It turns out that most of the cases of the virus have been reported by men seeking care at sexual health clinics after having sex with other men and developing symptoms.
So why has the fear porn suddenly come to a stop? Media can’t tell the truth about monkeypox because they worry about stigmatizing gays With any luck, they’d convince the world to start lining up for another new vaccine to keep the risk of the virus at bay. The disease is marked by prominent infectious lesions and begins with flu-like symptoms such as fever, muscle aches, chills, headache and exhaustion, as well as swollen lymph nodes.Īt first, it seemed the media was ready to help its Big Pharma sponsors and scare everyone into thinking we were all going to catch monkeypox just by walking down the street.
WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said that its sudden appearance across several countries is a sign the virus has likely been spreading undetected for quite some time outside of the areas where it usually found in Africa. Cases of monkeypox, they said, were suddenly spiking, and the small possibility of spreading it through respiratory droplets had mask and vaccine makers seeing dollar signs. It wasn’t that long ago that the mainstream media was filled with stories about a scary new virus that was poised to become the new COVID-19.
