"While a Clade 1 or Clade 1b outbreak of monkeypox within the United States will undoubted trigger a cascade of corporate media pearl-clutching and would have an impact on the dynamics of the current election cycle, at present that has not happened."
"While a Clade 1 or Clade 1b outbreak of monkeypox within the United States will undoubted trigger a cascade of corporate media pearl-clutching and would have an impact on the dynamics of the current election cycle, at present that has not happened."
A person infected with monkeypox would have to come from Africa (probably the DRC) to bring that virus into the US. While it is always possible that someone could attempt to migrate from the DRC to the US, the time that travel would take if not by air would greatly exceed the incubation period for the virus.
What spread the Clade 2 strain so widely so quickly were the number of people traveling to international LGBTQ events (which, let's be honest, were little more than orgies), picking up the virus, hopping on a plane and coming back to the US or wherever.
What's keeping monkeypox alive in the US is the same promiscuous sex that spread it to the US.
Which makes Tom Lehrer's "I Got It From Agnes" eternally appropriate listening when discussing monkeypox in the modern era!
"While a Clade 1 or Clade 1b outbreak of monkeypox within the United States will undoubted trigger a cascade of corporate media pearl-clutching and would have an impact on the dynamics of the current election cycle, at present that has not happened."
YET!
A person infected with monkeypox would have to come from Africa (probably the DRC) to bring that virus into the US. While it is always possible that someone could attempt to migrate from the DRC to the US, the time that travel would take if not by air would greatly exceed the incubation period for the virus.
What spread the Clade 2 strain so widely so quickly were the number of people traveling to international LGBTQ events (which, let's be honest, were little more than orgies), picking up the virus, hopping on a plane and coming back to the US or wherever.
What's keeping monkeypox alive in the US is the same promiscuous sex that spread it to the US.
Which makes Tom Lehrer's "I Got It From Agnes" eternally appropriate listening when discussing monkeypox in the modern era!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R6qFG0uop9k&ab_channel=ComedyBay
Excellent.