Bottompox

• 12.08.2022 22:31 UTC+02:00
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The US government has declared monkeypox to be a public health emergency. The disease causes painful blisters which, in homosexual men at least, occur around the mouth, anus, and penis. Sounds like a portal of entry lesion. [cough]

Although anybody can contract the virus through direct contact with an infected person or surface, men in recent sexual contact with other men have accounted for the vast majority of cases. [snip] Public health experts have dragged their heels in explaining why this outbreak has affected mostly gay and bisexual men - but it has led many to draw parallels with how the gay community felt abandoned during the AIDS crisis of the 1970s and 80s.

Sam Cabral, BBC News

I don't wish to sound unsympathetic, but forty years' ago when AIDS swept through the G faction of the LGB community, they didn't just suffer a few boo-hoos that resolved after a month. People actually died. Lessons were learned. Or were they?

It appears not. And yet the LGBTQIABC+FLAPFLAPFLAP community thinks that everyone should rage for them. Pride month—a whole fucking MONTH—is over. What more do they want? An extension? They're no longer any more special than the rest of us, until next June rolls around.

And until then, they can join the queue like everyone else. Hrmph! (grumpy)