Posted on 07/30/2022 1:28:01 PM PDT by ButThreeLeftsDo
Monkeypox cases continue to rise in Minnesota and across the country. There are now 5,189 infections nationwide across all but three states.
“I feel like I heard the word monkeypox and I got it and that’s how quickly it happened,” said Kyle Benter. “It’s spreading even faster now.”
Benter has been battling the virus for about two weeks, after having contact with a friend who also later tested positive.
“I actually got it from contact with literally one person,” said Benter. “A lot of people think its people out there having a ton of sex, touching a ton of people, going to clubs, going to parties, or whatever.”
The University of Minnesota graduate now lives in Chicago. He said symptoms started with exhaustion and chills but he didn’t initially think he was getting sick. During a routine doctor’s visit, his physician discovered a swollen lymph node. Benter said the lesions soon started appearing all over his body.
“Every day I was like ‘it’s going to get better, tomorrow it’s going to get better’,” he said. “And it gets worse and it gets worse.”
The pain was so severe, Benter went to the emergency room.
“I was like ‘Can I please for the love of God have something for the pain because it is so unbearable at this point, it’s excruciating it affects every aspect of my life, I can’t even sleep properly’,” he described.
Illinois has reported more than 400 cases, the third highest state in the country. The number of infections in Minnesota has grown from 19 to 33 cases within a week.
“The majority cases are among gay, bisexual and men who have sex with men,” said State Epidemiologist Dr. Ruth Lynfield. “It just happened that it is currently circulating in this group but it can happen to anybody that has close physical contact.”
According to the Minnesota Department of Health, the majority of cases are in the Twin Cities metro area. A case has now been identified in Greater Minnesota as well. The infections have been among men 18 to 55 years old, with a median age of 37 years old.
“If you or your partner have recently been sick, currently have been sick or have a new or unexplained rash, do not engage in close skin to skin contact, including sex, and see a healthcare provider,” said Dr. Lynfield.
The virus is spread through prolonged skin-to-skin contact, including direct contact with a monkeypox rash, scabs or bodily fluids from a person with monkeypox. According to Dr. Lynfield, it can also spread through contact with fabrics, including bedding, clothing, or towels, that were used by an infected person. In addition, respiratory droplets can pass the illness from one person to another.
There is a vaccine available for those who have been exposed or who are at a higher risk of exposure.
According to MDH, there are about 3,000 doses available statewide and another 7,600 doses are expected to be distributed in the next four to six weeks.
The two-dose Jynneos vaccine is provided by the federal government. It is not typically commercially available or stocked by healthcare providers, according to MDH.
“We know that that amount is not nearly enough for the tens of thousands of people estimated to be at high risk in Minnesota,” said Dr. Lynfield. “Vaccine alone cannot stop the spread of this outbreak, practicing preventive measures in addition to vaccine is critical.”
MDH is distributing the vaccines it receives from the federal government to local healthcare providers and health departments.
“I wish there were more places to give out vaccines,” said Jamieson Fang, who lives in Saint Paul.
Fang called Red Door Clinic in Minneapolis to schedule a vaccine after seeing new monkeypox cases in the Twin Cities, including among friends about a month ago.
“Since the disease kind of came into the United States, it’s been in the back of my mind but once some friends are telling me they got the virus in Minneapolis, I started to worry about the spread of the virus,” said Fang. “I just want to be proactive, protect myself and my friends from getting the virus.”
Fang got the first dose last week and will return for the second shot in about a month. According to health officials, the two doses are given about 28 days apart.
“The vaccine itself is quick and easy, not painful […] I have no side effects at all,” said Fang. “I don’t want anyone to suffer that kind of disease so be proactive and get vaccinated.”
Benter also encourages people to seek out a vaccine to prevent further spread.
“It’s traumatizing, it’s really, really bad,” said Benter of the illness. “It’s absolutely important to get out there and get the vaccine.”
Same here! Smallpox scar, and my mother made sure I got exposed to chickenpox and “German measles”. Ugh. I had the most horrible case of itchy itchy chicken pox and was made to wear my little cotton Sunday School cotton gloves to keep from scratching them.
Being a girl, I escaped mumps, but Mom made sure my poor little baby brother caught it as a toddler. It was how responsible patents did it back then. Better to have daughters catch measles as a toddler than to catch it while pregnant as an adult, better to have sons catch mumps while toddlers, too, for obvious reasons.
I still remember getting the “Polio sugar cube” deposited on my tongue by a public health nurse at the A&P grocery store, mainly because my parents were so ecstatic this was now available to protect their child.
The mother of the little girl who lived up the street, who was younger than I, opted not to have her daughter get the sugar cube, and she got polio and then the braces on her little legs. When I was a bit older, I used to push her swing for her in her backyard, play Jacks and Go Fish and other little games with her, read to her, to cheer her up and be a sort of playmamate and “big sister” to her. I used to cry over her once I got home, though.
Her mother ended up being my 7th grade choir teacher. It was her never-ending sorrow that she did not let her little girl get the sugar cube. I may have cried even more over her. What a horrible guilt this poor sweet lady suffered.
Polio is still kicking around Pakistan, too.
Seeing the kids crippled by polio in Cambodia in the early 1990s was beyond heartbreaking. No braces, no wheelcairs, no treatment, no nothing. A few of them scuttled about on all fours, face-up, like upside-down spiders, with seriously deformed elongated and shriveled limbs. I really did think my heart would break into a million pieces. Even those in deveoped countries who witnessed the tragic spectacle of kids in braces and wheelchairs before vaccine was available had no clue how horrific that disease can be in countries without wheelchairs and braces. There’s more, but I’ll stop there, as it’s just too tragic.
Good observation about how hard it is to eradicate horrible diseases. We truly are at war with Nature in that sense, and our viral, bacterial and parasitical enemies are more formidable than we like to imagine.
I also remember waiting in line to get my polio sugar cube. My parents, like yours, were ecstatic that there was a polio vaccine.
My mother taught elementary school during the polio epidemic in the 1950s and had students who came down with polio. Most people were justifiably terrified of polio because there seemed to be no rhyme or reason why some children caught it and others did not. In retrospect, many more caught it than was known at the time, because they had mild cold-like symptoms, but thousands of children who caught it were not so fortunate.
This is the history.com page I was trying to link.
https://www.history.com/news/polio-fear-post-wwii-era
That was a great story. Thanks for sharing it.
Now I’m confused about your age. For some reason had you pegged at younger but now I wonder if you’re a Boomer and not an X’er.
I came along near the end of the baby boom. So I got overcrowded schools (why enlarge and hire more teachers when the boom was about to go bust), came of age during the Carter years and got married in 1980 when unemployment was over 10% and mortgage rates over 18%. Fun way to start out!
Married in 80?
Ok Boomer. LMAO!!
I worked on Reagan’s campaign in 80. Worked hard in fact. I had lots of energy.
I got invited to his Inauguration.
But couldn’t vote for him because I was 17.
That really frustrated me so every time I thought about it, I go to the phone banks, deliver supplies, put together signs, or something to make up for my lack of a vote.
Only takes one entry up the exit to get the PooPusherPox.
Well, Kyle, you ought to find out how your husband got it - or is faithfulness in the gay community passé?
So you’re a tail-end Boomer, too? I thought I was old enough to be your auntie, but guess it’s more like big sis.
My mother used to volunteer me to do campaign work before I was old enough to vote, when they called asking for volunteers. Mom was slick. Good for you for helping elect Reagan.
I voted for Reagan in 1980. My new husband voted for Carter (he was older and a true Boomer). He was very sad on election night, but saw the light at last and voted for Reagan in 1984.
During the dark years of Obama, I kept thinking how we needed another Reagan, but alas, there is only one Reagan. I can’t help feeling the same now. We may be in more dire straits in 2024 than we were in 1980. Between rising food and fuel prices and supply chain disruptions it’s bad enough now. Then there’s the looming food shortage. If the predictions come true, we may well be seeing riots, civil unrest and toppled governments in some countries, and mass migration. Sri Lanka may have only been the first. Looks like Panama may be next:
Meanwhile, Biden is draining our Strategic Oil Reserve while China is filling up theirs and hoarding grain. And The Netherlands, the world’s 7th largest food exporter, is kicking farmers off their land. Idiot Climate Cult. They ruined Sri Lanka already. Now they’re after Holland. Come winter, we may find ourselves living in interesting times.
Yep……made Boomerhood by 2 years.
My wife is extremely worried about food shortages.
Meanwhile we have about 2 years with of food from Augason Farms I kept buying in the 2006-2015. 25-30 year shelf life.
Augason Farms has been out of food since 2020.
They’re just now coming back.
I have thousands of rounds of ammo for almost any caliber.
Including specialty stuff, and about 5,000 rounds of LAP 5.56.
Wild game everywhere here. Hunting sucks because I was a tracker and now all I gotta do is open the door and stick the barrel out.
The deer sleep around the house because because my 3 German Shepherds protect them Wolves, Coyotes, Bear and big cats.
There is a part of me that wants all of the $hit to finally hit the fan.
I want the Climate morons to be put down (politically) once and for all as the nutcases they are and never accepted again as saving anything.
Sometimes my mind set is that people need to suffer to learn what socialism really is, what the green freaks really are.
Or we’ll be playing this game for many more decades.
Always willing to help people. So I won’t be sitting out a SHTF situation.
I have a few buckets of oats (5 gallon size) that are 30 year storage for my neighbor’s horses. Just in-case. Harsh winters here.
I rather resolve these issues now because I don’t think Millennials can and the generation after them (my Grandchildren) seem tougher but by the time they come of age, all could be lost by the dopey Millennials.
I’m not totally geezified just yet so let’s get this over with.
It’s probably a poor attitude but that’s how I feel presently.
The irony of Pelosi getting vaporized by the Chinese is it would be with technology that she and her fellow swamp rats gave them.
Sounds like you and your good wife are ready. Me, I guess I’ll fish and crab to survive. I’m pretty good at fishing, and great at crabbing (if I do day myself) but maybe I’ll nave to get better at fishing to ensure enough fish heads for crabbing. On second thought, maybe I’d better check out Augason Farms.
I don’t really foresee a starvation situation here in the States, although food will get more and more expensive and we won’t have the selection we used to have. We’ll have to bet less picky and more used to high prices. It will be very, very hard on the elderly on fixed incomes, the working poor and the lower middle class living paycheck to paycheck.
They’ll blame it all on Climate Change and the Russians. And likely get away with it. The Climate Cult is a cult after all. #believeanything How’s that for a poor attitude?
Of course not *everyone* will believe that. There are those of us who did not join that cult, but that will be the “narrative” and they’ll stick to it.
Talk about your perfect storm. Two years of shutting down the world’s economies over Covid resulting in a supply chain crisis and precarious food supply, our supremely foolish policy concerning Ukraine, and all this Climate Cult nonsense all at once. Chickens coming home to roost soon.
I’d like to see the Climate Cult disappear, too, but had been hoping it would fade away like the Population Explosion, Global Cooling, The Hole in the Ozone, Acid Rain, Peak Oil, and all the other apocalyptic leftist cults. Their predictions have consistently failed. Now their idiotic policies are turning out to be self-fulfilling prophesy, as it isn’t climate change itself driving the looming famine and its attendant Horsemen of Death and War (and there will be more pestilence, too — always is during famines), it’s their own nutty policies.
Yep, most of the green freaks are watermelons. Having lived in several countries newly recovering from communism, I can say I truly hate communism. I wish the ones who think it so dandy would spend a spell in a commie country to try it out. They would not like it. Of course they say every other country that has tried communism was or is doing it wrong and they would magically get it right. (sigh) There’s no reasoning with the ideologically possessed.
And don’t forget the Chinese are still working on it to make it even more contagious.
Forget “them.” They purposely start these bioweapons in two ways:
First, they purposely start it with gay men, which is a relatively promiscuous group.
Second, they convince you it’s only transmitted by gay men— so your guard is down, as an individual and as a society.
Three, after the first descriptions are out, they continue making it more lethal and more contagious. Okay, three.
It's in the NY papers almost daily!
We all have the vaccination mark on our upper leg.
My mother had it on her upper arm, before they changed the location for attractiveness reasons.
Mine is upper arm, left.
No, it is not airborne. Absolutely not. It can be spread by droplet, but that normally requires prolonged face-to-face contact.
Where did you read the 88-year-old in Spain died? So far, the few deaths reported (two in Spain, one in Brazil, one in India) were all young men.
As for the children, they were both from “the gay community”. See my post #82 on this thread:
https://freerepublic.com/focus/chat/4082124/posts?page=82#82
Yes, it can be caught in other ways besides gay sex, but it’s really not that easy than catch. See my post #100
https://freerepublic.com/focus/chat/4082124/posts?page=100#100
I’m not a jealous person by nature or covet or envy people.
I’m a lot of things, but just not those things.
But your life experiences sound absolutely exciting. I wish I’d done something like that than live like a Rock Star in the 80s.
Yeah the Hole in the Ozone Layer…….I was hoping we be notified when it was over us during summer so I could get a quicker easy tan. 😆🤣😂 (Not joking!)
I was bummed it was a fraud.
Maybe it was a state thing, or just a preference.
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