monkeypox...the new "globalist" hoax?

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monkeypox...the new "globalist" hoax?

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Apoorva Mandavilli at the NYT

'For the second time in two years, the World Health Organization has taken the extraordinary step of declaring a global emergency. This time the cause is monkeypox, which has spread in just a few weeks to dozens of countries and infected tens of thousands of people.

'Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, the W.H.O.’s director general, on Saturday overruled a panel of advisers, who could not come to a consensus, and declared a “public health emergency of international concern,” a designation the W.H.O. currently uses to describe only two other diseases, Covid-19 and polio.

'“We have an outbreak that has spread around the world rapidly through new modes of transmission, about which we understand too little, and which meets the criteria” for a public health emergency, Dr. Tedros told reporters. It was apparently the first time that the director general had sidestepped his advisers to declare an emergency.'


Then this part:

'Nearly all the infections outside Africa have occurred among men who have sex with men.'

AIDS all over again? The politics of it, in other words.
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Re: monkeypox...the new "globalist" hoax?

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Sounds as if it's a lot easier to avoid than covid. What do you mean 'hoax'? You think the disease doesn't actually exist?

So fucking sick of moronic internet conspiracy[curse] who invariably come from the US, or get their 'information' from American websites.
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It's main character syndrome. They really think the entire world banded together to conspire to make Trump look bad and put Bill Gates chips into everyone's blood stream.
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The declaration of a global emergency by the World Health Organization due to the rapid spread of monkeypox to multiple countries is indeed concerning. Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus' decision to overrule advisers and declare a "public health emergency of international concern" reflects the gravity of the Drive Mad 2 situation.
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