[hanamizu]

“that everybody should be concerned about.”

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As I understand it, all of the first cases in Europe involve gay men. The big spreader event in Belgium was a ‘fetish festival’.

Like AIDS, “everybody should be concerned”. Why? Well, just because.

While they certainly would like to, I don’t know how we lock down the nation because of a gay illness.

[rktman]

Like San fran’s Folsom street fair(y) event?

[Owen]

Monkeypox rarely kills, though it does have a deathrate of between 1-10% almost entirely among children.

Only some recent report had any mention of gay sex as the transmission mechanism. The disease has been around for decades in Africa and very young children of either gender do get infected, clearly not via gay sex. So thinking you are not vulnerable because you are not gay is somewhat pointless, since deaths are mostly in children.

[BipolarBob]

The big spreader event in Belgium was a ‘fetish festival’.

Well that does it for me. No more Belgium fetish festivals for me. Sure, I'll miss them but sacrifices have to be made.