• aaaaaaadjsf [he/him, comrade/them]
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    2 years ago

    Yeah people are self diagnosing on social media.

    Canada seems to be taking it seriously though, men that are part of the LGBT community can get the latest, more mild side effects, smallpox vaccine in certain areas.

    Wonder what's going to happen when the monkeypox starts spreading among the straights though, are they going to go full denial and do homophobic AIDS style talking points? Because it isn't a gay disease obviously, it's just spreading among gay and bi men for now because the first superspreader event was at a pride festival, on a Spanish territory off the coast of West Africa.

    • InevitableSwing [none/use name]
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      2 years ago

      when the monkeypox starts spreading among the straights...

      That's a good question. In 2021 over and over again I made fun of the republicans by asking questions like "What would they do if covid gave people nasty boils all over their body?" I never could quite decide what they would do. It would be insane for them not to mask up. But masking in their brain was entirely tribal and political. And their Team Red tribe was anti-mask and even worse - wearing a mask was a sign somebody was the other tribe - Team Blue. It's like a Red Sox fan wearing a Yankees baseball cap.

      And yet here we are on the cusp of libs starting to face a disease that actually gives you pustules. Everything is so broken in the US could the libs actually start making homophobic AIDS style talking points? It seems possible to me.

      • sooper_dooper_roofer [none/use name]
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        2 years ago

        In 2021 over and over again I made fun of the republicans by asking questions like “What would they do if covid gave people nasty boils all over their body?”

        Can you please start making jokes about Xi conquering the United States and giving us forced communism

        • Bloobish [comrade/them]
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          2 years ago

          Best I can do is a cooperative transition done for the entire west coast recognized as the independent nation of Cascadia. At least we will finally have that high speed rail CA keeps talking about...

      • aaaaaaadjsf [he/him, comrade/them]
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        2 years ago

        The thing is this monkeypox is different from previous strains, in the early stages of infection the pustules look like pimples, apparently the only tell is constant odd coloured fluid leaking out if you squeeze it. The ugly pustules only develop at a later stage or in serious cases.

        Also it's presenting with genital sores now as well, and sores on the lips, and around other orifices. So there may be some form of sexual transmission involved.

        I think chuds are going to watch their penises rot because they're too scared to admit they got the "gay monkeypox disease". And liberals will do some moral grandstanding, underplay the risks of the virus to not seem "homophobic", or some other brainwored stuff.

    • Frank [he/him, he/him]
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      2 years ago

      "How was your pride vacation?"

      "I caught Monkeypox"

      Fuck, and I say this with my entire chest, 2022.