WHO Declares Mpox Outbreak a Global Health Emergency (cnn.com) 123
The World Health Organization on Wednesday declared the ongoing mpox outbreak in Africa a global health emergency. From a report: WHO convened its emergency mpox committee amid concerns that a deadlier strain of the virus, clade Ib, had reached four previously unaffected provinces in Africa. This strain had previously been contained to the Democratic Republic of Congo.
Independent experts on the committee met virtually Wednesday to advise WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus on the severity of the outbreak. After that consultation, he announced Wednesday that he had declared a public health emergency of international concern -- the highest level of alarm under international health law.
Also known as PHEIC, this is a status given by WHO to "extraordinary events" that pose a public health risk to other countries through the international spread of disease. [...] Since the beginning of this year, more than 17,000 cases and more than 500 deaths have been reported in 13 countries in Africa, according to the Africa Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, which classifies the outbreak as a "very high risk event."
Independent experts on the committee met virtually Wednesday to advise WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus on the severity of the outbreak. After that consultation, he announced Wednesday that he had declared a public health emergency of international concern -- the highest level of alarm under international health law.
Also known as PHEIC, this is a status given by WHO to "extraordinary events" that pose a public health risk to other countries through the international spread of disease. [...] Since the beginning of this year, more than 17,000 cases and more than 500 deaths have been reported in 13 countries in Africa, according to the Africa Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, which classifies the outbreak as a "very high risk event."
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We aren't that gullible anymore.
You have more faith in humanity than I do.
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True. And right on time for the election. Again...
No idea what you're talking about, the election was last month (Kier Starmer won)... Sorry, the world does not revolve around the US and not everything is to do with it.
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The world most certainly does revolve around the US given that it is the preeminent global power. The world most decidedly does not revolve around the UK, nor does anyone outside the UK care about them, as they are essentially a vassal state of the US when it comes to international relations and foreign policy.
You can thank 20 years of Republicans for that no longer being true any more. There was a time when the US could simply suggest it and laws would be added to the books of other nations, now they're facing a reality where 3rd world nations can say no and they're having to treat the EU and China as equals.
As soon as the UK rejoins the EU (which will happen), the US won't have any power over us, not that it has any now mind you... At any time Trump could have offered Boris the most lopsided trade deal and h
Re:They have tried this a previous time since Coro (Score:5, Insightful)
1) An UN agency, is by definition, globalist. You say they "discredited" themselves but no, globalism is exactly their purpose.
2) The WHO is not targeting you as the audience. It talks to governments. Them declaring an emergency means it is the appropriate moment for governments to trigger their contingency plans.
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In conspiracy-speak "globalist" means a secret cabal with a centrally planned agenda, not merely a global institution. At least half the time, the alleged cabal is Jewish if you bother to ask a conspiracist. Resist asking, just walk away casually without looking back. If they keep approaching, run! Pack bear spray near dodgy buildings or gatherings.
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No, globalism means the erasure of nations and their borders.
Re:They have tried this a previous time since Coro (Score:5, Insightful)
It doesn't. It means working together on policies that are mutually beneficial. Global goals are also often in the best interest of countries outside of a current problem. For example, the US providing mpox vaccines to DRC is a global good and also a self-interested good in keeping it from spreading to other countries. Not that the US has properly done that yet.
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Beneficial to whom and at what cost to whom?
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It is beneficial to $COUNTRY to provide mpox vaccines to DRC, to limit the chances that international travel outside of your control trigger a billion/trillion dollar crisis in $COUNTRY. Consider it an insurance premium.
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Beneficial to whom and at what cost to whom?
Yourself. By helping stop the spread of a disease you reduce the risk of that disease spreading to you. If anything COVID has taught us that unless you're an island you have virtually no ability to prevent a wide spread global pandemic from affecting you directly.
It's in everyone's best interest to ensure mpox doesn't spread, and it's beneficial to everyone, even if someone (the country most currently affected) benefits more than others.
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In conspiracy-speak "globalist" means a secret cabal with a centrally planned agenda, not merely a global institution. At least half the time, the alleged cabal is Jewish if you bother to ask a conspiracist.
OOH, cool! Do you think they'd lend me their space laser if I asked nicely?
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> they'd lend me their space laser if I asked nicely?
Unfortunately it's in use right now. [reddit.com]
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I think that's a pig, so not kosher, definitely not a Jewish space laser. Please fact check your responses 8-).
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How dare you call MTG a pig!
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At least half the time, the alleged cabal is Jewish if you bother to ask a conspiracist.
I'm feeling like I'm suddenly seeing the secret code.
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"Fake Jews, totally rigged! We got the real deal in Jared, everyone knows it! Uh, now that I think about it ... Burger Time!"
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1) An UN agency, is by definition, globalist. You say they "discredited" themselves but no, globalism is exactly their purpose.
2) The WHO is not targeting you as the audience. It talks to governments. Them declaring an emergency means it is the appropriate moment for governments to trigger their contingency plans.
More over, the WHO will be looking at numbers (infection, fatalities, recovery, days to recover, reinfection) which is mostly going to be reported to them by other parties (governments, charity/NGO, other parts of the UN) and making recommendations to governments based on those numbers, it's up to the individual governments to decide what measures they're going to enact.
MonkeyPox isn't as bad as COVID, much harder to transmit (requires a fair bit of close contact) but governments were burned by dragging
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What is your definition of a globalist and what makes that bad?
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Indeed, nobody with half a brain listens to WHO anymore since they have completely discredited themselves as a bunch of globalists. I couldn't care less...
Oh no. They tried to handle a global pandemic by treating it globally! We should probably bomb them for it.
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Yeah, but freedom!
Freedom from logic. Freedom from sanity. Freedom from reality. Freedom from facts. Freedom from freedom!
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Re:They have tried this a previous time since Coro (Score:4, Insightful)
Back then, you were afflicted with monkey pox if you had a zit.
Oh, please cite a source on that claim. Or are you just engaging in "fear propaganda"?
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No, more like...
"Citation needed!"
"I cant provide a citation because I made what I said up so I'll just make up an excuse like "you'll just refuse the citation anyways""
Not to mention if ones citation is just some random dude on the internet posting conspiracies (which is all you'll find for a claim like the above) then an "Appeal to authority fallacy" claim is perfectly appropriate.
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"Citation needed!" /provides sources
"Appeal to authority fallacy!"
Providing citation isn't an appeal to authority. Providing a shit citation which is nothing more than someone saying they agree with you is an appeal to authority. The logical fallacy disappears as soon as anyone - either the person making the point, or the citation referenced provides a justification for the outcome.
If I told you that Bob said the sky is blue, that's an appeal to authority.
If I told you that Bob took a picture and measured the emission spectra of the sky and concluded it is blue, that's no
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I’m having difficulty in finding such reports. Can you point me towards some?
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Re:They have tried this a previous time since Coro (Score:5, Interesting)
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No, it is only whiny like yourself who question WHO motives. Your comment is another of the sort "People are saying" like from the Bullshit Artist himself.
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Re: They have tried this a previous time since Cor (Score:2)
election resurgence (Score:1, Troll)
Re:election resurgence (Score:5, Informative)
Here's a compilation from 1 year ago [youtube.com] to refresh your memory of Joe's obvious mental condition. Here's Joe as a much sharper senator [youtube.com] to compare. If you have feelings after being played for a fool then try delete your NPC script and start asking pointed questions about what's been happening.
Re:election resurgence (Score:4, Insightful)
As opposed to Slurring Don? The guy who can't keep a coherent thought for longer than 3 seconds? The guy who keeps mentioning Hannibal Lecter as if he's real [nymag.com]? The guy who believes electric boats would sink under their own weight which would mean getting eaten by sharks [businessinsider.com]?
That's an awfully odd hill to die on.
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homophobic much?
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and who pays the WHO? (Score:1)
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Re: Bill "I like money" Gates (Score:1)
WTF is it Conspiracy Day at Slashdot? There's like 4 diff conspiracy claims here already.
I actually have a Mt. Dew conspiracy, but it has nothing to do with germs.
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I actually have a Mt. Dew conspiracy, but it has nothing to do with germs.
"Do the Dew" means something far, far darker than most people imagine...
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The GQP is always up for another Conspiracy, it gets them airtime on FOX.
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I actually have a Mt. Dew conspiracy, but it has nothing to do with germs.
That's racist.
If that goes "woosh," you don't pay attention to the Presidential race gossip, and I completely understand that.
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WTF is it Conspiracy Day at Slashdot?
SON of a..did I miss this? C’mon man. Tell me this is a real thing. I’ll get my popcorn and calendar.
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What we really want to know is (Score:2)
...estimated probability this will cause a pandemic as least as bad as Covid.
That's the new "Libraries of Congress" colloquial metric for outbreaks. Or was it soccer fields?
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Very unlikely. There are visibly distinct symptoms. And if you never develop symptoms it's believed that you also don't become contagious.
From what I'm reading, it seems like you're contagious for about 1-4 days before visible symptoms appear. But the incubation period is 1-2 weeks. While it's still highly localized there'd be plenty of time for contact tracing before an infected person becomes contagious. Very little of that will probably happen outside of Africa this time around.
Also, it infects skin
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So, then just don't touch anybody with skin like Steve Bannon?
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...estimated probability this will cause a pandemic as least as bad as Covid.
That's the new "Libraries of Congress" colloquial metric for outbreaks.
Pardon the interruption, but the Grim Reaper from the Black Plague is just outside, and he’d like to have a word with you.
He seems rather irked at this notion that COVID is even ranked among the best of the best. Keeps mumbling some shit about amateur hour..
Quick! (Score:1)
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Not possible since it's mostly plutocrats doing those.
Finally (Score:1)
They found the spreaders! [youtube.com]
US election (Score:2, Flamebait)
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The US has had mail-in voting since the 1860s. Some states only do mail-in voting.
Stop the manufactured voting crisis that people are using to disenfranchise millions of Americans. American conservatives want to
1. Kill 150 years mail-in voting
2. Kill early voting,
3. Close polling places in minority districts
4. Make it illegal to help people get to polling places or hand out water while the poorer voters wait hours in line to vote.
5. Allow the state to throw out all the votes in the largest minority distri
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In addition, the voting machines are not secure, and they will be used but not fixed. [politico.com]
The system isn't auditable. There are plenty from both of the 2 big corporate war parties who regularly contest the results. And the people are right to be skeptical of the results.
You claim 'American conservatives' blah blah blah. I'm an American, and I'm conservative in lots of ways, and I just want secure elections, easily countable and auditable. I want a voting holiday. I want easily accessible voting for all. I want IDs to be verified. I want polling places to be watched closely. I want everyone to be given a chance to vote, and for there to be very little chance of cheating. I also want some type of voting system that doesn't force people to choose between the 2 big parties, like ranked choice.
Here are my answers, as an individual, to your points:
Limited transmission vector (Score:1)
Requires physical skin to skin contact with an infected person or bodily fluids so, even less of a concern than Covid-19 was.
Though, the WHO will push for EUA authorization of some just-in-time experimental vaccine once again so we can start all
the same stupidity that came with Covid-19 all over again.
And, the FDA / CDC will likely grant it once the right people have bought enough stock options in the Companies who will be creating it. :|
Africa (Score:2)
consists of provinces? I guess my geography knowledge is failing me.
is it a health risk for normal people, really? (Score:2)
I mean, as I understand Mpox is being ROUTINELY spread through intimate contact between gay males with many partners, at least the last EU outbreak(s) directly coincided with gay BDSM events.
https://www.who.int/europe/new... [who.int]
Maybe just stop raw-dog fucking everything that moves for a bit, eh Chuck? Is that possible?
Smallpox rebirth? (Score:2)
Do to inaction with vaccines, are we at the cusp of another form of Smallpox type disease getting out everywhere?
Smallpox is *EVIL*. A thousand times worse than the hemorrhagic influenza of the early 1900's.
There is a reason so much money was spent on eradicating smallpox.
Now we have a replacement candidate that seems to be only of concern to the WHO?
Ever hear of airplanes? boats? asymptomatic vectors?
It is also spread by touch ANY TOUCH Think doorknobs, sit down toilets, et al.
It is not a sex disease, sex
empoxification of everything (Score:2)
Name had to be changed because "monkeypox" is offensive to monkeys.
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Well no it was WHO that made the change which is not at all inherently leftist to anyone who doesnt get all their news from Fox.
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The above was blaming leftists, I pointed out that wasnt the case. Your post here is just an anti WHO rant that doesnt apply.
In regards to your rant though, you sound like one of those assholes in the 80's talking about aids. Maybe you dont have much experience with sex though, are you even aware of the fact that LOTS of straight people engage in oral sex and there's even a good number that engage in butt stuff and there are most definitely people that move between gay and straight communities having sex?
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Yet the majority of people with AIDS are homosexuals that engaged in anal sex, just as the majority of these monkey pox cases are in homosexuals that engaged in anal sex. How is it being an asshole to state facts?
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Yet the majority of people with AIDS are homosexuals that engaged in anal sex, just as the majority of these monkey pox cases are in homosexuals that engaged in anal sex.
Yet aids is still a very real threat to straight people and you can be sure this is why the WHO also considers mpox a threat.
How is it being an asshole to state facts?
Stating facts doesnt make one an asshole. Insinuating they mean something they dont does.
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The facts do mean something about a certain demographic that have bad consequences.
Says the person ignoring massive medical consensus that mpox poses a threat to straight people.
I'll tell you what though, if you find me a first world medical organization that backs your claim that straight people have nothing to worry about I'll be much more open to your points. I don't think there is one though.
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Leftists don't really care for facts, even if hard numbers indicate a behavior their "protected classes" overwhelmingly participate in is the likely cause.
Hahaha, pot calling the kettle black. Mpox is a disease where one of its major means of transmission is oral sex. How is it hard for you people to understand how that could very easily turn into a problem for straight people? This is just the Aids retardation all over again.
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Once again I'll use the phrase "you sound like one of those assholes in the 80's talking about aids". Early on with aids it really was almost entirely gay men. Those who understood the disease however understood that there was absolutely no reason why it couldnt become a significant problem for straight people which is exactly what happened.
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Once again I'll use the phrase "you sound like one of those assholes in the 80's talking about aids".
If you are unable to control yourself and can't post without being rude and insulting please refrain from posting. Nobody stands to benefit from these repeated insults.
Early on with aids it really was almost entirely gay men. Those who understood the disease however understood that there was absolutely no reason why it couldnt become a significant problem for straight people which is exactly what happened.
Monkeypox != HIV transmission characteristics are radically different. Specifically Infection was mostly only possible while obvious signs of infection exist. With HIV people can go years being infectious while having no symptoms whatsoever.
Transmission chain of Monkeypox has has in fact been constrained overwhelmingly to promiscuous gay
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If you are unable to control yourself and can't post without being rude and insulting please refrain from posting. Nobody stands to benefit from these repeated insults.
Sorry, I have thin patience for those who let their bigotry inform their opinions
Transmission chain of Monkeypox has has in fact been constrained overwhelmingly to promiscuous gay men. It was only demonstrated to be a significant problem for promiscuous gay men.
Why dont you read what I've already told you? Just because it's currently almost exclusively active in gay folks doesnt mean it cant become a problem for straight folks given how it transmits. Notice what happened with Aids which was also at first almost entirely confined to gay folks. The disease doesnt care what the sexuality of a person is, it just cares that an infected area rubs up against another person to help it spread.
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Anyone saying it's a realistic threat to people who aren't promiscuous homosexual/bisexual males with multiple partners or who regularly share needles for drug use is lying through their fucking teeth. Between the short incubation time without symptoms and the infectious period itself having obvious symptoms for basically all of it, along with the quickness of the disease running it's course in comparison to every other STD, the fact it is overwhelmingly only blood and open wound transmissible, and that the
Re: "mpox"? (Score:3)
I'm on mobile and can't see the whole thread, so fair warning if I've missed some of the context.
Why is this even a discussion? Shouldn't we care about gay people as much as we care about old people, Midwesterners, or any other specific group of people? It's not like ten percent of the population just doesn't matter.
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Anyone saying it's a realistic threat to people who aren't promiscuous homosexual/bisexual males with multiple partners or who regularly share needles for drug use is lying through their fucking teeth.
Right, so the general medical consensus that mpox poses a realistic threat to straight people is all a bunch of lies meanwhile you, who very likely has no medical education, are giving me the unvarnished truth. Thanks for clearing that up for me random internet person.
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Sure. Tell them to stop having extremely promiscuous sex, especially with anonymous people, and when they feel like shit or have sores on their junk not to have oral or anal sex. Problem solved, especially since the duration of the disease is a month so it's not like it would have to be for long. Except when that was suggested said section of the population got all offended.
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To give them some credit this started as a "why is the WHO telling everyone this is a problem for everyone when it's only a gay problem". To be fair to your point though I do get the feeling at least a few of the folks I'm talking to in this thread dont have great opinions about gay people. I could be wrong of course.
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Right because abstinence has shown itself to be an amazing solution to all of our problems with diseases transmitted during sex.
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Well, when it's a short lived(1 month) blood/open wound transmitted sexually transmitted disease with REALLY FUCKING OBVIOUS(bad flu/open sores) symptoms for 90%+ of the infectious period with 97%+ infections occurring in males and of the 3% women who are infected the majority of which are probably sex workers with the remainder of that being involved with a bisexual man, no it's not even remotely a realistic threat. This isn't like HIV, with a very long incubation period and a long infectious period before
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The vast, vast, vast majority of STDs are transmittable without blatantly obvious symptoms for large portions if not the majority of their infectious periods, and they are much, much longer lived than monkeypox. Which is why those STDs are regularly seen outside the hyper-promiscuous gay male population and monkeypox is not.
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Ahh, that's fair. Though plenty of bisexual men will pass it to women, but perhaps not enough to matter statistically.
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Pointing out objective truth is not bigotry.
Once again, that's not what you are doing. You're posting data that does not mean what you claim it means.
Despite tens of thousands of cases worldwide this has not actually occurred. Nobody is saying only gay men can get Monkeypox. What they are saying is promiscuous gay males are the ones spreading it because that is the objective truth. If not for promiscuous gay males the transmission chain would be broken.
Once again, this is exactly the pattern that Aids followed and plenty of folks just like you insisted it could never be a straight person problem. Just like in the 80's though I'll go with the medical consensus that warns of this being a potential future problem for straight people over internet yahoos any days of week.
Re:"mpox"? (Score:5, Funny)
This being the same WHO who denied that buttfucking and cockgobbling with a bunch of completely random strangers while outright ignoring symptoms were OVERWHELMINGLY the primary forms of transmission in the last outbreak both on the African continent and off. An activity that occurs primarily in populations of homosexual men.
Is this a projection or a fantasy?
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97%+ of infections in the last outbreak occurred in men. Of which population the vast majority of which identified themselves as gay or bisexual. With the vast majority of the remainder lying. Monkeypox is an STD. However, unlike most STDs the incubation time is short and infection obvious. Female sexual desire is significantly lower in aggregate than men's, achieving orgasm is more difficult, and they are much less likely to think fucking while there's a bunch of sores in their junk or mouth or they feel l
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I though AIDS was a judgement from God. He's one weird dude..."I hate gays, so I'll send down this disease that kills men, women, and children indiscriminately...I"m having a bad day so, so screw'em." It turns out Heaven has days. Beelzebub, on the other hand, is too busy MCing a party to bother with Earthly doings.
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I believe it was the code monkeys who actually complained.
Re:"mpox"? (Score:4, Informative)
The case was first identified in a monkey but it's unlikely a major vector or reservoir of the virus. Bird Flu is still bird flu because it lives in bird populations even after a strain that passes on to humans dies down.
Right now, the best current theory [cdc.gov] is that mpox is carried by "small mammals, such as rope and sun squirrels, giant-pouched rats, and African dormice"
They could just name it something completely unrelated, but having a similar looking name at least helps people connect the dots.
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The new framework, or the new new framework? How many new's until JS frameworks are not a steaming pile of orgied maggots?
Sexist pox (Score:5, Funny)
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Chicken refers to the species (https://a-z-animals.com/blog/male-vs-female-chicken-the-key-differences/ or https://backyardfarmlife.com/a... [backyardfarmlife.com]) Hen is the female and rooster is the male.
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The only person who is outraged here is you.