Looks like their celebratory orgies resulted in another plague.
To paraphrase the old adage, “Pride Month” cometh before a rise in monkeypox cases.
At least, that is the experience of San Francisco and New York City, both of which are grappling with spiking cases of the disease that is largely associated with the LGBT community, which marks June as “Pride Month.”
New York had a nation-leading 119 cases as of Wednesday, according to the New York Post. San Francisco is at 40 cases, with local officials saying that is likely an undercount, the San Francisco Examiner reported.
New York is avoiding a direct link between “Pride Month” and the monkeypox increase, even though cases went up 50 percent once the partying was over.
“Anyone can get and spread monkeypox,” the city’s health department said.
“The current cases are primarily spreading among social networks of gay, bisexual and other men who have sex with men, so this community is currently at greater risk of exposure,” it admitted.
The Examiner noted that “the vast majority of cases so far in San Francisco have been self-reported by gay and bisexual men,” adding that organizers of major “Pride Month” events warned attendees about the risk of infection.
“In the last few weeks, we’ve seen cases of monkeypox at our clinic. We don’t want to scare you, but we’re now seeing cases on a regular basis. And we’re going to start seeing a lot more cases if we don’t act swiftly and boldly,” Dr. Tyler TerMeer, CEO of San Francisco AIDS Foundation, said Tuesday.
“It’s much more common than people suspect. We doubled in cases last week,” said Peter Chin-Hong, an infectious disease expert at the University of California at San Francisco.
Monkeypox is spread by direct skin-to-skin contact. It comes with flu-like symptoms and lesions or rashes that spread over the body. The current crop of infections has not been linked to any deaths as of yet.
The outbreak has concerned the World Health Organization because 84 percent of the roughly 3,000 worldwide cases have been in Europe instead of the areas of West and Central Africa where monkeypox is most often found.
Notice the pattern.
HIV is primarily a gay disease…big surprise. Not only that but now we have these people called “bug chasers”. “Bug chasers” are gay men who seek out other gay men who are infected, in hopes of having unprotected sex (barebacking) in an effort to become infected with HIV. They even have internet sites and chat rooms advertising get-togethers for this shit. Behavior=consequences is lost on these miscreants. Remember Gaetan Dugas? The doctors at the Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta called him “Patient Zero.” He was a French-Canadian flight attendant who had over 2,500 male sexual partners on both sides of the Atlantic Ocean by the time he died at age 31. He intentionally spread AIDS without remorse or conscience. He was, in effect, a serial killer. Even after the CDC found Dugas and warned him about the danger of his sexual activity spreading the infection, he continued to have unprotected sex in defiance of his partners’ and public safety. Add to all this, the indignation and outright refusal of the homosexual community in response to the initiative to shut down the breeding grounds for AIDS–the bathhouses–and it ended up being the Black Plague of the 20th Century.
If they have the same attitude towards monkeypox, expect another sexually transmitted epidemic.