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?
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“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.
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?
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.”
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?
I’ve read several aspects relating to this.
Given recent history, isn’t it “Moneypox” not Monkeypox?
I wonder if Dr David E. Martin has found any prior approved / registered patents on the ‘pox’ and moderna’s upcoming monkey pox injection?
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…
yep a kind of “don’t, whatever you do, even THINK of leaving your house” variant.
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…
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.
Did the Astra Zeneca vaxx use a chimpanzee vector to produce their vaccine?
Yawn.
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?
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.
Dear Nick, you use the term “conspiracy theorist” as though it is derogatory. Do conspiracies not exist? Have there never been conspiracies in history?
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.
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.
reminds me of the film “Muriel’s Wedding”
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!
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?
Curious Coincidences: Monkeypox Edition
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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… Read more »
“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
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.
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.
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?
It does look like a government created conspiracy theory to discredit genuine theorising.
sage advice
Hilarious!
Or let them bum you either
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!
I’ll leave this here without comment
https://market-ticker.org/akcs-www?post=245941
Good find.
Seems obvious really that’s how it is spreading. Thankfully my choccie starfish is not at risk!
Check the date of this article https://www.outsourcing-pharma.com/Article/2018/09/24/UK-orders-smallpox-vaccine-in-response-to-monkeypox-cases
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/
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.
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… Read more »
Dartford? If you live there you’re in a hotbed of monkeypox. All those ships from all over the world and whatnot. PANIC!
About all we get are cars at Tilbury, other than the RIB folks making their way up from the coast.
Which NHS website though?
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:
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off-guardian org/2022/05/24/the-nhs-just-edited-their-monkeypox-page-to-make-it-scarier/
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).
It must be a planscamdemic (TM)
Either that or a scamplandemic (also TM).
Need to be careful of the dead badger at the bottom of the road. Badgers definitely give you monkey pox………
“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?
it will be interesting to see how the unjabbed to won’t it?
should have been ‘do’ (not to)
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
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.
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.
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
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
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?
They were going to call it Money Box but thought it might annoy the poor people
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… Read more »
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.
And about 80% of us are. God help us.
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.
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.
Well there’s us here. We must surely mobilise at some point, start the Free Nation of Ilkla Moor p’raps?
’appen.
It’s clear many people are complete idiots.
They really should have got it by now.
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… Read more »
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…
Bloody hell. The hard faced, lazy bastards.
my mum got shingles after one of her jabs.
Slight correction – Biden’s “vaccine” order was 119 million dollars. That’s kerching somewhere.
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.
more here:
https://unlimitedhangout.com/2022/05/investigative-reports/monkeypox-fears-may-rescue-endangered-corporations/
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!!
not a conspiracy theory HP – now more akin to a spoiler alert these days.