If it spreads through sexual contact, then I'm certainly safe.
Well it’s morning and you’re up, have you scratched?If I scratch my balls in the morning when I wake up have I got it?
If I scratch my balls in the morning when I wake up have I got it?
If it spreads through sexual contact, then I'm certainly safe.
I'm scratching my head as to why I was up all night spinning the wheels of steelWell it’s morning and you’re up, have you scratched?
I'd quite like to be a monkey. I'll be a bonobo please.Not sure. Fancy a banana?
We won't be that lucky. The giant meteor will look like it's on a direct collision course; global stress levels will go stratospheric, all sorts of horrible interpersonal and internecine shit will kick off in the face of certain extinction and then, at the very last minute, the moon's gravity will nudge it into a near-miss leaving us to awkwardly pick up the pieces. Ofc, the sun will then slingshot it back to us and we'll get rubbed out 6 months later being none the wiser as it came from the sun and we weren't looking in that direction at the time...After monkeypox we'll probably have a giant meteorite strike.
Pretty sure I’ve had smallpox vaccine already. Not sure when they stopped being given in the U.K.
1971
Routine mass use of it in the UK seems to have ended in 1971:
According to my Lewisham Borough Health Department card, I got a smallpox vaccine in July 1971 when I was about 18 months old.
There is a line on the card for smallpox re-vaccination at age 5 along with some other vaccinations - it's not quite clear whether I got that as well or just the ones on the line above.
We know we're only seeing the tip of the iceberg as the cases being detected don't fit into a neat picture of this person passed it on to that person etc. Instead many of the cases appear unrelated, so there are missing links in a chain that seems to spread across Europe and beyond.
A recent massive superspreading event, in which large numbers of people gathered and caught monkeypox at the same venue such as a festival and then took it home to different countries, could explain the current situation.
The alternative explanation for so many unconnected people getting infected is if the virus has actually been bubbling along unnoticed for quite some time involving a lot of people.
Either way, we can expect to continue to find more cases.
There's two broad options - the virus has changed or the same old virus has found itself in the right place at the right time to thrive.
Monkeypox is a DNA virus so it does not mutate as rapidly as Covid or flu. Very early genetic analysis suggests the current cases are very closely related to forms of the virus seen in 2018 and 2019.
It is too early to be sure, but for now there is no evidence this is a new mutant variant at play.
Well that would be the fourth possibility in my book, and one Im even less likely to go on about unless there were at least some crumbs that could point in that direction. I dont rule it out though, but as usual there is mostly just timing/motives that people can come up with for such things, coupled with the obvious ways that authorities dont wish to dwell publicly on such possibilities and would have a bunch of plausible cover stories to fall back on instead, at least initially. But those things combined are still lacking in substance and would be hard to distinguish from any old conspiracy theory that anyone could pull out of their arse without much effort.Not forgetting the 3rd explanation…Foul play.
According to my Lewisham Borough Health Department card, I got a smallpox vaccine in July 1971 when I was about 18 months old.
There is a line on the card for smallpox re-vaccination at age 5 along with some other vaccinations - it's not quite clear whether I got that as well or just the ones on the line above.
I didnt call it a conspiracy theory, I said that it would be hard to distinguish it from any old conspiracy theory that anyone could pull out of their arse, and that I would require at least a few more crumbs to go on before routinely going on about this possibility. I also mentioned the obvious timing/motivation that might leap readily to mind this year. As usual I try to tread the tightrope of keeping a genuinely open mind without developing my own preference for which possibility seems most plausible to me.You may call it a conspiracy theory but I would bet that Porton Down are assessing this right now.
I've had three, one a child, one when I joined the army and one when we first flew to Germany, there had been an outbreak in Britain.
1978 smallpox outbreak in the United Kingdom - Wikipedia
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I've had five BCGs, and a Heaf test given at 9am has gone by midday. No TB antibodies at all.
Not just timing and motive. There’s a first hand account of Russian development of Monkeypox as a weapon. They have had the ability for years. I think its highly unlikely but it would be foolish to dismiss this possibility. Especially in light of many people seriously concerned of Putin’s potential to use tactical nuclear weapons in Ukraine. A bioweapon would a lower risk option….especially if the outbreaks can be obfuscated by exploiting a marginalised group….a group Putin and his Chechen militia have ruthlessly attacked.
Would have made more sense to have monkey pox outbreaks in Ukraine wouldn’t it? Why Portugal?
Putins playing 8D chess though. Far too clever for us to understandWould have made more sense to have monkey pox outbreaks in Ukraine wouldn’t it? Why Portugal?
Tin foil hat idiocy