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Originally Posted by JAFF
This is what happened in the AIDs epidemic. Dont have any kind of sex with a stranger. Straight forward, keep your (fill in the blank) in your pants. And here we are.
Us old fuckers who have had small pox vaccination are probably ok.The rest of you are on your own. Since some of you dont believe in vaccination, sucks to be you
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You do realize there's a huge difference between Monkeypox and AIDS right? Monkeypox rarely leads to death and typically goes away after 3-4 weeks. AIDS not so much, especially back in the epidemic days where it was a death sentence. Also there are treatments for Monkeypox whereas there was nothing for AIDS back in the epidemic. Don't get me wrong, contracting Monkeypox sucks, but it's not the end of the world like you're making it out to be.
As far as the sex conversation it's abundantly obvious from the data what type of behavior is causing Monkeypox to spread:
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Overall, 98% of the persons with infection were gay or bisexual men, 75% were White, and 41% had human immunodeficiency virus infection; the median age was 38 years. Transmission was suspected to have occurred through sexual activity in 95% of the persons with infection..
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https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa2207323
Again, don't get me wrong: having sex with strangers, especially unprotected sex, isn't good for your health. But people should be more concerned with contracting one of the numerous STDs out there than Monkeypox.