Question: Is this going to be the next big pandemic scare?
(Because I DID get COVID, which wasn’t that bad although I was pretty sick, and I sure as h3ll don’t want to get freaking monkeypox, AND I don’t want whatever vaccine they’re gonna push as the solution for it. Something tells me they’re going to be rather more forceful and lockdown-y about something called monkeypox.)
I agree.
I think it will be worse. I think the line will be, get the new vax as a preventative measure... keep your community and family safe by doing your part.
They don’t even have to have a lot of people getting it, just news coverage of a few unlucky bustards.
A disease with 10% death rate is going to get some attention.
The public would support rounding up non-compliers for sure.
I think they take advantage of any opportunity to inculcate fear. With the current situation of young people advertising their sexual proclivities, likely the population of *men who have sex with men* has increased and actually includes prominent people.
That said, the hints being dropped pre-Ukraine and pre-SCOTUS leak indicated filaviruses like the hemorrhagic fevers. Hoping the Yellow Fever shot we had in order to travel back in 1975 is still good. Neither of us has received anything besides small pox, oral polio and several DTAP (or however it is written), since there is no single tetanus anymore.
I think there is a tincture from a purple pitcher plant being made/sold on handcrafted ethno-botanical sites touted for smallpox. Might help with monkeypox, idk.