Here We Go Again...

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

  1. SkylaRose

    SkylaRose Administrator Staff Member

    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.
     
  2. Halfwayline

    Halfwayline Reservist

    Yes, you are
     
  3. HappyHornet24

    HappyHornet24 Crapster Staff Member

    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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  4. UEA_Hornet

    UEA_Hornet First Team Captain

    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!
     
  5. Cthulhu

    Cthulhu Keyboard Warrior Staff Member

    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
     
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  6. wfc4ever

    wfc4ever Administrator Staff Member

    Not airborne apparently and there is a a vaccine for it which is a difference.
     
  7. Cthulhu

    Cthulhu Keyboard Warrior Staff Member

    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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  8. The undeniable truth

    The undeniable truth First Team Captain

    Monkey pox is less worrying than a couple of new strains of "you-know-what" that have recently been identified.
     
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  9. UEA_Hornet

    UEA_Hornet First Team Captain

    Hamstrings?
     
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  10. Arakel

    Arakel First Team

    Monkey pox has been around for years. Nothing to be concerned about.
     
  11. Bubble

    Bubble Wise Oracle

    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.....
     
  12. Cthulhu

    Cthulhu Keyboard Warrior Staff Member

    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.
     
  13. Bubble

    Bubble Wise Oracle

    One word......propaganda.
     
  14. HappyHornet24

    HappyHornet24 Crapster Staff Member

    Yup - clickbait basically.
     
  15. WillisWasTheWorst

    WillisWasTheWorst Its making less grammar mistake's thats important

    <sigh>
     
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  16. Halfwayline

    Halfwayline Reservist

    I thought I had acne as a teenager…in hindsight it was probably monkey pox
     
  17. 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...
     
  18. Lloyd

    Lloyd Squad Player

    I've recently started to crave bananas. Should I be concerned?
     
  19. Filbert

    Filbert Leicester supporting bloke

    If you start scratching an itch and it makes you go ‘ooh ooh aah aah’ I’d start getting worried.
     
  20. Lloyd

    Lloyd Squad Player

    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?
     
  21. Filbert

    Filbert Leicester supporting bloke

    Yes, now apologise to the neighbours for throwing your **** at them.
     
  22. Lloyd

    Lloyd Squad Player

    I will when I've finished swinging in my tyre
     
  23. Cassetti's Beard

    Cassetti's Beard First Team

    Another lockdown so we don't have to watch Watford?
     
  24. Bwood_Horn

    Bwood_Horn Squad Player

    Coupled with your continuous sh1t flinging, as a doctor, I would have to say yes.
     
  25. Moose

    Moose First Team Captain

    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. :)
     
  26. Moose

    Moose First Team Captain

    You hum it, I’ll play it.

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  27. wfcmoog

    wfcmoog Tinpot

    Am I gonna have to take a break from ******* monkeys now?
     
  28. Arakel

    Arakel First Team

    Hold on...which part of that is out of character, exactly?
     
  29. a19tgg

    a19tgg First Team

    Monkey Tennis?
     
  30. Moose

    Moose First Team Captain

    Similar vocal symptoms may be occasioned by lowering oneself slowly into a very hot bath. But that is not monkeypox.
     
  31. hornmeister

    hornmeister Tired

    [​IMG]
    Monkey Tea
     
  32. The undeniable truth

    The undeniable truth First Team Captain

    Everyone knows monkeys prefer capuchinos to tea.
     
  33. The undeniable truth

    The undeniable truth First Team Captain

    Yeah. Hysteria, gibbon the facts.
     
  34. Moose

    Moose First Team Captain

    For monkeys, it’s like marmoset. They either like it or hate it.
     
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  35. The undeniable truth

    The undeniable truth First Team Captain

    Me too. Macaque is sore as well, and peeing is taking langur than usual.
     
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