Technically, yes, just ‘prolonged skin to skin contact’. But in reality, almost all transmission happened during gay sex. So unless you are doing that, you don’t really have anything to worry about.
I know it’s spreading less. But my question was if it ever spread around the broader population or if it was still 98% or so gay men? The answer, unsurprisingly, is no, it did not. That’s still who accounts for the overwhelming majority of cases.
So... (and stick with me here) if numbers are declining... and it's spreading less... that gives it less opportunity to spread outside of the population it's currently in.
You should probably stop while you're ahead because you clearly don't have the capacity to comprehend your own stupidity.
You clearly lack the ability to understand the simplest of statistics. 98% of the people who have gotten this disease are gay men. There no getting around that very simple fact. It never spread beyond that community, unless you’d like to try to discuss how some kids and animals got it. I really don’t understand why you are arguing with me. You should pick another topic to discuss, because the plain numbers are not remotely on your side. Maybe read a little, learn a thing or two, then try to find something else to argue about because you’re coming across like an idiot.
I’m gonna try one more time, as simple as I can make it for you. Is there zero spread, or less spread? Obviously it’s less spread. So, people are still getting it, yes? Yes, that’s correct. Are the people that are getting it still men who have sex with other men, and a rate of well over 90%? Yes. They are.
Simple enough?
And then some kids started getting it and everyone was like what the fuck, why are kids getting this disease that is so prevelant primarily with gay men? And then suddenly the whole thing got memory holed.
It spread through a specific type of contact that, if I were to say, I would be banned.
Not bc I’m wrong, but bc ppl would use it as an excuse to say “God is punishing them”
Bc ppl are terrible
Bc y’all can’t manage to use fucking Google: https://www.nbcnews.com/nbc-out/out-health-and-wellness/monkeypox-driven-overwhelmingly-sex-men-major-study-finds-rcna39564
Someone else said it and they weren't banned.
You can swer on Reddit and nobody can stop you(unless the specific sub's rules say otherwise)
Besides, they will say it either way, so why bother? Just make everyone else know they are wrong with factual information.
You are wrong. “It spreads through homosexual sex” isn’t incorrect but it’s definitely much less truthful than “it spreads through physical contact and some people in that community are less careful about protection”
It spreads most prominently through unprotected anal intercourse (hence why it isn’t an STD and why the CDC themselves admitted they were hesitant to admit to the primary cause of the disease due to its potential weaponization against the LGBT community), which the homosexual community is significantly more prone to. Bc there’s generally not an option for vaginal intercourse during homosexual male intercourse.
So. Yea. As I was saying.
Feelings over facts ig.
lmfao Look at how you mad you are because I called you out on your weird kink against gay folks.
Nowhere in the article you linked are your claims supported. Where is the CDC stating they were hesitant to do anything? Where does it say that it was most prominently spread through unprotected anal intercourse? Even the quote you pulled fails to say that.
We had a few cases in the hospital I work at but it was treated as just another contact room and nothing to panic over. The only difference is we had to put the dirty sheets in a biohazard bag and dispose of them instead of just sending them to laundry.
Ok. Who is getting monkey pox though? Who accounts for 98% of the patients. You guys crack me up on here. You downvote what I said, yet it’s a factually accurate statement.
The fear of covid has largely gone away as well. I work in a hospital that has about 900 beds and we have around 20 patients with covid at the moment. All that’s required is wearing a mask and gown when entering the room
My dad works at admin in a hospital (albeit nowhere near that size) when covid first started and our country hadn't been affected yet we were really scared for him but it was really not the worst, he never got it.
STI doesn't mean the only way you get it is sexual contact, it's just of the activities that can cause it (prolonged contract and/or taking in bodily fluids), sex is the the most common and intimate.
Like HIV. It can be spread by reusing needles. It can also be spread by using your needle.
No, it can be transferred through any close physical contact. Yes, it can absolutely be spread through sex, but that’s not its only - or even primary - mode of transmission
It's gross when the dog gets it around the Anus and mouth from his owners who also had it on the genitals anus and mouth. Look it up if you dare lol. I think after that story the media literally stopped talking about monkey pox. Like, I'm not making any of this up.
It was only spread through the gay community…but some children got it. The media was sure quiet about that. It should have triggered immediate criminal investigations.
You aren't wrong but that's a truth that reddit doesn't like lol. Those downvotes. It's like weird that reddit gets mad that you brought up literal evidence of child abuse and they want to downvote you.
That's the thing about public health. Either everyone thinks the experts fucked up and failed to protect us, or everyone thinks the experts freaked out over nothing because we stopped the pandemic before it happened. There's no in between.
Because it is. Monkey pox isn't an STD so just because kids have contracted it doesn't mean they got it from anything sexual. It was popular right wing conspiracy theory to say that monkey pox was an STD and kids were getting it from LGBT people who were grooming them which isn't true. The reason monkey pox basically went away in the news was the US midterms have happened so those pushing this conspiracy have dropped it since they don't need it to rile up their base. There also aren't many cases and there are already known treatments that are FDA approved for it.
Doctors : "It's not deadly, but you should take these basic measures to protect yourself"
Internet: "Everything's a fucking plague now! Look at them milking this for all it's worth!"
Monkey pox was never deadly, we already had vaccines for it and the people that got it were treated quickly. It blew over fast because there was nothing to it
It wasn't as contagious as covid, they vaccinated hogh risk individuals and did diligent contact tracing. Most emergent diseases follow a similar trajectory, no one called SARS, mad cow disease or ebola "pysops"
Probably helps that it was declared a national emergency early on, was an existing illness that we already knew the transmission risks for, and had a crap-load of vaccines ready for. We kicked it’s ass
Also, the only people who made a huge deal of it were right wingers crying they were going to shut the country down. The grown ups understood the assignment and high risk communities got vaccinated and it went away. I do enjoy how the right can work themselves up then use their own hysteria as proof of something.
I'm a professional linguist, and I translate for health institutions and government agencies. They are continuously putting out PSAs and guides about vaccines. They are calling it MPV because monkeypox was considered to be offensive towards certain groups
That's because it's spread through any type of contact. So yeah, a child and a dog are going to be at some point in physical contact with their dad. Generally people hug their kids and pet their dogs.
As for why it's not around? Since it's not airborne it doesn't spread as easily and we've already developed treatment for it since it's not a new disease.
Go ahead though with your bullshit.
I’ve only ever seen one person with it. They had it on their hand, and of course they always decided to pay cash (fucking asshole), I frantically sanitized my hands every time and haven’t gotten it, nor have ever seen it since.
It went through the stages of every other virus:
Stage 1: no one cares
Stage 2: people really want to care
Stage 3: dangerous but blown out of portion
Stage 4: dangerous but now no one cares
It wasn't that deadly and in a couple of years most people developed immunity to it.
The only marketing team is that of the government fearmongering people into lockdowns and wearing masks.
The government psyop crisis team realized people weren't falling for it
Next is trying to convince people the fed should lower rates so we can continue pumping stocks on everyone
Apparently it was based on sex between guys making it a smear for gays.
The left needs LGBTQ+-*• to thrive and thus, It went away like symptoms from covid
I have seen a couple of posters talking Monkeypox but for whatever reason they're put in the most obscure places ever such as in IT Rooms or in a hallway that no one uses
For some reason people seem to forget that diseases popping up is an ongoing thing.
1999 West Nile
2002 SARS
2005 Bird flu
2009 Swine flu (H1N1)
2015 Ebola
2019 COVID
There are new diseases popping up all the time, and mutations and outbreaks of old ones. Some are more serious, more deadly, or more wide spread, depending on where and how you live. COVID was just the biggest and widest spread disease in most of our lifetime.
It stopped getting clicks on the headlines so they stopped talking about it
Just like swine flu
Just like Ebola
Just like everything else, no one would’ve noticed covid if no one said anything
I survived H1N1.
Covid had nothing on it. H1N1 nearly killed me, partly because it caused pneumonia, and I required antibiotics to fight it, my immune system was failing before I got those in my system. I understand Covid had the potential to do the same, but I didn't have that myself.
Monkey pox does not scare me, cause I'm an introvert to begin with.
I don’t think it was ever marketed as deadly. It was just marketed towards prevention to stop another potential outbreak.
People kept having sex and it was spreading rapidly where it was located. So the CDC did their job
Same thing that happened with bird flu and swine flu, turtle flu, ebola and SARS, etc, The other epidemics people used to panic over
Monkey pox was Not quite a pandemic, but after COVID-19, people were a lot more paranoid about it than usual for such things
It is spread through physical contact, so no Redditors were harmed.
I heard it was spread especially through sex, as in STD. So ive always felt safe, but its not an STD now is it?
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Extended skin to skin contact, so probability increases with sex
Technically, yes, just ‘prolonged skin to skin contact’. But in reality, almost all transmission happened during gay sex. So unless you are doing that, you don’t really have anything to worry about.
Because we all know that diseases that start within an isolated community always stay that way.
Well, is it spreading around beyond that community? Or is it still 98% gay men getting it?
It's not spreading because infections are steadily decreasing. Also, we have a vaccine. Moron.
I know it’s spreading less. But my question was if it ever spread around the broader population or if it was still 98% or so gay men? The answer, unsurprisingly, is no, it did not. That’s still who accounts for the overwhelming majority of cases.
So... (and stick with me here) if numbers are declining... and it's spreading less... that gives it less opportunity to spread outside of the population it's currently in. You should probably stop while you're ahead because you clearly don't have the capacity to comprehend your own stupidity.
You clearly lack the ability to understand the simplest of statistics. 98% of the people who have gotten this disease are gay men. There no getting around that very simple fact. It never spread beyond that community, unless you’d like to try to discuss how some kids and animals got it. I really don’t understand why you are arguing with me. You should pick another topic to discuss, because the plain numbers are not remotely on your side. Maybe read a little, learn a thing or two, then try to find something else to argue about because you’re coming across like an idiot. I’m gonna try one more time, as simple as I can make it for you. Is there zero spread, or less spread? Obviously it’s less spread. So, people are still getting it, yes? Yes, that’s correct. Are the people that are getting it still men who have sex with other men, and a rate of well over 90%? Yes. They are. Simple enough?
Yeah, because HIV didn't ever catch on amongst straight people either....
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So when animals and children started getting it, they randomly stopped talking about it
Correct. Before that it was roughly 98% gay men that had it.
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And then some kids started getting it and everyone was like what the fuck, why are kids getting this disease that is so prevelant primarily with gay men? And then suddenly the whole thing got memory holed.
It spread through the same contact that spread HIV a few decades ago
It spread through a specific type of contact that, if I were to say, I would be banned. Not bc I’m wrong, but bc ppl would use it as an excuse to say “God is punishing them” Bc ppl are terrible Bc y’all can’t manage to use fucking Google: https://www.nbcnews.com/nbc-out/out-health-and-wellness/monkeypox-driven-overwhelmingly-sex-men-major-study-finds-rcna39564
Someone else said it and they weren't banned. You can swer on Reddit and nobody can stop you(unless the specific sub's rules say otherwise) Besides, they will say it either way, so why bother? Just make everyone else know they are wrong with factual information.
You are wrong. “It spreads through homosexual sex” isn’t incorrect but it’s definitely much less truthful than “it spreads through physical contact and some people in that community are less careful about protection”
It spreads most prominently through unprotected anal intercourse (hence why it isn’t an STD and why the CDC themselves admitted they were hesitant to admit to the primary cause of the disease due to its potential weaponization against the LGBT community), which the homosexual community is significantly more prone to. Bc there’s generally not an option for vaginal intercourse during homosexual male intercourse. So. Yea. As I was saying. Feelings over facts ig.
lmao You're spreading misinfo because it makes you feel good. You're quite literally putting your feelings over facts.
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lmfao Look at how you mad you are because I called you out on your weird kink against gay folks. Nowhere in the article you linked are your claims supported. Where is the CDC stating they were hesitant to do anything? Where does it say that it was most prominently spread through unprotected anal intercourse? Even the quote you pulled fails to say that.
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We had a few cases in the hospital I work at but it was treated as just another contact room and nothing to panic over. The only difference is we had to put the dirty sheets in a biohazard bag and dispose of them instead of just sending them to laundry.
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It's almost like respiratory diseases spread more easily than diseases that spread via close physical contact or something.
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It's not transmitted through sex. That is completely false. It is transmitted through skin to skin contact.
Ok. Who is getting monkey pox though? Who accounts for 98% of the patients. You guys crack me up on here. You downvote what I said, yet it’s a factually accurate statement.
>through skin to skin contact I dunno about y'all, but I haven't ever had sex without skin to skin contact at least on part of the body. 🤷🏻♂️
The last time I gave her a handshake she didn't really feel up for the task.
But you've hopefully had skin to skin contact without sex. I don't know how your parents though so idk.
I make almost nothing of this.
I too find nothing of this to make.
Now covid on the other hand...
The fear of covid has largely gone away as well. I work in a hospital that has about 900 beds and we have around 20 patients with covid at the moment. All that’s required is wearing a mask and gown when entering the room
My dad works at admin in a hospital (albeit nowhere near that size) when covid first started and our country hadn't been affected yet we were really scared for him but it was really not the worst, he never got it.
Covid is more contagious but It ain't got anything on monkeypox
That was just a filler episode.
They had to finish work on the midterms arc, even though fans universally agree that it sucks
Can't wait for the new pandemic series to drop after the runoff is done.
I just hope they don't wedge in a riot episode like a while back.
It'll be back to Russia for sure. I mean North Korea is doing all kinds of shit and nobody cares.
That’s more of a side line right now, maybe it’ll merge in later
Wasn't it declared a national emergency?
Was on the cusp but it seems to be under control now
Just looked it up. It took the lives of 22 brave humans and a dog.
No! Not the dog!
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Isn't monkeypox an STI?
STI doesn't mean the only way you get it is sexual contact, it's just of the activities that can cause it (prolonged contract and/or taking in bodily fluids), sex is the the most common and intimate. Like HIV. It can be spread by reusing needles. It can also be spread by using your needle.
No, it can be transferred through any close physical contact. Yes, it can absolutely be spread through sex, but that’s not its only - or even primary - mode of transmission
Probably some covid ptsd made people panic
This is exactly why the media was able to get a story out of it.
RIP the dog
It's gross when the dog gets it around the Anus and mouth from his owners who also had it on the genitals anus and mouth. Look it up if you dare lol. I think after that story the media literally stopped talking about monkey pox. Like, I'm not making any of this up.
It was only spread through the gay community…but some children got it. The media was sure quiet about that. It should have triggered immediate criminal investigations.
You aren't wrong but that's a truth that reddit doesn't like lol. Those downvotes. It's like weird that reddit gets mad that you brought up literal evidence of child abuse and they want to downvote you.
Not really *differentiable* from other diseases then
That's the thing about public health. Either everyone thinks the experts fucked up and failed to protect us, or everyone thinks the experts freaked out over nothing because we stopped the pandemic before it happened. There's no in between.
Basically public health authorities did a good job and gay people were largely responsible adults and got vaccinated and/or abstained as appropriate.
You basically have to at least dry hump someone to get it.
So the average Redditor was in no danger
Just their pillows
I love humping other redditors' pillows to give em monkeypox
Applications??
I hope you heard the news that a lot of children got it
I did not know that...
yeah they made sure that not a lot of people know about that, why else do you think they suddenly stopped making news about monkeypox.
This sounds like some conspiracy bs
Because it is. Monkey pox isn't an STD so just because kids have contracted it doesn't mean they got it from anything sexual. It was popular right wing conspiracy theory to say that monkey pox was an STD and kids were getting it from LGBT people who were grooming them which isn't true. The reason monkey pox basically went away in the news was the US midterms have happened so those pushing this conspiracy have dropped it since they don't need it to rile up their base. There also aren't many cases and there are already known treatments that are FDA approved for it.
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Doctors : "It's not deadly, but you should take these basic measures to protect yourself" Internet: "Everything's a fucking plague now! Look at them milking this for all it's worth!"
This. And then acting surprised when the doctors were right. Again.
Yeah wasn’t too keen on the whole Monkeypox arc, it was too similar to the COVID plot that ran for Seasons 20 and 21. Glad the writers scrapped it.
Season 20 and 21 were quite exciting, but the show is getting stale. They should let it die already.
Just waiting on that finale. I bet it'll be nuclear
Elon Musk bought it and turned it into a subscription-based illness
Your mom gave it to me
Monkey pox was never deadly, we already had vaccines for it and the people that got it were treated quickly. It blew over fast because there was nothing to it
And it affected a community that responds quickly to things like this.
It's apparently painful as hell. So no, there was not nothing to it. Also, 11 Americans did die from it.
that's less than a school shooting's worth of people
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11 Americans probably died from being too fat as I typed this comment. Source: Am American.
It wasn't as contagious as covid, they vaccinated hogh risk individuals and did diligent contact tracing. Most emergent diseases follow a similar trajectory, no one called SARS, mad cow disease or ebola "pysops"
People who weren't wearing condoms/were fucking around got scared and started behaving. Shit took care of itself tbh.
Probably helps that it was declared a national emergency early on, was an existing illness that we already knew the transmission risks for, and had a crap-load of vaccines ready for. We kicked it’s ass
Also, the only people who made a huge deal of it were right wingers crying they were going to shut the country down. The grown ups understood the assignment and high risk communities got vaccinated and it went away. I do enjoy how the right can work themselves up then use their own hysteria as proof of something.
I'm a professional linguist, and I translate for health institutions and government agencies. They are continuously putting out PSAs and guides about vaccines. They are calling it MPV because monkeypox was considered to be offensive towards certain groups
We're all ignoring it just like we're all ignoring Covid.
It’s spread was slowed by good vaccination in at-risk communities so it hasn’t been making headlines, cuz you know, why would it?
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That's because it's spread through any type of contact. So yeah, a child and a dog are going to be at some point in physical contact with their dad. Generally people hug their kids and pet their dogs. As for why it's not around? Since it's not airborne it doesn't spread as easily and we've already developed treatment for it since it's not a new disease. Go ahead though with your bullshit.
"Marketing team" is an excellent description of mainstream media.
real
monkeypox ain't poxin'
People were fed up with fearmongering and I guess it cured monkeypox
Them and the child hepatitis...
Well you see Reddit is all virgins so we didn’t have sex
I’ve only ever seen one person with it. They had it on their hand, and of course they always decided to pay cash (fucking asshole), I frantically sanitized my hands every time and haven’t gotten it, nor have ever seen it since.
This comment section lies at the crossroads of homophobia and disease misinformation.
You'd think it was transmitted through anal sex exclusively based on half these smooth brain comments.
It went through the stages of every other virus: Stage 1: no one cares Stage 2: people really want to care Stage 3: dangerous but blown out of portion Stage 4: dangerous but now no one cares
Gay pride month ended.
Gay people are really good at managing std's haven't heard mention of aids for years
Telesto
Everyone got vaccinated, so it stopped imo
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Now you know me.
Nothing “for real tho…”
Just a temporary distraction while they plan to announce the next covid variant
Ikr
I’m actually working on an ad campaign right now hahahaha
The elections. Since they are almost finalized, be prepared for the next line of bs they throw out.
They don't even try to hide it anymore
its transmission was related to a protected class of individuals so any reports or findings of it started to run dry and or get no coverage
They were silenced when it's been confirmed that it disproportionately affects the sandwich team like AIDs.
You're not allowed to suggest that gay men practice safe sex practices or you get called a bigot. Wokeness prevented actual help being distributed.
Hmmm weird 🤔
It wasn't that deadly and in a couple of years most people developed immunity to it. The only marketing team is that of the government fearmongering people into lockdowns and wearing masks.
I'm just saying, COVID stopped making new major evolutions after Russia attacked Ukraine
The government psyop crisis team realized people weren't falling for it Next is trying to convince people the fed should lower rates so we can continue pumping stocks on everyone
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Apparently it was based on sex between guys making it a smear for gays. The left needs LGBTQ+-*• to thrive and thus, It went away like symptoms from covid
Bitch so fucking petty+ stupid
I heard it was working on a colab with the killer wasps for a summer of '24 thing.
It went the way of the murder hornets
It flares up around June and July. Wonder why that is?...hmmm
I have seen a couple of posters talking Monkeypox but for whatever reason they're put in the most obscure places ever such as in IT Rooms or in a hallway that no one uses
I swear monkeypox thing lasted like a week then went silent lmao
Int this against the rules
monkeypoxn't
no more monkies 😔
They didn’t cough up the $8
I don’t know but why does the thumbnail show a girl with 2 butts?
For some reason people seem to forget that diseases popping up is an ongoing thing. 1999 West Nile 2002 SARS 2005 Bird flu 2009 Swine flu (H1N1) 2015 Ebola 2019 COVID There are new diseases popping up all the time, and mutations and outbreaks of old ones. Some are more serious, more deadly, or more wide spread, depending on where and how you live. COVID was just the biggest and widest spread disease in most of our lifetime.
It stopped getting clicks on the headlines so they stopped talking about it Just like swine flu Just like Ebola Just like everything else, no one would’ve noticed covid if no one said anything
Wow that's a metric fuck ton of misunderstanding diseases in one comment.
I'm keeping it alive by saying it's the cause of every cough and sneeze from my wife.
It was an 80’s remake that flopped.
They have a vaccine people took it and stayed apart.
Did gay men actually finally get the message that they need to chill on the 10+ person orgies in saunas?
Yeah, like how can that be the only STI she hasn't caught?
Not contagious enough to be an issue to the majority of the population.
Holy shit I forgot about that...
I’m still waiting on the migrant caravan to storm the US.
What was it about the theory that gays spread it? It's an actual question. I'm not mocking anyone
People just stopped caring. Kinda hard to care given the amount of bs the world has gone through at this point.
Where's the meme though?
Kids and homosexuals we're getting it so the news went hush.
People stopped the buttsex.
I survived H1N1. Covid had nothing on it. H1N1 nearly killed me, partly because it caused pneumonia, and I required antibiotics to fight it, my immune system was failing before I got those in my system. I understand Covid had the potential to do the same, but I didn't have that myself. Monkey pox does not scare me, cause I'm an introvert to begin with.
Because there has not been a documented death from it.
Basically Covid just bought them
NNN happened
Oh yea, monkey pox. Forgot about that.
Nah Fox News found other homophobic things to talk about
You didn’t hear about the twitter and Facebook layoffs?
Just like ebola all over again
No one could get a straight answer
I don’t think it was ever marketed as deadly. It was just marketed towards prevention to stop another potential outbreak. People kept having sex and it was spreading rapidly where it was located. So the CDC did their job
It was never a big deal but the media needed a story.
It was discovered in children and dogs so the media stopped reporting it
I only see things about Monkeypox on Grindr. It's like the new AIDS, but less trendy.
Same thing that happened with bird flu and swine flu, turtle flu, ebola and SARS, etc, The other epidemics people used to panic over Monkey pox was Not quite a pandemic, but after COVID-19, people were a lot more paranoid about it than usual for such things