Well, it kind of sounds like the MonkeyPox does play favourites.īut we’ll all mask up anyway, and pretend like it doesn’t.Īs of June 3 there were 21 recorded cases of the ape pox in America. ‘ It’s important we remember that viruses do not discriminate.’ Here in Australia, NSW-based sexual health organisation ACON CEO Nicholas Parkhill repeated the syndicated UN line about ‘ cases have been identified among gay, bisexual, and other men who have sex with men’. Or biological men having sex with biological female men.Īnyway, the UN pretty much covered every kind of man who’s having sex with every other kind of man. Maybe the UN are referring to biological female ‘men’ having sex with biological men. I’m trying to work out who the men – other than the gay men and the bisexual men (but I repeat myself) – having sex with other men are. ‘ A significant portion of the cases have been identified among gay, bisexual, and other men who have sex with men.’
MonkeyPox could affect literally anyone who has gay sex. It is wrong to imply that a disease most prevalent among men who have sex with men is a gay disease. Of course, the CDC could warn us to stay away from gay saunas and weird fetish festivals like the super MonkeyPox spreader event in Belgium. I suggest wearing three masks – one for the Covid, one for the MonkeyPox, and one to show everyone just how serious you are about loving your neighbour. Then again, better safe than sorry, right? Warning that a disease is ‘ most prevalent among men who have sex with men ’ and then insisting that everyone wears a mask to protect themselves seems a bit, well, strange. The problem, of course, is that the science left the room a long time ago. Now if, like 99.999 per cent of the population you’re thinking, ‘But I don’t have gay sex on commercial flights’, then you probably don’t need a mask.īut if you’re part of the 0.001 per cent of people at risk of contracting the MonkeyPox at 40,000 feet somewhere between San Francisco and Amsterdam, you’re probably asking, ‘Where do I put the mask?’ America’s Centre for Disease Control this week recommended travellers mask up to protect themselves from the MonkeyPox – a disease spread primarily through gay sex.