Increasingly feeling like it’s gonna be a question of not if, but when this is declared a pandemic
They're not going to declare it a pandemic. They will deny it completely. They've done that for COVID when Biden became president, so why would this be different?
Well the WHO recently declared monkeypox a public health emergency of international concern (PHEIC), which is like one of the final steps just short of declaring a virus a pandemic. The WHO, for instance, declared COVID a PHEIC about a couple months before declaring it a pandemic. And I think it would increasingly become really hard to deny the grim reality of the situation if/when we get into hundreds of thousands of confirmed cases.
In general though, I think you're right, jack shit will be done once again with monkeypox, should we find ourselves in a twindemic. We'll see Biden contract monkeypox right before the 2024 presidential debates with Trump, and a drugged-up, still-contagious Biden will tell the heartfelt story of how he overcame the monkeypox lesions in his asshole by doing twenty push-ups and how we must all learn to live with monkeypox. Meanwhile, Trump will keep referring to him as "Monkey Joe" and interrupting Biden with intermittent monkey screeches throughout the debate and talk about how his doctors told him he has the strongest body and most beautiful antibodies they've ever seen, and Trump will offer to donate some of his blood to Biden if he agrees that the 2020 election was rigged against Trump.
It seems like the intro of this page is pretty good for highlighting past diseases that had that status and a general sentence on how a virus qualifies for that status.
Between 2009 and 2022, there were seven PHEIC declarations: the 2009 H1N1 (or swine flu) pandemic, the 2014 polio declaration, the 2013–2016 outbreak of Ebola in Western Africa, the 2015–16 Zika virus epidemic,[5] the 2018–20 Kivu Ebola epidemic,[6] the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic,[7] and the ongoing 2022 monkeypox outbreak.[
A public health emergency of international concern (PHEIC) is a formal declaration by the World Health Organization (WHO) of "an extraordinary event which is determined to constitute a public health risk to other States through the international spread of disease and to potentially require a coordinated international response", formulated when a situation arises that is "serious, sudden, unusual, or unexpected", which "carries implications for public health beyond the affected state's national border" and "may require immediate international action"
They're not going to declare it a pandemic. They will deny it completely. They've done that for COVID when Biden became president, so why would this be different?
Well the WHO recently declared monkeypox a public health emergency of international concern (PHEIC), which is like one of the final steps just short of declaring a virus a pandemic. The WHO, for instance, declared COVID a PHEIC about a couple months before declaring it a pandemic. And I think it would increasingly become really hard to deny the grim reality of the situation if/when we get into hundreds of thousands of confirmed cases.
In general though, I think you're right, jack shit will be done once again with monkeypox, should we find ourselves in a twindemic. We'll see Biden contract monkeypox right before the 2024 presidential debates with Trump, and a drugged-up, still-contagious Biden will tell the heartfelt story of how he overcame the monkeypox lesions in his asshole by doing twenty push-ups and how we must all learn to live with monkeypox. Meanwhile, Trump will keep referring to him as "Monkey Joe" and interrupting Biden with intermittent monkey screeches throughout the debate and talk about how his doctors told him he has the strongest body and most beautiful antibodies they've ever seen, and Trump will offer to donate some of his blood to Biden if he agrees that the 2020 election was rigged against Trump.
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So mote it be
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_health_emergency_of_international_concern
It seems like the intro of this page is pretty good for highlighting past diseases that had that status and a general sentence on how a virus qualifies for that status.
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