Leftists consider labels to be extremely important. Labels they love, like “white privilege,” “systemic racism,” “glass ceiling,” and “fair share.” On the other hand, there are labels they disdain, like “socialist,” “gun-grabber,” “wealth redistribution,” “recession” (whenThey love their man is responsible for it), and now, “monkeypox.”
Show of hands: Who didn’t see This coming? If you’re among those who didn’t, let’s catch you up.
As my colleague Alex Parker reported in mid-June, the World Health Organization announced it was going to rename monkeypox due to the “discriminatory and stigmatizing” nature of the virus itself. The “prevailing perception,” lamented the WHO, “is that [the monkeypox virus] is endemic in people in some African countries.” It is. But let’s let that go, for a bit.
In the United States, two cases of monkeypox were reported. A small epidemic has also been reported in Spain, Portugal and England.
Here’s what to know.https://t.co/JYp0YRWoWG
— NPR (@NPR) May 18, 2022
This is just the beginning. Fox News:
International media and science literature have a common perception that MPXV is an endemic disease in certain African countries.
It’s well known that almost all MPXV-related outbreaks in Africa, prior to 2022, were caused by spillovers from animals to humans. Only rarely has there been evidence of human-to-human transmissions.
According to the CDC scientists discovered monkeypox in two cases of a disease similar to pox in monkeys during outbreaks that occurred at a Denmark research facility in 1958. In the Democratic Republic of the Congo, the first case of human monkeypox was discovered in 1970.
Transmission of the virus from human to person is mainly through direct contact between infected individuals or surfaces that have been contaminated.
CNBC also reported that the WHO has recommended gay men and bisexuals limit the number of partners they have in order to lessen the spread monkeypox. According to CNBC, the WHO’s monkeypox expert, Rosamund Lewis, said men who have sex with men are the group at the highest risk of infection. About 99 percent of cases involve men. At least 95 percent include men who have had sex with men.
It was a very funny incident that happened during the process of the name change.
WHO officials responded to questions on Wednesday about the name-change and suggested that this may not be an easy process.
This briefing was held just one day after New York City asked the WHO for a renaming of the virus in order to not stigmatize patients, who may then delay seeking treatment. According to YEN News, NYC has seen more cases of the disease — which the WHO declared a global health emergency, last Saturday— than any other city in the United States, with 1,092 infections detected so far.
🚨Breaking The @WHOAfter an increase in monkeypox cases worldwide, the WHO declared it a public health emergency. pic.twitter.com/zUGyrshsOL
— BERNAMA (@bernamadotcom) July 23, 2022
New York City public health commissioner Ashwin Vasan in a letter to WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus seemed more concerned with the “devastating and stigmatizing” name of the monkeypox virus than with the potential pandemic — in certain communities — itself:
We have a growing concern for the potentially devastating and stigmatizing effects that the messaging around the ‘monkeypox’ virus can have on … already vulnerable communities.
Vasan referenced the “painful and racist history within which terminology like (monkeypox) is rooted for communities of color.”
Continuing to use the term ‘monkeypox’ to describe the current outbreak may reignite these traumatic feelings of racism and stigma — particularly for Black people and other people of color, as well as members of the LGBTQIA+ communities, and it is possible that they may avoid engaging in vital health care services because of it.
There are many ridiculous things. The left, as I mentioned earlier, is much more interested in the Perceived image of the virus, which, incidentally, appears to be correct (the virus name aside, for argument’s sake), based on available data, than with theThe virus in itself.
Bottom line:
The left politicized the everloving crap out of COVID-19, histrionically hyping it from the outset to the point of no return, meaning there are people — most devastatingly, children — who will suffer from the effects of draconian lockdowns and ridiculous mask mandates for years, if not decades, to come.
Then along comes monkeypox.
While the virus has been in the news for some time, the leftwing media has seemingly gone out of its way to avoid honest bottom-line reporting on those most susceptible to its symptoms — or even to fully report on what the impact those symptoms might have on those who contract the virus.
We are now even more concerned about them NameMore monkeypox-like than actual monkeypox. How do you solve this problem? Simple. Name the change. Make it sound less “discriminatory.” Less “stigmatizing.” Less “labeling.”
It’s so liberal. What irony from the party to labels
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