discussion Mpox (Monkeypox) thread - 1st case outside Africa

[Protocol]

2 minutes ago, Gavin. said:

Bruh chill  

 

I don’t blame health care workers one bit for having fatigue. They were raved as the hero’s during beginning Covid but got no extra pay or anything besides praise which doesn’t pay the bills and isn’t worth the stress of the early days of Covid. Then they were quickly turned on after a few months of Covid and constantly verbally assaulted by crazies and not appreciated by most anymore and STILL not given proper compensation. 
 

can’t blame them for not wanting to go through another contagious thing with how shitty people treat them now and with no extra pay

 

we/they can complain about our jobs all we want and still do them also tho so chill   

You're right, it's my mento illness acting up

[Sesame]

9 minutes ago, Protocol said:

You are disgusting. You should be ashamed of yourself. YOU signed up for this job. YOU DID. You went through the training and get paid every month for it. Now you don't want to do it because you could catch something? What about all the other things you could've caught that existed before? Or is it because it's happening to gay people? Which is it? Go find another job if you can't do your job. Let other people who are willing to help sick people do the job of helping sick people. I hope ATRL reveals your IP and gets you fired. You are a risk to the healthcare of people in whatever hospital you work in. @ATRL Administration

Hun, your logic here is stupid as hell. Imagine telling a person that’s what they signed up for, so they need to suck it up and do it. There’s a vaccine out that is highly effective at preventing the spread of it. If you don’t want to get the vaccine because you’re afraid of some sort of side effects, then you stop having sex and stay home? Healthcare workers don’t need to be burdened anymore than they already are with something significantly more preventable than Covid. Maybe you should go to school for something healthcare related since you think people are entitled to the care of healthcare workers when those same individuals don’t seem to care for their own health in the first place by forgoing the vaccine and still going out to places of high transmission. I wonder if you felt the same way about Covid and people skipping the vaccine only to overcrowd hospitals and delay/deny people with non preventable issues care. You should be thanking @XAMJ of all things you clown. 

[Kitty Kat]

 

[FreeXone]

1 hour ago, Protocol said:

The one guy I know who got it got it at a sauna/bathhouse in the UK. From what he said he was really horny and just went to have someone suck his D, those places are usually not very well-lit. It sounds horrifying that there would be people who go around despite having sores on their bodies but I wouldn't put it past some guys tbh. Some men don't care about anything other than getting off. It's also possible that a lot of people are mistaking the early symptoms for acne or not noticing them, but at that point they're already contagious anyway. I'm just speculating.

Yeah some guys are really that sleezy. 

[Sergi91]

4 hours ago, Hector said:

 

I’m so glad I remained celibate in Vegas this past weekend 

[CaptainMusic]

5 hours ago, Breathe On Moi said:

Didn’t the spread and all of this start in the UK? 
 

OT: Be safe! 

Not exactly, the UK were simply the first country to detect a case. There is no confirmation where it started as cases were discovered around the same time but:

 

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On 23 May, David Heymann, an advisor for the World Health Organization, said that the likely theory of how the outbreak started is transmission during sexual intercourse of gay and bisexual men at two raves in Belgium and Spain.

Either way, my point about vaccination still stands.

5 hours ago, Protocol said:

Wait so this says being on PrEP puts you at extra risk from getting a bad case of it? Am I reading this correctly? Is this accurate?

 

Because ch-

 

Let me stop taking this ****, I'm not hooking up rn anyway

I think maybe it’s because men who take PrEP tend to be more sexually active and have more random/unprotected sex so are more at risk. 

 

I don’t see any source that says taking PrEP itself makes you more likely to get Monkeypox 

[Vermillion]

 

[Genius1111]

 

 

 

Edited August 5, 2022 by Genius1111

[Blue Jeans]

Crazy how it’s blowing up now but I already had it and recovered. Good luck, girlies! 

[A Bomb]

The exponential growth

But yes it’s homophobic to even mention that bathhouses shouldnt be open, bozo

[CaptainMusic]

15 minutes ago, Blue Jeans said:

Crazy how it’s blowing up now but I already had it and recovered. Good luck, girlies! 

Glad you’ve recovered

 

Im curious though, what did you say to your work/boss about why you had to isolate for 3 weeks?

[Vermillion]

This is yet another massive scandal, I'm sorry. Where is our press on this? Where is the HHS? Where is the oversight?

 

Does anyone even care or do we just hop from crisis to crisis because we've given up entirely on pre-emptive health measures as a country?

 

Biden's HHS will get to somehow dodge because they've only been in two years as will Trump's because, well, nevermind. Then Obama too?

 

 

 

 

[Blue Jeans]

50 minutes ago, CaptainMusic said:

Glad you’ve recovered

 

Im curious though, what did you say to your work/boss about why you had to isolate for 3 weeks?

I work full-time only from home so I was privileged. I also was able to pause my gym membership for a month

I can’t imagine how other people will be able to isolate for a month and not work. It definitely lasts longer than Covid

[XAMJ]

14 hours ago, Protocol said:

Maybe pick a different career then...? Your job is to take care of sick people. "I don't want to see a sick person" What a selfish attitude. If you can't do your job then find another job.

LOL you sound like the typical 'if u dont like it then leave' kinda person

 

like i said, i love my job but I/WE did NOT sign up for back to back pandemics. at a certain point mental health and stamina start going down hill fast.

 

 

14 hours ago, Gavin. said:

Bruh chill  

 

I don’t blame health care workers one bit for having fatigue. They were raved as the hero’s during beginning Covid but got no extra pay or anything besides praise which doesn’t pay the bills and isn’t worth the stress of the early days of Covid. Then they were quickly turned on after a few months of Covid and constantly verbally assaulted by crazies and not appreciated by most anymore and STILL not given proper compensation. 
 

can’t blame them for not wanting to go through another contagious thing with how shitty people treat them now and with no extra pay

 

we/they can complain about our jobs all we want and still do them also tho so chill   

NN we got a cheap ass wellness box instead of a bonus   no hazard pay either

 

 

13 hours ago, Sesame said:

Hun, your logic here is stupid as hell. Imagine telling a person that’s what they signed up for, so they need to suck it up and do it. There’s a vaccine out that is highly effective at preventing the spread of it. If you don’t want to get the vaccine because you’re afraid of some sort of side effects, then you stop having sex and stay home? Healthcare workers don’t need to be burdened anymore than they already are with something significantly more preventable than Covid. Maybe you should go to school for something healthcare related since you think people are entitled to the care of healthcare workers when those same individuals don’t seem to care for their own health in the first place by forgoing the vaccine and still going out to places of high transmission. I wonder if you felt the same way about Covid and people skipping the vaccine only to overcrowd hospitals and delay/deny people with non preventable issues care. You should be thanking @XAMJ of all things you clown. 

[Vermillion]

@XAMJ To not be insincere or schmaltzy, I'll just say thank you for all you do. 

 

It's incredibly tough and selfless given what everyone's already touched on. All the best.

[XAMJ]

26 minutes ago, Espresso said:

@XAMJ To not be insincere or schmaltzy, I'll just say thank you for all you do. 

 

It's incredibly tough and selfless given what everyone's already touched on. All the best.

I appreciate your comments <3 

 

on a personal note, this pandemic has caused some adverse effects on my mental health which is not surprising but what really irritates me is the way some people view hcws, its shocking and its no wonder why many of my colleagues are just OVER it

[Vermillion]

Watch this like a hawk everyone. Southern Decadence will likely the first big superspreader of monkeypox in the United States.

 

Don't take my word for it - this is according to the director of the New Orleans Health Department, Dr. Avegno, who was praised for her work nationally early on in the Covid crisis. In this case she's citing little to no availability of the vaccines.

 

 

[Gavin.]

51 minutes ago, XAMJ said:

LOL you sound like the typical 'if u dont like it then leave' kinda person

 

like i said, i love my job but I/WE did NOT sign up for back to back pandemics. at a certain point mental health and stamina start going down hill fast.

 

 

NN we got a cheap ass wellness box instead of a bonus   no hazard pay either

 

 

  the disrespect 

[Hector]

 

[Kool_Aid_King]

So I was actually curious what you guys think about something I saw.

 

There's a guy I know who is SUPER paranoid about STIs (He gets anal pap smears every year). He sent me a snap saying he got the Monkey pox vaccine in a smaller city (Our supply as you guys know in the US are VERY scarce and in his region, they had 200 doses/population is 600K. The state he lives in has 22 MP cases). I make a joke about how I was surprised he didn't get it sooner (it was only available last week in his state). He said his risk is very low because he's in a monogamous relationship but he hangs out with gay men "in large groups" so he was eligible. 

 

I feel like this is incredibly messed up. Considering he took it away from someone who actually does have multiple sex partners and is single/sexually active. They only got 200 DOSES and he jumped in line because he has gay friends and go to gay bars?? If that were the case, Queer women and Straight people with gay friends/go to gay bars should be eligible but they're not. What do you guys think? Maybe I'm overreacting but this type of stuff really upsets me. We saw it with COVID as people were jumping in line to get the vaccine in the beginning.

[-Eternal-]

2 hours ago, Kool_Aid_King said:

So I was actually curious what you guys think about something I saw.

 

There's a guy I know who is SUPER paranoid about STIs (He gets anal pap smears every year). He sent me a snap saying he got the Monkey pox vaccine in a smaller city (Our supply as you guys know in the US are VERY scarce and in his region, they had 200 doses/population is 600K. The state he lives in has 22 MP cases). I make a joke about how I was surprised he didn't get it sooner (it was only available last week in his state). He said his risk is very low because he's in a monogamous relationship but he hangs out with gay men "in large groups" so he was eligible. 

 

I feel like this is incredibly messed up. Considering he took it away from someone who actually does have multiple sex partners and is single/sexually active. They only got 200 DOSES and he jumped in line because he has gay friends and go to gay bars?? If that were the case, Queer women and Straight people with gay friends/go to gay bars should be eligible but they're not. What do you guys think? Maybe I'm overreacting but this type of stuff really upsets me. We saw it with COVID as people were jumping in line to get the vaccine in the beginning.

I’ve seen a lot of people on Twitter saying “I don’t advocate/endorse doing this but…” and then go in to explain how they’ve gone to a different vaccine site for their second dose acting like it was their first, because they couldn’t get a schedule second dose from where they originally got vaccinated.

 

I get it, everyone wants the best protection possible, but to me it seems a bit unethical. I got my first dose and the hospital straight up said “we’re not scheduling second doses right now because there’s not enough vaccine”. So, I’ll continue to take care, hope one dose provides a good amount of protection, and get a second dose when I can. The whole lying/being sneaky to get the vaccine when there’s many more people at risk who are truthfully trying ti schedule appointments and can’t rubs me a bit the wrong way.

[Genius1111]

 

[Hector]

 

[Kool_Aid_King]

15 hours ago, -Eternal- said:

I’ve seen a lot of people on Twitter saying “I don’t advocate/endorse doing this but…” and then go in to explain how they’ve gone to a different vaccine site for their second dose acting like it was their first, because they couldn’t get a schedule second dose from where they originally got vaccinated.

 

I get it, everyone wants the best protection possible, but to me it seems a bit unethical. I got my first dose and the hospital straight up said “we’re not scheduling second doses right now because there’s not enough vaccine”. So, I’ll continue to take care, hope one dose provides a good amount of protection, and get a second dose when I can. The whole lying/being sneaky to get the vaccine when there’s many more people at risk who are truthfully trying ti schedule appointments and can’t rubs me a bit the wrong way.

That’s pretty sick. With the EXTREME shortage (my clinic that services 2M people received only 20 doses and have 30-40 people on a waitlist), it seems messed up to “cut in” line. Even I feel sort of guilty cause I’m not AS sexually active as others but I know I’m still in the high risk category since I’m single and sexually active. 

[Bhabylon]

My appointment for the second vaccine was cancelled because there aren’t enough vaccines available  I hate it here