"How DARE you!"
Posted on 07/27/2022 4:20:53 PM PDT by oblomov
Men who have sex with men should consider limiting the number of sexual partners they have to reduce their risk of contracting monkeypox, the director-general of the World Health Organization said Wednesday.
In an apparent shift in WHO messaging about monkeypox, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said that the burgeoning outbreak can be stopped, but that people in the community where most transmission is occurring — gay and bisexual men, and other men who have sex with men — should take the risk seriously and take steps to help stop spread.
“For men who have sex with men, this includes, for the moment, reducing your number of sexual partners, reconsidering sex with new partners, and exchanging contact details with any new partners to enable follow-up if needed,” Tedros said during the WHO’s weekly press conference.
Previously much public health messaging, including the WHO’s, has focused on the importance of not stigmatizing gay men in this outbreak, rather than on the role the community could play in helping to stop the spread. Initially, in fact, much of the public health messaging was so vague about who was most at risk that some advocates in the community stressed the need for communications that made clear to men who have sex with men that they were at risk.
On Saturday, Tedros declared the monkeypox outbreak a public health emergency of international concern, doing so despite the fact that a committee of experts he convened to advise him on the issue could not reach a consensus on whether the outbreak rose to the level of a PHEIC.
The unprecedented outbreak, which has spread monkeypox effectively around the globe, is primarily being fueled by transmission among men who have sex with men — especially among men who have multiple sex partners or who have anonymous sex.
That has made some of the tools normally used to control an infectious disease — contact tracing and targeted vaccination — potentially less effective in this outbreak. A number of the confirmed cases couldn’t give contact tracers the names of all of their sexual partners, for instance. Unless contacts can be traced, policies that rely on offering vaccine — which is in limited supply globally — to people who have been exposed to the virus will only help a limited number of those at actual risk.
Keletso Makofane, a social network epidemiologist at Harvard’s FXB Center for Health and Human Rights, said the recommendations from the WHO are appropriate at this time, but cautioned that health officials need to be sure their tone or language doesn’t disparage sex if they suggest people limit their activity. Sometimes, when people talk about halting certain sexual behavior, the implication can be that there is something inherently wrong with the behavior itself, he said.
Makofane is one of the investigators involved with RESPND-MI, an LGBTQ+ community-led survey that’s studying monkeypox cases and providing information about the outbreak and access to treatments and vaccines. The group has also issued guidance for having safer sex during the outbreak, which includes reducing group sex and sex in higher-risk spaces.
“It might be time to hang up the group sex and saunas until we all get shots one and two of the vaccine,” the recommendations say. “This is temporary and out of a love for group sex and those who enjoy it.”
But in mid-May, health authorities in the U.K. reported detecting monkeypox in four men who have sex with other men; none had recently traveled to a country where monkeypox is endemic. In the weeks since, the number of cases has ballooned worldwide.
As of Tuesday, the United States has recorded nearly 3,600 cases of monkeypox across 46 states, the District of Columbia, and Puerto Rico. Worldwide, roughly 70 countries have reported a total of over 19,000 cases.
Guess its a pain in the backside for gay guys...no wait..guess its the opposite..
WHO does WHO think they are?
AIDS was spread through blood transfusions also ...
Some people got AIDS from their dentist ...
Note that he says temporarily. Because all this indiscriminate group sex has never spread disease before this.
And the fact that he’s basically saying as soon as we get monkeypox under control you can go back to getting gangbanged at a gay bathhouse
Take it from Tedros!
When it comes to monkeypox and sex with lots of men he knows what he’s talking about.
Don’t need 6 feet of social distancing. 6 inches or even 6 mm of it would protect.
Monkeysexers need to cut back so they’ll have less fagpox
I say it’s too late now spread it far and spread it wide to all your butt buddies give ‘‘em the bumps
Paging Linda Graham; “OOO-OO-OOOH! EE-EEEE, OO-OOO!”
They talk like gay men are having sex with different partners like McDonald’s take out.
I have two gay friends and they are lucky to get a date once a month.
If Fauci suggested this back in the 80s we probably wouldn’t have had an AIDS epidemic (though homos probably wouldn’t have listened to him)
I'm VERY confused.
Other than gay and bisexual....who/what are these "other men who have sex sex with men"?
Maybe wearing mask would help or two
Sickening how these comments from Tedros are worded in such a way to make it appear that homo sex (and in a group no less) is normalized…. “oh just consider that for the moment, you should reduce your number of partners… “ So everything is just fine, but do cut back a bit. And then there is Makofane… “Um… time to hang up on group sex and saunas… This is temporary and out of love for group sex and those who enjoy it.” Sure… so a temporary problem has arisen to upset what is perfectly normal…
I got news for you Tedros and Makofane…. There is absolutely nothing normal about what God calls an abomination. You can try to normalize sin if you want to but trust me, Got won’t be very cooperative….
Leviticus 20:13
If a man also lie with mankind, as he lieth with a woman, both of them have committed an abomination: they shall surely be put to death; their blood shall be upon them.
It wouldn’t have worked for AIDS. Monkeypox infections become noticeable in less than two weeks. AIDS can be undetectable even by blood testing for nine months or more. Several years even.
They could start a campaign for worldwide abstinence for a month for monkey pox and probably get it under control. To stop AIDS it would have to be a year or two of abstinence.
"How DARE you!"
Is CDC tracking statewide cases like they did Covid?
Absolutely brilliant statement by the WHO.
Am I reading this right? Did some gay guy fornicate with a monkey?
It’s shingles
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