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Demsrule86

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34. That is not what the article says. It is more prevalent in the gay community for sure

Thu Aug 18, 2022, 02:13 PM

Aug 2022

and is being spread there. But it can spread to those having heterosexual sex just as easily once it gains a foot hold which sadly it likely will just like Aids...it is not a Gay disease but one transmitted by body fluids.

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Sex between men, not skin contact, is fueling monkeypox, new research suggests [View all] Zeitghost Aug 2022 OP

How did the greyhound dog JustAnotherGen Aug 2022 #1

I can guess Timewas Aug 2022 #3

This message was self-deleted by its author BannonsLiver Aug 2022 #7

Ummmm BannonsLiver Aug 2022 #9

Well, he's French, for starters. milestogo Aug 2022 #14

It is following the same path as HIV sarisataka Aug 2022 #2

Terrible headline. Implying only sex between men, not between men and women. Monkey pox JohnSJ Aug 2022 #4

rightwing radio is making it an anti gay male thing. Demovictory9 Aug 2022 #8

That is what I was thinking. Not only opening an anti-gay talking point, but also falsely JohnSJ Aug 2022 #10

worse...implying that because male gays disportionate victims should not be public emergency Demovictory9 Aug 2022 #36

Just another attack on LGBTQ...NBC is not progressive at all. Honestly I wish the poster would Demsrule86 Aug 2022 #11

If you have any evidence Zeitghost Aug 2022 #13

How about some common sense. We now know that HIV is transmitted through Demsrule86 Aug 2022 #18

So no.... Zeitghost Aug 2022 #20

Yes it does...and I only hope we don't see a real backlast because of what I consider such Demsrule86 Aug 2022 #27

I find it odd Zeitghost Aug 2022 #28

I find it odd that you think it is true. Sex is sex...it can be transmitte in heterosexual relations Demsrule86 Aug 2022 #30

Ah, another graduate of the Google University School of Epidemiology... Act_of_Reparation Aug 2022 #32

Actually, I have degrees in Chemistry and biology...but I digress. Demsrule86 Aug 2022 #33

Neither of which confers any particular expertise in the topic of viral transmission. Act_of_Reparation Aug 2022 #38

Well said Zeitghost Aug 2022 #40

The Wikipedia School of Viral Transmission has this to say about monkeypox Jack the Greater Aug 2022 #37

You're putting words in my mouth Zeitghost Aug 2022 #39

It isn't just NBC JohnSJ Aug 2022 #16

read the article I posted. This is a crap article and labels Monkey Pox a 'gay' disease which it Demsrule86 Aug 2022 #21

Thanks JohnSJ Aug 2022 #22

Good luck with that UnderThisLaw Aug 2022 #44

That a bit of a stretch Zeitghost Aug 2022 #12

Well I suppose when some read this article and engage in heterosexual realtions, they will Demsrule86 Aug 2022 #31

Nobody Zeitghost Aug 2022 #41

First of all. Like HIV, I expect it will be shown to spread through heterosexual relations as well. Demsrule86 Aug 2022 #5

Pretty much ismnotwasm Aug 2022 #6

Like HIV it is not a gay disease, but is propagated by promiscuous gays. Sneederbunk Aug 2022 #23

So, I suppose if one is not promiscuous and/or Gay than one won't catch Demsrule86 Aug 2022 #35

Nobody to my knowledge has made that claim here Zeitghost Aug 2022 #43

How do they explain babies getting Monkeypox? This is ridiculous Lettuce Be Aug 2022 #15

Through other forms of transmission Zeitghost Aug 2022 #17

This seems like yellow journalism to me and false. Demsrule86 Aug 2022 #24

When the vast majority of cases Zeitghost Aug 2022 #29

That is not what the article says. It is more prevalent in the gay community for sure Demsrule86 Aug 2022 #34

It's precisely what the article said Zeitghost Aug 2022 #42

This article will do real harm to the Gay community. And while it may have first shown up there, Demsrule86 Aug 2022 #26

Covid is found in semen/testicles dweller Aug 2022 #19

"Trust the science" is rapidly becoming "Narrate the science" Sympthsical Aug 2022 #25