[Paleo Conservative]

Considering the vaccines are from the US strategic vaccine stockpile, the slowness of the response is worrying. The vaccine used to prevent Monkeypox is a vaccine stockpiled for use against Smallpox. It would be quite scary if in the event of a release of Smallpox, the response were this slow.

[hanamizu]

It would be quite scary if in the event of a release of Smallpox, the response were this slow.

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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.
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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’.