"Touch him....Love Him...Liebe Meine Abschminke!"
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Proving you can’t get nothing past them, the news agency declared: “The claims and speculation do not cite a source, and a spokesperson for O’Rourke told Reuters that the claims are inaccurate.”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.
I don’t, either. But it is the definitive proof of his protestations he doesn’t have it. Or, as I said, he could just show us a full detailed picture of his mouth. :0)
IMO, something ain’t right here. Just sayin’
Hey, he’s on preventative dirt, so...
He does act a little light in the loafers.
No one denies something this adamantly if they don’t have it.
To me this is confirmation that Beta O’Rourke has monkeypox.
(I already knew he was queer)
So … if Beto didn’t have monkeypox, what did he have? Bacterial infection that required IV antibiotics is too vague. How did he acquire it? Has he been eating dirt from where the invaders are coming in? Did he cut himself shaving and take a dip in a stagnant pool of rainwater? So many possibilities.
Lots of Legend in Texas Politics—
It turns out governor Hogg (”If English is good enough for Jesus”) did not have two daughters Ima and Ura.
He only had one, Ima.
“ 99% of cases are among men, and at least 95% of those patients are men who have sex with other men.”
That 4 percent difference also have sex with men, but lie about it
Simianpox then?
Beto shock the monkey!
"Touch him....Love Him...Liebe Meine Abschminke!"
LOL
That makes Beto as happy as a little girl...
Come on Amerika! Do what the “fart checkers” tell you to do. ROTFL.
How about simply, Peckerpox.
Well, actual bacterial infections can be tough. The wife spent 6 1/2 weeks on IV antibiotics for a knee infection. A week in the hospital after emergency surgery and then the rest at home doing the antibiotics thru a PIC line three times a day. Hard to control some bacteria, Daptomycin finally did it for my wife.
Monkey pox. The perfect infection for banana republic politicians.
Can we just call it “AIDS” then?
Tit-for-tat manipulative “fact” checkers (Who can't figure out the what context is to save their lives).
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