Who's Afraid of Virginia Monkeypox

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Should have cut off travel from Africa a long time ago.

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It responds to smallpox vaccine, right? Might be a blessing in disguise if it gets people vaccinated against smallpox. One less biological weapon that could be used against us.

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Anonymous wrote:Monkeypox is not "constantly circling the globe."

The concern is that the rate at which cases are showing up--that are clearly not connected to one another--indicates community spread, which is not something that has been seen before with this virus.

That is why public health officials are trying to use ring vaccination to prevent additional disease in contacts of cases.

Now I have explained it, but you will still have complaints. Carry on.

No reason to be so snippy, missy -- especially since you didn't even get the point. I didn't say monkeypox was constantly circling the globe -- I said "shrug, aren't there always illnesses circling the globe?" What's the big deal with monkeypox circling the globe? So what? Seems harmless enough. Just gross. is circling the globe enough of a reason to call it a public health emergency?

Even community spread -- so what? Is getting inconvenient blisters through community spread really an emergency?

It permanently scars, blinds, and sometimes kills. You sound like an idiot pursuing this stance that mpx is no big deal.

We need a lockdown. Virtual schooling until the case count is zero. Think of the children!

That would be typical. First kids had to protect the elderly from Covid and now protect gay men.

Ugh, right? Not even far from the realm of possibility. I think parents are so traumatized from how our kids were thrown under the bus during Covid. Our kids bore way too much of the burden and our public health officials basically ignored the needs of families and kids/teens.

OMG save it for your therapist. Give it a rest. The "weak tea" poster is correct.

You probably don’t like kids but there is no doubt they have had to put their life on hold while we protected vulnerable adults. Especially in this area with the school closures. You can deny it but it’s true. Most kids rolled with the punches and were fine but not all. And we don’t need to put a fear in them that they are now going to catch monkey pox after they had a fear of catching Covid.

Yes, they did. They are part of society. The weak tea part is that some make it sound like it was an outrageous and unnecessary sacrifice on their part. It was a pandemic. They did what they had to do, just like the rest of us. No one WANTED to do any of that.

NP and this is probably for another thread but young kids did a lot more than the rest of us. And for much longer than they should have had to. But I assume you don’t have or work with children who are school aged. Because this was painfully obvious to me as a teacher and parent.

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Anonymous wrote:Monkeypox is not "constantly circling the globe."

The concern is that the rate at which cases are showing up--that are clearly not connected to one another--indicates community spread, which is not something that has been seen before with this virus.

That is why public health officials are trying to use ring vaccination to prevent additional disease in contacts of cases.

Now I have explained it, but you will still have complaints. Carry on.

No reason to be so snippy, missy -- especially since you didn't even get the point. I didn't say monkeypox was constantly circling the globe -- I said "shrug, aren't there always illnesses circling the globe?" What's the big deal with monkeypox circling the globe? So what? Seems harmless enough. Just gross. is circling the globe enough of a reason to call it a public health emergency?

Even community spread -- so what? Is getting inconvenient blisters through community spread really an emergency?

It permanently scars, blinds, and sometimes kills. You sound like an idiot pursuing this stance that mpx is no big deal.

We need a lockdown. Virtual schooling until the case count is zero. Think of the children!

That would be typical. First kids had to protect the elderly from Covid and now protect gay men.

Ugh, right? Not even far from the realm of possibility. I think parents are so traumatized from how our kids were thrown under the bus during Covid. Our kids bore way too much of the burden and our public health officials basically ignored the needs of families and kids/teens.

OMG save it for your therapist. Give it a rest. The "weak tea" poster is correct.

You probably don’t like kids but there is no doubt they have had to put their life on hold while we protected vulnerable adults. Especially in this area with the school closures. You can deny it but it’s true. Most kids rolled with the punches and were fine but not all. And we don’t need to put a fear in them that they are now going to catch monkey pox after they had a fear of catching Covid.

Yes, they did. They are part of society. The weak tea part is that some make it sound like it was an outrageous and unnecessary sacrifice on their part. It was a pandemic. They did what they had to do, just like the rest of us. No one WANTED to do any of that.

NP and this is probably for another thread but young kids did a lot more than the rest of us. And for much longer than they should have had to. But I assume you don’t have or work with children who are school aged. Because this was painfully obvious to me as a teacher and parent.

I am also a ES teacher and a parent, although my kids are out of elementary school. I know what they went through. It was not easy but certainly not the end of the world and not all THAT hard. Come on. The hardest part was not being able to socialize in the cafeteria etc., not having to wear a mask.

[Anonymous]

More concerned over this and the 25% morality rate:

https://www.miamiherald.com/news/health-care/article263684558.html

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Anonymous wrote:Monkeypox is not "constantly circling the globe."

The concern is that the rate at which cases are showing up--that are clearly not connected to one another--indicates community spread, which is not something that has been seen before with this virus.

That is why public health officials are trying to use ring vaccination to prevent additional disease in contacts of cases.

Now I have explained it, but you will still have complaints. Carry on.

No reason to be so snippy, missy -- especially since you didn't even get the point. I didn't say monkeypox was constantly circling the globe -- I said "shrug, aren't there always illnesses circling the globe?" What's the big deal with monkeypox circling the globe? So what? Seems harmless enough. Just gross. is circling the globe enough of a reason to call it a public health emergency?

Even community spread -- so what? Is getting inconvenient blisters through community spread really an emergency?

It permanently scars, blinds, and sometimes kills. You sound like an idiot pursuing this stance that mpx is no big deal.

We need a lockdown. Virtual schooling until the case count is zero. Think of the children!

That would be typical. First kids had to protect the elderly from Covid and now protect gay men.

Ugh, right? Not even far from the realm of possibility. I think parents are so traumatized from how our kids were thrown under the bus during Covid. Our kids bore way too much of the burden and our public health officials basically ignored the needs of families and kids/teens.

OMG save it for your therapist. Give it a rest. The "weak tea" poster is correct.

You probably don’t like kids but there is no doubt they have had to put their life on hold while we protected vulnerable adults. Especially in this area with the school closures. You can deny it but it’s true. Most kids rolled with the punches and were fine but not all. And we don’t need to put a fear in them that they are now going to catch monkey pox after they had a fear of catching Covid.

Yes, they did. They are part of society. The weak tea part is that some make it sound like it was an outrageous and unnecessary sacrifice on their part. It was a pandemic. They did what they had to do, just like the rest of us. No one WANTED to do any of that.

NP and this is probably for another thread but young kids did a lot more than the rest of us. And for much longer than they should have had to. But I assume you don’t have or work with children who are school aged. Because this was painfully obvious to me as a teacher and parent.

Exactly!!!

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Anonymous wrote:More concerned over this and the 25% morality rate:

https://www.miamiherald.com/news/health-care/article263684558.html

Well that vaccine is easy to get and now in Virginia it’s needed for 7th&12th or just 12th.

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Anonymous wrote:More concerned over this and the 25% morality rate:

https://www.miamiherald.com/news/health-care/article263684558.html

Well that vaccine is easy to get and now in Virginia it’s needed for 7th&12th or just 12th.

Can adults get the MenACWY vaccine? Or is is specifically only tailored for adolescents?