Homophobic misinformation is making it harder to contain the spread of monkeypox

MIT Technology Review ^ | June 17, 2022 | Rhiannon Williams

[Angelino97]

Homophobic misinformation circulating about monkeypox on social media is hampering efforts to curb the disease’s spread, research conducted on behalf of MIT Technology Review has found.

There have been 2,093 confirmed cases of the virus reported worldwide as of June 17. So far cases have mainly been identified among men who have sex with men, according to the World Health Organization. Its director in Europe, which is the epicenter of the current outbreak, sounded the alarm this week, warning that the authorities need to do more to contain the disease.

That job is being made harder by false, often homophobic theories that are spreading on all major social media platforms, according to research carried out for MIT Technology Review by the Center for Countering Digital Hate. These false claims are making it harder to convince the public that monkeypox can affect everyone, and they could dissuade people from reporting potential infections.

Some of this misinformation overlaps with familiar pandemic conspiracy theories, attacking Bill Gates and “global elites'' or suggesting that the virus was developed in a lab. But much of it is directly homophobic and attempts to pin blame for the outbreak on LGBTQ+ communities. Some Twitter posts claim countries where anti-LGBTQ+ rhetoric is illegal are the areas where monkeypox cases are highest, or call the virus “god’s revenge.” In a video shared on Twitter last month, Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia falsely claimed that “monkeypox is really only transmitted mostly through gay sex.”

[Celtic Conservative]

Homosexual promiscuity is to blame for its current spread. It’s not homophobic to state that promiscuous sexual habits spread diseases. That has been true for thousands of years.

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[Adder]

So far cases have mainly been identified among men who have sex with men,

So its “homophobic” to say that?

LOL...Follow the science!

[Baldwin77]

Thank you for that tiny bit of misinformation.

Someone is lying to you.

[Varsity Flight]

“for MIT Technology Review by the Center for Countering Digital Hate”

Hate sin.
Romans 1

[sauropod]

Me as well.

[Sacajaweau]

Me, too....and that’s why it spread, too...they didn’t want gays targeted.

[FlingWingFlyer]

Looks like the author’s mommy and daddy were big Fleetwood Mac fans.

[cuban leaf]

It’s not a gay disease, it’s a butt sex disease. And one of the reasons AIDS was more common in heterosexuals in Europe than it was in the United States was because heterosexual anal sex was more popular in Europe than in the United states.

So, like I said, it’s more accurate to call it an anal sex disease than a homosexual disease. It’s the activity that spreads it easily. Not the sex of the partakers of the activity.

[daniel1212]

The term "Homophobic" is a perversion of a word used as a psychological tactic by those who support perverting what God has ordained.

[daniel1212]

As if sodomy itself was not harmful, not just for eternity by typically physically.

 

Young gay and bisexual men accounted for 83% (6,385) of all new HIV diagnoses in people aged 13 to 24 in 2019, and 92% of HIV infections among men aged 13 to 24 was attributed to male-to-male sexual contact:

 

https://www.cdc.gov/hiv/images/group/age/youth/cdc-hiv-youth-sex-700x698.png  https://www.cdc.gov/hiv/images/group/gender/men/2020/cdc-hiv-men-diagnoses-bar-graph-700x318.png

 

In 2019, heterosexual men accounted for 7% of HIV diagnoses, and heterosexual women accounted for 16% of HIV diagnoses.

The largest percentage of HIV infections was attributed to male-to-male sexual contact (66% overall and 81% among males). .
 

Also according to the CDC (chart),

 

 in 2017  male to male sexual contact was the mode of transmission in 92% of new HIV cases among male youth aged 13 to 24, and  MSM  accounted for 81% of diagnoses among males  and 70%  of all new HIV diagnoses, and 2 out of every 3 diagnoses in the United States.  Which is despite only representing approximately 4% of the male population). 

And which practice (historically)  has resulted in a greatly increased incidence of other infectious diseases   and premature death.  (Even when their disease is well controlled, people with HIV can develop aging-related conditions such as cardiovascular disease, certain cancers, kidney and liver disease, osteoporosis, and cognitive impairment decades ahead of their HIV-negative counterparts, and their life expectancy is significantly reduced.) And which practice is primarily responsible for more than 700,000 people with AIDS having died (as of 2017) since the beginning of the epidemic  - HIV/AIDS has killed more than 700,000 people in the U.S. since 1981despite decades of attempting to tame it into being "safe."  (Worldwide, 77.3 million people have contracted HIV and 35.4 million have died of AIDS-related illnesses since the beginning of the pandemic in 1981 (https://health.usnews.com/conditions/hiv-aids/articles/hiv-statistics) 

 

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God made man and women distinctively different yet uniquely compatible and complementary, and only joined them together in marriage - as the Lord Jesus Himself specified (Mt. 19:4–6) - and Scripture only condemns homosexual relations wherever they are manifestly dealt with.

Yet there is still room at the cross for all who will come to God in repentance and faith, and trust in the Divine Son of God sent by the Father, the risen Lord Jesus, to save them on His account, by His sinless shed blood, and thus be baptized and live for Him. Acts 10:36-47

[Susquehanna Patriot]

“They’re saying the same stuff about monkeypox that they did about AIDS.”

Yepp. And also, wasn’t AIDS reported back then as being transmitted via monkey-to-man sex? The monkey is back in the news again.

[mewzilla]

Why is nobody asking if this is really monkeypox?

Which is, to my mind anyway, an excellent question given the fact that an orthopoxvirus vector was used for at least one if the CoupFlu vaxxes?

[Magnatron]

So now we’re back to the Fauci AIDS model of obfuscation and purposeful confusion which will only cause more widespread infection. Do you have your ribbon?

[Susquehanna Patriot]

Yeh, sure. Same with heterosexuals. That explanation is a tepid version of BJClinton trying to define “sex”. Butt the betting money says most non-celibate homosexuals take the plunger, as most non-celibate heterosexuals have engaged in intercourse.

[outpostinmass2]

Recycled AIDS disinformation.

[Ge0ffrey]

There’s no such thing as “homophobia”

[USAF1985]

Exactly. A “phobia” means a person is afraid of something. I’m not afraid of homos, I just think they’re way of life is disgusting, and I am getting tired of being told I have to care. Thus, I am not a homophobe…

[stinkerpot65]

Democrat perverts have their own special diseases.

[Rocky Mountain Wild Turkey]

But ... but .. I thought all I needed to protect myself from monkeypox was a mask and social distancing?!?!

Now you're telling I don't have to worry as long as I don't put my penis anywhere it is not supposed to go?!?!

[fluffy]

Not misinformation. Anal sex is certainly common, but there is a substantial minority of homosexuals who refuse to engage in it for various reasons, whether the effect it has on the colon or just the natural aversion to smearing oneself with feces. Gays may be degenerate, but that doesn’t mean they walk in lock-step in their sexual proclivities.