This is precisely what Malcolm Clarke and other members of the British LGB Alliance have been saying since mid-May and were pilloried as alarmist. One of Clarke's friends ended up in hospital with it (the friend's partner had stopped off for a quickie in the park and brought home something extra). Clarke wrote on twitter that the illnes…
This is precisely what Malcolm Clarke and other members of the British LGB Alliance have been saying since mid-May and were pilloried as alarmist. One of Clarke's friends ended up in hospital with it (the friend's partner had stopped off for a quickie in the park and brought home something extra). Clarke wrote on twitter that the illness was more serious than the press and WHO were saying.
The figures I saw back in June was that it was almost exclusively gay or bisexual men. There is also this huge reluctance to stigmatize that community or indeed to put an end to hugely profitable businesses. It also could spread to other parts of the community.
The worry is that it does go out further into the community but thus far in the UK, it seems to be confined to this particular community and the reluctance to raise the alarm continues.
No real surprise there as Britain has form for sweeping things under the carpet when they don't want to raise tensions between communities (Telford and Rochdale stand out).
I find it depressingly hypocritical that people who refused Covid vaccinations were decried as "granny murderers," but no one will be allowed to say that people with sores on their bodies might want to avoid having sex until they are confirmed free of monkeypox.
The psy-ops with COVID was awful, I agree. They basically terrified people and the long term consequences remain ongoing. Public Health bodies do seem to be addicted to gross scare-mongering (currently have this about the heat in the UK -- where I am it is 84F and no humidity)
The problem is that many of the super-spreaders for monkeypox might not realise they have it as it can be mild. I know some of the suggestions were to transform the various adult entertainment venues into vaccine centres etc. The LGB A want the venues shut down for a short period. The Powers that Be did not want to stigmatize and it has been allowed to spread.
Anyone who is over 42 will probably have been vaccinated against smallpox and therefore immune.
According to CDC routine smallpox vaccinations ceased in 1972 so probably anyone 50+ has been vaccinated. I am over 42 and have not been vaccinated against smallpox - this article prompted me to dig up my childhood vaccination records (thankfully my mom recorded this stuff in my baby book - hahaha).
the vaccines do not lat forever , i caught whopping cough 8 years ago and had the vaccine as a child , broke 2 ribs i was coughing so much . sure hope the other vaccines last
I was tremendously grateful that my children had all had chicken pox before the vaccine became required. As we learned with the whooping cough resurgence, vaccine immunity does not always last. And chicken pox is far, far worse when you get it when you're older. I didn't get it until I was 12, and I was sick for 2 weeks. I knew someone who got it in his 20s and was out of commission for a month. Whereas my daughter got it as a toddler and was well again in less than a week.
I predict that at some point we will have a severe chicken pox outbreak among 30-something that will kill FAR more people than chicken pox used to when it was an ordinary childhood disease (40 people, nationwide, per year BTW).
This is precisely what Malcolm Clarke and other members of the British LGB Alliance have been saying since mid-May and were pilloried as alarmist. One of Clarke's friends ended up in hospital with it (the friend's partner had stopped off for a quickie in the park and brought home something extra). Clarke wrote on twitter that the illness was more serious than the press and WHO were saying.
The figures I saw back in June was that it was almost exclusively gay or bisexual men. There is also this huge reluctance to stigmatize that community or indeed to put an end to hugely profitable businesses. It also could spread to other parts of the community.
The worry is that it does go out further into the community but thus far in the UK, it seems to be confined to this particular community and the reluctance to raise the alarm continues.
No real surprise there as Britain has form for sweeping things under the carpet when they don't want to raise tensions between communities (Telford and Rochdale stand out).
I find it depressingly hypocritical that people who refused Covid vaccinations were decried as "granny murderers," but no one will be allowed to say that people with sores on their bodies might want to avoid having sex until they are confirmed free of monkeypox.
The psy-ops with COVID was awful, I agree. They basically terrified people and the long term consequences remain ongoing. Public Health bodies do seem to be addicted to gross scare-mongering (currently have this about the heat in the UK -- where I am it is 84F and no humidity)
The problem is that many of the super-spreaders for monkeypox might not realise they have it as it can be mild. I know some of the suggestions were to transform the various adult entertainment venues into vaccine centres etc. The LGB A want the venues shut down for a short period. The Powers that Be did not want to stigmatize and it has been allowed to spread.
Anyone who is over 42 will probably have been vaccinated against smallpox and therefore immune.
According to CDC routine smallpox vaccinations ceased in 1972 so probably anyone 50+ has been vaccinated. I am over 42 and have not been vaccinated against smallpox - this article prompted me to dig up my childhood vaccination records (thankfully my mom recorded this stuff in my baby book - hahaha).
I've got the tell-tale scar on my shoulder, as does my husband and my best friend. We're 55/56.
the vaccines do not lat forever , i caught whopping cough 8 years ago and had the vaccine as a child , broke 2 ribs i was coughing so much . sure hope the other vaccines last
I was tremendously grateful that my children had all had chicken pox before the vaccine became required. As we learned with the whooping cough resurgence, vaccine immunity does not always last. And chicken pox is far, far worse when you get it when you're older. I didn't get it until I was 12, and I was sick for 2 weeks. I knew someone who got it in his 20s and was out of commission for a month. Whereas my daughter got it as a toddler and was well again in less than a week.
I predict that at some point we will have a severe chicken pox outbreak among 30-something that will kill FAR more people than chicken pox used to when it was an ordinary childhood disease (40 people, nationwide, per year BTW).