Here We Go Again...

Discussion in 'Taylor's Tittle-Tattle - General Banter' started by SkylaRose, May 24, 2022.

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  1. SkylaRose

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    Just when we seems to be heading back to normality with Covid still being a threat but being able to handle it, we get something new to worry about. Monkey Pox.

    30 cases already in the UK? Seriously? I mean I know we have a capable vaccine and it clears up and goes away in a few weeks (the milder strain anyway), but it does give me a terrible fear this is going to be Covid all over again. Face masks, lockdowns, isolation, NHS backlog, society brought to a halt, government briefings from HQ every day and toilet roll and bread grabbing.

    Am I just over-reacting? It, as the moment, doesn't look as bad a Covid was/is, I really hope we are not going to fall into the same trap of doing nothing again till we suddenly have thousands of cases and the dreaded word of "lockdown" is muttered from Boris's mouth in a dimly lit room with the Union Jack at half mast. I thought I could get on with my life with a sense of normality again - now we this to worry about AND the threat (however unlikely) of WW3 breaking out (small, but still not totally unavoidable). Plus, the media are loving this new "threat" something new to write about.

    I hope this new virus clears up and buggers off a lot faster than it took us to begin living with Covid as another virus with capable medical care.
     
    SkylaRose, May 24, 2022
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    Yes, you are
     
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    The media are only covering it as much as they are because they seem to be trying to find something to replace covid with. Doesn’t seem anything to remotely worry about from what I’ve read.
     
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    I noticed that on the BBC news last night. Seems like the same correspondents, using the same sort of graphics, with the same sort of vox pops lined up etc. It's like they've got collective withdrawal symptoms and this is respite for them!
     
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    From what I have read Skyla I wouldnt be too worried.
    It is much less infective and much less worrying in terms of morbidity and mortality than Covid. We have a reasonably effective vaccination in the form of the smallpox vacc.
    The experts feel it can be contained with usually outbreak measures.

    There are a few thousand cases of TB each year in the UK and various other communicable illnesses and we dont all get worried about that

    I think the press are understandably perhaps over playing it

    Get on with you life, just dont hug anyone with monkey pox and itll be fine
     
    Cthulhu, May 24, 2022
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    Not airborne apparently and there is a a vaccine for it which is a difference.
     
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    It can be caught from coughs and sneezes from those infected but much less infective than covid.
    The main way it is spread is through contact with infected animals and to a lesser extent people with it.
     
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    Monkey pox is less worrying than a couple of new strains of "you-know-what" that have recently been identified.
     
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    Hamstrings?
     
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    Monkey pox has been around for years. Nothing to be concerned about.
     
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    Trying to control the masses through fear. The same way they did COVID. I think people have wised up to their antics now. Well I hope anyway.....
     
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    I dont think all news media would bother trying to control us. Why bother. Much more likely to be doing it just so more people watch/view.
     
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    One word......propaganda.
     
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    Yup - clickbait basically.
     
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    I thought I had acne as a teenager…in hindsight it was probably monkey pox
     
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    Although we already have a vaccine and it probably is being blown out of proportion to make news, this thread does read an awful lot like the first couple of pages of the Covid thread...
     
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    I've recently started to crave bananas. Should I be concerned?
     
    Lloyd, May 25, 2022
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    If you start scratching an itch and it makes you go ‘ooh ooh aah aah’ I’d start getting worried.
     
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    This morning I leapt on to my car bonnet and pulled off the windscreen wipers. This is very out of character. Could it be a symptom?
     
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    Yes, now apologise to the neighbours for throwing your **** at them.
     
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    I will when I've finished swinging in my tyre
     
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    Another lockdown so we don't have to watch Watford?
     
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    Coupled with your continuous sh1t flinging, as a doctor, I would have to say yes.
     
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    There’s a story, they reported it. All seems very calm to me.

    But you and others also seem to have withdrawal symptoms and need to give the old scepticism a run out. :)
     
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    You hum it, I’ll play it.

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    Am I gonna have to take a break from ******* monkeys now?
     
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    Hold on...which part of that is out of character, exactly?
     
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    Monkey Tennis?
     
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    Similar vocal symptoms may be occasioned by lowering oneself slowly into a very hot bath. But that is not monkeypox.
     
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    Everyone knows monkeys prefer capuchinos to tea.
     
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    Yeah. Hysteria, gibbon the facts.
     
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    For monkeys, it’s like marmoset. They either like it or hate it.
     
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    Me too. Macaque is sore as well, and peeing is taking langur than usual.
     
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