Our shrunk world is full of more absurd than absurd stories. We haven't even digested one of them, we haven't even tried to figure out whose interests it is, the next one is already coming. We are running a race with the daily nonsense, which will inevitably end in just one win. You shouldn't.
For four days, the world press has been shouting about the fact that the name monkeypox is "stigmatizing and racist". At least according to a few dozen scientists cited by the WHO director-general. Of course, from the moment that gays were in the "majority" among the first hundred infected (not a single report wrote about specific numbers), one could guess that smallpox would be renamed to something else, just as in North Korea, COVID-19 for "febrile illness".
In this article , we predicted that monkeypox cannot remain monkeypox for long, and we were right. It is not yet known what the new, Euro-conforming name will be in the end, so that it does not offend monkeys, Africans, or gays.
However, this version of smallpox comes from Africa, which statement is not racism, but a scientific fact. Compared to this, the Director-General of the WHO put it this way:
"There is a growing narrative in the media and in many academic circles that tries to link the current global outbreak to Africa, West Africa or Nigeria."
Still, what does "trying to tie" mean? Since the behavior of monkeypox has changed and is now spreading on other continents, its source is still to be found in Africa. Specifically, human cases of monkeypox have been reported in eleven African countries since 1970. They are: Benin, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Democratic Republic of Congo, Gabon, Ivory Coast, Liberia, Nigeria, Republic of Congo, Sierra Leone and South Sudan. And since 2017, a major epidemic has broken out in Nigeria, with more than five hundred suspected and more than two hundred confirmed cases.
But when and how did monkeypox come to the United States? In 2003 to be exact, when a shipment of animals from Ghana was imported into Texas. The shipment contained approximately 800 small mammals representing nine different species, including six types of rodents, including chipmunks, chipmunks, African giant rats, brush-tailed hogs, and striped mice. CDC laboratory tests revealed that two African giant pouched rats, nine woodchucks and three chipmunks were infected with the monkeypox virus.
This in itself would not have been a problem if it had been discovered in time. But after being imported into the United States, some of the infected animals were placed near prairie dogs at a pet store in Illinois, and the prairie dogs were sold as pets before they showed signs of infection. now present in no less than 20 states.
But there is a much more exciting thread to the story. both here and here that last March (!) a simulation of a "global epidemic involving an unusual strain of monkeypox" was held at an international biological safety conference in Munich.
The conclusion was that the outbreak of the global epidemic will take place in May 2022.
In the simulation, the global pandemic was caused by a terrorist attack that took place in Brinia, a fictional country, and the terrorists obtained the monkeypox virus from a poorly secured laboratory.
The questions arise: why was the monkeypox outbreak simulated?
How was it possible to see the spread of an epidemic so precisely a year earlier, the last (massive) example of which was in 2017 in Africa? And finally: why is it that, according to the standard Fortune magazine , the United States ordered 19 million (!) monkeypox vaccines a few weeks ago, and since then the same topic has been the case in the European Union?
Once monkeypox is a "normally" easily avoidable infection, it has an FDA-approved antidote (manufactured by the Danish biotech company Bavarian Nordic and brand name: Jynneos), and its rate of spread is incomparable to that of COVID-19 (so far only it was detected in 1,600 cases in 39 countries, and another 1,500 suspected cases were detected), so why the hysteria?
Because if we don't get logical answers to these questions, we can still believe that sooner or later it will mutate and spread explosively in the same way as COVID-19, and the above numbers will increase by leaps and bounds.
There is the money for which this can easily be solved...
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