Posted on 07/11/2022 12:26:32 AM PDT by 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.”
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You nailed it exactly.
The disease is spreading among perverts and normal people don’t care. That is what’s driving them crazy.
Sounds like a lot of misinformation ,LOL
Well, the liars have re-opened that playbook.
Like with grooming, the LuggButt “community” will point to others.
SASA. Scare America Straight Again.
Yet AIDS got it’s major outbreak after a homo gathering on Fire Island in NY. From there it spread to homo enclaves all across the USA.
Then they gave blood to spread it to the general population so the CDC would start working on a vaccine for it.
There have been many studies that show HCL and Ivermectin are effective against the China virus.
Any studies that show these are effective against monkeypox?
I’m taking both as prophylaxis against the China virus and wondering if I should add or change something?
AIDS was originally known as GRIDS, gay related immune deficiency syndrome.
This wasn’t “homophobic”, it was because all of the original cases showed up in gay male patients, often as Karposi’s Sarcoma.
CDC researchers used the GRIDS acronym until gay activists complained that they were being singled out for a mystery disease that seemed to be afflicting only them.
Even the NY Times was referring to GRIDS:
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