An outbreak of the monkeypox virus in North America and Europe is primarily spreading through sex among men with about 200 confirmed and suspected cases.

:desolate:

  • VILenin [he/him]
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    2 years ago

    Just a few paragraphs down and they admit it's actually spread through close contact. Like, not even hugging tightly, but wearing the clothes of someone who's had it. Good thing no one ever physically interacts with another person outside of sex.

    They also said it's actually super stable outside hosts, a complete 180 from less than a week ago when they were saying it's nothing to be worried about because it dies in 2 nanoseconds outside a person.

    The bulb is gonna blow if they keep flipping the switch at this rate

      • TankieTanuki [he/him]
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        2 years ago

        you can literally get smallpox from like century plus old scabs if they’re preserved well enough

        Has this actually happened or is it just theorized and portrayed in popular media like that episode of House?

    • indorri [he/him]
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      2 years ago

      I was a kid during the early AIDs crisis and had to grow up seeing every christian psychopath bleat on about it.

      Now I get to see the scapegoating happen in real time.

      Every fucking person in the media class to the gulag.

      • LeninWeave [none/use name]
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        2 years ago

        Me to "journalists":

        "Oh yeah, don't worry, it's a really comfortable re-education facility. It's just right through this big door in the rock." :troll:

        :pit:

    • kristina [she/her]
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      2 years ago

      hey might explode the fast fashion industry because everyone is afraid of being called gay

      • VILenin [he/him]
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        2 years ago

        Not sure anything will pry Americans away from their treats, even as they die an agonizing death with pustules covering their entire body.

    • SadStruggle92 [none/use name]
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      2 years ago

      Good thing no one ever physically interacts with another person outside of sex.

      Haha, yes! My ticket is in! :agony-wholesome:

    • hexaflexagonbear [he/him]
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      2 years ago

      That (if true) is at least more manageable than covid. I really don't want two plagues circulating at once.

    • yellowparenti5 [none/use name]
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      2 years ago

      Like, not even hugging tightly, but wearing the clothes of someone who’s had it.

      O_O
      monkeypox blankets. fuck, it's worse than I thought because the CDC is insinuating that it's mostly spread through hookups and the such but it spreads just like smallpox :\

      • VILenin [he/him]
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        2 years ago

        Yeah. It's insane. You can get it from fucking your partner. You can also get it from hugging your grandma. It's like saying the type of gas used in a car caused a collision.

    • Commie_Crab [she/her]
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      2 years ago

      I seriously doubt that the people in the new industry bother to read papers directly, so it isn't too surprising that they wouldn't know anything.