Readers’ Choice: Biden or Monkeypox?

So what’ll it be today, folks?

Shall we talk about Joe Biden’s latest attempt to start WWIII with yesterday’s idiotic remark promising American military intervention if China invades Taiwan?

How about revelations from the Sussman trial that Hillary herself gave the go ahead to peddle false information about Trump to the FBI in 2016?

Or we could try to decipher Kamala’s latest word salad.

Then again, we could talk monkeypox. The epidemic du jour.

OK, monkeypox it is.

Just as all but the most Covid-phobic Americans relax after two years of fear-mongering from the media, we now have a new virus hopscotching the globe: Monkeypox.

And right on cue, the press is ginning up the hysteria.

Take a peek at the front page of The Drudge Report:

Ew. The pictures, You can’t unsee them.

Never mind that there are just 90 cases of monkeypox so far in about a dozen nations. Or that this virus doesn’t spread easily or through the air. Oh, and that the smallpox vaccine is effective in preventing the disease.

Every new case is going to be front page news for the next week or so. Count on it.

Granted, it is a creepy ailment that causes hideous blisters all over the body. And then there’s the name, MONKEYPOX. No one wants to be infected with anything associated with screaming primates.

While the WHO is doing its part to frighten the world by warning against “large gatherings,” they really need to be more specific.

The large gatherings that seem to be spreading monkeypox aren’t weddings or concerts. They’re gay raves, according to the Associate Press, anyway.

Two sex rave parties in Spain and Belgium likely led to the outbreak of the rare disease Monkeypox in the developed West, according to a leading adviser to the World Health Organization.

Dr David Heymann, who formerly headed WHO's emergencies department, described the current outbreak to AP in an interview as “a random event”. He added that the leading theory to explain the spread of the disease was sexual transmission among gay and bisexual men at two raves…

Heymann, who is also a professor of infectious diseases at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, said the monkeypox outbreak was likely a random event that might be traceable to a single infection.

“It’s very possible there was somebody who got infected, developed lesions on the genitals, hands or somewhere else, and then spread it to others when there was sexual or close, physical contact,” Heymann hypothesized. “And then there were these international events that seeded the outbreak around the world, into the U.S. and other European countries.”

Those must have been some parties to have triggered a spread of monkeypox around the world.

I hesitate to bring this up, but as someone who was called selfish and a grandma killer because I wouldn’t wear a cloth rag on my face as an amulet against Covid, why are men staging massive raves while Covid is still around?

I’ve never been to a gay rave and chances are you haven’t either, but from what I’ve read, they involve alcohol, drugs and lots of sex. Anonymous, sweaty sex. With strangers. Multiple strangers.

At the risk of sounding like a prude, raves seem like an excellent way to catch something nasty. Here’s an idea: Let’s all agree to stay far away from them and those who recklessly participate.

We should be all right.