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Modern Discontent's avatar

I wonder if The Atlantic knows that one of the first reported outbreaks of monkeypox in the US was because of prairie dogs serving as reservoirs.

I think it's rather interesting how this monkeypox is playing out. I suppose it should remind people to be in-tune with their own bodies and know when things don't look right.

I think if the same recommendations of lockdowns happen, then we'll know what's really going on here. Quite frankly, the mask wearing thing is ridiculous. Of all things, monkeypox should be easy to contain even within a household unlike SARS-COV2. I think the idea of wearing masks around loved ones for fear of them having monkeypox just sounds like something that may have come from the AIDS epidemic of the 1980s.

Maybe Fauci is going back to his roots?

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Johnny Dollar's avatar

So Monkeypox is not PC. Will scientists, led by Tipper Gore, demand the record label change the title to Major Lance's 'Monkey Time'?

Fun with facts: Quebec has 171 confirmed cases or about 7% of the world's cases. Hmmm. Remember, if you accept that Canada is just about one of the most thoroughly corrupted countries (with Quebec as the supreme leader within its provincial ranks) in the West (as I do). you'd find that statistical anomaly strange. Just talking out loud.

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