Posted on 08/31/2022 8:09:45 AM PDT by 2harddrive
Fact checkers want folks to stop calling Beto O’Rourke’s bacterial infection ‘monkeypox’ August 30, 2022 | Tom Tillison | Print Article Facebook Twitter Gettr LinkedIn Telegram Gab
OMG. Sometimes, given the state of politics today in America, the abbreviation for “oh my god” is all one needs to say.
Beto O’Rourke, aka Robert Francis O’Rourke, announced on Twitter over the weekend that he had fallen ill and was diagnosed with a bacterial infection, which prompted some on social media to mock the Democrat by suggesting he had contracted monkeypox. Of course, our fact-checking overlords could not allow such blasphemy against O’Rourke, given that he’s running for governor in the state of Texas.
“After feeling ill on Friday, I went to Methodist Hospital in San Antonio where I was diagnosed with a bacterial infection. The extraordinary team there — from custodians to nurses and doctors — gave me excellent care and attention, including IV antibiotics and rest,” O’Rourke tweeted on Sunday.
“While my symptoms have improved, I will be resting at home in El Paso in accordance with the doctors’ recommendations,” he added. “I am sorry to have had to postpone events because of this, but promise to be back on the road with you as soon as I am able.”
Reuters felt compelled to fact-check a number of tweets from random accounts speculating that monkeypox was the real culprit, declaring there was “no evidence” to support the claims. Making the story even more bizarre, a spokesperson for O’Rourke proclaimed the jests are inaccurate.
00:06 / 01:28 “The claims are false. Doctors diagnosed Beto with a bacterial infection, which they treated with antibiotics. His symptoms continue to improve and he will be back on the road as soon as he is able,” the spokesperson told Reuters.
Proving you can’t get nothing past them, the news agency declared: “The claims and speculation do not cite a source, and a spokesperson for O’Rourke told Reuters that the claims are inaccurate.”
One America News Network host Jack Posobiec responded to the production thusly: “Omg”
Reuters also took care to point out that it has “previously addressed the false narrative that monkeypox can only be transmitted among men who have sex with men,” saying the virus can also “be transmitted through close contact, including touching surfaces that have previously been used by someone with monkeypox [and] contact with their respiratory secretions.”
For what it’s worth, men who have sex with men are at the highest risk of infection from monkeypox, according to the WHO, which noted that 99% of cases are among men, and at least 95% of those patients are men who have sex with other men.
As for Beto, he is married to a woman, Amy, and has three children — which means little these days, as Florida Democrat Andrew Gillum proved when he was found unconscious in a Miami Beach hotel with a male prostitute.
Name it, or it’s monkey pox.
I live in Texas and a very very reliable source inside the fake Mexican camp told me that he is suffering from monkeypox! Don’t let his representatives fool you! He suffers from donkeypox!
I don’t remember that from AP.
Maybe things had been tuned down to PG13 by 1986
If he works for Beto, isn't it possible he might be pulling your chain?
BetoPox
I think he has Meningococcal Disease.
It is a bacterial infection, just like he says he has.
And it is a gay man’s disease, there was a huge outbreak in Florida back in June, a bunch of them died.
https://abcnews.go.com/Health/outbreak-bacterial-illness-gay-bisexual-men-florida-left/story?id=85584067
“I did not have sex with THAT Monkey!”
monkeypox is a virus, yah twit.
He is sick from eating dirt the day before. Why? I dunno. He is Beto.
He caught anthrax, which is active in many plots of soil.
I’m cheering for the anthrax. Does that make me mean? No, just tired of having to share a world with idiots who deliberately make life more difficult for everyone else. Like arsonists, drug dealers, molesters, etc.
Democrats are incapable of Truth. It's genetic. Just like homosexuality. They are born, "that way."
He could have any number of common conditions, including cellulitis. If that were the case, he would do better to reveal it rather than let speculation about monkeypox run rampant. I’ve had cellulitis. It can be dangerous but it’s easily treatable with antibiotics and rest.
Eh ... Jack left OAN in early 2021 for a obscure site Human Events. I did not know that it was around still.
Come on man, I don’t wanna see Beto’s butt.
My source is, if memory serves, Hunter S. Thompson’s “Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail.”
See how that works? Straight from the game book of the Gestapo Nazi left wing rats! Reliable source means hard core reliable source!
Good heavens, that is one strong long wide neck.
Gotta be. What kind of bacterial infection keeps people out of the public eye? Oh I get it....the kind where you have giant poxes around your mouth.
He’s got it! He’s got it!
My boss for about 10 years had a PhD in American History—had been chairman of the history department at the University of Guelph—he has all sort of good LBJ stories.
From Wikipedia:
"Monkeypox is an infectious viral disease that can occur in humans and some other animals"
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