A “Global Emergency?” Nah, Just Global Political Correctness

 

The World Health Organization (WHO) has only six other times declared a disease-specific “global health emergency.” Covid-19 was the most recent one, although they can’t seem (refuse?) to confirm its origination. Ebola is a highly fatal disease that has inspired several disaster movies. Zika is another one known for causing brain defects in infants born to mothers infected by the virus. MERS, a Middle-Eastern coronavirus respiratory disease, earned the designation in 2012. A pair of especially virulent flu viruses, including H1N1 in 2009-10, largely round out a list that includes several humanitarian crises in places like Afghanistan.

But Monkeypox is the latest. The media, as usual, brims with fear-mongering stories about a disease that is rarely fatal and has infected some 4,000 people – mostly gay men and a few others who have come in contact with them. The Centers for Disease Control (CDC) have piled on, giving it “Alert 2” status and calling for “enhanced precautions.” But they’re not entirely inaccurate about how the disease is spread.

“Cases of monkeypox have been reported in many countries around the world (see global map of cases),” the CDC writes. “Some cases were reported among men who have sex with men. Some cases were also reported in people who live in the same household as an infected person.” (Emphasis added)

The CDC should replace the word “some” with “most.” “Out of the 528 confirmed cases reviewed, 98% of the infections were in gay or bisexual men and the median age was 38 years,” reported the International Business Times. “The cases were diagnosed between April 27 and June 24.”

Blogger and radio host Erick Erickson nails it here:

A few months ago, an international group of gay men engaged in an orgy at a pride event in the Canary Islands. One or more of the participants had monkeypox. A number of the men who participated in the orgy went back to continental Europe, participated in more orgies, and began spreading monkeypox. Some of those people were Americans who brought monkey pox back to the United States.

The spread of monkeypox had mostly been confined to the gay community, mostly spread through group sex. Now, several children have it. They have gay parents in open sexual arrangements who participated in sexual activities with one or more other people, not their partner.

“Both of those children are traced back to individuals who come from the men-who-have-sex-with-men community, the gay men’s community,” Control Prevention and Control (CDC) Director Rochelle Walensky said Friday. We essentially have a global map of participants in orgies and those with whom they came in sexual contact. If only one of the girls in Jeffrey Epstein’s care had monkeypox, we’d have a global map of billionaire sex traffickers. Instead, we have a global map of hedonistic gay men.

This is the uncomfortable truth.

But wait, there’s more:

Read this story about Sebastian Köhn. Mr. Köhn works for George Soros. One of his jobs is to normalize global prostitution. In this piece at the Guardian, he talks about how he contracted monkeypox during Pride festivities in New York.

I had sex with several guys over the weekend. Then a week later, on 1 July, I started feeling very fatigued. I had a high fever with chills and muscle aches, and my lymph nodes were so swollen they were protruding two inches out of my throat.

He got monkeypox and gonorrhea. His gonorrhea is treated as an afterthought in his commentary. What’s so absurd is this:

I’m a 39-year-old man from Sweden, living in Brooklyn and working in philanthropy. For the past decade, my work has primarily focused on sexual and reproductive health and rights, so I followed the outbreak from the very beginning. I had even tried to get vaccinated when New York City launched an initial vaccination drive on 23 June. But like the vast majority of other New Yorkers who tried to get an appointment, I had no luck.

So he had knowledge of it spreading but feels like a victim because he couldn’t get a vaccine and did not want to curb his promiscuous behavior. He goes on to say:

This whole thing just feels like a huge failure that should not have been allowed to happen, especially not two and half months into the outbreak. If someone like me, who has worked in sexual health for a long time, had such a hard time navigating care, I can’t imagine other people doing it. I know several people who are just sitting at home in agonizing pain because they’re not getting the support that they need.

The failure isn’t the system that is not designed to deal with an uncommon African-based illness in New York on the spur of the moment. For God’s sake — you knew it was spreading and how it was spreading but couldn’t control your sexual urges and now blame everyone else.

This kind of adds a new perspective to the decade-old moniker, “Soros monkeys.” Here’s another “uncomfortable truth” from Erickson:

The same public health community that shut down churches, beaches, businesses, and schools and demanded we stop seeing our grandparents are the same public health officials who cannot bring themselves to prohibit orgies. There’ll be no two weeks of no anal to stop the spread of monkeypox despite two years of shutdowns to stop COVID.

Remember, in February of 2021, Europeans were having police bust down doors to stop orgies because of COVID. But they will not do the same for monkeypox.

Given the irresponsible behavior of a few profligate gay men, we now face the risk that the virus will mutate, become more easily transmissible, and likely trigger all kinds of authoritarian impulses. And worse.

Unlike Covid, the disease can be disfiguring but is rarely fatal. However, children are most at risk from this disease. If you’ve had a Smallpox vaccine, you may have some protection.

Did you know that the World Health Organization’s China-backed director overruled a panel’s vote against making it a global emergency? One cannot help but ask about the disparity in government health officials’ reactions to covid – put on your mask to protect grandma! – and Monkeypox.

No wonder people believe our science community has become completely politicized.

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  1. Susan Quinn Contributor
    Susan Quinn
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    And the insanity continues. We wouldn’t want a politically incorrect response, would we?

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  2. Stina Inactive
    Stina
    @CM

    Anyone claiming to be in sexual health that demonstrates such poor sexual hygiene is clearly not one to be listened to.

    Hygiene – put it wear it belongs, monogamy, very few partners approaching 1.

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  3. Jerry Giordano (Arizona Patriot) Member
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    Stina (View Comment):

    Anyone claiming to be in sexual health that demonstrates such poor sexual hygiene is clearly not one to be listened to.

    Hygiene – put it wear it belongs, monogamy, very few partners approaching 1.

    I like this approach, Stina, except the part about “approaching 1.”

    The rule should be one, I think, with an exception for serial marriage after death or Biblically permissible divorce.

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  4. Mad Gerald Coolidge
    Mad Gerald
    @Jose

    Time for social distancing.

    But no…

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  5. Stina Inactive
    Stina
    @CM

    Jerry Giordano (Arizona Patrio… (View Comment):

    Stina (View Comment):

    Anyone claiming to be in sexual health that demonstrates such poor sexual hygiene is clearly not one to be listened to.

    Hygiene – put it wear it belongs, monogamy, very few partners approaching 1.

    I like this approach, Stina, except the part about “approaching 1.”

    The rule should be one, I think, with an exception for serial marriage after death or Biblically permissible divorce.

    Some leeway for divorce or post-widow marriage.

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  6. Caryn Thatcher
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    @Caryn

    Am I the only one wondering about the extent of “close contact” experienced by those two children in those households and where on their bodies the pox manifested?  Generally, a STD in a child is grounds for an extensive potential abuse investigation.  Is child sexual abuse being overlooked because they are living in politically correct, and therefore protected, households?  From an epidemiologic standpoint, it is very important to know how easily these children were infected if there was not abuse.  It really needs to be excluded and surely needs to be investigated.

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  7. Old Bathos Member
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    Based on existing models and policies, if a disease is disproportionately spread by male homosexuals, we need to intensify sex education for elementary school children and convince the general public that they are equally at risk.

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  8. John Park Member
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    According to Breitbart, WHO chief Tedros broke a 9-6 tie.

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  9. Blondie Thatcher
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    Caryn (View Comment):
    Am I the only one wondering about the extent of “close contact” experienced by those two children in those households and where on their bodies the pox manifested?

    No, you are not. I wondered the same thing when I heard about the infected kids. I have yet to read any more details other than they are fine. I didn’t know they were from gay households until I read this. 

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  10. Paul Stinchfield Member
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    Blondie (View Comment):

    Caryn (View Comment):
    Am I the only one wondering about the extent of “close contact” experienced by those two children in those households and where on their bodies the pox manifested?

    No, you are not. I wondered the same thing when I heard about the infected kids. I have yet to read any more details other than they are fine. I didn’t know they were from gay households until I read this.

    That’s a very reasonable question. But it does appear that monkey pox can be spread by casual, “non-intimate” contact and there is reason to believe that aerosol transmission is possible between individuals in relatively close proximity for any length of time such as across a dinner table. (See Wikipedia for starters.)

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  11. Paul Stinchfield Member
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    Old Bathos (View Comment):

    Based on existing models and policies, if a disease is disproportionately spread by male homosexuals, we need to intensify sex education for elementary school children and convince the general public that they are equally at risk.

    I remember when gay activists, pretending to be public health experts, spread that panic.

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  12. Paul Stinchfield Member
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    Kelly D Johnston: Did you know that the World Health Organization’s China-backed director overruled a panel’s vote against making it a global emergency? One cannot help but ask about the disparity in government health officials’ reactions to covid – put on your mask to protect grandma! – and Monkeypox.

    Perhaps they see Monkeypox as an opportunity to panic governments into giving their cronies large sums of money for emergency programs to develop and distribute vaccines: Even cloistered nuns must be vaccinated because #reasons.

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  13. Stina Inactive
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    Caryn (View Comment):

    Am I the only one wondering about the extent of “close contact” experienced by those two children in those households and where on their bodies the pox manifested? Generally, a STD in a child is grounds for an extensive potential abuse investigation. Is child sexual abuse being overlooked because they are living in politically correct, and therefore protected, households? From an epidemiologic standpoint, it is very important to know how easily these children were infected if there was not abuse. It really needs to be excluded and surely needs to be investigated.

    You are definitely NOT the only one.

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  14. Stina Inactive
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    Paul Stinchfield (View Comment):

    Blondie (View Comment):

    Caryn (View Comment):
    Am I the only one wondering about the extent of “close contact” experienced by those two children in those households and where on their bodies the pox manifested?

    No, you are not. I wondered the same thing when I heard about the infected kids. I have yet to read any more details other than they are fine. I didn’t know they were from gay households until I read this.

    That’s a very reasonable question. But it does appear that monkey pox can be spread by casual, “non-intimate” contact and there is reason to believe that aerosol transmission is possible between individuals in relatively close proximity for any length of time such as across a dinner table. (See Wikipedia for starters.)

    Yeah, I don’t trust any of that on health care, but ESPECIALLY not where STDs and homosexuality are concerned. Look at the kind of fall out professionals had over ivermectin and COVID (that was not warranted at all) and then consider what kind of response would occur if the CDC were to claim this is a legit STD affecting one of the biggest protected classes in the country?

    I don’t think they have any cases that were not exposed to it via sexual contact (minus the kids, of course).

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  15. Eugene Kriegsmann Member
    Eugene Kriegsmann
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    Choices have consequences. The health worker who participated in an orgy is an idiot. If AIDS wasn’t enough of a warning against that type of behavior then any new outbreak is a selective pressure. Nature does not like being ignored. BTW, why is that picture of Hunter Biden part of the post? (couldn’t resist!)

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  16. Charles Mark Member
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    There was a feature on Monkeypox on Irish radio today. The interviewee must has have said “we don’t judge” at least three times. It’s a long way from “grannykillers”! 

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