The bad taste of better days

[sovay]

I just wish to submit it is unreasonable to have to deal with the outbreak of a rare disease in the middle of an ongoing pandemic of a novel virus which far too many people are treating with pure denial because they got bored with it, thanks. "One expert told Reuters the recent outbreak of monkeypox could be due to increased travel after COVID restrictions dropped." Wheeee.

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[dewline]

"Could be"?

...yeah. I think we need another lockdown. The fascists are going to scream that we're evil for wanting it, but then...who cares what they're inevitably going to scream anyway to justify the crimes they're working up to against the rest of us humans anyway?

[flemmings]

I've read that those immunised against smallpox have immunity to monkey pox. May be time to break the vaccines out again.

[sovay]

May be time to break the vaccines out again.

The same shot affords protection for both, and I think so, too.

[choco_frosh]

Aren't all the smallpox vaccines kept in a locked lab in Atlanta?
[Looks it up] Oh, okay, that IS the thing that was developed for Monkey Pox.

(Also, Monkey Pox sounds for all the world like a ridiculous made up disease from The Secret of Monkey Island, or something.)

[sovay]

(Also, Monkey Pox sounds for all the world like a ridiculous made up disease from The Secret of Monkey Island, or something.)

According to NPR, we should more accurately be calling it "rodentpox," except that's a mouthful and I bet people would start confusing it with bubonic plague.

[radiantfracture]

Mousepox sounded too cute and also possibly like some sort of subscription service

[vass]

If only we could cancel the subscription.

[dewline]

"Confusing" or "conflating"...

[dewline]

Yeah. Seems like a good idea.