Monkeypox virus

Not a requirement, but they tend to be international parties - easily gathering thousands of homosexuals.

So the potential for spread is enormous at these parties.

The Circuit Festival (see below) in Barcelona, for example, attracts up to 70,000 homosexuals from dozens of countries around the world.

Of course it's not homophobic.

It is well established that gay men are more likely to have multiple sexual partners compared to straight men. It's a simple fact of reality. And with that, comes the additional and predictable risk of catching more venereal disease and/or spreading new viruses into communities that previously were not present.

The HIV/AIDS pandemic, which is still ongoing, is widely (but not entirely) associated with the gay lifestyle.

It's quite obvious that Monkeypox viral disease is spreading through the gay community in exactly the same way.

In the United States, syphilis is rapidly spreading through gay men, but not the same rate in straight men:

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The worst thing we could do is not make these obvious associations because that undermines the education campaign needed to inform members of the LGB-T community of the additional risks they are exposed to, and the steps they can take to mitigate those risks. Sweeping everything under the carpet and pretending no associations exist undermines that progress.

That's splitting hairs, though, with definitions.

We could go around saying "men who have sex with men", or we can simply talk about the fact that most Monkeypox infection has been spread at, yes, gay sex parties.

Not "men who have sex with men" parties. True, they exist - in bi form, for example, but they are a minority of a minority.

And as someone who regularly attends gay bars and so forth, I can attest to the fact that gay men are far, far, far more likely to have multiple sexual partners - but everyone knows this, which is why gay lifestyle itself focusses on sex. Think of Pride and the ostentatious, sexual displays and fetishisms, for example.

There's nothing wrong about male promiscuity. I'm not making a value judgment on promiscuity within the LGB-T community.

What I'm saying is that all the evidence suggests that this promiscuity has health-related consequences. This is a simple statement of reality.

To deny that causal link is to indulge in Trump-level dismissal.

Monkeypox is the opposite of COVID, really; in that those older cohorts of society are the most protected as they have been exposed to smallpox-like viruses and/or have had the smallpox vaccine itself.

Monkeypox is most serious in children and young adults. But even then, most cases are self-limiting and do not require hospitalisation.

That said, there won't be a COVID-like wave among children or young adults because the virus is nowhere near as transmissible. Yes, Monkeypox can theoretically spread through the air, but it travels in the largest droplets (the ones most likely to just fall) compared to COVID that inhabited the tiniest droplets that can spread easily through the air across reasonable distances.

For all intents and purposes, this is a sexually transmitted infection among the LGB-T community. Not an STI in the classical sense, but in the sense that it's almost exclusively spread through those means at present (with knock-on household transmission).

The media are acting disgracefully in whipping up fear about this virus; all for clicks and comments. It's not just this virus, too. Every time bird flu or other wild animal virus cases are found anywhere in the world, you can be guaranteed the BBC and others will churn out an article, knowing full well the sensitivity of the COVID experience. Truly awful organisations.