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What’s So Special About Monkeypox?

by Nick Rendell
24 May 2022 7:00 PM

What’s going on with monkeypox? Usually if I want to know what the conspiracy theorists are saying, I look at the comments on a website below the line. If I want to know what the official line is, I read the articles above the line. Monkeypox seems to have turned this on its head. An article by Michael Simmons in the Spectator on May 23rd asked, “Did monkeypox leak from Wuhan?” and concluded, “The initial evidence suggests not.” I’ve seen other articles asking whether the vaccines or Covid has sparked into life an, until now, dormant virus being carried by various people. The NHS has started warning people to take extra precautions, a degree of fear and concern is undeniably being created. Yet, monkeypox seems to be a not especially contagious viral infection that isn’t particularly dangerous.

Something that became all too apparent during the Covid panic was the failure of either the general population or most of the media to put things in context. We’re seeing the same again with the monkeypox scare. The Spectator published this table on May 23rd showing that in this recent scare there have been to date 56 cases of monkeypox in England and 170 worldwide.

Monkeypox has been making the headlines for about 10 days, so we’ve been seeing about five cases a day. Is this a lot, is it growing, is it something people should be worried about? Is it just because we’re looking? Without context we’ve no way of judging these things.  

We’re told that monkeypox isn’t classified as a sexually transmitted disease because it can be transmitted through other forms of close contact. That said, the cases to date have primarily involved gay and bisexual men who, it would appear, have contracted the virus through sexual activity. Consequently, it doesn’t seem unreasonable to compare the prevalence of monkeypox with data for various other conditions that are classified as STIs.

The following figures come from a Public Health England report, “Sexually transmitted infections and screening for chlamydia in England, 2019“.

The report tells us that in 2019 there were 468,342 initial diagnoses of STIs. That works out at 1,283 per day, 365 days per year. Compared to 2018, the total number of new STIs diagnosed in 2019 increased by 20,820 or 5% (from 447,522 to 468,342), an average increase of 57 per day. Why isn’t this news? 250 times more people contract an STI everyday than appear to contract monkeypox.

The increase in the total number of new STIs was due to a large increase in gonorrhoea (26%; from 56,232 to 70,936) and more moderate increases in syphilis (primary, secondary and early latent stages: 10%; from 7,260 to 7,982), chlamydia (5%; from 218,881 to 229,411) and genital herpes (2%; from 33,734 to 34,570) diagnoses.

The report also identified rapid increases in STIs contracted by gay and bisexual men over recent years. Clearly, if you wanted to whip up a degree of concern about various groups indulging in risky sexual behaviour there’s plenty of material to work with. What’s so special about monkeypox?

In 2019, almost 200 people contracted gonorrhoea every day. Gonorrhoea is pretty nasty, fairly infectious, widespread and on the increase.  

What’s so special about monkeypox? It’s in circulation in parts of Africa, we’ve had small outbreaks before, it’s not unusual for people to travel between Europe and Africa. Is there something we’re not being told? The Spectator speculates on a Wuhan connection, the NHS seems to be doing nothing to dampen alarm. Are we being encouraged to see conspiracies where none exist?

Tags: Conspiracy TheoriesHysteriaMonkeypox

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John Dee
John Dee
3 years ago

Did monkeypox leak from Wuhan?

Surely, Wu-ha-ha-ha sounds likelier…

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RedhotScot
RedhotScot
3 years ago
Reply to  John Dee

By some accounts, it’s escaped from American, Ukrainian based bio labs.

I would accept that as a possibility, but I just can’t see how it popped up in Blighty suddenly.

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David101
David101
3 years ago
Reply to  RedhotScot

It’s probably always been here, just rare. It’s only now the media home in on it for strategic purposes.

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RedhotScot
RedhotScot
3 years ago
Reply to  David101

I have been reading a few doctors comments about it, and yes, it has been everywhere for donkeys years.

The problem is it’s difficult to catch. It’s not transmissible like a virus, a victim would have to spit in your mouth before you ran a risk of catching it.

The most common method of contraction seems to be unwitting contact with the fluid from the blisters, probably transferred from hand to mouth.

None of this is controversial or unknown, so the government not quashing media speculation over it pretty well signals to me that it’s a collusively contrived phenomenon.

Our government is as bent as a shepherds crook, of that there is now no doubt.

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David Beaton
David Beaton
3 years ago
Reply to  RedhotScot

Surely “gain of function “has been applied?

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RedhotScot
RedhotScot
3 years ago
Reply to  David Beaton

That would fit with the Ukrainian lab theory.

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Milo
Milo
3 years ago
Reply to  RedhotScot

Covid was not visible as an Infectious Disease… Monkey Pox IS!

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Backlash
Backlash
3 years ago
Reply to  RedhotScot

Even for the most avid pro Kremlin nutters amongst you, that is about as far fetched as shit from China

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Jabby Mcstiff
Jabby Mcstiff
3 years ago

Timing and bulshit. If you had been paying attention then you will have noticed that ‘Monkeypox’ would be released at presicely this juncture. It isn’t rocket science. Requires no esoteric knowledge just attention to released information. You need to tune in more.

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MrTea
MrTea
3 years ago
Reply to  Jabby Mcstiff

Luckily a monkey pox vaccine was approved in 2019, just in the nick of time.
Now to inject the entire populationof the world (several times followed by boostas)

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RedhotScot
RedhotScot
3 years ago
Reply to  MrTea

What a marvellously coincidental world we live in.

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mwhite
mwhite
3 years ago
Reply to  MrTea

https://www.cdc.gov/poxvirus/monkeypox/clinicians/smallpox-vaccine.html

“Because monkeypox virus is closely related to the virus that causes smallpox, the smallpox vaccine can protect people from getting monkeypox. Past data from Africa suggests that the smallpox vaccine is at least 85% effective in preventing monkeypox.”

Everyone born before 1971 should have received a smallpox jab.

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Rowan
Rowan
3 years ago
Reply to  mwhite

Not everyone, was vaccinated or inoculated by any means. Although made compulsory in 1853 smallpox inoculation in the UK was resisted strongly by some. By the late 19th century enforcement was patchy and the compulsory element was repealed in the 1920s. By the time general inoculation was abandoned around 1972, compliance was far being universal.

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RedhotScot
RedhotScot
3 years ago
Reply to  Rowan

Fookin hell…..I didn’t realise Bill Gates was around in 1853!

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Rowan
Rowan
3 years ago
Reply to  RedhotScot

Yes, he’s even older than he looks.

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lorrinet
lorrinet
3 years ago
Reply to  RedhotScot

That was probably his previous life.

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David Beaton
David Beaton
3 years ago
Reply to  Rowan

It seemed that in the 19th century it was “hit and miss’ whether you died from the vaccine or the pox! Plus ça change…..?

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Rowan
Rowan
3 years ago
Reply to  David Beaton

The inoculations were the transfer of pus containing who knows what, that had been gouged out of poxed animals or other humans. Inoculations were sometimes considered to be the forerunners of smallpox outbreaks. No doubt just coincidences, as we know they happen all the time.

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John
John
3 years ago
Reply to  mwhite

I didn’t have smallpox vaccination and I was born in 1956.
The general offer of smallpox vaccination was withdrawn in 1948 with the birth of the NHS and the repealing of the vaccination acts. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK545998/

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John
John
3 years ago
Reply to  John

https://www.historytoday.com/archive/end-smallpox

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John
John
3 years ago
Reply to  mwhite

This is interesting as it shows the mortality post vaccination, which is significantly more following infant vaccination compared with adult vaccination https://www.bmj.com/content/bmj/2/5315/1275.full.pdf

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John
John
3 years ago
Reply to  mwhite

From https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1079469/
“Unfortunately smallpox vaccination does have unpleasant side-effects, ranging from transient fever and local discomfort to fatal encephalitis. In 1960 in England and Wales 408 699 persons received primary vaccination, 8 developed encephalitis and 3 died. In the Bradford outbreak where 280 000 were vaccinated (either primary or secondary) many experienced minor symptoms and at least 6 (4 adults and 2 children aged three months) had symptoms severe enough to require hospital admission. Only one of these died, a man aged 49, and his death was probably due to associated medical conditions. Unfortunately 3 children died after clinical diagnosis of post-vaccinal encephalitis, although the post mortems in each case showed only cerebral oedema and congestion and the pathologist could only go as far as to conclude ‘cerebral congestion following vaccination’. One of the three was of considerable interest. The child, aged 1½ years, had not been vaccinated because of an infected nappy rash, but had been bathed with her sister who had been vaccinated. She developed multiple skin lesions from which vaccinia virus was subsequently recovered at post mortem. The brain showed congestion.”

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chrissybear
chrissybear
3 years ago
Reply to  John

“Safe and effective” then…

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Smudger
Smudger
3 years ago
Reply to  John

This was at the time of the beginning of considerable numbers of cheap Labour coming from Pakistan (high presence of smallpox) to work in the textile mills. A dozen or more males living under one roof was commonplace. Maybe the work was of such national economic importance that basic health checks were not undertaken.

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John
John
3 years ago
Reply to  mwhite

Apparently there should be a distinctive scar from the smallpox vaccination.

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TheTartanEagle
TheTartanEagle
3 years ago
Reply to  John

Random thought surfaced, I remember my mum telling me the injection site used in infants was inside the ankle.

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lorrinet
lorrinet
3 years ago
Reply to  mwhite

We both had the smallpox jab in the early 70s in order to go travelling. I remember it well, it was horrible. But I’m sure if they manage another good scaremongering they’ll tell us it’s vtal to have another.Well it isn’t, so we won’t, any more than we got the shot after having covid. We know what liars they are now.

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D J
D J
3 years ago
Reply to  MrTea

As has been said elsewhere the k is silent in monkeypox.

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Banjones
Banjones
3 years ago
Reply to  MrTea

Michael P Senger (substack) writes about the Prophetic Monkeypox Simulation and a world ‘oubreak’ ”one year after an international biosecurity conference in Munich held a simulation of a “global pandemic involving an unusual strain of Monkeypox” beginning in mid-May 2022…”

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Banjones
Banjones
3 years ago
Reply to  Banjones

‘outbreak’

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David Beaton
David Beaton
3 years ago
Reply to  Jabby Mcstiff

Frankly, I have been waiting for the annoincement for weeks.

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Jabby Mcstiff
Jabby Mcstiff
3 years ago

If you still have a penis that is capable of shooting highly trnasmissable materials then good luck to you.

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MrTea
MrTea
3 years ago

Some bummers have been doing what bummers do and are getting each other infected with some sort of pox.
Refrain from allowing 15 different men to ejaculate up your bum each night and your chances of getting the pox are zero.

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RedhotScot
RedhotScot
3 years ago
Reply to  MrTea

STD’s aren’t a feature of sperm.

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RedhotScot
RedhotScot
3 years ago
Reply to  RedhotScot

A downvote for a known fact. Cognitive dissonance, much. 🤣

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Paul B
Paul B
3 years ago
Reply to  RedhotScot

I suspect he was referring to the delivery method more than the delivered substance.

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RedhotScot
RedhotScot
3 years ago
Reply to  Paul B

STD’s aren’t unique to anal sex.

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Backlash
Backlash
3 years ago
Reply to  RedhotScot

Sounds like the voice of experience

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Early Doubter
Early Doubter
3 years ago
Reply to  RedhotScot

“The report also identified rapid increases in STIs contracted by gay and bisexual men over recent years. ” As many gays are now taking  PrEP (a specific pre-exposure prophylaxis, or specific use of antiviral drugs as a strategy for HIV/AIDS prevention) many gays have stopped using condoms. “Stay Safe” used to mean always wear condoms.


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Rowan
Rowan
3 years ago
Reply to  MrTea

So fourteen would be safe?

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Marcus Aurelius knew
Marcus Aurelius knew
3 years ago
Reply to  Rowan

Sixteen or more would be safe.

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Backlash
Backlash
3 years ago
Reply to  Marcus Aurelius knew

What about two at once?

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The old bat
The old bat
3 years ago
Reply to  MrTea

Oh do you mind – I’m eating.

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rtaylor
rtaylor
3 years ago

Maureen aside, many won’t fall for this. It is the mRNA gene injections going about their business lowering people’s immune system.

photo_2022-05-23 17.59.27.jpeg
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RedhotScot
RedhotScot
3 years ago

STD my arse. Well, not literally my arse.

It’s an American mid term election pandemic. Released in the run up to when the Democrats were going to get the most enormous kicking, unless they could find yet another excuse to widely corrupt mail in, and drop box balloting.

Carefully watch the trajectory of the hysteria rise as we approach November when the elections take place.

If monkey pox is a genuine problem, it’s because it’s racing after the compromised immune systems of the ‘vaccinated’. More likely, it’s a direct result of the ‘vaccinations’ where compromised immune systems are inducing shingles, dormant in all who had chicken pox as children.

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huxleypiggles
huxleypiggles
3 years ago

Billy promised us a new “pandemic” in 2021 and probably of ‘smallpox type.’ Now Billy wouldn’t be in the know about the next Scamdemic would he? Surely not.

The moneypox scariant was gamed 12 months ago in Germany and for May 2022. Not another amazing coincidence like event 201. Surely not?

Biden places an order for 18 million dollars worth of a moneypox “vaccine” that has been cobbled together in 18 months from a company with a dubious history and on the verge of going bust.

Bozo is keeping an eye on the moneypox and Savage has ordered 20,000 units of a clearly untested “vaccine.”

The WHO convenes an emergency meeting just before the meeting to rubber stamp the Pandemic Preparedness Treaty.

Quite clearly there is NO conspiracy. As usual everything is happening in plain sight.

However, if we are not going to face version 2 of C1984 on rinse and repeat what I can say is that all the above are merely preparations for another Scamdemic. Why so much effort is being put in to a moneypox venture is not clear at this time but populations are being prepped for another “most serious threat to our country and her people since WWII.”

So something is brewing and is on its way. More gaslighting, fear propoganda, ridiculous NPI’s and heaven knows what other evils but something is afoot and it won’t be pleasant.

The chances of convincing anyone on here of another once in 500 years event are between slim and nil, and slim just left town.

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J4mes
J4mes
3 years ago
Reply to  huxleypiggles

What’s worse is that Pfizer have admitted shingles are a known side effect of the fake vaccine. Remember the sloppy propaganda when msm recycled images during the build up to covid hysteria? Well they’ve been caught at it again…

Monkeypox-vs-Shingles.png
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huxleypiggles
huxleypiggles
3 years ago
Reply to  J4mes

Bloody hell. The hard faced, lazy bastards.

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Milo
Milo
3 years ago
Reply to  J4mes

my mum got shingles after one of her jabs.

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huxleypiggles
huxleypiggles
3 years ago
Reply to  huxleypiggles

Slight correction – Biden’s “vaccine” order was 119 million dollars. That’s kerching somewhere.

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TheyLiveAndWeLockdown
TheyLiveAndWeLockdown
3 years ago
Reply to  huxleypiggles

https://georgewebb.substack.com/p/a-pox-upon-your-lab-monkeys

I am also struck by how a small pharmaceutical company we have covered called Bavarian Nordic introduced a therapeutic for MonkeyPox and a deal for high volume production the same day at the MonkeyPox outbreak. Bavarian Nordic key executives Jens Kuhn and Sina Bavari have been tied to Ft. Detrick lab leaks and lab leaks from the old Soviet Union Biopreparat labs.

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ImpObs
ImpObs
3 years ago
Reply to  TheyLiveAndWeLockdown

more here:

https://unlimitedhangout.com/2022/05/investigative-reports/monkeypox-fears-may-rescue-endangered-corporations/

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Milo
Milo
3 years ago
Reply to  huxleypiggles

I think the company he placed the order with was close to bankruptcy otherwise.

Pheew – US govt put in that order just in time. What a slice of luck!!

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Milo
Milo
3 years ago
Reply to  huxleypiggles

not a conspiracy theory HP – now more akin to a spoiler alert these days.

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crisisgarden
crisisgarden
3 years ago

https://www.nti.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/NTI_Paper_BIO-TTX_Final.pdf
This is what’s so special about it. It’s Pandemic 2.
They think we’re complete idiots.

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crisisgarden
crisisgarden
3 years ago
Reply to  crisisgarden

And about 80% of us are. God help us.

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David Beaton
David Beaton
3 years ago
Reply to  crisisgarden

Yes, this shocking discovery of the level of national stupidity has been the greatest, most significant revelation of the Covid scam.

We have also learned how all Politicians and Public Servants are by degree, cowardly, self-serving and corrupt – but perhaps we secretly knew that.

Blatant lying without conscience seems another now openly exposed and encouraged trait among our rulers.

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crisisgarden
crisisgarden
3 years ago
Reply to  David Beaton

I knew those in power were liars, sociopaths and thieves; the level of gullibility amongst the population came as a bit of a surprise. We’ve all learned quite a lot about human psychology these last couple of years.

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Marcus Aurelius knew
Marcus Aurelius knew
3 years ago
Reply to  crisisgarden

Well there’s us here. We must surely mobilise at some point, start the Free Nation of Ilkla Moor p’raps?

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crisisgarden
crisisgarden
3 years ago
Reply to  Marcus Aurelius knew

’appen.

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RedhotScot
RedhotScot
3 years ago
Reply to  crisisgarden

It’s clear many people are complete idiots.

They really should have got it by now.

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MikeHaseler
MikeHaseler
3 years ago

The most likely explanation is that once you’ve seen one unusual thing, your brain gets primed so that it tends to see many more of the unusual thing. And, this priming will be particularly acute where the stimulus has created a great deal of fear … basically it’s the initial stages of a phobia, and so we can expect that over the coming years, that bugs that we used to ignore, get plastered as media headlines.

Another possible explanation, is that the jab has damaged people’s immune system or in some other way damaged health and that has made people more susceptible. But, just because you’re more susceptible, doesn’t mean it will be a serious illness.

Another possibility is that the insane people who developed the Wuhan bug, were criminal enough to keep developing bugs, and that this new bug got released, either intentionally or accidentally.

Another, is that the same people who made money from the jab, have decided that they haven’t destroyed the world economy enough and the billions they took from covid, needs to be increased. They may or may not have helped the spread, may or may not have genetically engineered it.

Another is that it’s all part of a Green reset depopulation agenda. But, it is hard to see how that makes sense. People suggest it is to force another “jab” (with an ulterior motive), but knowing the mind set of the nutters who are behind the green reset, the people they most want to kill off are the climate sceptics, many of whom would never take a jab, because they know the mindset of the green nutters in the “elite” like Charlie boy. Also, the green nutters are not exactly the brightest sparks in the box and practically, they don’t have want it takes to organise the mass murder of most of the world’s population (even if they day dream about it).

Another possibility is that the governments who completely failed to stop covid and are now looking like idiots, are deliberately egging up MoneyPox, to create the narrative that they “saved us from MoneyPox”. So, it will be a rehash … mass terror porn to suggest the end of the world, the forced injection of people with a useless “vaccine” … for a bug that they know is going to go away … but this time they can claim “they saved us”.

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DanClarke
DanClarke
3 years ago

They were going to call it Money Box but thought it might annoy the poor people

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thorsteinn@sjonarrond.is
thorsteinn@sjonarrond.is
3 years ago

Regarding the possible role of vaccination, if it is there it would have to do with a weakening of the immune system. Apart from this there are primarily two things interesting about this. First, that in March 2021 the WEF sponsored a simulation of a monkeypox outbreak in mid-May this year. Second, the outbreaks happen at exactly the same time all over the world, apparently without any connection between the outbreaks. The second undeniably points to some kind of bioterrorism. For the first, perhaps coincidence, perhaps suspicion of bioterrorism?

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David101
David101
3 years ago

Transmitted through SEXUAL activity and CLOSE CONTACT, hmmmmm… Why would we all be made aware of this all of a sudden?
Yet another reason to keep people divided and apart; when are the “conspiracy” theories going to make it north of the line, just like the Wuhan coverup, etc

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Backlash
Backlash
3 years ago
Reply to  David101

So for the evidence is it is only those who have a “bum chum” getting infected. Temporarily marking the tradesman’s entrance as out of commission may be all it needs to control the spread if that is indeed the case

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chris-ds
chris-ds
3 years ago

Maybe it’s just as suggested, Covid vaccinations has weakened immunity and let this monkey pox thrive where previously it would have fizzled.

apparently cnn is asking if mRNA cv 19 vaccines are impacting immune systems.

https://edition.cnn.com/2022/05/20/health/mrna-vaccine-technology-covid-19-durability/index.html

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TheyLiveAndWeLockdown
TheyLiveAndWeLockdown
3 years ago
Reply to  chris-ds

From the aboe CNNIsFakeNews link

In a large study of more than 35,000 health care workers in the United Kingdom, compared to those who were unvaccinated, those who had two doses of the Pfizer/BioNTech mRNA vaccine were about 85% less likely to get a Covid-19 infection, through about two and a half months after their second dose. But by six and a half months, that protection against infection had fallen to about 51%.

We know those numbers are totally fake.

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ozdocabroad
ozdocabroad
3 years ago
Reply to  TheyLiveAndWeLockdown

Also why would anyone believe anything that Fauci says, plus there is no mention of the fact that the vast majority of those getting covid are now the vaccinated.
As you say the numbers and conclusions are fake, and it is another attempt by MSM to row back on their previous unequivocal support for the jabs, an attempt to make themselves look as if they are doing something investigative, and at the same time, suggest that the shots are a good thing.
You have to admire their balancing skills.

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David Beaton
David Beaton
3 years ago

“Monkeypox”?

Timely cover for the destruction of the immune system and development of VAIDS generated by the Covid injections and their spike proteins?

Presumably collapsed immune systems, incapable of fighting the infections might lead to fatalities from the pox?

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Milo
Milo
3 years ago
Reply to  David Beaton

it will be interesting to see how the unjabbed to won’t it?

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Milo
Milo
3 years ago
Reply to  Milo

should have been ‘do’ (not to)

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RedhotScot
RedhotScot
3 years ago

From the NHS website, verbatim:

How you get monkeypox

Monkeypox can be caught from infected wild animals in parts of west and central Africa. It’s thought to be spread by rodents, such as rats, mice and squirrels.
“You can catch monkeypox from an infected animal if you’re bitten or you touch its blood, body fluids, spots, blisters or scabs.

It may also be possible to catch monkeypox by eating meat from an infected animal that has not been cooked thoroughly, or by touching other products from infected animals (such as animal skin or fur).

Monkeypox can also be spread through:

  • touching clothing, bedding or towels used by someone with the monkeypox rash
  • touching monkeypox skin blisters or scabs
  • the coughs or sneezes of a person with the monkeypox rash

You can catch monkeypox from an infected animal if you’re bitten or you touch its blood, body fluids, spots, blisters or scabs.

It may also be possible to catch monkeypox by eating meat from an infected animal that has not been cooked thoroughly, or by touching other products from infected animals (such as animal skin or fur).

Monkeypox in the UK

Only a small number of people have been diagnosed with monkeypox in the UK.

You’re extremely unlikely to have monkeypox if:

  • you have not recently travelled to west or central Africa
  • you have not been in close contact with someone who has monkeypox (such as touching their skin or sharing bedding)

Things you can do to avoid getting monkeypox

Although monkeypox is rare, there are things you can do to reduce your risk of getting it.

Do

  • wash your hands with soap and water regularly or use an alcohol-based hand sanitiser
  • only eat meat that has been cooked thoroughly

Don’t

  • do not go near wild or stray animals, including dead animals
  • do not go near any animals that appear unwell
  • do not eat or touch meat from wild animals (bush meat)
  • do not share bedding or towels with people who are unwell and may have monkeypox
  • do not have close contact with people who are unwell and may have monkeypox

*My emphasis throughout.

So, don’t visit Africa, don’t eat raw bushmeat (well cooked bushmeat is fine). Wild, stray and dead animals are off limits (In the UK or Africa?). Stay away from rabid dogs, don’t snuggle or snog a blistered bird or bloke, wash bedding and towels.

Can someone direct me to my local Bush Meat shop in Dartford so I know to avoid it please.

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Marcus Aurelius knew
Marcus Aurelius knew
3 years ago
Reply to  RedhotScot

Dartford? If you live there you’re in a hotbed of monkeypox. All those ships from all over the world and whatnot. PANIC!

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RedhotScot
RedhotScot
3 years ago
Reply to  Marcus Aurelius knew

About all we get are cars at Tilbury, other than the RIB folks making their way up from the coast.

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chrissybear
chrissybear
3 years ago
Reply to  RedhotScot

Which NHS website though?

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Nessimmersion
Nessimmersion
3 years ago
Reply to  RedhotScot

The NHS are as usual complicit in the scam, they changed the text to make it appear more scary last week, but have been caught again:
”

off-guardian org/2022/05/24/the-nhs-just-edited-their-monkeypox-page-to-make-it-scarier/

Last edited 3 years ago by Nessimmersion
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ChaunceyTinker
ChaunceyTinker
3 years ago
Reply to  Nessimmersion

That does seem to add a tiny bit of credibility to the gain-of-function theory, coupled with the NTI exercise held in 2021 that predicted a monkeypox outbreak in 2022 almost to the day. I am still unsure whether we are facing plandemics or scamdemics, but I am confident they are either one or the other (or both).

Last edited 3 years ago by ChaunceyTinker
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Milo
Milo
3 years ago
Reply to  ChaunceyTinker

It must be a planscamdemic (TM)

Either that or a scamplandemic (also TM).

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Victoria
Victoria
3 years ago
Reply to  RedhotScot
  • do not go near wild or stray animals, including dead animals

Need to be careful of the dead badger at the bottom of the road. Badgers definitely give you monkey pox………

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DodosArentDead
DodosArentDead
3 years ago

Monkeypox warning for “meat eaters” from NHS

The “Animals are dirty and dangerous” narrative has gone into hyperdrive!

“the infection can also be spread by animals and eating meat.”

Such a contrived way to push the #PostAnimalEconomy 

https://www.newsshopper.co.uk/news/national/uk-today/20159989.monkeypox-nhs-issues-warning-anyone-eats-meat-uk-cases-rise/

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Milo
Milo
3 years ago
Reply to  DodosArentDead

Well spotted. Insect burgers all round then.

Should I throw out those chicken drumsticks I have in my fridge? They were planned to be my dinner – I was totally prepared to run the risk of the old bird flu, but money pox is a whole other ball game.

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John
John
3 years ago

Check the date of this article https://www.outsourcing-pharma.com/Article/2018/09/24/UK-orders-smallpox-vaccine-in-response-to-monkeypox-cases

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Aleajactaest
Aleajactaest
3 years ago

I’ll leave this here without comment

https://market-ticker.org/akcs-www?post=245941

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Gregoryno6
Gregoryno6
3 years ago
Reply to  Aleajactaest

Good find.

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Backlash
Backlash
3 years ago
Reply to  Gregoryno6

Seems obvious really that’s how it is spreading. Thankfully my choccie starfish is not at risk!

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J4mes
J4mes
3 years ago

What’s going on with monkeypox?

Scamdemic 2.0 is what’s going on.

And just like covid, DS is wasting no time in bogging us down with stats and hyper analysis, when all that needs to be done is an expose of the usual suspects who last year revealed a simulation of a monkeypox outbreak occurring in the exact week it was first reported.

Tell the world that this is another scam for crying out loud!

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prick
prick
3 years ago

sage advice

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Alex B
Alex B
3 years ago
Reply to  prick

Hilarious!

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Backlash
Backlash
3 years ago
Reply to  prick

Or let them bum you either

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Steve-Devon
Steve-Devon
3 years ago

It’s OK the Daily Mail has debunked all the myths and conspiracy theories about Monkey Pox;
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-10849463/Monkeypox-myths-DEBUNKED-Bogus-conspiracy-theories-say-AstraZenecas-Covid-vaccine-contains-virus.html

With a very patronising infantile journalistic style we are all told that despite this whole thing looking as dodgy as a nine pound note we should just accept it at face value. Conspiracy theories arise when the official narrative patently fails to address the obvious facts and questions and despite all it’s supposed debunking, to my mind, the DM article fails to address and answer the obvious questions. We have swamped the world with a lab generated virus thingy and then injected the world with new style genetic based vaccines, how can we be sure that none of this has anything to do with this monkey pox business?

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TheyLiveAndWeLockdown
TheyLiveAndWeLockdown
3 years ago
Reply to  Steve-Devon

It does look like a government created conspiracy theory to discredit genuine theorising.

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alw
alw
3 years ago

“Monkeypox is a virus and disease which is endemic in Africa, emerges sporadically after transmission into humans from animal hosts, and is typically spread by close human contact. It is readily controlled by classical public health measures. It does not have a high mortality rate. Unless there has been some genetic alteration, either through evolution or intentional genetic manipulation, it is not a significant biothreat, and has never been considered a high threat pathogen in the past.”
https://rwmalonemd.substack.com/p/monkey-pox?sd=nfs&s=r

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Milo
Milo
3 years ago
Reply to  alw

he was interviewed on Farage last night – and he closed with the damage the nRNA vaccines are causing, and the weakened immune systems etc.

Farage almost had coronary on air and after the interview closed quickly trotted out jabs are safe and effective mantra.

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Gregoryno6
Gregoryno6
3 years ago
Reply to  Milo

Is this part of that interview, Milo?
https://twitter.com/gbnews/status/1528809454719885312
The clip doesn’t run through to the end – clipped to removed Malone’s comment and Farage’s freakout perhaps.
And I’m surprised that Farage is pro vax. After his Brexit efforts I would have thought the man could spot a dud deal from a hundred miles away.

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blunt instrument
blunt instrument
3 years ago

Curious Coincidences: Monkeypox Edition
=======================================
https://www.zerohedge.com/medical/monkeypox-outbreak-primarily-spreading-sexual-contact-who-officials?commentId=1c71ec76-1ddb-4c0b-9dce-9c9cb709d1fc

1) November 2014: Bill Gates funds Chimerix’s antiviral brincidofovir. The drug is initially tested as a treatment for Ebola. (https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2014-11-19/gates-to-fund-ebola-survivor-blood-chimerix-drug-trials)

2) March 2021: A war game is conducted in which a terrorist group unleashes weaponized monkeypox at airports on May 15, 2022 (although it takes the world awhile to discover this origin). Vaccines prove ineffective against it. Over 18 months, 3 billion are infected and 270 million die (9% mortality, consistent with the deadlier version of monkeypox and about 200 times deadlier than COVID). (https://www.nti.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/NTI_Paper_BIO-TTX_Final.pdf)

3) June 2021: Chimerix’s antiviral brincidofovir is approved by the FDA to treat the smallpox family of viruses under the brand name Tembexa. (https://www.globenewswire.com/news-release/2021/06/04/2242292/0/en/Chimerix-Receives-U-S-Food-and-Drug-Administration-Approval-for-TEMBEXA-brincidofovir-for-the-Treatment-of-Smallpox.html)

4) September 2021: The US government begins stockpiling another smallpox family antiviral drug, TPOXX, produced by SIGA Technologies. (https://www.marketscreener.com/quote/stock/SIGA-TECHNOLOGIES-INC-10830/news/SIGA-Announces-BARDA-Exercise-of-Procurement-Option-Valued-at-112-5-Million-for-Oral-TPOXX-36410838/). Like COVID vaccines, TPOXX is gene-editing. (https://www.siga.com/wp-content/themes/sigahba/TPOXX-Fact-Sheet.pdf)

5) November 2021: Bill Gates — who (along with Klaus Schwab’s World Economic Forum) was also involved in the Event 201 war games of October 2019 that played out exactly as COVID did — warns, ‘what if a bioterrorist brought smallpox to 10 airports?’. (https://news.yahoo.com/bill-gates-warns-smallpox-terror-000100099.html) Most people talking about a hypothetical would say “an airport” or “some airports” rather than a specific number of airports.

6) May 16, 2022: Tiny research company Chimerix announces it sold the rights to its smallpox antiviral Tembexa to Emergent BioSolutions, a larger firm with more experience in drug mass production. The deal gives Chimerix the right to royalties between 15 and 20% of gross sales if Emergent BioSolutions is able to sell more than 1.7 million treatments. (https://ir.chimerix.com/news-releases/news-release-details/chimerix-announces-sale-tembexa-emergent-biosolutions-3375) The stock price is cut in half as soon as the markets open. Presumably, the market doesn’t believe that more than 1.7 million treatments can ever be sold for an eradicated illness.

7) May 18, 2022: Various Boston local news outlets report the first case of monkeypox in the US in 2022. (https://www.abc6.com/massachusetts-man-first-confirmed-case-of-monkeypox-in-the-us-this-year/) Cases are also suspected in New York City. (https://nypost.com/2022/05/19/possible-case-of-monkeypox-investigated-in-nyc/ ) Simultaneous outbreaks occur in Canada, several European countries and Australia. (https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/monkeypox-outbreak-europe-largest-ever-region-cases-cross-100-2022-05-20/ ) It rapidly becomes the world’s largest monkeypox outbreak ever and the only one to spread over such a wide area with no direct link to African travel.

8) May 19, 2022 7:30 AM New York time: SIGA announces the FDA approved an intravenous version of TPOXX for those in emergency care. (https://investor.siga.com/news-releases/news-release-details/siga-receives-approval-fda-intravenous-iv-formulation-tpoxxr)

9) May 19, 2022 9:30 AM New York time: Markets open and shares of SIGA Technologies (SIGA), Emergent BioSolutions (EBS) and Chimerix (CMRX) explode higher.

10) May 19, 2022 11:09 AM New York time: Before lunch, the fact checkers publish articles saying any suggestion Bill Gates might be involved in the monkeypox outbreak is a crazy conspiracy theory. (https://www.newsweek.com/fact-check-did-bill-gates-predict-monkeypox-outbreak-1708171)

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imp66
imp66
3 years ago

NTI “table exercise” in March 2020 coincidentally (?) used a fictional release of monkeypox. Their fantastic computer modelling saw 270 million dead worldwide in 18 months! Project Fear is alive and kicking. Ding, ding! Round 2!

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Milo
Milo
3 years ago
Reply to  imp66

So was Mike Yeadon either fantastically wrong or exaggerating wildly when he said there must be a depopulation agenda and he spotted it very early?

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RTSC
RTSC
3 years ago

Gosh, Monkeypox has surfaced just in time for countries to submit to the WHO’s demand that its power to control “global health” be ramped up.

What a coincidence.

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Milo
Milo
3 years ago
Reply to  RTSC

reminds me of the film “Muriel’s Wedding”

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Amari
Amari
3 years ago

Dear Nick, you use the term “conspiracy theorist” as though it is derogatory. Do conspiracies not exist? Have there never been conspiracies in history?

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Milo
Milo
3 years ago
Reply to  Amari

The old Gun Powder Plot springs to mind. Maybe old Guy was a crystal ball reader and could see what we would be in for in 21st century.

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Amari
Amari
3 years ago

What’s so special about monkeypox?
Nothing. The agenda is to make us afraid and compliant and bring about global government. Is that not so hard to see?

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J4mes
J4mes
3 years ago
Reply to  Amari

As per my comment above, DS has approached this new scam the same way they confused the hell out of the readership re covid: stats, stats, stats.

This is why I’ve always referred to DS as false opposition. Rarely does it actually tackle head-on the real reasons our lives are being utterly ruined.

I propose they celebrate the Jubilee by investigating Prince Charles’ involvement in all this. As a starting point.

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Epi
Epi
3 years ago

Yawn.

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marebobowl
marebobowl
3 years ago

Did the Astra Zeneca vaxx use a chimpanzee vector to produce their vaccine?

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JeremyP99
JeremyP99
3 years ago

Reminder…. Monkeypox is not as serious as Smallpox – and Smallpox is not serious at all any more. Indeed, the smallpox jab is more dangerous than the disease….

Plus ca change…

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Milo
Milo
3 years ago
Reply to  JeremyP99

But not a lot of people know that.

All they will see are the pictures of the little African boys covered with pustules courtesy of the BBC “giving them an idea what the pox looks like” and they will wail “argh argh, need to be protected, save me save me” and government will duly answer that call.

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TheEngineer
TheEngineer
3 years ago

We may be sure that whatever the threat from monkeypox government, likely under instruction from their friends at Davos, will make the most of it. I’m just waiting for a new super infectious variant to emerge…

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Milo
Milo
3 years ago
Reply to  TheEngineer

yep a kind of “don’t, whatever you do, even THINK of leaving your house” variant.

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ellie-em
ellie-em
3 years ago

I wonder if Dr David E. Martin has found any prior approved / registered patents on the ‘pox’ and moderna’s upcoming monkey pox injection?

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SimCS
SimCS
3 years ago

Given recent history, isn’t it “Moneypox” not Monkeypox?

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Dan777
Dan777
3 years ago

I’ve read several aspects relating to this.

  • the AZ vaccine used chimpanzee adenovirus (listed ingredient).
  • blistering skin is a Pfizer vaccine listed side effect.
  • Canada reported that 95% of monkeypox cases so far have actually been shingles (boosters have damaged the immune system and people are vulnerable to illnesses they already had).
  • NHS website has been caught adding and removing paragraphs relating to monkeypox. People are comparing cached version from May 2021 vs now. It looks like it is being politicised again.
  • In 2021, Western countries were invited to prep for a monkeypox outbreak simulation.
  • Bill Gates was busy with development of a smallpox vaccine last year that apparently can be used on monkeypox. What luck.
Last edited 3 years ago by Dan777
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Dylan2021
Dylan2021
3 years ago

The 100th Monkey Effect

The author Lyall Watson in his book “Lifetide”, published in 1979, recounted the story of a group of Japanese monkeys that began washing their food before eating, a new behavioural pattern. This behaviour spread through the troop. Nothing remarkable until, as Watson reported…

“ … the researchers noted that once a critical number of monkeys was reached, this behaviour instantly spread across the water to macaques on nearby islands.”

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Banjones
Banjones
3 years ago
Reply to  Dylan2021

Lyall Watson ”Supernature”? He was a formative figure in the 60s. Good for him. So sad that he’s no longer with us, and not so old…. Perhaps he was beginning to get it right. Who knows?

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Early Doubter
Early Doubter
3 years ago

“The report also identified rapid increases in STIs contracted by gay and bisexual men over recent years. ” As many gays are now taking  PrEP (a specific pre-exposure prophylaxis, or specific use of antiviral drugs as a strategy for HIV/AIDS prevention) many gays have stopped using condoms. “Stay Safe” used to mean always wear condoms.

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Banjones
Banjones
3 years ago
Reply to  Early Doubter

I’m only surprised that if anyone shows symptoms of Moneypox they wouldn’t be embarrassed to report them.
Does one have to be a registered owner of a monkey in the UK?

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