Monkeypox, Coming to Australia, More Lockdowns?

Lrektrading on 20/05/2022 - 15:48

https://twitter.com/teozka/status/1526505294083276800
Yesterday, @UKHSA reported four cases of monkeypox (MPX) in gay and bisexual men in England, making a total of 7 cases nationally.
So what's going on with monkeypox (MPX)?
https://t.co/lpefCO16uV

https://twitter.com/ABC/status/1527028273443741696
JUST IN: A Massachusetts resident has tested positive for monkeypox, the state health department confirms.
https://t.co/0RBA2F11Rb

https://twitter.com/StockwellBilly/status/152691248838993920…
Eight suspected new cases of Monkeypox in Spain, all in gay or bisexual men. In the UK, gay or bisexual men make up over 50% of all cases (4/7). What’s going on?
https://t.co/IXOyPrFo8F

Is 🙈 🙊 🙉pox something people should be worried about?

Can people expect more 🔑 down and will rekt the economy, again?

Health & Beauty Monkeypox

Comments

      • morse on 21/05/2022 - 08:22
        +1

        1% case mortality rate is pretty high. I read more like 3% but I guess that depends on access to healthcare in the country you get it. Yes it’s hard to catch, but I wouldn’t want to catch it personally.

        • iCandy on 21/05/2022 - 08:25
          +1

          I’m sure no one does, but you have to put it in perspective. SARS was very deadly in 2006 but with contact tracing and quarantining, the outbreak was eradicated and the world wasn’t shut down for it.

          • morse on 21/05/2022 - 08:31

            @iCandy: Yeah I don’t think they’ll be shutting down the world for monkeypox either. But if there are clusters in some areas it wouldn’t surprise me if some countries restrict travel from those areas. I guess we’ll see if it is as hard to catch as suggested

    • morse on 20/05/2022 - 18:27
      +2

      Say what?

      • rektrading on 20/05/2022 - 18:36
        +5

        digital identities, microchips, cbdc's

        These exist today.

        Vaxxpass in Canada, microchips under the skin in Sweden and CBDC in China.

        • morse on 20/05/2022 - 18:46
          +1

          Yeah… but I’m not sure that those things existing equals

          It's from the new HIV vaccine they have been testing with Mrna delivery.

          Nor that appropriate public health measures are some sort of conspiracy

    • AustriaBargain on 20/05/2022 - 19:54
      +2

      HIV kills millions every year and most people on the planet with HIV are women. Even if the development of a vaccine caused monkeypox it'd still be worth it. Of course monkeypox is not related to any vaccine development.

      • iCandy on 21/05/2022 - 08:16

        There is already a vaccine for this virus and anyone who has received a Smallpox vaccine in the past has an 85% chance of never contracting Monkeypox from close contact with infected.

      • core101 on 21/05/2022 - 13:10
        -4

        Vaccines were designed to transfer foreign material into humans. There may be a direct link between monkey disease and Astrazeneca which contains a live chimpanzee adeno-virus. US government recently purchased 13 millions doses of the Jynneos vaccine, perhaps it is time to buy shares in big pharma?

        • DogGunn on 22/05/2022 - 22:26

          This is not a monkey disease. It literally has nothing to do with Astrazeneca. There's nothing similar about the vector used and the monkeypox virus.

        • Miss B on 23/05/2022 - 01:02
          +2

          It'd be a huge coincidence if out of all of the people who have had the vaccine, the ones getting it (from the vaccine) are those who have been in contact with other people who have got it… if only there was a more logical explanation…

        • smartazz104 on 23/05/2022 - 09:21

          I bought shares in tinfoil.

    • Jamiea on 24/05/2022 - 12:26

      Take your meds mate

  • AndyC1 on 20/05/2022 - 18:46
    +1

    Where's the poll?

    • rektrading on 20/05/2022 - 18:48

      I don't know. I added a poll but doesn't show up.

  • m0usju1c3 on 20/05/2022 - 19:17

    What is the method of testing, PCR?

    • ChaLuo on 23/05/2022 - 20:17

      You pinch a blister on your skin then press a litmus paper on it

  • [Deactivated] on 20/05/2022 - 19:24
    +1

    time to cancel gym membership

    • AustriaBargain on 20/05/2022 - 19:54
      +18

      At the very least stay away from the monkey bars.

    • yadq on 22/05/2022 - 05:49
      +2

      Pretty sure it doesn’t spread by membership - you would actually have to attend first!

      • [Deactivated] on 22/05/2022 - 17:59

        we go jim with monkeeeeee mode on, monkehhhhhhh!!!! 🦍🦍🦍🦍🦍

  • sharkyoz on 20/05/2022 - 20:25
    +2

    First Monkeypox, will we see Pigsyitis or Sandyscale make an appearance?

    • singingwolf on 21/05/2022 - 08:14

      No but Magicpox is emerging…

  • ozwog05 on 20/05/2022 - 21:49
    +4

    Why can't they send us a better pokemon, like Charizard.

  • Raulioli8810 on 21/05/2022 - 07:36
    -1

    If you believe that monkeypox is dangerous then the only monkey is you 🤣🤣🤣🤣.

  • Lord Fart Bucket on 21/05/2022 - 07:58
    +2

    WTF is this world coming to? I would have expected this to come from SlavOz…

    • rektrading on 21/05/2022 - 08:08
      +2

      CT is open-minded (excluding maxis) people that ❤️ 💵 and like to ✈️.

      🙈pox closing the borders and nukes the economy is bad for both.

  • MontyMacaw on 21/05/2022 - 08:11
    +4

    Oh FFS seriously?? Do your research and stop panicking over headlines. Storm in a teacup. Move along nothing to see here.

  • rektrading on 21/05/2022 - 10:51

    https://twitter.com/SBSNews/status/1527803828560871424
    The World Health Organisation held an emergency meeting after more than 100 cases of monkeypox were confirmed or suspected in Europe.
    https://t.co/Sw14pevoWL

    • GordonD on 21/05/2022 - 12:45
      +4

      Like wars, diseases like this are ignored whilever they only happen in parts of the world where people have different coloured skin or religion to us, but when they happen to people like us, its an emergency and a catastrophe.

      • [Deactivated] on 21/05/2022 - 21:21

        More like different continents and climates.

        • cookie2 on 22/05/2022 - 07:57
          -1

          No, I'm pretty sure they meant different colour skin and religion.

          • [Deactivated] on 22/05/2022 - 08:31

            @cookie2: I know what the they meant, and I disagree. I am saying the reason people don't care has nothing to do with skin color or religion. Georgia and Chechnya are identical ethnically to Ukraine. The difference is that it's right on EU's doorstep.

            As for diseases, most of them are in the tropics, and are of little threat to us here. If that changed, then people would start caring. If the Chinese kept C19 in Wuhan, then it would have been of no more concern than MERS or SARS.

  • Dack Smith on 21/05/2022 - 15:39

    If Monkeypox and COVID merged… no lockdown would be able to stop the spread.

    • rektrading on 21/05/2022 - 15:45
      +2

      Do you mean what if 🙉 and Rona had a 👶?

    • mdavant on 21/05/2022 - 23:35
      -1

      They could merge the names

      CONkeypox22

    • infinite on 23/05/2022 - 06:48

      Lockdowns didn't even come close to stopping the Rona.

      • smartazz104 on 23/05/2022 - 09:23
        -1

        The assumption being that 100% of people followed the lockdown guidelines, which we know is not the case.

  • CandyMan on 21/05/2022 - 15:45
    +2

    Roll up your sleeves for a vaccine and a couple of boosters.
    Time to buy pharma stocks

    • [Deactivated] on 25/05/2022 - 07:11

      More like it's time to put pharma into stocks.

  • Herbse on 21/05/2022 - 15:56
    +1

    Toilet paper is already sold out at my shops

    • OzzyOzbourne on 22/05/2022 - 09:47

      Aldi near me had it for the first time in 6 weeks!

  • [Deactivated] on 21/05/2022 - 21:23
    +3

    Lockdowns were never considered best practice before 2020, and even the most pro lockdown governments, apart from China, have realized how stupid they are. So no, the chances of this bringing in a new round of lockdowns seems unlikely.

    • cookie2 on 22/05/2022 - 08:00

      Can't say I agree. Pre Covid, yrs. But I've seen it happen now and after living in the most locked down city in aus, I can no longer say unlikely. For this virus, doubtful, but the option is forever there now for gov.

      • [Deactivated] on 22/05/2022 - 08:41

        The WHO considered lockdowns ineffective, doing more harm than good. Then China started welding people into their homes and it somehow caught on. Even the WHO is now criticizing China's approach.

        There's no agreeing or disagreeing. Those are factual statements. Easily verifiable.

        As for future pandemic lockdowns, sure. Who can predict what might happen in future?

        • Ughhh on 22/05/2022 - 15:27

          The WHO considered lockdowns ineffective, doing more harm than good

          Can you point out where WHO said that?

          https://www.who.int/news-room/questions-and-answers/item/her…

        • cookie2 on 23/05/2022 - 05:29

          Yes i remember them saying not to do it while everyone kept doing this. I meant I disagree that new lockdowns are unlikely. We just don't know anymore.

        • infinite on 23/05/2022 - 06:50
          +1

          The WHO has never done anything but support China.

          When did they ever criticize them ?

        • smartazz104 on 23/05/2022 - 09:30

          Didn't the WHO also say it was not a good idea to ban flights from China? Of course this was well after China had let Covid escape its borders…

      • [Deactivated] on 25/05/2022 - 07:14

        Yeah I don't agree government has realised anything either. Except perhaps that it was election time.

    • MessyG on 22/05/2022 - 11:17
      +1

      They are best used as a temporary and emergency measure to stop hospital system collapse while awaiting treatments and vaccines. Which is exactly how they were used, it was just a pity we didn't get those treatments and vaccines very quickly. No government wanted to do them, but some had little choice due to the pre-existing state of hospitals and aged care in general.

      • cookie2 on 23/05/2022 - 05:32

        Well that comes down to what you believe temporary and emergency should mean as a timeframe that's reasonable to have a lockdown. And what lockdown rules were in place.

  • [Deactivated] on 21/05/2022 - 21:46
    +1

    BAAA!!!

    • mapax on 21/05/2022 - 22:29

      That sounds like scrapie…

    • DogGunn on 22/05/2022 - 22:26

      About the limit of your critical thought.

      • [Deactivated] on 25/05/2022 - 07:07
        +1

        LOL, yeah sure… the ones who do their own research must be the sheep, while those who blindly obey definite aren't sheep. BAAA!!!

        Meanwhile, the lamestream media are finally trickling info out which those of us who did our own due diligence knew 2 years ago. But of course, because people's preferred source now says it, they're "informed." BAAA!!!!

        Just found out yesterday the guy next door who died of a heart attack about a year ago, did so a couple of days after having his "safe and effective" jab of drain cleaner. BAAA!!!!

  • mdavant on 21/05/2022 - 23:34
    +8

    Look out Victorians.

    Dan could lock you down for 12 months

    • McFly on 22/05/2022 - 10:03
      +1

      Don't give him any ideas!

    • smartazz104 on 23/05/2022 - 09:32

      Well if it stops Sydneysiders from looking for a good time again…

      • mdavant on 23/05/2022 - 10:10
        -2

        I bet that brings back some good memories for you though.

        • smartazz104 on 23/05/2022 - 15:08
          -1

          Sounds like I hit a nerve and you’re trying to deflect.

  • Vote for Pedro on 22/05/2022 - 00:04
    +5

    Fear monger much?

  • DiscoJango on 22/05/2022 - 07:46
    +2

    News media:

    No one cares about the rona

    or ukraine

    or the election

    what should we drum up some fear and anxiety of next…

    monkeypox?

    yeh why not

    • mdavant on 22/05/2022 - 12:49

      No one cares about the impending inflation, interest rates and recession that is coming.

      That is what people should be thinking about.

      Not global warming which we cannot control.

      Anyway. I'll just have to work an extra 10 hours per week for the incoming tax increases, and the almost certain withdrawal of support for the stage 3 tax cuts.

      Watch the cheers as albanese pulls away stage 3 tax cuts from those greedy (profanity) high income earners.

      • rektrading on 22/05/2022 - 14:19

        No one cares about the impending inflation, interest rates and recession that is coming.

        I've plenty of protection.

        What I need is more 🙈 protection.

        • smartazz104 on 23/05/2022 - 09:32

          Butt plug will do it.

  • rektrading on 22/05/2022 - 07:55

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10839877/Monkeypox-…
    Pride festival in Gran Canaria - which was attended by 80,000 people - is linked to Spanish monkeypox outbreak as well as two cases in Italy while European total reaches 100
    By Jessica Warren For Mailonline
    12:01 BST 21 May 2022 , updated 19:32 BST 21 May 2022

    Up +40% since the last update.

  • McFly on 22/05/2022 - 10:04
    +1

    Covid-22. 😉

    • sparkles on 22/05/2022 - 12:20
      +1

      If they don't call it MOPOX-22 I will be disappointed.

      • [Deactivated] on 22/05/2022 - 15:55
        +1

        Mo' pox, mo' problems.

  • MessyG on 22/05/2022 - 11:18
    +2

    Fortunately the smallpox vaccine can be used as post-exposure prophylaxis (and as a vaccine for monkeypox) so I don't see why we'd need a lockdown. Getting supply might be an issue but we do already have some in the national stockpile. Fortunately smallpox has been well planned for as a bioweapon so there's a lot already in place (the US for example has enough smallpox vaccine for its entire population if needed) - it wouldn't be like covid which was an entirely new disease.

  • canberrascooter on 22/05/2022 - 14:02
    -3

    its only transmissible among monkeys, not human

    • [Deactivated] on 22/05/2022 - 15:56
      +1

      Then how do you explain the humans that have it?

      • canberrascooter on 22/05/2022 - 16:13
        -1

        then why is called monkeypox and not humanpox?

        • R3XNebular on 22/05/2022 - 16:48
          +3

          Are you serious or are you trolling?

        • Ughhh on 22/05/2022 - 21:38
          +2

          Do you think chickenpox is exclusive to chickens?

          • infinite on 23/05/2022 - 06:53
            +1

            @Ughhh: Are you saying we have to stop boning chickens as well as monkeys now ?

  • jonagrah on 22/05/2022 - 19:37
    -6

    A nursing friend said a friend told her it was caused from the AstraZeneca jab. Something about chimpanzees.

    Do you own research people.

    • MessyG on 22/05/2022 - 21:41
      +3

      Oh sweet Jesus, in under 60 seconds you can learn that…

      a) chimpanzees are not monkeys
      b) the AZ vaccine vector is based on chimpanzee adenovirus
      c) monkeypox is a completely different virus (usually found in monkeys, hence it's name) and,
      d) chimpanzees are not monkeys

      do you lot even try anymore?

      • jonagrah on 22/05/2022 - 22:03
        +2

        Sorry, I forgot the /s at the end of my comment lol.

      • infinite on 23/05/2022 - 06:53

        Woosh !

    • Ughhh on 22/05/2022 - 21:48
      +1

      A nursing friend said a friend told her it was caused from the AstraZeneca jab.

      I think your nursing friend was taken for a ride.
      Do your own research indeed, so you don't get bullied and tricked into saying funny stuff.

    • this is us on 22/05/2022 - 21:55

      A friend of the neighbour of the uncle of a colleague of the son of the nurse said this is BS…

      Who the (profanity) is the friend of your nursing friend?

      Have a look here before you do "your own research" based on people you don't know, and probably don't exist…
      https://s4be.cochrane.org/blog/2014/04/29/the-evidence-based…

    • smartazz104 on 23/05/2022 - 09:33

      A nursing friend

      Not a real nurse I bet.

      Do you own research people.

      Lay off Facebook.

  • Jaspa7 on 22/05/2022 - 21:39

    Palmer didn't win the election, instructions unclear.. how long before pasteurised monkey milk expires?

  • dufflover on 22/05/2022 - 22:30
    +1

    Matthew Guy is that you?

    • smartazz104 on 23/05/2022 - 09:33

      Lucky for him it's not lobsterpox.

  • Cluster on 22/05/2022 - 22:58
    +4

    At the moment it seems like spanking the monkey is the best way to avoid monkeypox.

  • rektrading on 23/05/2022 - 07:15
    -1

    https://twitter.com/forbeshealth/status/1528426744973238272
    Monkeypox Outbreak Triggers New Conspiracy Theories About Bill Gates As #BillGatesBioTerrorist Trends https://t.co/yyojTLTXiw

    This was bound to happen.

  • krazek on 23/05/2022 - 09:28
    +2

    There were cases of Monkeypox in 2019 pre-Covid in UK, no cause for panic back then. They are trying to create hysteria… don't fall for it

    • Herbse on 23/05/2022 - 09:37
      +1

      This. The media is suffering with no COVID clickbait to keep their income flowing. So they need the next fear campaign to keep them afloat.

      • krazek on 23/05/2022 - 10:01

        Exactly. Same thing with the Flurona nonsense, they are trying to make you afraid of the bloody flu. Just remember how you would have treated the possibility of catching the flu pre-covid.

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