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New York City Health Department Begs WHO to Rename Monkeypox Because It Stigmatizes Gay People
PJ Media ^ | July 28, 2022 | Rick Moran

Posted on 07/29/2022 6:57:21 AM PDT by C19fan

The New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene has written a letter to the World Health Organization asking it to change the name of the disease “monkeypox” because it “stigmatizes” gay men. The department may have a point. A recent New England Journal of Medicine paper concluded that 95% of monkeypox transmissions occurred “during sex between men.”

Shouldn’t the New York City health department concentrate on stopping the spread of this disease instead of worrying whether the name of the disease might offend some easily-offended group?

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To: Jim W N

acute fudgepackeritis?


41 posted on 07/29/2022 8:12:24 AM PDT by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge)
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To: C19fan

Pride Pox


42 posted on 07/29/2022 8:13:45 AM PDT by gitmo (If your theology doesn't become your biography, what good is it?)
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To: sevlex

Monkeypox reminds me of the British breakfast dish, Spotted Dick.


43 posted on 07/29/2022 8:13:50 AM PDT by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge)
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To: C19fan

Poofter pestilence?


44 posted on 07/29/2022 8:16:55 AM PDT by Clay Moore (Make Jan. 6 Ashli Babbitt Remembrance Day )
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To: C19fan

I guess I’m really prejudiced because I thought “monkey pox” only stigmatized POC’s on the “down-low.”

Disease etiology be damned, LOL


45 posted on 07/29/2022 8:29:35 AM PDT by Pearls Before Swine
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To: C19fan

Hurray! The new name to be called “faggotpox “.


46 posted on 07/29/2022 8:31:43 AM PDT by Vaquero (Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you. )
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To: C19fan

Oh, I thought they were implying that it stigmatizes blacks.


47 posted on 07/29/2022 8:36:42 AM PDT by RouxStir (No Peein' in the Gene Pool)
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To: C19fan

Is it really even monkeypox...


48 posted on 07/29/2022 8:36:51 AM PDT by mewzilla (We need to repeal RCV wherever it's in use and go back to dumb voting machines.)
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To: C19fan

Call it ‘Schlong in Dung Hole’ disease.


49 posted on 07/29/2022 8:46:45 AM PDT by Islander7 (There is no septic system so vile, so filthy, the left won't drink from to further their agenda.)
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To: C19fan

Actually, I think being gay is what stigmatizes gay people.


50 posted on 07/29/2022 8:48:04 AM PDT by Repealthe17thAmendment
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To: READINABLUESTATE

Tucker Carlson had a poll asking viewers to propose a new name for the monkeypox. I don’t know if I can repeat the leading choice, but it’s a Yiddish word that rhymes with “long” followed by the word “Covid,” mimicking “long Covid.”


51 posted on 07/29/2022 9:03:07 AM PDT by Steve_Seattle
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To: C19fan

dipshit disease...


52 posted on 07/29/2022 9:08:47 AM PDT by heavy metal (smiling improves your face value and makes people wonder what the hell you're up to... 😁)
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To: C19fan

How about SodomyPox?


53 posted on 07/29/2022 9:15:34 AM PDT by Dr. Thorne (The Media is the Virus.)
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To: C19fan

Tucker Carlson, commenting off of this news last night, claimed to present a poll they took for suggestions for renaming Monkeypox, and then claimed the winner was “Schlongpox”.


54 posted on 07/29/2022 9:17:31 AM PDT by Wuli
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To: C19fan

did this one originate from africans f-g primates as aids did? hence the name.


55 posted on 07/29/2022 9:32:47 AM PDT by KingofZion
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To: sevlex

Gaypox.

Fixed it.


56 posted on 07/29/2022 9:53:34 AM PDT by If You Want It Fixed - Fix It ( )
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To: C19fan

Stereotypes are models of the truth. Where do they even come from?


57 posted on 07/29/2022 11:32:16 AM PDT by Delta 21 (It started as a virus, and mutated into an IQ test.)
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To: C19fan

Make them state clearly and publicly who feels that reference to a monkey is a personal affront.....


58 posted on 07/29/2022 3:17:11 PM PDT by Iron Munro ( Joe Biden - Inventor Of The First New Language since Esperanto)
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To: Jim W N
"Just call it Sodompox."
Buggerpox has a nice ring to it.
59 posted on 07/29/2022 3:49:24 PM PDT by Hiddigeigei ("Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish," said Dionysus - Euripides)
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To: G Larry
"Shlong Covid" is the new name selected by Tucker's viewers.

Actually selected by SOME OF Tucker's viewers. Choices had to be tweeted to him on Twitter. Eliminated a lot of us.

60 posted on 07/30/2022 9:40:18 AM PDT by JimRed (TERM LIMITS, NOW! Militia to the border! TRUTH is the new HATE SPEECH.)
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