There is no monkeypox pandemic, merely a few cases, largely restricted to the gay community, and even then, restricted to a subset of that, meaning that monkeypox is not a “gay disease.” Yet the system, facing something of Covid fatigue in the general population is desperate for new “fear porn,” and monkeypox has some of the elements of a classic zombie apocalypse, contagion movie, with the pus-filled sores invoking horror - but never mind that adult chickenpox can produce even worse legions, and people do not freak out about that. Only the reality is, if it is the case that the present virus is not a genetically engineered variant from a bioweapons lab, it is not very infectious, and certainly not another Covid. Bird flu would be more a concern if a gain-of-function version of that is released.
