Denial, is denial, is denial. It is always wrong.

They should have sent Fauci to prison then, for using humans as lab rats...

Upvote Larry. We were told it was mutating so fast that soon it would be airborne and everyone would have it. One college prof I know was telling his students that 60 people a week were dying in their city of 40,000, even after shown the county coroner's report of an average of 2 people a week. And he kept on lying until he died of experimental HIV treatment.

I fear we are in denial about the risks of getting Monkeypox, for the same reasons we downplayed the AIDS risk to Gay men.

The problem is that MP is a pox. Another problem is that nobody is really telling gays(or anyone else) that you don't have sex while sick! It doesn't matter if it's a common cold, flu, pox, or std!

"A total of 98% of the cases documented were in gay or bisexual men, and while monkeypox is not an STI, per se, the authors said 95% of transmissions documented occurred during sexual relations. Seventy-five percent of case patients are white, and 41% are HIV-positive." This is from one of the many news stories concerning the first international study of Monkeypox, published in the New England Journal of Medicine on July 22. A study that reached similar results was published in Lancet.

As a straight man, I can get Monkeypox. But my current behavior and associations are not "high risk." With AIDS, we had a hard time convincing many Gay men to stop going to "The Baths," (Gay sex clubs) because of denial. Studies have shown that the epidemic got its foothold there.

It is not a sense of judgement or homophobia that motivates me. The medical community was "climbing a greased pole," trying to save at risk Gay men from dying. A researcher I knew did an annual questionnaire of Gay freshmen at Cal State Northridge every year. When I retired, in 2000, they were still reporting risky sexual behavior on a fairly widespread basis. Denial is deadly.