As much as the news tries to sell Monkeypox like it’s the next Swine Flu and EVERYONE should be vigilantly protecting themselves against accidentally becoming infected, 98% of monkeypox infected individuals are gay or bisexual men, and 95% of cases are thought to have been transmitted during sex. That’s pretty specific, and despite what CDC guidelines might lead us to believe, it doesn’t sounds like the average person needs to worry about spraying their grocery store shopping cart to protect themselves from the pox. So I don’t feel unreasonable in saying that we need to look carefully at any case involving infected children.
In Europe, there are at least six cases of Monkeypox in children 17 and younger. Earlier this week we heard of two confirmed cases in the United States. Reports said these two children, an infant and a toddler, were likely infected through family contact. And then nada, nothing else.
. . . Pardon me, but WHAT KIND OF CONTACT?? Concerned citizens want to know.
Dr. James Lawler, an infectious diseases specialist at the University of Nebraska Medical Center says Monkeypox can spread in households through “prolonged or intensive contact,” including via towels and bedding. But unless you are rubbing your pox covered butthole on your sheets and then lying your infant’s face in the same exact spot, I don’t know understand how we jump from of 95% cases are transmitted through sex to oh, you could just touch a towel. Someone please explain.
I’m not saying everyone is a pedo, but when you have kids everyone is a potential pedo. And if my kid ended up with Monkeypox, I’d be having a good long look at every neighbor, coach, and uncle-friend who had contact with them. That just doesn’t sit right.
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Welcome back Ksneya. I haven’t seen you on here in a while.
It would be interesting to live in a place where you trusted the CDC. If Daddy–who secretly did nasty things on a trip–is sick, people were extra hard–including daddy–to keep daddy away for the kids and be careful. Men who did these things secretly bringing it to their girlfriends and wives, plus drug use got AIDS into the general population. Children and some others got in from blood given in medical emergencies, when people cared more about face than infecting others.
Blood transfers are now carefully tested, and any sign of illness or problems gets the blood thrown out.
Ninety-five percent are sexually unusual. The exceptions are in the area where it is from, where a small percentage picks it up.
SO: WHERE did the children GET it. I’ve stopped Red Eye, flu, and others in their tracks when they tried to make the rounds at our house, though a few things get through. IT TAKES CONTACT TO GET MONKEY POX. Someone please tell me that these cases are being investigated.
Knowing the CDC, though, I suppose the children could either not exist or have measles.
And they say monsters aren’t real.
Because it seems to be spread through the pox goo from the sores and since so many men are sluts, when you put one in a sexual situation they throw caution to the wind. Why do you think the $5 truck stop prostitutes stay in business? Now put two or men together and it is a recipe for disaster.
Since it is spread through the pox goo, it is only logical that close family (sharing the same house) becomes an obvious way to spread the infection.
The jumping to “they are infected because they are gay” instead of “they are infected and they are gay” just perpetuates the ‘Republicans are “homophobes” ‘ nonsense. Going further to “they’re gay, so probably pedophiles too” is even worse.
edit- Now put two or [more] men…
My first thought was those kids were abused. Not gonna lie. Everything we know from this virus is it is 95% spread by butthole contact between men. But they want us to freak out, declare another emergency so they can grab more power, but too many of us know about the butthole issue. So… they bring in the kids. “SEE kids can get it, too!” Ok, HOW did they contract it? “Oh, you know, “familial contact.”” ok, I’ll not trust you, thanks!
Yes, that’s so true. I agree! I’m on the Doxymama train.
I’m with you. Too many unknowns about the children getting it. But I don’t trust the CDC as far as I can throw them anyway.
I am so stealing the term “pox-covered butt-hole”.
No. That isn’t what we know.