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MuayThaiYogi t1_ixok21f wrote

Monkeypox is still a thing? Haven't heard that name in a long time. Was wondering what happened to the next great emergency.

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Thedracus t1_ixp7f7g wrote

It's still a thing but by far and large the lgbtq comuninity has lived with the stigma of a botched pandemic once before.

Every single gay person I know, got two vaccines doses the second they could. In my city (Cincinnati) the local health dept went to extreme measures to get anyone that was gay or willing to say they were the vaccine for free.

This is what happened the vaccine worked and gay folks took some reasonable precautions for a month or so.

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MagnesnowY t1_ixuqj7e wrote

im a gay folk inside a famously anti gay folk state and i still don't know how to get mine without sone heavy hassle. luckily people aren't reporting their cases so the CDC thinks we have very little

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Thedracus t1_ixurfgz wrote

You need to goto a city with a modern health dept.

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MagnesnowY t1_ixurnlf wrote

thats the plan now that schools out on break for me. kinda still sucks that theres a lot of people unvaccinated here and just assuming they wont get it cuz reports are low or "not gay" or whatever. i know the public impression on monkeypox here is that only gay people get it 100%

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Spongman t1_ixpntcl wrote

The members of the gay community (which was most widely affected initially) are not as a rule crazy right-wing conspiracy nutjobs. They got vaccinated. That’s how a sane population responds to a public health crisis.

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SgtMajMythic t1_ixpyhpz wrote

It’s not an airborne respiratory virus…it only spreads by direct contact and btw there are quite a few gay conservatives.

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Spongman t1_iybwlt2 wrote

where did i say anything about it being airborne or respitory? where did i say there were no gay conservatives?

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SgtMajMythic t1_iyc97cf wrote

The vaccination is not why monkeypox isn’t spreading much. The virus is just inherently not as infectious, but I wouldn’t expect you to understand.

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Spongman t1_iye9sli wrote

how is any of that relevant? i'm not comparing covid & mp infection rates. i'm saying that mp infection rates dropped after the vaccine became available, in response to the original question: 'Was wondering what happened to the next great emergency'

nothing you said above was relevant to the conversation.

but, i wouldn't expect you to understand.

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Cautemoc t1_ixpfvyg wrote

I don't know who was saying it's a great emergency... It's spread by human to human contact, not air-born like most great emergencies.

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Jebus_UK t1_ixpmspd wrote

There was certainly an air of media hysteria suggesting that it could become just thst

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