Absolutely fucking horrific that the general public wound up hearing about monkeypox in gay people first and thinks it's an STD or specifically gay disease. It's not deadly like HIV but this obviously mirrors that, except the fact it isn't a fucking STD at all, or even limited to physical contact. It can infect you anywhere, make blisters anywhere, and leave active virus on any porous enough material. Clothing, rugs, towels, seat cushions, not only are people using it for another LGBT witch hunt but they genuinely don't know their whole families could get it from shopping, seeing a movie, anything.

The last outbreak was from pets, specifically rodents and rabbits, but contained at about 50 cases. This time there's a couple thousand cases getting worse because most people weren't told what it actually is or how it spreads and half the country now just thinks diseases in general are liberal hoaxes or whatever the fuck they think. America is a shithole.