oh fuck off. Stop trying to make this negligible disease another thing to get people to panic. Sick of hearing about it already with idiots in the office scared of it and theorising the end times.
E – I guess the number of redditors indulging in gay sex is, somehow surprisingly, higher than I thought.
Ahh the doom peddlers are out in force again I see. Hoping for another lockdown are we not?
Side effect of COVID is now everyone thinks they’re an expert virologist, including these media outlets that throw around vaguely scientific terms that have become associated with the pandemic. Which means this will invariably become a massive click source for news outlets, every site reporting on this is leading the headline with some gross image of plague-like buboes, as if that’s not overly gratuitous at all.
The most worrying thing about this virus is that the case fatality rate is apparently 3% which seems incredibly high. I haven’t seen many people mentioning this.
Remember everyone, three out of every four pandemics are animal derived, another of the many reasons to go vegan.