Monkey Pox: The Spread Continues - PART 4

PART 3

The whores will not be able to refrain from indulging their addiction over pride weekend. It's futile to even expect that. Look for cases to explode. Personally, you wouldn't catch me NEAR a hot guy atm, even if he were to beg me to fuck him.

We should all breathe easier once the Montrealese gays are all vaxxed. Biggest whores on the planet.

It's comforting only a single case was linked to the Chicago IML festivities.

Contract tracing appears to have minimized the spread.

Forget monkey pox, where is the covid outbreak everyone was talking about a couple months ago? People were to going to be laying dead in the streets! I even heard it from the experts and not just the usual nellies on here.

Literally no one said that about Covid, moron at R5. No one. The cases, however, are everywhere. The Fall will be even worse. I'm so sorry reality hurts your fee-fees.

I have a friend from East Africa who's more scared of monkey pox than COVID

r6 I most certainly heard that exactly you ignorant cunt. The cases are ever? Why is there no mask mandates then? Go fuck yourself.

Girls! Girls! We're not even 10 replies in yet.

468 confirmed Monkeypox cases in a day. A new record.

If the man in the big yellow hat looked like that without his clothes, I'd be curious too.

Where I live in CA small city, there haven't been any new cases of covid for a month. I got my first booster a couple of days ago. I think Covid will be endemic and mild as cold from now on. Last Thursday a friend of mine died. She had been suffering with what she thought was a long covid. She lost the ability to smell or taste anything and had brain fog, anxiety, and paranoia for a year. then she started to have problems talking and walking. They did a brain scan and it turned out to be an aggressive malignant brain tumor. They tried to do a biopsy and she had a brain bleed and never woke up.

Just got back from the baths. They were hopping tonight. You'd never know covid and monkeypox were spreading like wildflower. I tricked with two guys. Neither had a pox or lesion in sight. I figure I'm good.

[quote]You'd never know covid and monkeypox were spreading like wildflower

yasssss 🌈🦋

[quote] Just got back from the baths. They were hopping tonight. You'd never know covid and monkeypox were spreading like wildflower. I tricked with two guys. Neither had a pox or lesion in sight. I figure I'm good.

Right. Cause they're lit like a 99 Cent Store and you were able to seeing everything.

R13 Did you swab them for COVID as well?

Get back to us in a few days, R15. You're our man on the ground!

TEXAS !

Missouri!

Indiana!

r13 = 0/10

[quote]I think Covid will be endemic and mild as cold from now on.

At least 300 Americans a day continue to die from Covid.

My triple vaxxed friend, aged early 40s, has been ill with Covid all week. She's sick as a dog.

^and I had a bad case of the flu four years ago despite having gotten the flu vaccine that year. What's your point?

R4 It must’ve been an immaculate infection

I just want to see everyone more attractive than me disfigured. Is that too much to ask?

I thought we weren’t calling it that anymore.

Life’s a banquet, right fucking imbecile at R13?

at least 3 cases have been reported from IML. 1 Chicago resident and at least 2 more from another state. Wonder if anyone catches it at Folsom East today?

It would be a shame is ugly people contracted it. It seems as though it's only the good-looking fuckable sluts that are getting this, and it couldn't happen to a more elitist group of people. Fine by me!

R28 sounds like a serial killer

[quote] sounds like a serial killer

A 𝑠𝑒𝑟𝑜𝑙𝑜𝑔𝑦 killer

Agreed R28 let the whores and hot ones get it. They deserve to be put down a peg.

Totally agree, r31. Let them eat cock!

There's this guy in my gym who fucks around with other guys. Oh he's got a gf and probably identifies as straight. He's all bro this and bro that with his boys when they're working out, but my friend hooked up with him via grindr and says he's a huge bottom slut. His boys probably have no idea that at the very least he swings both ways. Btw his gf is Asian, which is always a telltale sign of a guy on the DL. I'm making popcorn as we speak in anticipation of his being forced out of the closet when he contracts monkey pox. It's all too delicious for words.

Missouri

New Jersey

Indiana

Jersey City - damn

What about MARY!!!!!!!land r34?

Two gay male poxes in forty years. You'd think it might curb the rampant and random whoring but of course it won't. PrEP is the worse thing to happen to the gay community since AIDS itself. Wonder what the next disease will be that the whores will fight to get? Are there any monkeypox bug chasers yet? Gay men seem to hate themselves more than anyone else hates them and it's fucking sad.

R14 is not only a slut, she’s an illiterate slut!

317 cases in Berlin.

No kidding

And Berlin Pride is still a month away.

I love the delicious irony of those who were vaccinated for small pox and thus less susceptible to mp are not even remotely fuckable.

Bi-Curious George is very funny OP

Thank you

R42 - Tell that to Brad Pitt

Of course the CDC hasn't updated their tracker in 4 days. I am sure it will be up from (worldwid) 2525 cases.

R42: And George Clooney - and before you talk shit, there are gay men over 50 who take care of themselves and not fat or ugly. DL is not indicative of older gay men in NY, LA, DC or ATL.

Berlin went from 259 on Friday to 317 today.

r45 The Monkeypox Outbreak Global Map: Clear illustration of "No (fats, femmes or) Asians" in the community.

Gay Pride parade in NYC this Sunday!

I predict a floatilla of monkeypox cases, R49.

It's tragic that it has to take being disfigured for life for these little hussies to curb their whorish behavior. Oh well, you reap what you sow as I always say.

Monkeypox outbreak may get 10 TIMES bigger: UK's Covid lockdown architects warn 'major' epidemic is 'highly likely' as health chiefs log 200 more cases of tropical virus

he claim was made by a group of top experts, including members of the same Government advisory committee behind gloomy models used to justify lockdown restrictions.

London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine researchers argued it is 'highly likely' that another 10,000 people would be sickened with the tropical virus worldwide.

The modelling suggested, however, that any surge in cases among groups other than gay and bisexual men was 'unlikely'.

Dozens of countries, including the US, Spain and Germany, have been struck by the outbreak — the biggest ever detected outside of Africa to date. Almost all of infections so far have been spotted in the men who have sex with other men community.

Authorities are desperately to contain the tropical virus, amid fears it could become endemic in Europe.

British health bosses reported another 219 infections today, bringing the UK total to 793. London is the country's virus hotspot.

UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) officials confirmed 216 of the new cases were detected in England, while two were spotted in Scotland and one was confirmed in Northern Ireland.

The scientists behind the monkeypox modelling include Professor John Edmunds, an LSHTM epidemiologist who was among the most outspoken SAGE members during the Covid outbreak.

Two other study authors are also Government advisers, sitting on the notorious SPI-M modelling committee. It warned of up to 6,000 deaths per day in the run-up to the Christmas just gone, despite the actual peak being 20 times lower.

Without tough interventions, they also warned Omicron could potentially cause daily hospitalisations to breach 10,000 — quadruple the figure that happened in reality.

In their latest modelling, Professor Edmunds and other LSHTM scientists looked at how monkeypox could keep spreading.

Their estimates were based on sexual partnership data in the UK, gathered from a survey of 45,000 people that is conducted every decade.

Monkeypox, which will be renamed because of claims that it is discriminatory towards Africa, is not normally a sexually-transmitted infection.

But it is thought to be the main mode of transmission in the ongoing outbreak.

The virus, first discovered in lab monkeys in the 1950s, can also be spread through touching clothing, bedding or towels used by someone who is infected.

At the time of the modelling on May 31, 728 confirmed and suspected cases had been reported worldwide in more than 25 countries. Since then, almost 3,000 infections have been logged worldwide.

The results, published on pre-print website medRxiv, show that without interventions or changes in sexual behaviour, it is 'highly likely' that a 'major outbreak' would be seen among men who have sex with men.

Thanks, gays! Geez, gay sex really is the gift that keeps on giving. Maybe that should tell us something. Have a very blessed day.

I'm actually surprised this hasn't gotten into the het community yet from all the downlow men. I figured by now, we'd seem more crossover cases.

They're probably not reporting it like most new Covid cases.

From R52, sounds like the vaccines will be given to PREP users:

[quote] Under the plans, endorsed by the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI), those eligible for pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) — a pill that protects against HIV — will also be eligible for the vaccine.

R54 it also hasn't really moved on to the gay community at large, not even among those who have occasional casual sex. it has (so far) stayed within a network of men who have lots of group sex and a constant rotation of partners. specifically within groups that travel for group gatherings involving anonymous sex

well duh

Man gets painful, drug-resistant ‘super gonorrhea’ on international vacation

An Austrian man reportedly caught a new drug-resistant strain of the sexually transmitted disease after having relations with a sex worker in Cambodia.

According to the World Health Organization, ”super gonorrhea” refers to a strain that has a high level of resistance to currently recommended treatments.

If multidrug-resistant strains of gonorrhea start to spread, many cases of the STD might become untreatable.

A report published last week in Eurosurveillance warned that the new strain could pose a “major global public health threat,” according to the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control.

The report detailed that the man in his 50s had unprotected sex with a female sex worker in Cambodia in April 2022 and, five days later, he experienced pain while urinating and witnessed a discharge coming out of his penis.

He was given antibiotics, which resolved the symptoms, but more testing still showed a positive result, so he was further treated with an antibiotic containing penicillin called co-amoxiclav.

According to the Mayo Clinic, if left untreated, gonorrhea can cause infertility in both women and men, can increase the risk of HIV/AIDS or could spread to the joints and other areas of the body.

According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, gonorrhea is one of the most commonly reported sexually transmitted infections in the United States.

The CDC estimates one in five people in the US has a sexually transmitted infection.

I know it's not monkey pox but I thought since it was sexually transmitted, i'll post it here.

And he got it from a female sex worker. Uggh.

So monkeypox is really PNP pox?

We got a new name: PNPP

Make a separate thread retard r60

Does anyone know someone personally who has contracted monkeypox?

Has Connor Jessup been accounted for?

[Quote]The virus, first discovered in lab monkeys in the 1950s, can also be spread through touching clothing, bedding or towels used by someone who is infected.

I haven't really followed this outbreak and I do not have unprotected sex with random strangers, but how likely is it to get monkeypox at the gym or sauna? There're obviously a lot of gay men at my gym and we use the same equipment and facilities. I'm surprised you can get it by touching a towel or clothing from an infected person. So does it also spread via surfaces?

R67 it seems like that kind of spread would be very unlikely and very very rare

The gym is probably the excuse everyone will use, especially the DL guys.

Just when I thought it was safe to go back to the gym!!

Gay and bisexual men WILL be offered monkeypox vaccine in targeted rollout: UK steps up efforts to thwart outbreak amid warning it could get 10 TIMES bigger as health chiefs log another 200 cases

British Airways crew is put in isolation over monkeypox fears after one tests positive for the infection in Singapore

An entire British Airways crew has been put into isolation in Singapore after one of them caught monkeypox.

The two pilots and nine stewards and stewardesses have all been put in quarantine for 21 days, it is understood.

Health officials detected the infection in one steward when staff were tested after landing on Sunday evening.

A BA insider said: 'One of them had it, so they impounded the whole crew. Now they have got to spend 21 days in quarantine.

'Everyone has been told not to talk about it – but it's all everyone is talking about.'

The flight is on British Airways' flagship London to Sydney route, which goes via Singapore.

The crew are believed to have completed the outward journey and had a 24-hour stopover in the Australian city.

The positive test reportedly came when they were on their way back to the UK.

A BA spokesman said: 'We're working closely with the Singapore Health Authorities and have offered assistance with any information they require.'

It comes as the UK Health Security Agency advised that thousands of men at high risk of getting monkeypox should be offered a vaccine.

Gay men are sluts, pure and simple. Is their nothing they won't do for a quick shot of cum to coat their hole?

Serious question: if I clean off gym equipment with Clorox Wipes, do you think I'm in the clear?

R74, yes.

Thanks r75

R67, there have been very few cases in the West of transmission between people who have not had direct physical contact.

All those in-demand circuit holes being put out of commission for the summer. Tragic.

I'm not so sure we're safe at the gym. I spied a known gay slut with what looked to be a pimple on his left bicep using the bench press machine last night. Well, I also noticed that it was DRENCHED in his sweat, and the little tramp couldn't be bothered to wipe it down. I then saw him race to the locker room for god knows what in the steam room. Now you can't tell me that the next person to use bench press isn't at risk for contracting mpox from the little hussy's sweat if he did have the disease.

R77 Reading through the limited studies since the outbreak began I haven't seen a single case that has not been spread through prolonged direct physical contact. it's probably also important to note that the cases in Europe and America have presented differently than the cases in Africa. Perhaps a different strain? The ones in Europe in America are manifesting in ways the STDs usually do. Lesions on genitals and in the rectum. Spread almost exclusively with sexual activity.

Who will be the Rock Hudson of mpox?

I really hope it's confined to rabid cumsluts and doesn't make it's way into the general pop and infect innocent people.

You’re doing a great job gramps ^

British tourist, 30, is loaded into a Chinook helicopter in a sealed capsule after being ‘diagnosed with monkeypox’ on Greek island of Naxos

A 30-year-old British tourist in Greece was rushed to hospital in a sealed capsule over fears they have monkeypox.

A video shows the moment the Brit is loaded onto a helicopter on the Greek island of Naxos, before they were flown to Athens.

According to ANT1, the tourist was on vacation on the island of Cyclades, when he first showed symptoms.

The National Public Health Organization was immediately notified and the suspicious case was transported by Chinook helicopter on Tuesday afternoon.

The patient will remain for treatment at Attica Hospital for the next 20 days at least to undergo further examinations in a controlled environment, local outlets reported.

On June 8, Greece detected its first case of the monkeypox virus infection in a traveller.

As of June 15 the nation only had two reported cases, while the UK's figure has rocketed over 800 cases.

On a Netherlands website it claims that a large majority of those getting it is “men having sex with men and in Germany.” Geez, it’s been over 75 years, people, let it go, already.

Why is the Daily Fail so invested in this story? Are no other UK news outlets covering it?

Wonder if the story at R72 has any bearing on the recent flight cancellations in the US.

Do they have "free" healthcare in Greece as well? I wonder what the bill for Chinook helicopter would be and the 21 day stay!

[quote] The two pilots and nine stewards and stewardesses have all been put in quarantine for 21 days, it is understood.

You just know it wasn't the stewardesses who caused all this trouble

The DailyMail is a lurid tabloid for morons and retards r86

Which explains why a certain troll spams links to Daily Mail incessantly

I like to post links from Daily Mail coz it's free and they compile reports from other news agencies, so it's pretty reliable.

Monkeypox is not a bad person's disease, Rose!

𝐂𝐃𝐂 𝐰𝐚𝐫𝐧𝐬 𝐨𝐟 ‘𝐡𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐨𝐫𝐢𝐜’ 𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐢𝐧𝐠𝐨𝐜𝐨𝐜𝐜𝐚𝐥 𝐨𝐮𝐭𝐛𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐤 𝐚𝐦𝐨𝐧𝐠 𝐠𝐚𝐲 𝐦𝐞𝐧 𝐢𝐧 𝐅𝐥𝐨𝐫𝐢𝐝𝐚

The Centers for Disease Control and Florida health officials are warning of a “historic” meningococcal outbreak among gay and bisexual men that has killed seven and severely sickened 24 others.

The alarming surge in cases had led the CDC to recommend vaccines for all gay and bisexual men in the Sunshine State.

The agency characterized the ongoing transmissions “as one of the worst outbreaks of meningococcal disease among gay and bisexual men in US history.”

The bacteria can spread through saliva and transmission requires close contact, health officials said.

Kissing or being near an infected party that coughs can cause an infection.

“Meningococcal disease can affect anyone and can be deadly and includes infections of the lining of the brain and spinal cord (meningitis) and bloodstream,” the CDC said in a statement.

[quote]The Centers for Disease Control and Florida health officials are warning of a “historic” meningococcal outbreak among gay and bisexual men that has killed seven and severely sickened 24 others.

Start another thread retard

I bet that steward is very unpopular with his coworkers now.

One has to wonder if PrEP wound up doing more harm that good. Guys stopped using condoms, allowing these other STDs to take on new life. It was irresponsible of pharma companies not to hammer home the fact that PrEP should be used in conjunction with condoms.

If he was ever popular with his coworkers that is.

R96 hasn’t had a man touch him since the second Reagan administration

r66 The infected Korean man came from Germany where the outbreak is second biggest outside Africa

.,.,

r98 will have festering sores all over his body by this time next week.

Strikes, thunderstorms, and now MONKEYPOX! Glastonbury revellers are warned of skin-to-skin contact danger by health chiefs as the music event returns for the first time in three years after Covid delays

The UK Health and Security Agency (UKHSA) has now urged the 20,000 people who are set to descend on the site for the five-day-long festival to be mindful of the disease as case numbers in the UK continue to rise.

So far 793 people in the UK have tested positive for the virus, with the vast majority of these cases being found in England, and in gay and bisexual men.

Earlier this month the World Health Organisation (WHO) warned that festivals in Europe this summer could act as super spreading events for the disease.

Thousands of people queued at the entrance to the farm yesterday morning, eager to start five days of partying and ready to enjoy a star-studded line-up of music acts including headliners Billie Eilish, Sir Paul McCartney and Kendrick Lamar.

And the first day saw crowds bathed in glorious sunshine, as the British summer welcomed revellers back to Somerset for the first time since 2019.

People both young and old and from all parts of the UK - and some even from abroad - descended on the farm near Shepton Mallet, powering through the ongoing national rail strike that has paralysed train networks across the country.

Dressed in brightly coloured clothes and enjoying the festival atmosphere, those who got there early showed no signs of letting the strike ruin their good mood.

The festival's main stage will not open until Friday, with headliner Billie Eilish set for the iconic Pyramid Stage followed by Sir Paul McCartney on Saturday and rapper Kendrick Lamar bringing the event to a close on Sunday.

However, DJs and live music is planned from today for eager fans who have arrived at the site early - as more than 200,000 people are expected to descend at Glastonbury over the next two days.

Kill the DailyMail troll ^

Just when I got over my sex paranoia from growing up during AIDS, there’s this. I’ve always been an oral only guy - habit picked up from the AIDS era. But sounds like this is literally just touching the skin? Doesn’t quite make sense. It’s not semen - just touch? And then it apparently shows up in genital area - which seems like it would require genital to genital connection.

The Guardian had an article today about how our fear of giving fodder to the right wing vultures has inhibited discussion of this. Between Covid and this, it’s like growing up in the AIDS era was training for like in the 21st century.

R104: AIDS killed you, MK don't/won't. No comparison (except for labeled as gay disease again).

These ancient fags are on high alert because their PTSD is triggered by a highly exploitive tabloid even though they’re at no risk of contracting monkeypox because they too old and too fat to have sex

Trolls exploit these geezers irrational fear like clockwork

Both saddening and hilarious

Are they saying it manifests differently in the cases where it's caught through gay sex?

I feel like they are not telling us everything...

Same R108

Diseased queers. A story as old as time. You'd think they'd learn.

You are doing a great job gramps! *

New York City began offering vaccination against monkeypox to at-risk groups on Thursday, as authorities scramble to contain a global outbreak.

But demand was so high, within hours of launching the program the city had to cut off walk-in appointments, and scheduled visits were already booked through early next week.

Ask Tim Hickernell how he's doing and the New York City man will tell you he has "seen better days" as he works to recover from a bout of monkeypox, a rare disease usually confined to Africa that is now seeing its largest-ever outbreak in the United States.

The actor is one of at least 30 people who have tested positive for the virus in New York City since early May. Almost all of the NYC cases, which represent more than 20% of the total diagnosed nationwide in the latest outbreak, involve men having sex with men.

R107 Sometimes. There are vesicles, pustules, lesions, and scabs in and around the rectum, anus...

^bleeding as well

That guy has been places.

Is the guy in r113’s post good looking to trigger glee at his disfigurement by the fat fug incel monkeypox troll?

[quote] New York City began offering vaccination against monkeypox to at-risk groups

At-risk groups. Don't they mean "gays"and "trannys" ?

If this were spreading on the playgrounds the Emergency Defense Production Act would already be queuing up to overproduce vaccines. Silent Homophobia is still alive.

The partying is all for the hot guys. Literally. They'll come to know the misery of being a shut-in terrified of showing their disfigured faces to the world. Can't wait.

yes, just saw the report on NY1 that there are not enough doses of the vaccine!

R119, at this point, getting monkey pox or HIV is completely voluntary. Stop being a whore, don't get sick. Seems pretty easy.

R121, the Monkeypox vaccine is new, only one company produces it, and six months ago no one knew we were going to need it.

I loathe the irony of me being immune, as I had the small pox vaccine as a child, but too ancient to find anyone who would want to fuck me. Not that I was ever considered good looking or had guys knocking down my door when I was younger, but I did ok. My sole wish is that the young and beautiful tramps who get this will understand for the first time in their entitled lives the soul-crushing feeling of not being wanted. Finally, the tables will be turned.

Do they have any idea of when the vaccine will be widely available?

592 cases in Germany most in Berlin

It’s that gay sauna across the street from Mustafa Gemuse Kebab in Kreuzberg that must be Ground Zero for the Slutpox.

It really is becoming a concern. There was a vaccination clinic in Chelsea for NYC and on Melrose in LA today. Both had several hours’ long lines. OOMF is quarantined right now on the west coast with it. He was supposed to be home for Pride and Horse Meat Disco tomorrow night, but now he’s suffering. Very scary.

[quote] One has to wonder if PrEP wound up doing more harm that good. Guys stopped using condoms, allowing these other STDs to take on new life.

Do you use condoms for blowjobs R96? Condoms for handjobs? Dental dams for rimming or kissing? Because if you don’t I’ve got bad news for you, it’s the exact same as not using a condom for anal sex as regards transmitting or contracting a bacterial or viral STD (HIV obviously not included because of PREP). I swear some of you are so stupid 😭

Dumbass at R129, the point is that it revved up the whore culture.

Monkey 🙉, 🙉do

R131 is drunk, unless he meant 'Monkey monkey, monkey do'.

Is there any chance that this filthy disease will be a wake-up call for those who need one? Is being a PNP participant ie, sex addict, really so rewarding that it is worth these monumental risks? Being treated for a systemic bacterial or viral infection does not mean you come out as good as new. There are residual effects on your body, the least of which is increased resistance to the treatments in future.

Has that guy from BRAVO been vaccinated yet?

And now we must worry about the incurable new strain of gonorrhea.

R135,

I remember reading about a British guy who got resistant gonorrhea from a female sex worker in Thailand a few years ago. It seems that resistant gonorrhea has been a hetero problem so far.

R133,

I don’t think anything will stop the slutty gays. There really are two types of gays- the sluts keep going well into their 60s while there are plenty of 20-somethings who have already settled down.

Some days I feel like I've logged into MARY!!!!!!Lounge

Yep r137…these ancient fags with their PTSD and their increasing wild jealousy are hilarious

F&F r138

F&F r139

Slut shaming aside, condoms, or not, this virus would still be spreading on account of the close contact of the men alone. The only difference may be that the pox usually do not present in and around the anus and genital area.

The men have lesions on hands, mouths, chin, entire faces, arms, trunk, and legs. It isn't only confined to erogenous zones.

^I think the problem is that most people are already infectious long before they have lesions on hands, mouths, arms etc. WTF would have sex or make out with someone who has bloody lesions all over their body?

A scientist discussed that we could still stop the spread if high-risk-groups were abstinent for a couple of months, immediately ban high-risk events and close locations and simultaneously vax high-risk groups. Of course this won't happen. Gay rights groups would scream discrimination and people will never voluntarily change their behavior.

And in other news, Monkey Pox is mutating at an accelerated rate. And lots of cuties in line for the vaccine in NYC yesterday - good! Stay beautiful and sexy!

Oslo cancelled its Pride festivities this weekend due to the Islamic terrorist incident which left two shot dead in a gay bar. At least maybe there’s less chance of a Slutpox outbreak there. Where else in Europe is celebrating Pride this weekend? I know each country does it at different times.

You’re doing a good job gramps ^

Keep it up (so to speak)

Im glad that NYC gays have the vaccine, but what about the rest of America????

^No other place matters besides NYC. We're the center of the world. You gays in Kenosha or whatever little flyover hick burg you live in will have to grin and bear it. Sorry, rubes.

^Seems like London, Berlin and NYC are the hot spots right now. Problem is men fly all over the country and world to attend gay events and locations so even a random gay in "flyover hick burg" is not safe if your fb just returned from a gang bang on Fire Island or Teneriffa

Slutpox will explode this weekend, since the whores just cannot help themselves from hooking up. This little tramp who lives a flight below me will be sure to get it. From the way I hear it, he has strange men coming and going at all hours of the day and night. By this time next week, I expect those visits to come to a well-deserved screeching halt!

R147, it's difficult to get clear information about this. According to this article, other (unspecified) states and cities are working on arranging access to the vaccine, but this isn't a priority everywhere yet, despite the mounting evidence that a number of cases cannot be linked to people who have travelled.

How many hotel maids in NYC have been diagnosed?

Probably too many R152...poor souls don't get paid nearly enough.

I am flying to Madrid. Should I stay in a gay hotel?

How hard is it to not have random sex for one or two months to end community transmission permanently? Do the promiscuous have some sort of brain defect that makes them unable to function normally unless they're participating in a novel sex encounter on a regular rotation?

You are doing a great job grandma ^

Now go back to your coma

Fuck off, R146/R156-we’re just calling it as we see it.

NYC health chiefs are blasted for last-minute roll out of monkeypox vaccines just two days before Pride weekend, as scores of walk-ins are turned away on the second day of inoculations

Yesterday the city became the first in the U.S. to start offering the jab to the most 'at risk' gay or bisexual men.

But within three hours of launching the drive it was forced to suspend walk-ins due to 'high demand', and all appointments were booked solid until Monday.

At least 100 men queued for the jab this morning, with many not having bookings arriving up to two hours before the clinic opened. But all walk-ins were turned away and told to check online for new slots.

Chris LeBron, a Democrat candidate for the New York State Assembly, slammed the 'pop-up' inoculation and slammed the city's health commissioner Dr Ashwin Vasan for failing to turn up to monitor the vaccinations.

Men waiting to get inoculated today said it was 'ridiculous' that only 1,000 doses were available in a city of eight million. Others slammed health officials for giving 'contradictory' information on how to get jabbed.

Many of those who got the vaccine today expressed their relief, saying they would now be able to enjoy the Pride weekend safely — which is expected to draw crowds numbering more than two million. One man even left the clinic telling a friend, 'we can make out tonight!'

"At this point the man has a growth inside his rectum, which is a symptom of monkeypox. "

Good heavens!!

"In many ways, the U.S. has dropped the ball on monkeypox testing."

How can they have dropped a ball they were never holding in the first place?

Fuck all you fucking whores. We now officially have two concurrent pandemics because not only could you not stay the fuck home due to covid still filling the air all around us, but you had to go fuck every hole across continents that you could find. I wish monkeypox killed in 24 hours.

Los Angeles, just what you expect.

When I was 20, every report of a new venereal disease filled me with horror. Now that I'm 65 and celibate, I can relax.

You’re earning your money gramps r160

You are hilarious

😉🫡🤗😘

Do people actually think they have immunity immediately after being vaccinated?

Thank god I skipped going to the Emmys.

[Quote]One man even left the clinic telling a friend, 'we can make out tonight!'

Wow. I'm pretty sure that's not how vaccination work, dumbass.

r166 I'm laughing. This is surely Slutpox.

[quote]This is surely Slutpox.

I hope you realize I'm going to start calling it "slutpox" whenever I can.

[quote] From the way I hear it, he has strange men coming and going at all hours of the day and night.

Those of you who look and act like Gladys Kravitz have absolutely nothing to worry about. You have natural immunity to any disease that requires touching.

You’re just jealous r168

Why don’t you lose some weight and other men might touch you again

[quote]Do people actually think they have immunity immediately after being vaccinated?

Well, they administer it as both pre and post exposure prophylaxis, so common sense would tell you if you give medical treatment after the fact, yes, it must have at least reasonably prompt effects. Doctor.

From R158:

[quote]NYC health chiefs are blasted for last-minute roll out of monkeypox vaccines just two days before Pride weekend

[quote]Men waiting to get inoculated today said it was 'ridiculous' that only 1,000 doses were available in a city of eight million.

Quelle horreur!

You know what also prevents contracting monkey pox? NOT BEING A WANTON WHORE, at least until vaccines/treatment are more widely available. No one owes these crybabies a solution to this avoidable problem. How embarrassing to be part of a group that continues to shirk personal responsibility to the detriment of their own health and the health of others — all while portraying themselves as victims when everyone else doesn't bow to their entitlement.

Lol

Gramps is triggered while getting paid by the word

I got mine in Toronto last Thursday. Hopefully the campaign there will go some way to interrupting the spread. Pride was this weekend. There were similar campaigns in Ottawa and Montreal. Montreal was the epicentre. Ottawa gays will go to Montreal Pride. Montrealers and Torontonians shuttle between Prides during the month. It's not just whoring, but gathering close. Breathing, skin-to-skin... get a bunch of shirtless guys in a thumpa thumpa techno trance streaming dance party happening and you could spread it there too.

Out of the gate, there was so much hand wringing about shaming, instead of acknowledging given the chance, most gays gonna fuck. And its June. They should have got out in front of this but inclusion and all that malarky probably caused a lot of pointless delay, but that's public health for you. I don't think there are many firm, decisive, realistic leaders in public health... a bunch of do gooders. Which is great. If things are good.

Is the man at R159 wearing a wedding band?!

At times like these, you’d think people would try to avoid fucking those you’re not married to and avoid possible exposure.

But, really…only 1,000 doses? That’s messed up.

The unleashing of travel will cause outbreaks of lots of things. This is the first of many. The abandonment of condoms is a disaster waiting to happen.

I’m planning a sex tour of Europe this summer so I’m definitely getting a vaccine. Thank God for NYC.

It will soon be seen as a gay disease, thanks sluts.

I am in Spain right now surrounded by incredibly hot, flirty guappos. This is for ruining it for me DL!

I think the entire world needs to suspend all passports and cancel all visas for one year. We now have two pandemics going that are due to international travel. International travel is not a necessity to live in this world. We can fix a lot by just stopping it for a year from everywhere.

Slutpox really is making inroads, isn’t it?

One of my Sunday highlights has been blocking the asshole on this thread who calls anyone “gramps” who dared to think that sluts are causing this disease to progress. Later, toots.

There's a health warning and cases in Switzerland and yet the feds have not authorized doctors to give the poxvax. Which means it's not covered. I wonder how much it costs....

There there gramps….lay your head on my breast…

Ludicrous troll is triggered at r180

When the gramps troll disappears, we'll all know why.

We've had our first child case in France, a kid in elementary school. One of his siblings probably has it too, but they don't have the lab results yet. Are there child cases in other countries?

[quote]We've had our first child case in France, a kid in elementary school.

Mom better check Dad's smartphone for Grindr.

My trampy neighbor in my complex arrived home at precisely12:19 am. He stumbled out of his uber, clearly inebriated. He peed on one of the rose bushes before finally making it to his door at 12:22 am. Clearly he was down in the city at an after-party doing god knows what with numerous strangers. I just hope he has the good sense to isolate himself in his apartment if he's contracted monkey pox and not spread it throughout my complex. His lack of judgment seems to be a pattern for him. The way I hear it, he never uses condoms for sex and there is some uncertainty as to whether he's on PrEP. That tells you right there that he does not exercise sound judgment,

Any more talk about mutations?

Scientists said the latest strain of monkeypox, once previously confined to parts of Africa, has about 50 genetic variations compared to related viruses that circulated in 2018-2019. They found the virus is continuing to evolve during the current outbreak, including a number of small changes in the genetic code, minor gene variants and a deleted gene, according to a study published in Nature Medicine on Friday.

In the past, monkeypox hasn’t spread easily from person to person. It’s still unclear how the mutations seen in the current monkeypox virus might change any of those attributes, or the severity of the disease it causes.

I'll never contract it. I have enough self-restraint to stop having sex until this healthcare emergency has passed. If more gay men were like me, we could eliminate this thing.

Well, Shit!

i thought this kind of virus did not mutate easily like covid?

I think this was a bio weapon.

It doesn't mutate as easily as covid, but it is mutating.

The sluts have turned it into a venereal disease R191, it's probably mutating to take better advantage of its new hosts.

Now, I'm not one to judge and slut-shame, but sometimes a little shame is character building.

[quote]I think this was a bio weapon.

The grave opinion of the noted virologist at r191

R186 =

Had a blast at NYC gay pride, but no hookups or hugs/hi-fives like usual! Too afraid of MP on hands. A few guys looked surprised when I smiled, but didn't hi-five back. Oh well.

Since 99% of the commenters on this thread are so old, impotent, ugly, fat and socially maladjusted that they have no chance of having sex with a man, what is the cause of their vitriol against “the sluts”?

Oh…right…the fugs are furiously envious….

Carry on. You are great comedy.

All that hi-fiving at Gay Pride is so exhausting anyway.

Better safe than poxed R197.

How is the situation in Spain? I am staying in the gay quarter in Madrid this week.

[quote] It’s still unclear how the mutations seen in the current monkeypox virus might change any of those attributes, or the severity of the disease it causes.

Heck if we can understand this.

Any new news?

Yes, everyone’s fear level is ratcheting down r203

More alarmism! MORE! MOOOORRREEE!

Monkeypox is mutating at 12 times the expected rate potentially making it more infectious than previous versions of the virus, experts warn

Researchers at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) found that the virus has replicated up to 12 times its expected pace since 2018.

This means that the virus, which is generally believed to spread by physical touch, contaminated surfaces or very close bodily contact could be able to spread in ways atypical to the tropical viruses normal patterns.

The little tramp in my complex is at it again. I just saw a strange man leave his apartment. The man was quite handsome, certainly out my neighbor's league, so I'm wondering if the guy was an escort. I can't say for sure he paid the guy. Mind you, I have suspected that he's hired in the past. Well, just this past Christmas Eve, he hosted a great-looking fella in his unit for two and a half hours, and I suspected back then that he was a rentboy. Back in December, all we had to worry about was Covid. Now we have mpox on top of that, and that little hussy's continual hooking up with guys from grindr and quite possibly rentboys is making him and the entire complex vulnerable to mpox. Heavens to Betsy, I don't know what I'd do if I were to contract it from common area such as the laundry room.

Is this screed for you to share at senior story time at your adult day care r206?

I keep reading that a smallpox vaccination is somewhat protective, but what does that mean? In Africa, they found it to be 85% effective. However, those of us how had one got it 50 years ago. Obviously some vaccinations are not like COVID - they last longer. I don't think we'll need to get another polio vaccine. The question is, will gay men need another smallpox vaccination if they are still sexually active?

This could turn deadly

Serious question to anyone who knows, Can a US citizen go to Canada and pay to to have to get the monkey pox vaccine?

Quit sleeping around and you’ll be fine.

[Quote]Well, just this past Christmas Eve, he hosted a great-looking fella in his unit for two and a half hours,

Not creepy at all r206 that you stalk your neighbor and know when guests are arriving and leaving. Maybe you should learn how to mind your own fucking business and leave your neighbors alone.

[Quote]How is the situation in Spain? I am staying in the gay quarter in Madrid this week.

People from all over Europe (including the current hotspots) travel to Madrid for Pride so I guess you will be totally safe there. No worries.

CDC advice for minimizing spread includes masks:

"Persons with monkeypox should wear a well-fitting mask or respirator, especially those who have respiratory symptoms (e.g., cough, shortness of breath, sore throat) or significant oral lesions if close contact with others cannot be avoided (e.g., when obtaining medical care). Other household members should wear a well-fitting mask or respirator when in the presence of the person with monkeypox."

R210, no. The system is public. You have to be a resident. Also, they all know what you say about them on this board.

If you're old enough to have had the small pox vaccine, then you're unfuckable anyway. It's like bragging you have an air conditioner in February.

R215,

Do the clinics ask for proof for residency status? Many free clinics in other countries do not require it.

^You would rather spend thousands on a flight to Canada, accommodation and a vaccine instead of just being abstinent for a couple of weeks or months?

R218, I live in NYC so it was easy for me to get the vaccine.

I actually am asking for (virtual) friend(s).

R217, based on my experience in Toronto I had to fill in a registration with my name and address etc. and provide my Ontario health card number. They track vaccine delivery carefully everywhere, mostly to understand adverse events and contribute to the research on the medication in question.

We don't have the undocumented populations that the states have so there may not be provision for undocumented - it isn't a big population and would be even smaller if your risk category is gay men. During COVID there was a no questions asked policy but it's not the default and takes the direction of the provincial system.

I don't say it's impossible but it does seem unlikely, especially given the quantities of vaccine available (which are low). Remember, during COVID the U.S. had tons of vaccine but wasn't rushing to share internationally in the early going and understandably so. Quid pro quo.

The best advice I can give you would be to call the public health unit in either Toronto or Montreal and ask if they will vaccinate Americans. Montreal had a very liberal eligibility threshold but I don't know if that would apply to foreigners. Toronto, as usual, just sort of stumbles along earnestly and marginally effectively.

It's too late for all you whores. Tragic. Yes, just tragic. Let the chips fall, and the pox marks start multiplying exponentially, where they may.

Thanks r220!

UK's monkeypox outbreak passes 1,000 cases: Milestone reached as virus continues to spread among gay and bi men — but gloomy model warns of 60,000 cases a DAY by Christmas

UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) bosses said there had been 1,076 infections as of Sunday, almost double the number a fortnight ago.

Authorities said they expect cases to continue to rise further in the coming days and are advising anyone going to large events or having sex with new partners to 'be alert' for symptoms.

Other scientists do not expect the virus to ever reach the heights of Covid waves because monkeypox requires prolonged close contact or contaminated surfaces to spread.

Announcing Britain's new cases today, Dr Sophia Makki, incident director at the UKHSA, said: The monkeypox outbreak in the UK continues to grow, with over a thousand cases now confirmed nationwide.

'We expect cases to continue to rise further in the coming days and weeks. If you are attending large events over the summer or having sex with new partners, be alert to any monkeypox symptoms so you can get tested rapidly and help avoid passing the infection on.

All these whores scheming over vaccines so they don't have to — god forbid — modify their irresponsible behavior, even temporarily.

"My city officials are selfish and homophobic for not making infinite quantities immediately available!" "Can I get the vaccine in Canada?" etc.

How about being an adult and exercising restraint and caution rather than demanding someone else provide a magic solution? Eventually there will be another deadly STI for which PrEP or a vaccine won't work, and these psychologically stunted whores will truly be fucked.

838 in Germany but Robert Koch Institute says “close contact“ is a requirement .

[Quote]Other scientists do not expect the virus to ever reach the heights of Covid waves because monkeypox requires prolonged close contact or contaminated surfaces to spread.

Great. Now it's contaminated surfaces. A couple of days ago you could apparently only get it via close contact and bodily fluids. I would advise anyone to be very careful at the gym and use disinfectant on equipment and regularly sanitize your hands. Bring your own bottle of hand sanitizer and use your own towels. Do not use the sauna and shower at home. Stay away from group workouts with large groups. Scientists advice infected persons to wear face masks so I guess there is a possibility you can get the virus via droplets infection.

[quote]Eventually there will be another deadly STI for which PrEP or a vaccine won't work, and these psychologically stunted whores will truly be fucked

You’re doing a great job of ludicrous fear mongering gramps r224!

Keep it up, and you will able to pay for your heart meds for this week.

MARY, r226! Exaggerate much?

^ Enjoy your monkey pox and disfigurement, dumbass. Some people are just too stupid to live.

Lol

Right PTSD gramps R229

As much as you may wish other mean to be cowering in fear, like you do, 99% of hot gay men will not be infected with monkeypox, and of those who are infected, 99% of those will suffer no scars.

Your wishing and hoping for the disfigurement of the hot guys that have always rejected you is delicious. Work yourself up into a frenzy while the hotties laugh at you. After all, it’s something that you are used to.

[quote] model warns of 60,000 cases a DAY by Christmas

The new lepers.

CDC launches Emergency Activation Center to combat growing monkeypox outbreak in US .

The CDC will dedicate 300 staff members to its monkeypox response as part of a new Emergency Activation Center

The article at R223 says 60,000 cases a day is a very pessimistic worst-case scenario. Not only that, but take heart, eldergays:

[quote] It came as modelling by a Strathclyde University professor warned the outbreak could continue for another year and infect tens of thousands of Britons daily in a worst-case scenario. The simulation assumes all under-50s — the last age group to get a smallpox vaccine, which provides cross-protection — are susceptible to monkeypox.

How many infected in NY now?

55 in NYC as of 1pm

To my surprise I gave up all my whoring in the first lockdown of 2020. Having been a good looking whore of Babylon for several decades, it really was time to retire from the game, and there had been diminishing returns after 2010, anyway. I can truly say I have had sufficient in my life. (extreme excess)

r226 That's what I have been doing since the beginning of 2020 anyway. Even if I'm vaccinated, as a clean freak, I just don't want to touch or inhale disgusting things that come out of other people's (not clean) bodies.

It keeps mutating stronger

Well, I was driving back from the market a little while earlier, and when I stopped for a light, I saw my neighbor enter the path toward the wooded area where men hook up. At first I wasn't certain, so I circled back around into the parking lot to look for his car, just to make sure, and there it was. It was indeed him. Well, I saw him arrive home two hours later, and I can only imagine the number of loads he took during that time, and how much contact he might've had with mp-infected skin. I saw him a little while ago in the trash room. He gave me a hello in his usual arrogant tone, which always seems to telegraph "I wouldn't fuck you if you were the last man on earth". I just walked by, didn't respond, and didn't make eye contact. If he did contract mp, I hope the little tramp has the good sense to isolate in his apartment. Serves him right!

Zzzzzzzz ^

R239, do you share a laundry room with him? If so, I'd run some bleach through any machine before I used it.

r239, yes we do share a laundry room. Is he is a danger to my complex? I'm torn as to whether or not I should warn the neighbors. On one hand, they need to be aware that their health and that of their children could be in immediate peril. On the other hand, if I were to tell them what this little hussy's been up to, he'll be branded a tramp, forced to wear a red "T" on his shirt. And believe me, no one is going to mistake that "T" as standing for "Top." Decisions, decisions. Didn't Miss Miriam Hopkins play a character with the same dilemma in one of her later motion pictures?

[quote]My trampy neighbor in my complex arrived home at precisely12:19 am. He stumbled out of his uber, clearly inebriated. He peed on one of the rose bushes before finally making it to his door at 12:22 am.

Gladys Kravitz has arrived.

They are saying contact with clothing or bedding, etc., but have they defined contact. What about other things these diseased whores have touched, like money or chairs or door handles?

First US case of Covid 1/21/20

First US case of Monkeypox 5/19/22

300th US case of Covid: 3/12/20 (51 days)

300th US case of Monkeypox 6/28/22 (40 days)

The numbers @245 are US CDC website numbers/dates.

R214 thinks the government cares about him.

[quote] Well, I was driving back from the market a little while earlier, and when I stopped for a light, I saw my neighbor enter the path toward the wooded area.

That's Janet's line from Halloween II. We see you, R239. Do better.

R244, that is unknown. we don't know how long the virus is alive on those items or can survive etc.

They aren't telling us shit. they probably want all the gays and bi people to die

Can you get monkeypox more than once or is this one of those lifetime immunity things? I assume it is since the smallpox vaccine seems to last decades. I'm hoping this will flash through the whore population and then cease once they have all been infected and are immune. Fucking whores and morons ruin the world.

R250 I'd hazard a guess that there can be, and there probably is vaccine breakthrough transmission. . The US service member at the base in Germany had been vaccinated against Smallpox.

I'm also wondering if older vaccinated men could possibly be spreading pox as carriers, without the blisters.

R250, who knows? but smallpox survivors are known to have lifelong protection from reinfection.

Smallpox vaccination provides full immunity for 3 to 5 years and decreasing immunity thereafter. If a person is vaccinated again later, immunity lasts even longer. Historically, the vaccine has been effective in preventing smallpox infection in 95% of those vaccinated.

Irish maids with pox scars were popular hires in the smallpox era, as it meant they couldn't get it again.

^Thank you. That can be my Halloween costume this year. An Irish maid with a pox scar.

And, R254, your pox scars will probably be real!

I hit the jackpot, in that I'm of a certain age to have had the small pox vaccine as a youngster, yet still youthful looking (thanks to good genetics, diet and exercise) to get hot 20-something dick. I can keep on hooking up with these hot young men and have little risk of contracting the virus. Jealous?

You are my hero r256

R244, in West Africa, the virus has circulated in households where families are caring for an infected person. It’s either assumed or been proven that caregivers get infected by touching the bedding of the infected person, who usually has open lesions, they’ve touched cloth that has infected material from the lesions on it. Because of this, people have been warned about infection via clothing or bedding. However, I don’t think there’s evidence of the virus being transmitted that way in the West, because anyone with open, weeping lesions is headed to the ER.

[Quote]I hit the jackpot, in that I'm of a certain age to have had the small pox vaccine as a youngster, yet still youthful looking (thanks to good genetics, diet and exercise) to get hot 20-something dick. I can keep on hooking up with these hot young men and have little risk of contracting the virus. Jealous?

If this is true and you were vaccinated in the early 70s, your immunity is probably close to zero. But enjoy the hot young dick while you can. The weeks after your monkey pox infection will be gruesome.

[Quote]Smallpox vaccination provides full immunity for 3 to 5 years and decreasing immunity thereafter.

Fat fug PTSD alarmist ^

Only bad people (i.e., those who have sex) get STDs.

[Quote]Fat fug PTSD alarmist ^

I'm neither fat nor fug and have a long time partner. So don't waste our time with your stupid bullshit posts honey. Do something productive with your time and better educate yourself.

[quote]However, I don’t think there’s evidence of the virus being transmitted that way in the West, because anyone with open, weeping lesions is headed to the ER.

Actually, it sounds like they're heading to bath houses and raves. Fucking whores. You all are now the fucking equivalent of Trumpy assholes who wouldn't wear masks.

R263 I agree. Do people have so little self-control that they can’t stop their whoring around for a few months?

I think they should start posting the names and pics of these Monkeypox Marys.

Boris' distraction trolls are working overtime again. That's a bit of a smoking gun.

Fuck it — Celibate summer for me.

R262 the fact that you deny being fat and fugly means that you are. Attractive men have nothing to prove.

Whether or not you have a boyfriend is immaterial. If you do have a partner, then he is undoubtedly a social retard like you .

No one’s died of monkeypox in the civilized world. So disappointing for you. You are licking your fat, bacon grease smeared lips in anticipation.

Is this the monkeysex where King Dong go up into the man?

UK's monkeypox outbreak passes 1,000 cases: Milestone reached as virus continues to spread among gay and bi men — but gloomy model warns of 60,000 cases a DAY by Christmas

[Quote]No one’s died of monkeypox in the civilized world. So disappointing for you. You are licking your fat, bacon grease smeared lips in anticipation.

Haha, you think dying here is the problem, dumbass? How about not wanting to spend the next few weeks in isolation, losing your job or having bloody painful lesions all over and inside your body? And it's really just ridiculous to call someone fat and ugly on an anonymous board. Your bullying might work in the real world, but here you don't even know my name or if I'm even the same poster.

It’s going to be hilarious if all the gays get vaccinated and then the outbreak only effects straights

R271, at least once she's got it, her outside will be as ugly as her insides.

It would be even more hilarious if all the gorgeous, hot young wanted gays get vaccinated and it only winds up affecting sad, old, fug unfuckable gays who pick it up touching common surfaces in bath houses or adult video stores as they hiss at street hustlers.

Ignoredar reveals that r271, r262 and r259 are all made by the same poster. His other comments, of which there are many, are of similar of vein.

Fat, ugly, impotent, seething jealous AND rock stupid.

lol

No, it will definitely be more hilarious if it's the hot, young, wanted gays who get it. They'll have to live with the scars for much longer and without any coping skills.

You're all horribly bitter.

You think ? ^

How did you get exempt?

Interesting... curious to follow him and see how the scabs resolve.

The guy at r280 will still be hot after his scattering of lesions heal and he still will reject, or not even notice, the fat fugs on this thread.

Except, R274, we've had smallpox shots

It’s going to mutate to fatal illness

R271 first time here?

[quote] It’s going to mutate to fatal illness

R283 furiously tugging at his permanent flaccid dick, one hand lifting up his fat rolls

First American to go public with monkeypox infection SLAMS CDC for 'lackluster' testing: Says the virus 'sucks' and warns it should be taken 'seriously'

Matt Ford, a self-employed actor who splits his time between Los Angeles and New York City, has spoken out to warn people that the disease 'sucks' and they should take it 'seriously.'

He blasted the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) for their poor testing efforts, saying it took officials three days to diagnose his illness by which point he 'already knew' what they would say.

The actor and writer, who describes himself as a 'proud openly gay man,' revealed he initially noticed spots in and around his 'underwear zone,' which indicated to him he had caught the virus.

Over the next few days they spread across the rest of his body, including his face, arms, hands and abdomen.

In total, he has counted 25 spots and said after appearing they began to 'fill with puss' and became itchy. Several — especially in the 'sensitive area' — became so painful they left him unable to sleep at night without taking painkillers.

'I think in total I counted 25 and there are also some in more sensitive areas which tend to be the most painful. They're so painful that I had to go to my doctor to get painkillers just to be able to sleep, like really f****** painful.'

Ford also began suffering flu-like symptoms in the early stages, ranging from a fever, chills, night sweat and a cough.

Unsettling pictures .... presentation as part of a CDC webinar... it's a nasty experience. Starts about 20:50... shows a chain of transmission, too.

I'd avoid sex parties in NYC for the time being. Yikes.

At last, some useful information, instead of fat fug incel fear mongering

Thanks r287

He is NOT the first because we had the New York Red Headed actor several days ago.

Milking this for publicity and lying about being the first. Lame.

guys, I saw this guy in the subway today, he has very short buzz haircut, I was standing behind him, getting off the same station. I saw his head and could see poc marks, they are like scabs, like 5 of them. Do you think it's monkey pox? I took a picture below!

He was wearing a uniform, white collar shirt with black vest. Looks like a doorman or service related job. middle aged man.

Yikes, R287. And a bit worrisome because it’s not that easy to diagnose (see his partner). I trust he was scared shitless that his dick will fall off.

omg, i just took a closer look at the picture and it looks like he also had another scab behind his ear!

Anyone getting a karposi vibe from these pictures? God forbid

AIRBORNE KAPOSI’S SARCOMA

SHRIEEEKKKKKKKKKKKKK

Could be a Buddhist monk.

r226 Because it can spread in the air.

The CDC presentation was graphic and helpful to bring home the reality. If I were a youngish slut I would do my best to step back until I was vaccinated and the immunity develops.

I read, I think on CDC but somewhere credible, this one requires four hours of close contact that isn't skin to skin to spread by respiratory droplets.

If this becomes a gay/bi epidemic and the general public catches on, I think there will be real prejudice and fear of gay men in many public accommodations. This will include offices, gyms, hotels, restaurants, transport and even common areas of apartment houses.

Self-employed actor means escort right?

No, it means actor in NYC or LA R300

Where are the vaccines?

every variant of covid was more and more infectious and contagious...

I wonder if it's the same for this as well.

Interesting details from the CDC report,

40 sex partners last year, 10 sex partners in the last 90 days

History of several Sexual Transmitted Diseases including chlamydia and gonorrhea, currently infected with chlamydia (and monkeypox)

Does not use condoms.

Still attended sex parties and had unprotected sex even though he was infected with a STI.

The sex partner also had a history of random sex with several partners, a history of STIs and not using condoms.

Hard to feel sorry for these people when they're so careless with their own health or the health of their partners.

The main Pride event in London is on Saturday. Public health officials have had to broadcast warnings for people with symptoms not to attend. It won’t stop them, there is too much talent coming from all over to enjoy.

I don't live in a city where the gay population is high or densely packed into bars and gyms, but I think I'd be concerned if I did. I do think this is a situation where the existing vaccines need to be given out and quickly. People are already coming out of a period in which their ability to mingle freely was drastically curtailed. The logical thing to do is rapid vaccination of the most susceptible population to nip the spread of this disease in the bud. Depending on self-monitoring and self-disciplined avoidance of sex and gay environments for an unknown amount of time into the future is simply unrealistic and will not be successful.

Homosexuality is such a morally bankrupt lifestyle.

R304, I was a bit surprised too. I mean, I get "sex positive" but at some point doesn't some kind of common sense and ethics kick in?

4500 cases in Europe, WHO urges aggressive intervention. This is going to be a disaster for gay men, already under fire from various sides, if it cannot be reigned in.

r306 that would be ideal but as we could see during the onset of Covid its takes forever for the government to roll out large scale vaccinations. We were about 10 months into the Covid pandemic before the first vaccines got distributed to high risk individuals, at that was a global pandemic.

Unfortunately the high risk in this case aren't elderly, women or children, so everyone will drag their ass. They will just continue telling people with symptoms to stay at home which we know isn't going to do shit. At my estimation it will be next year some time before the vaccine is widely available and Im sure a large amount of the gay population will already have gotten it by then.

R319 you forget that the COVID vaccines were of a new type (mRNA vaccine) that had never been used before let alone approved. The monkeypox vaccination is approved.

Henri Kluge, the head of WHO Europe said today that the WHO will likely reconsider whether monkeypox is global health emergency soon, given the “rapid evolution and emergency nature of the event.”

He said 99% of monkeypox patients in Europe are men between the ages of 21 and 40. The majority of the patients who provided demographic information identified as men who have sex with men.

Still odd that it only the gay community. I feel it is circumventing HIV meds somehow. Also, SCOTUS will definitely use this MP pandemic to try to reverse gay rights!

[quote]Still odd that it only the gay community.

I'm going to go out on a limb and guess the reason why is that it's predominately gays gathering at large-scale events to have indiscriminate sex with each other.

R314 straights do that too

They can't hold a candle to us. And even if they could, where are all the monkeypox straights? We won't solve the problem unless we're honest. Our views on sex make it easy for situations like this to happen. Come on.

"where are all the monkeypox straights?"

Again, I think it is linked to HIV meds somehow...

I actually have little patience for all this talk about ‘stigmatising’ gay men. Being pragmatic and honest about what’s clear form the statistics is not stigmatising, and it works both ways. Gay men should refuse to be stigmatised, but that comes with taking responsibility for sexual practices that are highly normalised within gay culture and which allow diseases such as this to spread.

R304 I had a funny feeling that my instinct would be proved right (which it was) so I’ll say it’s interesting that you failed to mention two things;

1) the patient is on prep 2) the patient

R304 continued, (thread glitched)

2) the patient was unaware that they had chlamydia at the time. You judgmental fuckers are always the same lol.

R319: I wonder how many PREP users have MP... Is there a statistic?

[quote]You judgmental fuckers are always the same lol.

Huh?

r311 I didn't forget; the fact that we already have the vaccine makes it even worse. The point I'm making is that the healthcare community needs a full blown crisis to really take action and even then they still take too long. Telling people with symptoms to stay at home is NOT enough.

This article was also posted here, about a man who saw several specialists and visited the ER (where he was told he might have colon cancer!) All of them failed to test him. Only by chance did he connected with an activist who found him a doctor who got off their precious ass to finally order a monkeypox test. It just proves what horrible state US healthcare system is in, doctors write an RX for antibiotics for every problem and just send people on their way.

R321 yes there is a statistic! It’s on statistics.com/monkeypox_prep_statisticsfordickheads

Monkeypox being touted as a “gay” disease means the public (in the US, at least) won’t care.

The same way everyone tried to avoid COVID-19 until the reports that Blacks and Latinos were more likely to be hospitalized became public. Immediately afterwards, the clamors to return to normal kicked up.

Until someone that doesn’t identify as a gay/bi male gets monkeypox, very little will be done.

R325: I am afraid that is true. Same as early days of AIDS.

The scabs actually are quite lovely when lightly salted and toasted.

And with supplies going up, prices are down, down, down!

NYs Gov is promising more vaccines

R325 yes there’s definitely an element of that. I went to get the vaccine this morning at a scheduled walk-in clinic and they cancelled it at the time it was supposed to start with no plan to reschedule and didn’t provide any real info about why it was canceled. People had been in line for 3hrs before it opened and they didn’t bother to tell anyone they had no plans to do the clinic even though they knew they weren’t going to vaccinate anyone, and then sent out one person (who wasn’t a doctor) to tell everyone to leave with absolutely no info. Terrible treatment.

R329 Wow! I am sorry you went through that

If it’s spreadable by non sexual contact, how come no straight people have it?

The first cases from that flight were straight people, but at some point, it went homo and gays ran with it like it was the latest party favor.

R330 yes very frustrating! The craziest part was that, a bunch of ppl hung around afterwards, and then they eventually sent out one guy who agreed to take names of people who had a confirmed infectious contact, and a doctor would call you with (?) information. To prove this you had to provide the name of your contact and they were going to check them off the list of people that had reported to the public health department. Couple of people raised very valid points that they had contacts that had all the symptoms but hadn’t seen a doctor (uninsured / embarrassed / not gotten around to it yet) or some people had had an anonymous person reach out (via a friend) and the guy was basically saying that if that was the case then you were shit out of luck. Like…..wtf.

R329: where did this happen?

Maybe HRC could shut up about gender for awhile and become a loud voice on the gathering monkeypox storm.

R334 LA.

Is anyone who had the smallpox vaccine as a kid getting the monkey pox? I haven’t read anything lately about how much the protection of the smallpox vaccine may or may not have waned.

If you're old enough to have had the small pox vaccine, the whole subject is moot, since you're too old to be fuckable anyway.

There are many hot fuckable 50 years olds in LA and in NYC r340

Not anywhere else, especially in Flyoverstan

Unless you’re a whore you should be safe. The whores need to calm the fuck down for a minute. Or at least fuck women so it can spread the way it’s supposed to spread.

Our only hope is for it to spread to the straight population so the healthcare community can actually start giving a shit.

You hussies on this thread bragging about sucking off married "straight" men who never get any good head need to get out there and do your job!

[quote] at some point doesn't some kind of common sense and ethics kick in?

As you go into the third generation of Aids deaths, obviously not

Ah, the ancient fug fags with PTSD couldn’t leave without their fearful shrieking for ONE day….

You’re safe, since the chance of you having sex with another man is zero

Had anybody here recently changed their sexual practises due to the risk of contracting monkeypox?

r337 It's a myth that that smallpox shot you got ages ago is going to do anything against monkeypox today. It's simply not effective anymore. What is effective is getting another smallpox shot.

[quote]But because the smallpox vaccine eradicated the disease, routine smallpox immunization for the general population ended in Canada in 1972. Hoption Cann said this means that any Canadian who was vaccinated against smallpox was inoculated more than 50 years ago. "It is likely that, after 50 or more years, that vaccination may not offer too much protection against this disease," he said.

And this all hits just after Ellen Page chose to jump into the gay man lane. Lousy timing for her.

R344 / R308 what your quoted poster R304 forgot to include / didn’t include on purpose was that the patient is on prep and that he didn’t know he had an STI when he had sex with others (it was diagnosed alongside his monkeypox diagnosis (for which duration he pledged to abstain from sex (ethical))).

These are ethical sex precautions. I hope that makes you feel better but something tells me your lost opportunity to judge someone will make you feel even worse.

In fact the least ethical aspect of it is the original posters muddying of the facts and misrepresentation of the case.

Another victim is tweeting his symptoms in real time.

This sounds so painful, poor guy :(

r348 WHO statistics say that 99% of the infected are "male" which that fraud Ellen never is.

R350, these people are not victims, they're volunteers.

R347, the continuing effectiveness of the smallpox vaccine has, in fact, been studied and established. This link has been posted on an earlier thread, but it seems worth another post, as it's better than uninformed speculation.

The guy at R350 is a dedicated craven cumdump. I read through his twitter. Wow.

He is hero r354

He has regularly schedule days and evenings of door open cum dump in me. dozen loads no biggie.

Awesome used hole

DC cum dump alone on the metro

At least 12 loads in one day!

He’ll get a lot of texts tonight

DC Pride was a few weeks ago. How likely is it that some of his partners were infected as well?

What’s your point r361?

DC Pride was a viral soup.

Everywhere is a viral soup.

From R353: CLINICAL SIGNIFICANCE

Vaccinia elicits antiviral antibody levels and virus neutralizing activity that remain elevated for the life of the patient.

Multiple vaccinations achieve only marginally higher levels of antibody and virus neutralizing activity than single vaccination.

Levels of antibodies and virus neutralizing activity are comparable in vaccinated individuals and those who developed smallpox and recovered.

Vaccinia should be used first on individuals who have never been vaccinated before.

The guy at R350 should be put on a CDC watch list.

We should start locking up the Monkeypox Marys. We'll tell them it's an island rave and put them all there until the waves of pus drown them all. I'm so sick of ignorant and selfish pieces of shit in this world acting like their actions don't have consequences to anyone. Fuck them. I hope they all die three months after infection.

Zzzzzzzz ^

[quote]The guy at [R350] should be put on a CDC watch list.

The EPA watchlist might not be a bad idea, either.

"Patients reported less fever and tiredness and more skin lesions in their genital and anal areas than typically seen in monkeypox, the study of 54 patients at London sexual health clinics in May this year found.

The research from London, published in the Lancet Infectious Diseases Journal, follows suggestions from public health bodies like the United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention that the outbreak - which is spreading chiefly among men who have sex with men – is presenting unusually.

The authors, from a number of institutions including Chelsea & Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, said case definitions should be reviewed to avoid cases being overlooked, particularly as monkeypox can “mimic” other common sexually transmitted infections (STI) like herpes and syphilis. The study also found that a quarter of the monkeypox patients were HIV positive, and a quarter had another STI."

[quote]The EPA watchlist might not be a bad idea, either.

A hazmat team should probably be sent to disinfect his entire apartment building.

Calm down, gurls. It's pretty clear that you don't get it unless you fuck around. Or your boyfriend does. No reason to skip the gym or avoid gaybourhoods.

If I get it having sex with someone in the sauna, do you think people will be believe me if I tell them I got it from sharing equipment at the gym? I just don't want to be labeled a slut.

^Some 'straight' guy in my city got monkeypox. He has a family with a wife and kids and claims he has a good explanation were he got it. Everyone thinks he's a homo now and he said he feels stigmatized. Lol.

He even wrote an article were he said he got monkeypox, but assured us he's not a homo.

Thanks R368. There goes my HIV link theory.

Happy Slutpox Pride Weekend, London!

A couple weeks ago I read that transmission did not require physical contact, although skin-to-skin was driving most infections. Since then, I have rarely seen this mentioned.

Now we’re seeing exponential growth and a scramble to “do something” after reassurance that most have no reason to worry, which is giving deja vu.

Smallpox is closely related and its vaccine is effective: Doesn’t it stand to follow that routes of transmission are more alike than not?

“Before smallpox was eradicated, it was mainly spread by direct and fairly prolonged face-to-face contact between people. Smallpox patients became contagious once the first sores appeared in their mouth and throat (early rash stage). They spread the virus when they coughed or sneezed and droplets from their nose or mouth spread to other people. They remained contagious until their last smallpox scab fell off.

These scabs and the fluid found in the patient’s sores also contained the variola virus. The virus can spread through these materials or through the objects contaminated by them, such as bedding or clothing. People who cared for smallpox patients and washed their bedding or clothing had to wear gloves and take care to not get infected.

Rarely, smallpox has spread through the air in enclosed settings, such as a building (airborne route)”.

🧐

Forgive my reluctance to believe public health agencies when they tell me not to worry and downplay potential routes of transmission.

Settle your gaping hysterical cunt down, noted virologist at r376

gee, sounds like the diseased whores are getting this pox! they usually have another STI when they get this and also HIV, and they're still not using condoms? they fucking deserve it.

R373 so what was his explanation? Where and how did he say he got infected?

R379, I'm sure he got it at church during a very exhaustive prayer session. Yep.

It seems as though mostly self-proclaimed tramps are getting this. It's not undeserved, if you ask me.

R381, that's true SO FAR. And that's the problem. Every infection is a chance at mutation. The fact that a lot of these people getting it are already on anti-virals could make that mutation even more dangerous. We need to start taking draconian measures with anyone living in society with other people who pass along disease with no consideration. Lock them up. Let them rot. Sick of their shit.

Over 5500 cases world wide, according to CDC website. Now, babies!

Almost at 100 cases in NYC

Covid and Monkey Pox are in a contest to see who can kill the most stupid people.

Mpox isn't killing anyone. It's a nuusance but hardly a death sentence.

Again, R386, you forgot the 'so far' part. Scientific ignorance is part of the problem in this country...and around the world, it seems.

You’re doing a great job gramps ^

You’re HILARIOUS

You're doing a great job idiot ^

You're IGNORANT

Lol

Gramps is triggered because we do not appreciate the creative writing class than he audited at the local community college

The inability to stay on-topic is another sign of ignorance.

Are you new around here r391?

...and a sign of obvious trollery.

lol

You ARE the troll here gramps

Just calling them like I see them

The ripples of disease and misery spread

I watched MSNBC all day yesterday and today. All they are talking about is abortion and SCOTUS. Nothing about MP at all. I guess it will be news again if people die or straights get it.

[quote] It's a nuusance but hardly a death sentence.

Crabs is a "nuusance". A body scarred by pock marks and a scarlet letter is much more.

I'm sure I can start the gas ovens going in the EU on very short notice.

They keep saying the majority of the afflicted are MSM, but what is that? 51%? 99.9%

There’s apparently quite a range of symptoms, but the worst I’ve read about so far are when lesions form in the urethra and/or anus/rectum.

R400 Actually, I jumped to the conclusion that the lesions were in the urethra or anus. It’s also possible some people get a systemic effect from the skin to mucosal tissue.

Does it being in the anus mean that was the infection entry point?

[Quote]I'm sure I can start the gas ovens going in the EU on very short notice.

Angela Merkel is no longer in charge, uneducated troll.

R403 She works hard behind the scenes troll.

R402 It's skin to skin so that would include the anus too.

I hate seeing this shit unfold, having lived through the AIDs era at its worse. I know it is a big ask but if everyone could just stop sex for 1 month the fucking this would disappear. (Of course that ain't going to happen).

I know it's hard. Sex is one of the best things on earth and it is easy for me to say that because I'm old and have 'closed up shop down there' so to speak but you really don't want this horrible disease spreading and you don't want to catch it or pass it on.

As per usual the WHO is as slow as ever to reacting to it. And make no mistake whilst it remains in the gay community most health authorities don't really care.

R403 Clearly doesn't know a joke when they read one.

[quote] Angela Merkel is no longer in charge, uneducated troll.

Unlikely she didn't leave a well placed cadre of other STASIS alumni with the keys of power

I believe the Merkle comment was a joke as well, darling.

R406 Making jokes about the Holocaust and insinuating gasing gay people - especially in this current political climate - is not funny, asshole.

Monkeypox cases in UK rise by 159 to 1,235 as health officials issue warning ahead of Pride weekend urging people not to attend if they have symptoms or feel unwell

New York City orders another 6,000 doses of monkeypox vaccine after health officials were blasted last week for being short on supply: US orders another 2.5 million jabs as infection tally nears 400

R409 - No reference was made to the Holocaust and the one will be on fire thanks to the neglect of mankind before Germany or any other nation could build up such capacity.

R414 'one one' is meant to be 'the world'.

Goverment doing a nice slooow roll out of vaccine.

No Rose, 402. Entry point is usually between the great toe and the second toe.

[Quote]Goverment doing a nice slooow roll out of vaccine. They want pain.

Stop whoring for a couple of weeks and you will be fine. First and foremost your health is your responsibility.

Someone is dealing with some grandpa issues

R414, unquestionably there's poor planning involved, but this isn't purely a "roll out" issue. No U.S. company owns the vaccine; it's made in Denmark, and the Denmark company's production facility has been closed since August, due to COVID and supply chain issues. Ultimately the U.S. will get two million vaccines and the rest of the world will have to tide itself over with the rest of the current supply, about three million vaccines.

In LA, spread by two large parties.

R419 i wonder what the parties were? anyone on twitter spill the beans?

The Daughters of the American Revolution had a Tea and Scones afternoon in Bel Air last month. Also a Tupperware and Poetry Reading in Cheviot Hills that was well attended.

Tell us more about these parties.

Blanche, is that you? R421

Well, far be it from me to judge, but you reap what you sow. As far as I'm concerned, this is just more evidence that the price of iniquity is plague, pure and simple. Have a blessed day.

Do you think any sluts who get this will rethink their M.O.?

A billion dollars says I wouldn't be welcome at these LA parties. Lucky me! 🤞

Once they're sporting permanent craters on their face and hands, anyone who thinks they are passing for straight can kiss that belief goodbye.

Do the cumdumps understand if they get the sores in their ass, they cannot have sex at all?

The CDC needs to start recommending condom use.

it can leave "keloid scars".

Bottoms wouldn't start using condoms again even is pocks were to develop in their gaping holes. Oh wait! Well, in a lifestyle centered around the pursuit of sexual pleasure and fetishizing at any cost, this type of thing was bound to happen...again. Did this community learn nothing from AIDS?

The claims that it is only "skin to skin" is interesting, given that it is the smallpox vaccine that protects. I never touched anyone in grade school, still got chicken pox. The Indians were given blankets with smallpox on them, and it worked. No skin in the game.

The long wait to find out if you have it scary.

The cumdumps on twitter and Grindr grew up in the age of PREP.

I would be surprised if there are any over 50 or 60 that lived through the AIDS era.

The sequence of infection starts with lesions in the mouth and you're not contagious until that phase starts. If you don't have many you could easily write it off as a canker or a tongue bite. So blow jobs and rimming have to be part of the route of transmission in our ranks. Plus with PrEP we fuck like crazy without condoms.

Still, there's only six thousand cases in the whole world so hopefully they can still ringfence it meaningfully. The sex positive probably can't be saved unless they are smart enough to get vaccinated and vaccine is available to them. The rest of us, dial back sex with people you don't know, with younger guys and older guys who can still pass for attractive, crowd scenes like FI and P-town and hiring sex workers. It's probably another lost summer. Oh, well.. it's that or a thousand knives in your urethra.

[quote] So blow jobs and rimming have to be part of the route of transmission in our ranks.

It's too early to close sex-on-premise venues, but darkrooms may be contributing to the spread.

Bright lights would reduce risk at saunas and sex clubs.

The lights at NZ Sauna in Amsterdam are way too fucking dim. Even in the cruising area. I like to get a good look at who I’d like to hook up with.

Yes, dim lighting is a major contributor to the spread of monkeypox. If the lighting were better, spread would be reduced. You wouldn't have to add it to the list of other STDs you routinely ask your trick about, just look carefully in the good lighting.

Whew gurl, you elders with low vision shining a flash light up these poor young mens bootyholes

Why does gay sex come with so many diseases?

It doesn't, R439, but we have so much sex we're far more effective at spreading either STIs or diseases where skin contact is a mode of transmission. So it's the same as straights, but with them you go to the counter, with us you use the drive thru.

I'm off tomorrow, so I'm treating myself tonight to an evening at the baths, and I don't plan on leaving until my hole has prolapsed. I'm on weekend prep, so monkey pox, HIV, covid, etc. be damned.

[quote]Did this community learn nothing from AIDS?

What is “AIDS” r340?

[quote] Did this community learn nothing from AIDS?

R430 if you look up the pretty great take up of PREP within the gay community you’ll see that actually the community has learned a lot from AIDS. If PREP is made available to everyone that wants or needs it then HIV AIDS can be made a thing of the past.

It’s kinda dumb to live your life based on the premise that there’s another undiscovered disease spreading through the gay community that spreads exactly like HIV does because that’s extremely unlikely. Question for you, do you use condoms for blowjobs with partners? STDs spread in many different ways (skin contact, kissing, any kind of oral sex, rimming, anal sex) so acting like condoms are the only respectable form of protection is kinda stupid.

Also why shouldn’t someone be able to center a certain time in their lives around sexual pleasure. Most of us go through a phase at some part of our lives where sexual pleasure is near the top of our priorities - what’s so wrong with that?

I hope I'm not acting stupid when I ask if there's a better barrier than condoms for limiting exposure to pathogens spread during sex?

R444 condoms are great for anal or vaginal sex, and good for oral sex but nobody uses them for that obviously lol. Rating the functionality of a device isn’t just an analysis of how it medically works, it also includes an analysis of how much people use it, or how it’s usability integrates into the situation in which it’s needed. In this instance, condoms perform well in terms of physically blocking the spread of bacterial and viral disease however they don’t perform well in usability (people prefer not to use them). That’s why HIV has continued to spread even though we have access to condoms. PREP performs just as well as condoms un blocking HIV and performs much better in usability as long as it is easily available to the people that need it. That’s why you’re seeing HIV rates in communities where PREP is available drop inversely against PREP take up.

No single thing is a catch all for all STDs, it’s important to protect yourself as best you can but also to remember that having sex exposes you to STDs, to remember which ones are easily treatable if you get them and to plan your prophylactic strategy accordingly. It’s different for everyone because it depends on some outside factors like what health system you’re a member of, your relationship status, your ability to take antibiotics or not etc etc etc.

As with all of these things the best advice is to talk to your doctor.

Gee, R445, I never would have figured all that out. Thanks for everything!

Oopsies! It can be transmitted on surfaces....and dust.

that will be fun on public transit.

R441 you're a laugh riot.

Freedom and individual choice are important. However it might be a good idea to close sex venues. If people want to hook up through aps there is nothing that one can do but why should their be sex parties and sex venues that facilitate the spread. The same funds that helped businesses closed for COVID could reapply to help these businesses if they closed for 2 months and let sluts get vaccinated.

Well, Shit!

This will be a good test to see how much protection us geezers have from decades ago.

I'm not feeling pain, only incredible itchiness at the site of a couple sores on my thigh and a bit sick. Could I just have a summer cold and have become suddenly allergic to my detergent? The only place I could have got this is the gym. It reminds me a bit of when I had chicken pox as a kid. I think I got a smallpox vaccination as a kid so maybe I am fine.

R452 How many geezers would be able to get near other people at a sex party/orgy? Sorry R452 your grant application has been rejected. Please consider a revision with a clinical trial in which volunteer geezers and hot young gays have sex with each other for hours in a small space and are then monitored for monkeypox. Control groups should include young with young and geezers with geezers. Please be sure to balance the number of tops and bottoms across the groups to power the study correctly.

I was responding to the assertion that Monkeypox is easily transmitted via surfaces, R454. I have no interest in orgies or Pretty Young Things (unless they are incredibly nerdy).

[quote] Freedom and individual choice are important. However it might be a good idea to close sex venues.

That's what some public health officials suggested in the 80s The response was for gay guys to loudly protest declaring they were being stigmatized. I suppose those guys were dead in several years.

R455 It was a scientist’s joke. Imagine Sheldon Cooper from The Big Bang Theory doing stand-up.

I can't believe ANYONE is discussing this non-issue.

The only thing the CDC clearly spreads is PARANOIA and FEAR.

How many cents did you make for that post, R458?

I fucking knew it. This is going to be another shitshow.

predictable

[Quote]I fucking knew it. This is going to be another shitshow.

A shitshow and disaster like the Aids crisis in the 80s. But hey, at least it's not a death sentence this time. People are just uncomfortable for a few weeks. So even the gay community isn't really concerned and it's still business as usual.

r456 I had to roll my eyes since the beginning. I looked at the direct sources, health official/experts reports, such tweets for facts, data and transmission routes, etc. Under replies, so many were instantly screaming homophobia at the mention of "gay, bi, men who have sex w men" data, as if that info should be muzzled. Fine. Monkeypox doesn't affect me (in my 30s, have good sex life but as a clean freak do not mix with the unknown with questionable health status). Then when some LGB group suggested temporary closing of sex venues to protect gays and prevent further wild spread, they got called homophobic rightwing bigots or sth. Fine.

Now another side is screaming homophobia because not enough vaccines go to those who should get them first... GBMSM? This and that and everything is homophobia. Let's bury and ignore everything, anybody can get it. While currently MP seems to overwhelmingly attack certain demographic/community, targeted care, prevention, even mentioning is... "stigmatising".

No R462, it just leaves scars on your body and apparently also your asshole...ugh.

Advocates warn US at risk of losing control on monkeypox

Because, R465, we have no national healthcare system.

Any new posts from the monkeypox'd CUMDUMP upthread?

Yep, R467. He's reporting serious side effects - trouble sleeping, extreme pain, and using laxatives.

The guy who gave the interview lived a lifestyle that made him vulnerable to infection. Fire Island constantly and all kinds of choices consistent with that.

I know another guy who got it over Pride. He's a serial meth addict, already HIV positive, the usual heedless choices that ruin bodies and disrupt lives.

More good news...sigh

MONKEY POX! MAKE THE HOT GAYS UGLY!!!

BREAKING: US records 100 new monkeypox cases, smashes prior record of 64 cases. US total case count now stands at 560 cases.

Is it still all gay and bi men? I assume the trumpeting of it moving into the het community will be loud when it happens. (I hate that Trump ruined perfectly good words like 'trumpet'.)

R474, there’s been at least one woman in the U.S.; she had returned from a trip to Central Africa. So, yes, it’s virtually all gay or bi men.

Luckily I'm only attracted to and have sex with straight guys, so mpox is nothing I need to worry about it. Poor gay men, they really are a font of STDs, aren't they?

R476, who else do you think those "straight guys" are fucking, moron?