NYC monkeypox madness repeats ugly COVID story
Cryptopolytech Public Press Pass
Title: NYC monkeypox madness repeats ugly COVID story
200000048 – World Newser
•| World |•| Online |•| Media |•| Outlet |
NYC monkeypox madness repeats ugly COVID story
New York City loves to trash science and embrace politics when it comes to public health. Just witness its insane monkeypox saga.
Mayor Eric Adams this weekend declared monkeypox a “public-health emergency” on the heels of Gov. Kathy Hochul’s similar call.
Sounds serious! Yet in mid-July the city issued advice on monkeypox (which spreads through close physical contact, in this outbreak mostly among gay men) bizarrely saying that merely covering up lesions and avoiding kissing would suffice to slow the spread.
Don Weiss, a city Health Department veteran who’s served on the frontlines of various outbreaks, disagreed and said so publicly, arguing instead that gay men should temporarily reduce their number of sexual partners to help control infections. He was then, he alleges, punitively reassigned; the city later repudiated his ideas.
It’s the whole ugly story of COVID, all over again.
Of course people (gay or straight) should rein in sexual activity to curb a disease spread by close physical contact. Even the World Health Organization agrees!
But worries about “stigmatizing” gay men plainly moved city health czar Ashwin Vasan and his flunkeys to spurn Weiss’ sensible advice, and their guidance is so far unchanged despite the “emergency.”
The truth is stigma has nothing to do with it. As Weiss emailed colleagues, “If we had an outbreak associated with bowling, would we not warn people to stop bowling?” And fears around stigma make awful policy: Remember how public-health “experts” implied, at the pandemic’s very start, that it was racist (against Chinese people) to worry about COVID at all?
The contrast between the city’s messaging on COVID and its monkeypox talk is amazing. In this “emergency,” people are free to manage their own risk of the latter disease — while schools, businesses and life in general had to be shut down for more than a year over COVID.
It’s clear that our public-health establishment worries too much about politics, not protecting the public it supposedly serves.
‘News of the Day’ content, as reported by public domain newswires.
Source Information (if available)
It appears the above article may have originally appeared on nypost.com and has been shared elsewhere on the internet, repeatedly. News articles have become eerily similar to manufacturer descriptions.
We will happily entertain any content removal requests, simply reach out to us. In the interim, please perform due diligence and place any content you deem “privileged” behind a subscription and/or paywall.
First to share? If share image does not populate, please close the share box & re-open or reload page to load the image, Thanks!