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?

[selkie]

Who checked for highly cursed artifacts last? Was it the dude we found in the mummy case? Did he submit his report before the compensation and protective scarab was sent to his family?

[choco_frosh]

I REALLY hope this turns out to be an isolated case, and that this becomes the equivalent of the squirrels with Bubonic Plague in 2020.

[gwynnega]

I really miss the murder hornets.

[kathmandu]

I am still bemused that it's monkeypox. I was expecting bird flu to be the next big thing: there keep being reports of new, virulent, highly spread-able bird flu in different parts of the world, and it's not even the same strain every time. I just hoped the bird flu would hold off for another year or two until we got to a better Covid situation.

But no, monkeypox. This is not fair.

This unit of 2020 2022 2020 is defective and I would like to exchange it for a new one a unit of equivalent value a refund.

[rachelmanija]

I'm really curious if people will take monkeypox more seriously if it gets widespread enough that they get to see horrifying sores and blisters. It's been something I've wondered about for the entire pandemic.

[vass]

Entirely unreasonable; I would like to second your motion.

[ckd]

I did not want the main benefits of my increased age to be "eligible for a second COVID-19 booster" and "old enough that smallpox vaccination was still a thing when I was a child". Really. I would have been fine with AARP discounts.

[kenjari]

Your Local Epidemiologist has a great, and fairly reassuring, post about monkeypox.
One of the big, useful takeaways from the post is that monkeypox is not a novel virus, so we already have a vaccine, treatment protocols, and really good handle on transmission and how the disease works.
I'm already masking indoors, and I'm going to go back to more frequent handwashing.

[kore]

I know I got All The Vaccines when I was a kid, despite my parents being Christian Scientists, but the records got lost about fifty moves ago and it seems they stopped inoculating babies against smallpox right around when I was born. :-/

One doctor said something in a news report that absolutely chilled me -- that he thought he'd see people masking up and getting vaxxed and taking precautions if they saw a loved one or friend horribly die of covid. He just said, "I thought that would do it, but I was wrong," in total despair.