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Monkeypox

Agent Smith May 24, 2022 at 09:06 3400 views 21 comments
2022 Monkeypox Outbreak

This outbreak of another viral infection follows in the heels of the Covid-19 Pandemic.

The floor is open for discussion. No restrictions as to what aspect of the issue one wants to talk about.

Comments (21)

Wayfarer May 24, 2022 at 09:35 #700089
https://learningenglish.voanews.com/a/monkeypox-possibly-spread-in-europe-at-large-dance-parties/6586045.html

Personally, I would avoid events of this kind.
SpaceDweller May 24, 2022 at 10:19 #700093
If we turn monkey pox into hysteria as we did with COVID then we are really monkeys.
unenlightened May 24, 2022 at 10:41 #700094
It's not the new covid, its the new AIDS, aka 'gay plague'. We old fogeys who have had the smallpox vaccine have nothing to worry about even if we enjoy our orgies still, and of course milkmaids will have had cowpox so they'll be fine too. A plague of boils to the rest of you though.
Baden May 24, 2022 at 14:24 #700189
It's a nice one for the newspapers for a week or two, but other than that it's a big zero
Ciceronianus May 24, 2022 at 14:35 #700202
See Warren Zevon, Monkey Wash, Donkey Rinse, or rather hear it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9O2S1pH1bOo

It even has "monkey" in it.
Relativist May 24, 2022 at 21:51 #700378
Quoting Wayfarer
Personally, I would avoid events of this kind.

Not a problem. At my age, such events avoid me.

Quoting unenlightened
It's not the new covid, its the new AIDS, aka 'gay plague'.

It's not even the new AIDS, because there's already a vaccine for it.
Agent Smith May 25, 2022 at 04:06 #700435
It never rains but it pours!

As if we don't have enough problems already (we're just emerging, bruised and battered, out of a deadly case of Covid-19), an infernal Monkey Pox outbreak that has pandemic potential!

How do we handle this? We have to break the transmission chain before it goes global, oui? Who's looking into that?
Agent Smith May 25, 2022 at 09:29 #700484
[quote=karl stone]It usually requires close physical contact; which seems an unlikely vector of infection given the geography, and so the most likely common factor is the Covid vaccine based on simian disease.[/quote]

We either don't know enough about the virus or we know very little about ourselves. Either way, we're screwed!

Let's wait & watch as the situation evolves, but this time we definitely have no excuses if Monkey Pox snowballs into a global pandemic.

[quote=George Bush]Fool me once, shame on you; fool me twice, shame on me![/quote]

:snicker:
unenlightened May 25, 2022 at 09:53 #700488
Reply to karl stone Here is a more recent test experiment that just might be connected.

https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanmic/article/PIIS2666-5247(22)00027-1/fulltext

Hopefully, some urgent contact tracing is being done.



karl stone May 25, 2022 at 11:03 #700497
I don't know what any of that means!!!
unenlightened May 25, 2022 at 12:25 #700512
Reply to karl stone I'm in the same boat. But It is a test with an 'attenuated' live virus that is of the monkey pox family at least, and recent enough to have a connection with this outbreak. I think.

@Frank might be able to put us straight?
karl stone May 25, 2022 at 12:56 #700522
I wonder whether the record will ever be set straight...
Hanover May 25, 2022 at 13:17 #700529
I hope to one day have a designer pox. I had thought there were only chickenpox, but then I learn of monkeypox. I've been rolling around in rabbit pellets trying to get rabbitpox and have gotten unusually close to my goats in an effort to get goatpox.

Spellcheck has confirmed the following are actually words: rabbitpox, cowpox, and horsepox. However, goatpox, raccoonpox, and platypuspox are not words, but I still one day hope to contract them.
Jamal May 25, 2022 at 13:52 #700538
Reply to Hanover Goat pox is a thing, only it’s not conventionally a single word.

If my memory serves me right, sources of the virus include cutaneous lesions, saliva, nasal secretions and faeces, and is most likely to occur in crowded stock.

Agent Smith May 25, 2022 at 13:55 #700539
[quote=karl stone]It's like Magma Energy - proven by NASA in 1982, a source of limitless clean energy[/quote]

Dig, and dig deep! :up:
Agent Smith May 25, 2022 at 13:57 #700540
[quote=Hanover]I hope to one day have a designer pox.[/quote]

An old story! Biological weapons: enhanced transmission, lethality, and drug resistance! I think, not a 100% sure! Sorry if that's an issue.

Hanover May 25, 2022 at 13:58 #700541
Quoting Jamal
If my memory serves me right, sources of the virus include cutaneous lesions, saliva, nasal secretions and faeces, and is most likely to occur in crowded stock.


As you can imagine, I spend most my days interacting with the fluids you've described above, with only my peanut butter and jelly sandwich available to wipe off my hands.

I once got smallpox from Biggie Smalls.
Jamal May 25, 2022 at 14:06 #700543
Reply to Hanover I guess you’re lucky he didn’t give you bigpox.
Agent Smith May 26, 2022 at 06:38 #700872
The only difference between Covid and Monkeypox is that we have a vaccine that works for the latter (Smallpox vaccine; efficacy 85%, not bad, oui?). Killing two birds with one stone! Way to go, human race!
Merkwurdichliebe May 26, 2022 at 06:56 #700877
Quoting Agent Smith
The only difference between Covid and Monkeypox is that we have a vaccine that works for the latter (Smallpox vaccine; efficacy 85%, not bad, oui?).


I still believe we must stay vigilent in preventing the outbreak of rabbititis.

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Agent Smith May 26, 2022 at 07:06 #700894
Reply to Merkwurdichliebe Rabbititis :snicker: