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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]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. [/quote]

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?[/quote]

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

In third world countries where there is sub-par medical care and blisters get infected and there are no antibiotics? Or here?[/quote]

Here, it is unlikely to kill a healthy person, but can still hospitalize people.  It may be much worse in the young or immunocompromised.  It is still excrutiatingly painful and leaves scars and can affect your eyes.  It also takes weeks to go through all the stages of pox blisters and healing and you are contagious until all the blisters fully heal (2-4 weeks). If you didn’t like staying in quarantine 10 days for COVID, you are going to hate monkeypox.

Monkeypox is literally an economic threat to the country if it circulates broadly.  We can not keep the trains and supply chains moving because hundreds of thousands of people are getting sick for 5 days and can’t work for 10 due to quarantine.  Because the January 2022 wave was such a problem in this respect, the USG changed COVID guidance to 5 days quarantine and 5 days mask.  Do you think people will be able to go back to work when at 2 weeks they still have visible, infectious pox blisters?   If it circulated more widely in young children (and we have had a few cases of this already), it also has the potential to collapse the child care system, which will drive even more women out of the workforce.  Are you really going to send your kid to daycare where they could catch monkeypox and be very painfully sick for 2-4 weeks and recover with scarring?

The public health system is not on top of this, and the broader straight community is unaware f the failures and thinks everything is fine.  Testing is seriously limited.  Vaccines are very limited and getting an appointment is extremely difficult. Diagnosis has been very slow and contact tracing is extremely slow as well. Access to treatment takes a ton of paperwork and advocacy. All these are indicators that monkeypox could easily and irreversibly slip out of control.  The USG has publicly committed to eradication, but massive action needs to follow and hasn’t yet. [/quote]

Thank you [/quote]

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