'GaysAgainstGroomers' mentioned this asked these clubs be shut down for the duration of the pandemic. They of course were gaslighted and slandered.
And this. There is something weird going on with this virus popping up right after corona. MPX has been around for decades and it was just isolated outbreaks in a few areas in Africa. Then all of a sudden...
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This tree is really interesting. It’s a textbook example of what happens when a disease which has one very linear and established mode of transmission gets into a population who have a completely different way of spreading it and are immune compromised. Look at that explosion - this is disease ticking along, endemic, each person probably infects one other, on average, probably household communication. Little kid gets it, gets pic, older kids have already had it, parents had it as kids. Maybe kid gives it to a sibling but then it’s over for that transmission chain. It mutates, but it’s not so fast. It’s almost in a balance with it’s host. And then it gets into a community that have a totally different dynamic. Rough sex allowing effective transmission, multiple partners in a short timescale, constant transmission, poor immune systems. BOOOOOOOM! This for a virus is like winning the lottery. Multiple compromised hosts just smearing virally hot fluids into mucous membranes that are broken. This is the good life for a virus. It’s like a bacterium that’s been eking out a living in a sparse environment suddenly getting dropped into an Olympic swimming pool of broth. Classic S curve incoming.
What happens next? Well, that exponential growth is gonna carry on for a good while. Then you’ll get some Spillover into the non gay population and those transmission chains will result in mutation trees like the first part of that graph. Kid will get it, family horrified, isolate, treat, chain fizzles out.
The explosion in the promiscuous gay communities will carry on until the majority have been affected and recovered. s shaped progress. It’s possible it’ll become an endemic illness ;probably inevitable now.) that’s bad for everyone else because there will be constant spillover, much like HIV.
The wild card is that it wouldnt take much to turn monkeypox into something much nastier. Mutation is mainly random, and while on average and over time this tends to more transmissible and less severe, on a granular level it can happen that something Very Nasty Indeed pops up.
My advice would be to stop fucking twenty people a weekend, but what do I know? They don’t listen to the monogamous gays so they sure as hell won’t listen to me.
