Posted on 07/27/2022 7:00:28 AM PDT by Salman
Not since the gruesome heyday of HIV/Aids has a virus been such a threat to the lives of men who have sex with men. As monkeypox rips through queer communities, particularly in London, the cruel legacy of that pandemic casts an unnerving shadow. Conversations in LGBTQ+ spaces – from Highgate men’s pond in the capital to bars and clubs in urban centres – turn anxiously to this new threat.
Those who have had the virus share their experiences: some mild symptoms, others painful and miserable. WhatsApp groups ping with pictures of gay and bisexual men proudly displaying plaster-covered upper arms to confirm they’ve been vaccinated in a flashback to the peak of the national Covid trauma. On the gay hookup app Grindr, some use their profiles to announce they’re abstaining from sexual contact until their scheduled vaccination; in queer clubs, some choose to skip the ritual taking-off of T-shirts, fearing the prolonged skin-on-skin contact of an intimate dance will put them at risk.
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Shouldn’t we be saying persons who identify as men having sex with persons identifying as men?
So gross
Darwinian law is unrelenting.
Not my problem. Homosexuality is a sin.
You are not kidding, my friend!
When I saw that this was from the Guardian my jaw dropped.
I have a lot of teacher friends who are left leaning (I myself am also a teacher, albeit one of the very few right-leaning ones.) and they all know exactly the scoop with Monkey Pox.
The most shocking is a good friend of mine who was married for thirty years until her husband decided he was gay and left her for another man.
“I hope they BOTH get a scorching case of it right in their ****-holes!”
This woman is an ardent liberal, but you know... when things don’t go their way, boom... the real fascist comes out of them.
Not that I don’t agree they (those two in particular) deserve the excruciating bootie pox.
not hardly. its more scare mongering.
If you have a million people in a group and 3000 of them have become sick from something, is it statistically reasonable to start forcing all of them to take action? I am no epidemiologist, but 3000\1000000 is not a significant threshold to my thinking. Three thousandths of one percent is nothing to be alarmed by.
The chickens of “Pride Month” are coming home to roost.
And with adequate self control, it would be easy to just socially ostracize anyone that you have suspicions about. If you’re a perv, I don’t accept you as normal. Not with the risk of death and disease. That’s Your Problem.
And really, this is less about the group than the behavior- The behavior is that of having more than one sex partner. There are other STDs that do the same thing. Some of them are deadly, yet the behavior persists. STDs don’t transmit into a larger group or community if people are monogamous. Does your wife or husband give you an STD if they are faithful to you? Pretty unlikely unless they had it before you both became monogamous with each other. Even then, you both are not spreading it to other people if you are monogamous.
Not very Christian of me perhaps, but if you are a leper, i’m not Jesus, and I can’t heal you. I’ll pray for you and perhaps feed you, but you stay over there.
I don't even know what to say.
Do you know what has killed the most soldiers in human history?
disease
Do you know what caused the disease?
human POOP
So... one shouldn’t be surprised when you stick your pecker into a dirty hairy exit hole of another man used for expelling human waste (ie. POOP) that you catch some nasty diseases!
This is just basic hygiene information.
Avoid anyone who eats bananas and scratches his ribs.
Avoid anyone who eats bananas and scratches his ribs.
I don’t even know what to say.
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Well you admitted and said so. That’s honest.
Saying it was the "gay disease" was just as bad then as called COVID the "China virus" is today.
I'm surprised they are treating this just as a disease that anyone can get and not warning people to not be that concerned for fear that it will stigmatize their favorite "community".
Not since the gruesome heyday of HIV/Aids has a virus been such a threat to the lives of men who have sex with men.
Monkeypox has a mortality rate of 3.6%. It's not a threat to the lives of homosexuals like HIV/AIDS was.
“If you have a million people in a group and 3000 of them have become sick from something, is it statistically reasonable to start forcing all of them to take action?”
No. Groups such as gays need to solve the problems they create for themselves.
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