Here in the US, the media and other self-important groups and spokespeople would never admit that Monkey Pox is a disease that almost exclusively effects gay men. They won't out of fear of sounding homophobic, but that's just stupid. call a spade a spade and move on.
After Spain recorded its first monkeypox-related death on Saturday, something seen only in Brazil and Africa at this point, the country’s gay community sprung into action to battle the virus “whether it’s abstinence, avoiding nightclubs, limiting sexual partners or pushing for a swift vaccine rollout.”
“With this monkey thing, I prefer to be careful. I don’t have sex anymore, I don’t go to parties anymore, and that’s until I’m vaccinated and have some immunity,” 35-year-old Madrid resident.
Antonio, who declined to give his last name, said that he would frequently attend nightclubs and the occasional sex party prior to the monkeypox outbreak, which primarily has infected men who have sex with men.
He also said that the world would have acted faster if monkeypox were not a 'queer disease.' “This is not like Covid, the vaccine already exists, there’s no need to invent it. If it wasn’t a queer disease, we would have acted more — and faster,” said Antonio, who waited as long as three weeks to receive the vaccine due to the high volume of appointments.
“We are facing a health emergency … that affects the LGBTI community, so people think it is insignificant, that it is not serious,” said Ivan Zaro, of the Imagina MAS (Imagine More) NGO. “This is exactly what happened 40 years ago with HIV.”
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