geiser:

geiser:

geiser:

the way monkeypox is being branded as not really an issue and only affecting men who have sex with other men, is honestly so heartbreaking. did we not learn anything from the 80s AIDS crisis?

monkeypox can be spread through sex, its true, but i’ve seen way too many people making light of the situation, jokes like “oh lol nothing to worry about im a virgin!” or “well im not having gay sex so” and lowering their guard, when according to the who “Monkeypox spreads from person to person through close contact with someone who has a monkeypox rash, including through face-to-face, skin-to-skin, mouth-to-mouth or mouth-to-skin contact, including sexual contact. […] Environments can become contaminated with the monkeypox virus, for example when an infectious person touches clothing, bedding, towels, objects, electronics and surfaces. Someone else who touches these items can then become infected.  It is also possible to become infected from breathing in skin flakes or virus from clothing, bedding or towels. This is known as fomite transmission.” and it can also be spread from animals to humans, rodents being one of the possible animal hosts.

be careful, check your symptoms, isolate if neccessary, and remember that anyone can get or pass on monkeypox.

bogleech:

Absolutely fucking horrific that the general public wound up hearing about monkeypox in gay people first and thinks it’s an STD or specifically gay disease. It’s not deadly like HIV but this obviously mirrors that, except the fact it isn’t a fucking STD at all, or even limited to physical contact. It can infect you anywhere, make blisters anywhere, and leave active virus on any porous enough material. Clothing, rugs, towels, seat cushions, not only are people using it for another LGBT witch hunt but they genuinely don’t know their whole families could get it from shopping, seeing a movie, anything.

The last outbreak was from pets, specifically rodents and rabbits, but contained at about 50 cases. This time there’s a couple thousand cases getting worse because most people weren’t told what it actually is or how it spreads and half the country now just thinks diseases in general are liberal hoaxes or whatever the fuck they think. America is a shithole.