California not ready to declare emergency over monkeypox

The Associated Press ^ | July 29, 2022 | By DON THOMPSON and JANIE

[Oldeconomybuyer]

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California officials are pressing for more vaccine and acting with “utmost urgency” to slow the spread of the monkeypox virus, but they have not decided whether to declare a statewide emergency as the city of San Francisco announced on Thursday, the state’s public health officer said Friday.

Members of the LGBTQ community have been furious with slow response from government at all levels, and say the world should have been better prepared in manufacturing and stockpiling vaccine. They’ve expressed frustration over the inability to get the vaccine and fears they’re being abandoned yet again in a public health crisis, much as they were with HIV and AIDS.

California Sen. Scott Wiener, a Democrat who represents San Francisco, has urged the state to declare an emergency, which would provide greater flexibility around testing and vaccinations. But he also said Friday that state leaders have acted with an appropriate sense of urgency.

“At this point, I think local, state, federal, we’re all rowing in the same direction. We just all need to row faster because we have a limited window of time to control this outbreak,” he said.

[Little Bill]

O yes! Now tumblers with your wanton tricks,
Make haste, move your legs quick, make the ground drum;
With wanton arms, soft thighs, and active hips,
The old, the tender, and the sweetly young.

Gaius Petronius Albeter My Latin Sucks.

[realcleanguy]

“Members of the LGBTQ community have been furious with slow response from government at all levels, and say the world should have been better prepared in manufacturing and stockpiling vaccine. They’ve expressed frustration over the inability to get the vaccine and fears they’re being abandoned yet again in a public health crisis, much as they were with HIV and AIDS:

99% of infections are gay men

[TokarevM57]

...agree..... remember this:
A - anally
I - induced
D - death
S - sentence.....

the same can be said for this Schlong-Covid, as described by the absoluely irrepressable Tucker Carlson last night....

[Paleo Conservative]

The critical difference is that monkey pox affects gay men and gives them ugly sores while small pox affects everyone—and kills 25%. So monkey pox is by far the more serious disease—a disease with rights. /s

Monkeypox is a zoonotic disease unlike Smallpox. It can be spread from animals to people and likely from people to animals. So far only animals in Africa have endemic Monkeypox. It would be catastrophic if it got spread from humans to animals in North America, South America, Europe, Africa, and Australia. Do you really want to have to add Monkeypox on to the required childhood vaccines to protect against exposure from animals? We already have to vaccinate pets against Rabies; in Texas rabies vaccinations are required every year. I would rather not have to require vaccination of pets.

[BitWielder1]

Since meaningful Monkeypox restrictions would be homophobic at this point, we have to wait until it has spread into the general population.

[ealgeone]

Members of the LGBTQ community have been furious with slow response from government at all levels, and say the world should have been better prepared in manufacturing and stockpiling vaccine.

not that stopping their behavior is an option.

[ealgeone]

Then and only then should assistance be rendered.

[mewzilla]

Is it monkeypox?

Because I am stunned at how many people are willing to take Deep State’s word for this.

[Paleo Conservative]

While happily no one knows how effective small pox vaccines given in the 50s are today, at least I have been vaccinated. And the vaccine is supposed to prevent the disease as opposed to ‘lessen the severity’.

But, getting a first vaccination in childhood decreased the risk of serious side effects when getting a booster if needed as an adult. Seriously the Smallpox vaccine was the most dangerous vaccine in use in the 20th century. The Jynneos vaccine was developed from a strain of Vaccinia developed in the 1960's by passing it through almost 700 transfers between chicken cell cultures. It is unable to replicate in mammalian cells. This makes it much safer. If you gave the ACAM2000 vaccine to people with AIDS, it would kill them. The Jynneos vaccine has been given to many people with AIDS.

[Grampa Dave]

So, like, “Two Weeks To Flatten The Hump” ...

BOL!