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Biden calls monkeypox something 'everybody should be concerned about' - and says further spread of the disease would be 'consequential'
UK Daily Mail ^ | May 22, 2022 | Geoff Earle

Posted on 05/22/2022 4:51:26 AM PDT by C19fan

President Joe Biden called the outbreak of monkeypox something 'everybody should be concerned about, and his security advisor says he has been briefed on the situation. 'They haven't told me the level of exposure yet but it is something that everybody should be concerned about,' Biden said as he left South Korea en route to Japan on a trip that is focused on economic and security issues.

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: disease; lgbt; moneypox; monkeypox
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To: C19fan

I don’t trust anything that nasty old man says and I’m not falling for his fear-mongering.

The old fart is trying to get more of our money.


41 posted on 05/22/2022 6:22:35 AM PDT by Allegra
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To: dynachrome

canary islands event. virus is a sample registered in israel in 2018 but has two small inserts which may or may not be significant.


42 posted on 05/22/2022 6:23:38 AM PDT by WoofDog123
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To: silverleaf

jikkyleaks will be one of the accounts to follow on this. according to them they aren’t sure on the inserts yet (benign or not).


43 posted on 05/22/2022 6:24:34 AM PDT by WoofDog123
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To: silverleaf

also please note we still do not have sequence of the adenovirus associated with the hepatitis cases. you know they have sequences of it....


44 posted on 05/22/2022 6:25:02 AM PDT by WoofDog123
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To: stanne

Needs 60 votes. Republicans are not going for it in those numbers needed.


45 posted on 05/22/2022 6:25:51 AM PDT by napscoordinator (Trump/Hunter, jr for President/Vice President 2016 democratic )
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To: C19fan

Gee, I’m unsure of the size mask I need for my A$$ to prevent the spread of Monkey Pox……….


46 posted on 05/22/2022 6:29:47 AM PDT by Lockbox (politicians, they all seemed like game show hosts to me.... Sting)
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To: C19fan

NO LOCKDOWN YOU DECREPIT OLD COOT. NOT HAPPENING!


47 posted on 05/22/2022 6:35:18 AM PDT by subterfuge (I'm a pure-blood!)
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To: napscoordinator

40 billion for ukraine not 48 billion for American business ppl.


48 posted on 05/22/2022 6:40:09 AM PDT by stanne
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To: napscoordinator

40 billion for ukraine not 48 billion for American business ppl.

And no mention from Biden.


49 posted on 05/22/2022 6:41:03 AM PDT by stanne
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To: cranked

100,000 mules in 435 Congressional districts. Democrats gain 80 seats in the House and 10 in the Senate. Republicans cry and whine and do...nothing. Biden takes total control and becomes supreme leader, outlawing guns and conservative speech. Supreme Court conservatives are detained as ‘threats’ to national security.

Yes, just a crazy nightmare, but things we never thought could happen in our Republic have already happened.


50 posted on 05/22/2022 6:53:10 AM PDT by Deo volente ("When we see the image of a baby in the womb, we glimpse the majesty of God's creation." Pres. Trump)
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To: C19fan

Not to be accepted or believed. They did the same thing for aids. They tried to force us to believe that the disease affected everybody. I remember the commercials and magazine articles.


51 posted on 05/22/2022 6:59:43 AM PDT by I want the USA back (A totally corrupt media willingly lies to protect a totally corrupt administration. )
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To: Mr Ramsbotham

Okay. I’m down with that. Just get the Monkey to say, “I consent” and then sign his name. :0) Otherwise, not.


52 posted on 05/22/2022 7:02:56 AM PDT by Gaffer
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To: who knows what evil?

How about this one? Great to see these old guys have still really got it. Amazing and fun!

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=FGl5ReYunoY


53 posted on 05/22/2022 7:14:36 AM PDT by CatHerd (Whoever said "All's fair in love and war" probably never participated in either.)
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To: C19fan

If there is a silver lining to this, it is that Title 42 has a new reason to remain in force.


54 posted on 05/22/2022 7:19:41 AM PDT by NonValueAdded (Proud subject of the Great MAGA King)
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To: TokarevM57

“They haven’t told me the level of exposure yet but it is something that everybody should be concerned about, Biden said....”

Is that like..”Just like this but only different”


55 posted on 05/22/2022 7:21:04 AM PDT by crz
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To: All

They figure since the last government control method for the panic punks worked so well they will try it again!

Trump effed up letting that little chimp get away with the start of that last one.


56 posted on 05/22/2022 7:23:26 AM PDT by crz
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To: Tupelo

Viruses from nature are always mutating. Most aren’t dangerous to humans but occasionally they jump from their original hosts to other species which of course includes humans.

Living conditions that exist in Sub Sahara Africa and in Asia help promote this condition.
Monkey pox was first discovered in Africa in 1958.


57 posted on 05/22/2022 7:28:51 AM PDT by RedMonqey (Fu%k the Ballot box. Now the Cartridge Box)
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To: C19fan

Before long the Media-Dem Party will be making changes to the election laws to “protect people from monkeypox”, drop boxes, and mail-in voting enshrined in law.


58 posted on 05/22/2022 7:37:35 AM PDT by euram
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To: RedMonqey

So far, it looks like the same old virus, but once it got into a particularly active and promiscuous segment of the gay community, spread easily and far within those “sexual networks” as they are calling them. It’s a fairly stable DNA virus, doesn’t mutate away like say, cold viruses.


We know this outbreak is different, but we don’t know why.

There’s two broad options - the virus has changed or the same old virus has found itself in the right place at the right time to thrive.

Monkeypox is a DNA virus so it does not mutate as rapidly as Covid or flu. Very early genetic analysis suggests the current cases are very closely related to forms of the virus seen in 2018 and 2019. It is too early to be sure, but for now there is no evidence this is a new mutant variant at play.

But a virus doesn’t have to change in order to take advantage of an opportunity, as we have learned from unexpected large outbreaks of both Ebola and Zika virus in the last decade.

“We always thought Ebola was easy to contain, until that wasn’t the case,” said Prof Adam Kucharski, from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.

It’s not clear why gay and bisexual men are disproportionately affected. Are sexual behaviours making it easier to spread? Is it just coincidence? Is it a community that is more aware of sexual health and getting checked out?

It may also be getting easier for monkeypox to spread. The mass smallpox vaccinations of the past would have given older generations some protection against the closely related monkeypox.

“It is probably transmitting more effectively than in the smallpox era, but we’re not seeing anything suggesting it could run rampant,” said Dr Adler, who still expects this outbreak to burn itself out.

https://www.bbc.com/news/health-61524508


59 posted on 05/22/2022 7:42:24 AM PDT by CatHerd (Whoever said "All's fair in love and war" probably never participated in either.)
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To: Sacajaweau

“Why is he saying that....he has zero knowledge.”


Good point, although it could be applied to almost anything he says.


60 posted on 05/22/2022 8:23:18 AM PDT by hanamizu
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