Something I have discovered though my life is that if you don't solve problems as they happen, new problems will inevitably appear in the meantime, and you can quickly get overwhelmed. This happens on a societal level as well.
And if you solve problems that barely don't exist, and create a total hysteria around it, then you have gigantic problems in the end. You are exactly as naive as Joe Scott here, and you and Joe would be the same people who jumped on the Eugenic train 100 years ago, or the Swine flu train 10 years ago, or... Of course media and journalists will work hard to create panic around monkeypox, and of course the panic (and pure opportunism) will grip even researchers and scientists in the end, and deliver the results and opinions that media will have. That's how it always works, and it is absolutely nothing new. Skip your naivety, kid.
10:00 as someone with pretty bad eczema, I'm afraid of this becoming an "Ignorant children who thought I was contagious bullying me and discriminating me in primary school" kind of situation
I think the weirdest thing about the last several years is discovering that the vast majority of people have absolutely no understanding of viruses whatsoever and seem to never take evolution into account when assessing risk.
"Is this just our future?" Based off our past - I'd say yes. The past few decades, we've been extraordinarily fortunate that science and medicine has kept regular epidemics and pandemics at bay. Not all, obviously, but mostly. So I figured at some point, our luck would run out as virus and disease mutations and evolution would catch up and trip us up, but I didn't think it'd be this decade. My reaction to monkeypox is just a big, "I'm so tired". Can I go back to bed and wake up and we're still not having to deal with all this?
There's also the political and economic sides to consider. Unfortunately it's become nigh impossible to get the hard facts about these diseases and the treatments/vaccines for them. The whole monkeypox thing seems to have gone nowhere but don't be surprised if some new disease comes around and everyone's once again on lockdown just to find out decades later that it wasn't that big a deal and politicians and big corporations were using it to gain more power and/or wipe out their competition. Of course it's also entirely possible a new disease will come out that actually is a big deal and because we're all tired of the BS we ignore it.
So long as people can travel, yes, this is our future. One pandemic after another. They won't all be that serious (Monkeypox is not), but the media will be hysterical about all of them.
Traveling is problematic to authoritarian regimes. The nonstop pandemic scare is being used to limit the ability of people to travel. For political reasons not health
Exactly-i couldn't agree more. Then it'll be politicised like COVID-19 is or stigmatized like HIV/AIDS. Unfortunately people in some areas where eating bush meat has been going on for a long time and with bats being especially ridden with disease and then biting the likes of monkey or gorilla which is then eaten and as you say international travel and the relative ease of getting to put of the way places that were previously unreachable, we will definitely see on pandemic after another. And there will always be a scapegoat for it. Remember Zika? I could be wrong but I'm sure any Latin America looking person especially the closer to the Mexican border you got immigrants were scapegoated almost immediately. I hope we learn some day soon or it's not a pretty future amongst all the other crap going on right now as it is
That's always been the case. I was born in 82. If I remember from AIDS to ebola to Sars to monkeypox to ebola to bird flu to swine flu wasn't really a lot of time. There was just a odd quiet period between swine flu in early 2010s and covd 19
Thank you for having enough honesty and integrity to maturely talk about how this virus spreads between certain groups. It means more than you'd think in modern times.
When I was a child, my brother and I had these tiny turtles we bought at a pet shop in a dept. store, and for months our family would go through bouts of stomach flu. We thought. It turns out, those little turtles can carry salmonella. It's a wonder we weren't in worse shape than we were. People should probably stick to dogs and cats for pets.
Just as 2 of my mum's friends had 2 parrots, and then their baby came along just as one parrot died of Psittacosis. The visiting health nurse went ballistic at the parents when she found out, and (if I remember rightly) forced them to get rid of the other parrot as well as scrub the house inside out. Cats and dogs are quite risky enough (what with toxoplasmosis and little understanding of being hygienic in all the right places at the right times. I wouldn't eat in a friend's house, for example, because her cat would clean its rear end while on the kitchen worktops).
And you can’t get diseases from not washing your hands after handling/petting cats and dogs? How to tell the world you don’t wash your hands without telling the world you don’t wash your hands.
Aside from the human health risks from keeping pets, it’s also immoral and unethical. Fortunately today there are fewer department stores selling turtles, and in general “exotic” pets are much harder to obtain, but continued legislative and enforcement efforts are needed, along with cultural change to eliminate demand.
The point about humans shifting from being small tribes for countless hundreds of thousands of years to suddenly being close quarters and global in a short time, is one that is seldom discussed. This is a massively unprecedented situation and there is a ton that nobody knows--that nobody even knows they don't know. We are in a new frontier, and we will be for many generations.
@@Dfutham Another UA-cam channel, the guy goes into interesting/scientific topics and analyses them from a somewhat philosophical/etymological standpoint
@@Orozco_PNW I used to watch Stevens religiously. Then he tried to tell me that gravity is time and then there was a paywall and his beard became less predictable. Plus some unavoidable link rot. All said, my way of grieving is trying to forget he existed. Sorta like what happened to Scotty Kilmer. Except I had to nearly threaten UA-cam to stop showing me Kilmer ads.
Hey Joe. I just wanna add that "Statens Serums Institut" is basically our (Denmarks) CDC, so my guess is that the sick monkeys came from a zoo and were then moved to the Serum Institut
Monkeypox interestingly enough is one of the major viruses they covered in a special that was on BBC's Horizon (kind of like PBS's NOVA) episode called "Why Do Viruses Kill" as one of the big viruses people in the CDC and WHO are keeping a close eye on. The Documentary was released just after the Swine Flu scare to kind of explain why Swine Flu was predicted to be far worse than it was, and explain what to expect in a future Flu pandemic (which they almost described EXACTLY what happened during the height of Covid). So if you want to hear an in the field virologist studying cross infection of monkeypox between the monkeys and locals talk about monkeypox specifically and without sensationalist bias that's a good source... though it's dated. I've actually used that documentary many times during the pandemic to debunk conspiracy crap about Covid, and I'm using it now to do the same with Monkeypox... almost ALWAYS to provide "proof" that monkeypox isn't "a new made up virus that Joe Biden and the Democrats are using to scare us back into Lockdown..."
It truly is a "new made virus" Its not anything to worry about; the fact its becoming widespread news-wise is a problem. Over-Exaggeration is a problem.
what you’ll get as a response will be something akin to “they knew about monkey pox (coronavirus etc) in documentaries/scientific journals because they we planning on releasing it as a means of control” or something of the sort
@@Humanaut. no source of news has ever been totally neutral or unbiased. But by all means share your neutral unbiased media sources with the rest of the class if you're the only one that can see the truth... lol I'd also point out this wasn't News, it was a documentary that aired on BBC.
Monkey pox may be survivable but there are worse things than death. People with monkey pox can live through it with extreme pain from blisters inside the eye to inside the anus. And no it’s not always temporary as permanent scaring is not uncommon. Edit: Worth noting that it is very possible to go blind if you get them in the eyes among other permanent health problems
My sister and I were discussing the other week about what happened to monkey pox. It has not been on the news for quite a while. Several months ago, monkey pox was on the news daily and then one day, poof, it was gone. What happened? I know Covid is still around as I have friends and family getting it. Just this past week my cousin and her husband who live in Florida in a retirement village, said they had it.
To be honest, none of that is new to me. My Grandfather told me, when I still was a teen and he was my age, that the return of the great pandemics is only a question of WHEN, but never of IF. Its an Arms race out there and we Humans only got the upper hand for a fraction of the time this fight is going on. And we only will keep that upper hand if we use as much of our greatest weapon against it as we can. And that is the human brain and the Science it creates.
Monkeypox and Covid-19 originated in animals. Zoonotic disease is one more reason to replace animal agriculture with a plant based food system. Why boycott animal based products? 1-Your own health (vegans are less likely to get several deadly chronic diseases) 2-A plant based food system could feed millions more people. Our population is growing! 3-Helping to end animal ag would reduce the chance of the development of an antibiotic resistant pathogen. 4-Animal ag wastes a huge amount of fresh water. Each vegan saves 219,000 gallons of water every year! 5-Animal ag is a major cause of water pollution 6-Animal ag is a major cause of deforestation 7-Animal ag increases PTSD and spousal abuse in the people who work in slaughterhouses. Workers in meat packing facilities often endure terrible, dangerous working conditions. 8-Animal ag is a major cause of the loss of habitat and biodiversity 9-Animal welfare, obviously 10- It is the single most effective way for each of us to fight climate change and environmental degradation. 11- Longer lifespan. 12- Healthier weight (vegans were the only dietary group in the Adventist Studies that had an average BMI in the recommended range.) 13- A healthy plant based diet significantly reduces the chances of ED later in life, and even 1 meal can improve bedroom performance 14- A plant based diet could save money! You could reduce your food budget by one third! 15- A vegan world would save 8 million human lives a year, and $1.5 trillion in health care costs (Oxford Study) Links for some of these are at my channel under "About." If you doubt any of them, I would be glad to cite evidence from credible sources to back them up. UA-cam only allows a certain number of links at my channel.
Well, we are currently riveted by the war on viruses, but what's going to send us back to the caves is if (or when) we run out of bullets against the super bacteria we helped come into being.
I think the more likely thing is that we're just more aware of outbreaks like this. Certainly, the outbreaks are spread out more, but with social media being so prevalent, a wider swath of people hear about things around the world, and expect someone to fix the problems.
On the other hand, I'm 58 years old, and when I was born there were half the number of humans on the planet. It is a fact that as an animal population increases, the likelihood that population comes into contact with a mutation of a virus that can use that animal to spread increases .... In other words the bigger the target on our back becomes. If that animal is good at spreading the virus among themselves, whether because they live in tightly packed warehouses like factory raised livestock, or because they refuse to socially distance and wear masks like ... well ... the more mutations will happen in the population, and the more chance the a new more deadly variant will appear. Read The Hot Zone. Good primer on what we have to look forward to.
Thanks for having the guts to post a video that is realistic and isn't full of false virtue signaling. I love your level headed fact based content. Keep doing good things.
I just can't be worried about Monkeypox. it requires extremely close human to.human contact. As long as one does not participate in dangerous behaviors, it should not be an issue. It's not merely gay sex, but ANY SEX outside of one partner is simply inviting any number of dangerous diseases.
Except that it is HIGHLY prevalent with gay sex. Gays need to be extra careful with this. The explosion spread in Europe came from a large.... Get together.
One benefits of approaching 50 years of age is that I'm old enough to have had a Smallpox vaccination. If this gets worse, maybe I'll get drafted to work for FedEx where I can deliver you all's fleshlights to help you get through the next shutdown.
@@Admiraldrake for a time, one population is testing positive more, but unless you failed some basic math and logic, that doesnt actually mean that is where most of the cases actually are. the gay populations of the mager cities in the US has been ahead of the class, so the speak, wrt to testing for stuff since the AIDS crisis in the 80's - so any contact-based spread (sex not needed), is LIKELY to be noticed there first. However, just like wit covid - the "early we have confirmed cases in group X" seems to make people beleive and say crappy things.
@@xBINARYGODx You are blinding yourself here. Just like COVID, the virus was deadlier to a certain population of people (the old, the obese, low immunity). The people who are most likely to become infected with this monkeypox virus are those who are gay/bi and/or have HIV. It is important information because unless you are participating in behaviors that said group engages in, you do not need to panic.
I must say.. being socially awkward all my life has been a blessing actually - not being able to keep friends has got me out of so much trouble from what society calls "normal". Welcome to my reality, where everyone is socially awkward by force because "normal" people shunned me further into an introvert life.
Loneliness and isolation isn’t a blessing bro. I’m reminded of the saying….”better to loved and lost than never loved at all” I guess what I’m saying is life is way too short to play it overly safe. Take care friend.
I was a Marine that was forced to get the Anthrax vaccine in order to go to Iraq, and I was forced to get the Smallpox vaccine in order to deploy to Afghanistan. I'm starting to think I'm immune to death at this point.
Surviving those two hell holes to return home only to get wacked getting by a flu bug or the butt-pox would be ironic but doubtfull. Well done BTW, glad you made it through those shit storms.
I love how you point out prevention methods, yet san fransisco gay fest flyers just told people if they had a suspicious rash or sores to just put a bandage over it, and go do your freak thing without fear
The 5,300 cases I reported to Joe was itself double what it was when I started research. Moving targets are always tough, especially when they affect people's lives.
@@ryantwombly720 this is going to be tough to keep accurate, how do you decide the update interval for data in videos like this? Great work on this channel, thank y'all
@@NickC-Ohio You're welcome. Every situation is different. I typically do round of research, write up my findings, then check again closer to when I hand off to Joe. If there's been a big change, I make sure to call it out. Joe keeps an eye out for as long as he can and Nick, our editor, adjusts until it's out of his hands. Pity Nick. He has to do the hard work.
Hi Joe. I suffer from Lupus and have scabs all over my arms, chest and it's starting under my right eye. I scratch in my sleep that makes it worse. On the plus side it is definitely not monkey pox! Thanks for the information. Love the posts!
I discovered your channel and have been addicted to it ever since! I think your assessment of Monkeypox is totally on-point (for now). And I think that unfortunately as we become even more of a global species and we have to adjust that out outbreak problem will get worse before it gets better. Until then, we just have to get used to being more sanitary.
3:00 - Yep, I was at an industry conference when COVID was starting. "Oh, we'll just elbow-bump instead of handshake." Came home, got news that one person who was at the conference (on the first day, stayed in hotel second day, went to hospital third day,) had died.
One of my earliest memories is at age 5 standing in front of a big window box fan covered in white lotion that my mother had applied all over my body. I had chicken pox. Standing in the wind helped with the itching. As a result I can't even look at pictures of monkey pox without immediately closing my eyes and looking away like a phobia. (Sometimes I'm reminded why I rarely comment on youtube. Yes, chicken pox...not small pox. Thanks for pointing out my typing error. It is fixed, and wtf to some of you. To give you an idea of my age...In the wise words of the late, great Elmer Fudd, 'Weewax, weewax')
@@allanfifield8256 the last case of small pox outside a lab was in 1977. It was declared eradicated by 1980. I’m sure there are a good handful of people as young as in their 60s that still have stories like this. Definitely possibly to have a memory about this from childhood, but like you implied, it was probably much more prevalent outside the developed world.
I miss the days when it was only a hand full of germaphobes that paid attention to the latest virus scare. The media really seems to have manged to break people. This is life. It has been life for all of recorded history, often much worse than what we have experienced in the modern day. Should we improve, yes. Should we freak out and act like the world is ending, no.
Who is freaking out? It is smart to be informed enough to know how to hopefully avoid this. It's not like a bunch of people are acting like Trump cult TRAITORS on an airplane!
There are always "Chicken Littles" and the sky is always falling. A person that is 70 years old has spent pretty much 50 years dying. It's a slow process.... until it's not. And nobody gets out alive.
don't know if you hear this or not... but appreciate your efforts to put this topic into a balanced and reasonable presentation.... for the most part, us, the audience, don't realize the thought, skill and effort that goes into a production...and putting an emotional topic into entertaining educational format and relating it to the bigger picture of the global culture sounds easy but with today's culture... is kinda risky as well... thanks for the vid
@@tac6044 ya know... yeah, i think they mention that it's a team effort in some past vids as well... and you also know that in today's culture presenting a social issue is going to get blowback from somewhere and that can be risky... so as a part of the audience, i appreciate their production...(in my above first comment, i used "you" as reference to the collective and not the singular ... maybe i should've used ya'll )
@@superman9772 Almost every single large Channel on UA-cam has a staff similar to a TV station. We are talking about large teams of people all working together to create these videos. There are exceptions to this rule but not many. I can assure you this channel has a very large staff. Of course there's nothing wrong with this.
He states it is being stigmatized, but every news channel I see, with a few exceptions, is the opposite. People are simply afraid to discuss mode of transmission, just like covid, people were afraid to talk about the source.
@@amicloud_yt you cropped off my comment. In Covid, discussion of the source was stigmatized/called a conspiracy theory for 1.5 years, just like discussion of the primary source of transmission here is stigmatized.
@@pisceanbeauty2503 thank you for proving my point. Even today, just bringing up the topic causes many people to get defensive. I made no claim of where it came from, just pointing to the discussion causes defensiveness... which I find very odd.
@@jeremyscherbert7336 I’m not defensive, just sick of people spreading misinformation and lies. The source was talked about extensively. If you don’t believe it was, then you obviously are trading in conspiracy theories.
Even on NPR this morning they were over-the-top with the Monkeypox news. Although, I haven't watched cable news in years so what I consider too much is probably tame by TV standards. I just can't stand it. Everything has to be sensationalized because if you can keep people scared you can keep their eyeballs on the screen.
@@Drteomas Actually I asked you because usually 1st through 5th grade is where people learn to interact socially with other human beings. Those are the ages where social play is key. Your comment was awkward af. Kid...
@@Drteomas if that includes the worth of his house he ain't exactly Daddy Worbucks. I swear, if I have to explain to some 15 year old who that is I may invite Joe for a nice 40's only Scotch session.
We've pushed our boundaries as a species and become complacent in feeling like we're the top of the food chain. It's only a matter of time before we see a Super Bug, resistant to treatment, with a longer incubation period (5+ days), high transmission rate (20+), and high mortality (30%+).
@@aserta people say this but the reality is you’re not okay with your friends, family and possibly yourself dying for the overarching sins of humanity are you.
I think covid highlighted that the real pandemic we are facing is one of growing ill health due to diet, lifestyle and perhaps even how we perceive and deal with health issues in general.
True. Mainly because the USA treats healthcare as a luxury commodity item rather than as a necessity for life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. The extra bad news is we are beginning to treat clean water, clean air, and food safety the same way as healthcare.
My parents were vaccinated for smallpox during the last outbreak in Belgrade. And then there is that one time someone found a small pox scab in a really old book. Aaand before you know it, whole neighborhood was walled off, hazmat suits and yeah. That must’ve been fun.
Thank you for this level headed piece on this topic. It's way too easy for me to get worked up about various news stories. I feel like Chicken Little at times.
It's natural but not healthy. I've gone so far as disconnecting the TV (before the internet) or nowadays just watching fishing channels or SNL clips when I find myself doom scrolling. Eventually the doom and gloom suggestions fade from your algorithm and the world seems friendly again.
@@pakde8002 "Seems" being the keyword. The world is always ending, and always beginning. The circle of life will continue even if we're not part of it. "Life...finds a way."
Bolt Ron: Agreed. Given the click-baity title, I was concerned this would be nonsense, but was pleasantly surprised at the rationality and good overall data -- consistent with science. Being old and not running around having sex with random people or even touching anyone but the occasional doctor touching me, I don't personally worry about it UNLESS it becomes airborn. (Though like with Covid, motels, hospitals, etc. creep me out more than they used to, knowing lazy or poorly treated employees may not follow cleaning protocols properly). But for young people running around and casual sex with strangers being common -- one wonders how big this might need to get to stop growing. Or how long the system will wait to mass manufacture the safe and effective vaccines, as it continues to spread.
Yeah there’s some really weird work stuff going on around this but if I was gay I would want to know that I have an elevated probability of getting it so I think that’s really a disservice to not tell people that that’s the case.
I know lots of other gay guys who are getting the monkeypox vaccine. I’m not going to do it for now since I’m old enough to have gotten the smallpox vaccine, and I’m in a monogamous relationship.
People keep making these jokes but when I hear the skin to skin contact, I think of things as simple as interacting with hairdressers and nail salons. No?
i think i definitely have pandemic fatigue… graduating high school during the pandemic really drained my energy and kind of made me not care as much (i’m still careful and take precautions) so MP hasn’t been on my mind much. i don’t think my brain could handle another 2020 😅
That sucks, I can relate kind of. I Found out my wife was pregnant right before the start of the pandemic. We got lucky to have my daughter delivered during one of the lulls so I was able to be there even though we were only allowed one visitor per day.
I sympathize with you and I've lost many a sweet moment in my life because circumstances took these away, but you got to admit, that's a 1st world problem you've just stated, no offence. I will take a guess that what actually drained you is that society, as a whole, did not do all it needed to take in order for the situation, this pandemic, to resolve quickly and with a better outcome and trajectory for the future. You did your part, it went on and on unnecessarily, and now you're feeling a little apathetic. Don't be.
This isn't a new thing, we have always had waves of pandemics. The last 100 years have technically been an anomaly. At least this time we have the ability to fight back and potentially get ahead of it.
I was vaccinated against smallpox when I was in the army at 19... that was 35 years ago though. It would be one less thing to worry about if it's effective against monkeypox too...
Every study I’ve read ( all pre hysteria) say that the smallpox vaccine is over 80% effective against other varicella strains like monkey pox AND immunity declines over time but very slowly.
Yeah, ppl on south America are still vaccinated against regular smalpox as our regular vax program at birth I was wondering how well covered we are down here
@@matheussanthiago9685 If its the same all over Africa that might be why it was prevented from blowing up so much in Africa like is it is elsewhere. With the general protection it gives makes me wonder if they should continue to keep giving it.
Thank you Joe! I think 'crises fatigue ' is why I haven't wanted to look into this. A great reminder to wash your hands consistently, particularly when going out in the public. They whole gay thing felt like misinformation, will be sure to point out to people it can be transferred by skin to skin contact. Keep up the good work.
Alec Burns: The "gay thing" might have to do with the risk of spreading disease from casual sex. But of course, anti-gay idiot types will use ANY excuse to attack groups they don't like because they are different. (I'm straight, but don't believe in bothering people unless they are actively trying to harm me. And even then I prefer to walk away, try to run away, call the cops, etc. Now, why someone "being gay", etc. harms me in any way is simply beyond me. And if a man asks me out on a date, for example, I can always politely decline.)
I've completely become desensitized by all of this. I'd rather live my life with a sense of normalcy than live in fear and be suicidal, which is where i was quickly getting with COVID lockdowns.
Depression onset from the lockdowns is no joke. In an effort to save everyone from Covid eventually we'll find what other damage was done, and hopefully learn something from it. But the way it was all quickly politicized, I doubt it.
Thank You! Addressing the std stigma is honestly so important right now. Not just to make sure the right information gets out there but because everyone needs to protect themselves.
Stigma, also known as the truth. 95% of transmissions so far happened in sexual relations between men, but let’s pretend that’s not relevant because l, you know, the woke mob wouldn’t like it, and pleasing them is more important than setting the facts or promoting healthy behavior.
I have scars and callouses on my hands from working in a kitchen and some anxiety biting on my knuckles. people have already been staring at my hands in a grossed out disapproving way. Oh and the callouses turn white when in the water for a long time, so should be interesting to see how I get treated on my vacation. Hope they'll listen to my explanation and don't think it's monkey pox
I have similar scars and marks on my hands; I have ocd and pick at my skin. I have to wait about an hour to go anywhere after getting out of the shower because it’s so pronounced lol
Gardener, so my hands are cut and calloused. Acrylic and watercolor painter, so my hands have index finger and thumb calluses, plus where I hold my palette knives. The chemicals eat through my skin, so I'm usually kind of abraded on top of everything.
is this a result of repeatedly cooking/preparing food and then washing hands? if so, i feel you may have already considered using gloves but then decided against it because it feels unnatural/is inconvenient? i hope that doesn't develop into something more troublesome for you. for me, repeated hand washing combined with the psychological stress during c0f1d-nineteen triggered an eczema flareup on my hands and a skin allergic reaction elsewhere on my body - and the ordeal lasted quite long. and it was very disturbing and bandwidth consuming, especially because it had the appearance and itch of some other dermatological disorders that are infectious (i'll spare you their names as that may feed into one's anxiety unnecessarily). i hope you don't experience any of that or anything serious for that matter, but consider/reconsider gloves if you could/if the work allows. and of course if you cook/prepare food, then i'd add: only if there are food grade/food safe gloves.
My carers son got monkey pox who just happens to be gay and living in Brighton, known as the gay capital of the uk! They had all been taking precautions with monkey pox when it came to sex but they hadn’t realised enough that it can also be caught by kissing so he came home to his mum who is an amazing cleaner (she started with me as a cleaner and took on more and more care care jobs as she saw the need of them) and a pretty great mum and she is treating it incredibly seriously. When the infectious disease people came round to check that everything was being done properly they Said they wished everybody was like her!
I love Brighton. (I'm from the US, but love visiting the peer and shops in Brighton when I visit the UK.) I am glad he has help from his mum to get through this. I can imagine that Monkeypox is not fun in any way.
If Monkeypox is declared an emergency, and the Smallpox vaccine (or a specific vaccine for Monkeypox) is brought back into circulation, then I'll be content. Based on a few meta studies I've read, the reason Monkeypox is spreading is that the Smallpox vaccine was around 85% effective for Monkeypox, and now that the cohort that has had no Smallpox vaccine, the disease is able to proliferate. Also, all plagues are zoological
"We evolved as isolated tribes of people" is being questioned by anthropologists, archeologists etc.. Check out "The Dawn of Everything" written by the late David Graeber (2020) & David Wengrow. It's a good book that addresses the accepted assumption that the agricultural revolution caused civilization, when in fact they emerged long before.
I like to point it to when people started building 'permanent' structures, (usually for religious purposes)which, obviously, required a lot of people and at the time more than one generation....which requires a lot of people, who all happened to believe in the same thing, all in one small area as an actual large scale community. Hence early civilization.
Stuff like this has been happening for years, and tracked by public health organizations. We're just more aware of it now, after COVID-19 got past the contain and monitor stage. It's the same sort of thing as the effect experienced when you first hear about something, and suddenly you see it everywhere. So, I don't know that things are any worse than they were. I'm also not an infectious disease expert. Or amateur. I mean, other than dabbling in spreading the common cold.
@@cortster12m in the prior outbreaks it spread via exposure to rodents and it never established a human to human spread of the virus. This is what happens when a virus establishes itself as permanent fixture
@@papaclanc Sorry, Papa. Your demonstration of wisdom followed by the exhibition of a your intellect 'flexing' really is just too much for my simple, corn fed peasant brain.
I'd like to think my immune system is pretty strong, I grew up in the 90s playing in the dirt, having mud fights, and swimming in a questionable Florida River that flows thru plenty of cow pastures lol
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Monkeypox has an estimated r0 from 1.4 to +2. With no prevention measures this is bound to be "another covid" sooner or later. Old smallpox vaccines are somewhat effective apparently. Lethality is yet unclear, as lasting effects.
@@Inaros404 We're now kind of finding out...you can't. Long pants, long shirt...and it can go airborne at low infectivity rate. Well, before any mutations, of course. Enjoy.
This strain has that r0, but that is due to how it is being spread. Maybe if people stop having gay orgies for two weeks the r0 will drop below the native rate of r0 < 1.
@@kojack57 he proposed that exact question and showed a map of known outbreaks and indicated that it was unusual. The "honest" bit is that he presented what's publicly known without doing it in a fear mongering way. So my question would be two fold. Did you watch the entire video and if so which part is objectively dishonest? Maybe I missed something.
Uh, dude… it can be caught by close respiratory contact. You can get it from skin to skin contact, body fluids, respiratory droplets and exposure to things that have come into contact with lesions; so maybe bring a sleeping bag if your staying in a hotel. Think smallpox blankets. So mask up friends, wash your hands and be careful out there.
4:23 - Quick note: COVID-19 _also_ was and still is a mild disease in most cases with an extremely low mortality rate. The main issue with COVID was basically that its contamination and hospitalization rates would rapidly increase and surpass the recovery rate, which means your health care capacity per patient decreases over time and the mortality rate goes up accordingly.
I never tire of your brand of humor. Plus, I pretty much always learn something watching your channel! You've been around for quite awhile, please stick around FOREVER. 👍🤗
Joe, I say this with all sincerity, thank you for being able to present topics at a very basic surface level without asking any important rabbit-hole questions. It’s really important for me to be able to understand what people who only listen to the narrative think and believe. So keep doing what you’re doing!
Wow, cannot even escape homophobia in the comments on THIS channel when this topic comes up. I mean, sure, most of you are being very careful about it, but you might want to try a little harder - like, maybe try not bothering at all, that's the easiest way to not get 'caught'.
Dude. How is the F is this homophobia. Literally 96% of the cases are from gay men. All of them have multiple sex partners or come into direct contact with people who do. If is not homophobia to point out that gay and bi-sexual men are literally the cause of this outbreak because they engage in extremely unsafe sexual practices with multiple partners. How about stop having unprotected sex? Did you ever thing of that? No.. You just want to blame everyone else.
Norwegian health authorities recommend that people avoid kissing and skin contact with strangers in addition to normal protection for sexually transmittable deceases. I think the main advice to all is to use common cense when interacting socially with people.
So, question here. I was told that I have a higher immunity from small pox because I had cow pox already. Does the same hold true with money pox? Not that it matters all that much, although my wife is a nurse so I guess I’m still slightly at risk there.
3:30 - You say 'first seen' it'd be interesting to know what that may mean in this context - is it likely to have originated in Denmark, or is it more likely that monkeys have always had monkeypox, it'd just what it was only actually observed first under laboratory conditions in Denmark? Of course, we could also just not know, but I'm sure epidemiologists could make an educated guess.
@@BronzeDragon133 Its hard to say when or where exactly and in what direction this type of species jumping happened because the thing about Pox viruses is that they are pretty complex and ancient viruses being part of the Nucleocytoplasmic Large DNA Viruses (NCLDV) a ancient clade of viruses sharing likely monophyletic origins with Eukaryotes or at least the Eukaryotic nuclear genome and the homologous structures we call the Nucleolus in Eukaryotes or viral replication factory in NCLDV. Why this matters is that for these much more complex DNA viruses they don't need to be as hot specific as most RNA viruses which rely entirely on host genes to complete their life cycle
It's amazing that he left out the fact that the Monkeys in Denmark that had the first ever cases of Monkey Pox were being used for Polio Vaccine research in the late 50's. Perhaps the vaccines caused an extremely high mutation rate in a virus that has always existed in Monkey populations.
Man, I got spooked for a moment there. Then you got to the main means of transmission and I knew I'm probably never gonna catch this one. The distance between me and the nearest humans drops below 250 feet maybe once a month, and below two or three feet approximately once every never. I obsessively go to great lengths to avoid getting touched by people.
"A pandemic is an epidemic of an infectious disease that has spread across a large region, for instance multiple continents or worldwide, affecting a substantial number of individuals." Wikipedia. I think that counts.
@@webchimp And with cases doubling every 48 hours with no slowdown in sight (and contrary to information, this is way outside the gay/bi community already, so it's not community-restricted either)...yeah, pandemic.
The virus can also be caught from contaminated clothing, bedding, etc.. Not just skin-to-skin. Similar to Smallpox in that regard. Pustules breaking and seeping stuff. At least it doesn’t seem airborne. Thank you the info on where it originated.
Hi Joe I have a strange question, would love to join your channel so i could ask you properly (maybe someday) I recently watched a video about electric eel. I am no electrician, so when it comes to voltages and watts i only "understand" the very basic. Since i have been a chef for many years i have tried to keep up with news about lab grown meat "muscles" I think you can see where this is going. But i was so facinated with the amout of energy created by the electric eel that i started wondering why the energy industry is not going togeather with companies growing lab grown muscles. Do you this there is a possibility this could work? could this be a sci fi way of having stored energy when other renewable are not available? maybe even a way where we could grow and implant these "organs" into humans reducing the need for phone/accecories batteries as we can generate our own eneregy for it. It is a bit of a far fetched idea, and the complicated science behind it is something i would not be able to work out. but i have worked with enough apprentices and non proffesionals to know that somethimes a crazy idea or question can change how you work or see things. And while my own vison of this might be far fetched, does not mean that the idea can't have any merit or even spark another idea in others with a better understanding I hope you see this! Really enjoy your content, hope you keep it up for a long time to come Michael
Thank you for taking the time to unpack this and bring it down to earth in a way I didn't feel I needed a degree in epidemiology. Could you clarify, if monkey pox is transmitted through sexual contact, how does that differ or make it not a sexually transmitted disease?
Hello there! Monkeypox is transmitted via physical contact. Sexually transmitted infections are generally only transmitted via sexual intercourse. You can have physical contact without sex which makes monkey pox a physically transmitted infection and not a sexually transmitted infection. Hope this helps.
98% of all patients are homosexual or bisexual and 44% of all patients have aids. Dont worry. Most get the infections in Dark rooms - because you cant see who you **** with.
Something I have discovered though my life is that if you don't solve problems as they happen, new problems will inevitably appear in the meantime, and you can quickly get overwhelmed.
This happens on a societal level as well.
And if you solve problems that barely don't exist, and create a total hysteria around it, then you have gigantic problems in the end. You are exactly as naive as Joe Scott here, and you and Joe would be the same people who jumped on the Eugenic train 100 years ago, or the Swine flu train 10 years ago, or... Of course media and journalists will work hard to create panic around monkeypox, and of course the panic (and pure opportunism) will grip even researchers and scientists in the end, and deliver the results and opinions that media will have. That's how it always works, and it is absolutely nothing new. Skip your naivety, kid.
but what do you if you've been overwhelmed for years and trying to get out?
Tell that to humans before the invent something :D
@@cgaltruist2938 Before they invent hysteria and alarmism. Yes.
@@muteerbeer1662 "Get out"?
And go... where?
10:00 as someone with pretty bad eczema, I'm afraid of this becoming an "Ignorant children who thought I was contagious bullying me and discriminating me in primary school" kind of situation
Crap. My partner has terrible eczema, and I hadn't thought of this. Well, we haven't left the house in two and half years anyway...
Same! I'm having a flare up right now.
I think the weirdest thing about the last several years is discovering that the vast majority of people have absolutely no understanding of viruses whatsoever and seem to never take evolution into account when assessing risk.
Or maybe they don't believe in evolution in the first place. 🙄
Like yourself?
Is it evolution or a glitch in the programming?
@@ixchelssong Yes because of rightwing religious indoctrination which should be banned outright.
@@fritzthecat9451 glitches in program lead to evolution, if the glitch isn't counterproductive.
"Is this just our future?" Based off our past - I'd say yes. The past few decades, we've been extraordinarily fortunate that science and medicine has kept regular epidemics and pandemics at bay. Not all, obviously, but mostly. So I figured at some point, our luck would run out as virus and disease mutations and evolution would catch up and trip us up, but I didn't think it'd be this decade.
My reaction to monkeypox is just a big, "I'm so tired". Can I go back to bed and wake up and we're still not having to deal with all this?
There's also the political and economic sides to consider. Unfortunately it's become nigh impossible to get the hard facts about these diseases and the treatments/vaccines for them. The whole monkeypox thing seems to have gone nowhere but don't be surprised if some new disease comes around and everyone's once again on lockdown just to find out decades later that it wasn't that big a deal and politicians and big corporations were using it to gain more power and/or wipe out their competition. Of course it's also entirely possible a new disease will come out that actually is a big deal and because we're all tired of the BS we ignore it.
So long as people can travel, yes, this is our future. One pandemic after another. They won't all be that serious (Monkeypox is not), but the media will be hysterical about all of them.
The MSM are owned by the very elite that are keeping these fake catastrophes alive. If you send your money to them, they will fix it for you.
Traveling is problematic to authoritarian regimes. The nonstop pandemic scare is being used to limit the ability of people to travel. For political reasons not health
Exactly-i couldn't agree more. Then it'll be politicised like COVID-19 is or stigmatized like HIV/AIDS. Unfortunately people in some areas where eating bush meat has been going on for a long time and with bats being especially ridden with disease and then biting the likes of monkey or gorilla which is then eaten and as you say international travel and the relative ease of getting to put of the way places that were previously unreachable, we will definitely see on pandemic after another. And there will always be a scapegoat for it. Remember Zika? I could be wrong but I'm sure any Latin America looking person especially the closer to the Mexican border you got immigrants were scapegoated almost immediately. I hope we learn some day soon or it's not a pretty future amongst all the other crap going on right now as it is
COVID HAS KILLED 16 MILLION PEOPLE YOU MOR*N
That's always been the case. I was born in 82. If I remember from AIDS to ebola to Sars to monkeypox to ebola to bird flu to swine flu wasn't really a lot of time. There was just a odd quiet period between swine flu in early 2010s and covd 19
Thank you for having enough honesty and integrity to maturely talk about how this virus spreads between certain groups. It means more than you'd think in modern times.
When I was a child, my brother and I had these tiny turtles we bought at a pet shop in a dept. store, and for months our family would go through bouts of stomach flu. We thought. It turns out, those little turtles can carry salmonella. It's a wonder we weren't in worse shape than we were. People should probably stick to dogs and cats for pets.
Just wash your hands after handling reptiles….
Just as 2 of my mum's friends had 2 parrots, and then their baby came along just as one parrot died of Psittacosis.
The visiting health nurse went ballistic at the parents when she found out, and (if I remember rightly) forced them to get rid of the other parrot as well as scrub the house inside out.
Cats and dogs are quite risky enough (what with toxoplasmosis and little understanding of being hygienic in all the right places at the right times. I wouldn't eat in a friend's house, for example, because her cat would clean its rear end while on the kitchen worktops).
And you can’t get diseases from not washing your hands after handling/petting cats and dogs?
How to tell the world you don’t wash your hands without telling the world you don’t wash your hands.
Aside from the human health risks from keeping pets, it’s also immoral and unethical. Fortunately today there are fewer department stores selling turtles, and in general “exotic” pets are much harder to obtain, but continued legislative and enforcement efforts are needed, along with cultural change to eliminate demand.
all lizards and amphibians have salmonela.
how did you get it confuses me... have you been kissing them or ingesting their poop?
Everyone loves a nonstop existential crisis
If we all stopped screwing for a month it would stop.
@@warrensteel9954 Just the gays, tbh.
@@warrensteel9954 yes. And when that was told to San Fran and NY they laughed and said "not gonna happen" people are gross.
Well some do...
The point about humans shifting from being small tribes for countless hundreds of thousands of years to suddenly being close quarters and global in a short time, is one that is seldom discussed. This is a massively unprecedented situation and there is a ton that nobody knows--that nobody even knows they don't know. We are in a new frontier, and we will be for many generations.
"or are we?" *Vsauce music*
Loved that
Loved it too! Has he done that before???
@@Orozco_PNW I don't think so
What’s vsauce
@@Dfutham Another UA-cam channel, the guy goes into interesting/scientific topics and analyses them from a somewhat philosophical/etymological standpoint
@@Orozco_PNW I used to watch Stevens religiously. Then he tried to tell me that gravity is time and then there was a paywall and his beard became less predictable. Plus some unavoidable link rot. All said, my way of grieving is trying to forget he existed.
Sorta like what happened to Scotty Kilmer. Except I had to nearly threaten UA-cam to stop showing me Kilmer ads.
Hey Joe. I just wanna add that "Statens Serums Institut" is basically our (Denmarks) CDC, so my guess is that the sick monkeys came from a zoo and were then moved to the Serum Institut
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@@anatomicallycorrectmuppets8180 Hahahahahahaha I love your name.
Jeg må indrømme at jeg lærte noget nyt idag, jeg havde ingen idé om at det lort startede i Danmark😳
Så noen "bollet" med apene?
@@loadingmikke7451 there's also a theory that it came from something involving gay sex
Monkeypox interestingly enough is one of the major viruses they covered in a special that was on BBC's Horizon (kind of like PBS's NOVA) episode called "Why Do Viruses Kill" as one of the big viruses people in the CDC and WHO are keeping a close eye on. The Documentary was released just after the Swine Flu scare to kind of explain why Swine Flu was predicted to be far worse than it was, and explain what to expect in a future Flu pandemic (which they almost described EXACTLY what happened during the height of Covid). So if you want to hear an in the field virologist studying cross infection of monkeypox between the monkeys and locals talk about monkeypox specifically and without sensationalist bias that's a good source... though it's dated. I've actually used that documentary many times during the pandemic to debunk conspiracy crap about Covid, and I'm using it now to do the same with Monkeypox... almost ALWAYS to provide "proof" that monkeypox isn't "a new made up virus that Joe Biden and the Democrats are using to scare us back into Lockdown..."
It truly is a "new made virus"
Its not anything to worry about; the fact its becoming widespread news-wise is a problem. Over-Exaggeration is a problem.
Nah, that won't help. They'll say it's the Mandela effect 😁
what you’ll get as a response will be something akin to “they knew about monkey pox (coronavirus etc) in documentaries/scientific journals because they we planning on releasing it as a means of control” or something of the sort
You still think BBC is a neutral and unbiased news source without outside influence?
@@Humanaut. no source of news has ever been totally neutral or unbiased. But by all means share your neutral unbiased media sources with the rest of the class if you're the only one that can see the truth... lol
I'd also point out this wasn't News, it was a documentary that aired on BBC.
Monkey pox may be survivable but there are worse things than death. People with monkey pox can live through it with extreme pain from blisters inside the eye to inside the anus. And no it’s not always temporary as permanent scaring is not uncommon. Edit: Worth noting that it is very possible to go blind if you get them in the eyes among other permanent health problems
Keep your naughty bits covered!
serves you right
@@bigtimber you can shake hands with someone who has monkeypox and get it. It's not an STD.
Jesus Christ
hahahahaha, well, im avoiding sex since 2019 so im fine.
As a neuroatypical who doesn't like to go out I feel like I'm once again ahead of the game.
My sister and I were discussing the other week about what happened to monkey pox. It has not been on the news for quite a while. Several months ago, monkey pox was on the news daily and then one day, poof, it was gone. What happened? I know Covid is still around as I have friends and family getting it. Just this past week my cousin and her husband who live in Florida in a retirement village, said they had it.
To be honest, none of that is new to me.
My Grandfather told me, when I still was a teen and he was my age, that the return of the great pandemics is only a question of WHEN, but never of IF.
Its an Arms race out there and we Humans only got the upper hand for a fraction of the time this fight is going on. And we only will keep that upper hand if we use as much of our greatest weapon against it as we can.
And that is the human brain and the Science it creates.
We should take steps to greatly reduce zoonotic diseases. Especially when other benefits would accompany such a step.
Monkeypox and Covid-19 originated in animals. Zoonotic disease is one more reason to replace animal agriculture with a plant based food system. Why boycott animal based products?
1-Your own health (vegans are less likely to get several deadly chronic diseases)
2-A plant based food system could feed millions more people. Our population is growing!
3-Helping to end animal ag would reduce the chance of the development of an antibiotic resistant pathogen.
4-Animal ag wastes a huge amount of fresh water. Each vegan saves 219,000 gallons of water every year!
5-Animal ag is a major cause of water pollution
6-Animal ag is a major cause of deforestation
7-Animal ag increases PTSD and spousal abuse in the people who work in slaughterhouses. Workers in meat packing facilities often endure terrible, dangerous working conditions.
8-Animal ag is a major cause of the loss of habitat and biodiversity
9-Animal welfare, obviously
10- It is the single most effective way for each of us to fight climate change and environmental degradation.
11- Longer lifespan.
12- Healthier weight (vegans were the only dietary group in the Adventist Studies that had an average BMI in the recommended range.)
13- A healthy plant based diet significantly reduces the chances of ED later in life, and even 1 meal can improve bedroom performance
14- A plant based diet could save money! You could reduce your food budget by one third!
15- A vegan world would save 8 million human lives a year, and $1.5 trillion in health care costs (Oxford Study)
Links for some of these are at my channel under "About."
If you doubt any of them, I would be glad to cite evidence from credible sources to back them up. UA-cam only allows a certain number of links at my channel.
@@someguy2135 monkeypox is spreading due to unprotected sex. are you really going to tell the LGBT community how to live their life?
Well, we are currently riveted by the war on viruses, but what's going to send us back to the caves is if (or when) we run out of bullets against the super bacteria we helped come into being.
Intense, but true.
I think the more likely thing is that we're just more aware of outbreaks like this. Certainly, the outbreaks are spread out more, but with social media being so prevalent, a wider swath of people hear about things around the world, and expect someone to fix the problems.
Good point
Its all to control us. What is the great reset?
On the other hand, I'm 58 years old, and when I was born there were half the number of humans on the planet. It is a fact that as an animal population increases, the likelihood that population comes into contact with a mutation of a virus that can use that animal to spread increases .... In other words the bigger the target on our back becomes. If that animal is good at spreading the virus among themselves, whether because they live in tightly packed warehouses like factory raised livestock, or because they refuse to socially distance and wear masks like ... well ... the more mutations will happen in the population, and the more chance the a new more deadly variant will appear.
Read The Hot Zone. Good primer on what we have to look forward to.
Yeah but I’m a massage therapist… I’m already wearing a mask for Covid and now I’m not supposed to touch people?! There goes my career
@@kateapple1 guess it’s time to just wear a whole hazmat suit. -sigh-
Thanks for having the guts to post a video that is realistic and isn't full of false virtue signaling. I love your level headed fact based content. Keep doing good things.
Fear, and its profitability are the crucial components in our media and its influence/control of the public's attention and purse.
It's all pretty sick man!! I wish I had the power to create a new world for everyone!!! Life is too short for all this nonsense!!!
"We can't freak out over every outbreak that happens, because... well... there's gonna be more of these"
Joe Scott - Aug. 2022
Some of us said the same about the c00fid; back then this approach was called negationism
Happened to read your comment when he said it, lol
As soon as dogs and children started getting infected, the news forgot about monkey pox
I just can't be worried about Monkeypox. it requires extremely close human to.human contact. As long as one does not participate in dangerous behaviors, it should not be an issue.
It's not merely gay sex, but ANY SEX outside of one partner is simply inviting any number of dangerous diseases.
There’s a group that demonstrably does, but we’re not allowed to say.
True.... It's probably the reason why Bible says get married first....
Except that it is HIGHLY prevalent with gay sex. Gays need to be extra careful with this. The explosion spread in Europe came from a large.... Get together.
@@paradelights yep, because noone cheats after they're married do they....
You'd have to be pretty desperate or straight NASTY to see sores and scabs all over someone's body and think, "yeah, I'd hit that."
One benefits of approaching 50 years of age is that I'm old enough to have had a Smallpox vaccination. If this gets worse, maybe I'll get drafted to work for FedEx where I can deliver you all's fleshlights to help you get through the next shutdown.
That's alright, I didn't shut down last time it's not happening this time either.
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Turns out smallpox vaccine lasts only a few years, you can still bring me toys tho!
What shutdown are you referring to? I just went about my business...
Funny guy
“You can’t freak out over every outbreak.”
Me: Not with that attitude
As someone who works in Healthcare in Los Angeles you did a great job covering this topic.
I suspect he got as close to the subject as he could without getting banned.
you have a cute cat
What population is most affected by this virus ?
@@Admiraldrake for a time, one population is testing positive more, but unless you failed some basic math and logic, that doesnt actually mean that is where most of the cases actually are.
the gay populations of the mager cities in the US has been ahead of the class, so the speak, wrt to testing for stuff since the AIDS crisis in the 80's - so any contact-based spread (sex not needed), is LIKELY to be noticed there first. However, just like wit covid - the "early we have confirmed cases in group X" seems to make people beleive and say crappy things.
@@xBINARYGODx You are blinding yourself here. Just like COVID, the virus was deadlier to a certain population of people (the old, the obese, low immunity). The people who are most likely to become infected with this monkeypox virus are those who are gay/bi and/or have HIV. It is important information because unless you are participating in behaviors that said group engages in, you do not need to panic.
Thank you for an honest take on it. No politics or hysteria.
@Prof. Weed Time to grow up mate.
@@Zantsak oh wise one, if the honest take became political, what would it be to you?
REEEEEEEEEEE!
@Prof. Weed Perfect
That's Joe Scott, always! This is part of the reason why I come here and love this channel.
I must say.. being socially awkward all my life has been a blessing actually - not being able to keep friends has got me out of so much trouble from what society calls "normal". Welcome to my reality, where everyone is socially awkward by force because "normal" people shunned me further into an introvert life.
Loneliness and isolation isn’t a blessing bro. I’m reminded of the saying….”better to loved and lost than never loved at all”
I guess what I’m saying is life is way too short to play it overly safe. Take care friend.
I was a Marine that was forced to get the Anthrax vaccine in order to go to Iraq, and I was forced to get the Smallpox vaccine in order to deploy to Afghanistan. I'm starting to think I'm immune to death at this point.
Surviving those two hell holes to return home only to get wacked getting by a flu bug or the butt-pox would be ironic but doubtfull.
Well done BTW, glad you made it through those shit storms.
Anthrax vaccine was so nasty, man.
God likes ya, don’t question just keep doin what you doin.
My brother got the anthrax and smallpox vaccines when he was deployed, but he ended up getting tuberculosis in Iraq. Sometimes you just can't win.
@@octoscorpion2506 ain’t that treatable with regular antibiotics?
I love how you point out prevention methods, yet san fransisco gay fest flyers just told people if they had a suspicious rash or sores to just put a bandage over it, and go do your freak thing without fear
I love how they rushed the edit out so quick to keep all the figures as accurate as possible that they forgot to change the Tangent Cam font!
The 5,300 cases I reported to Joe was itself double what it was when I started research. Moving targets are always tough, especially when they affect people's lives.
@@ryantwombly720 this is going to be tough to keep accurate, how do you decide the update interval for data in videos like this?
Great work on this channel, thank y'all
@@NickC-Ohio You're welcome. Every situation is different. I typically do round of research, write up my findings, then check again closer to when I hand off to Joe. If there's been a big change, I make sure to call it out. Joe keeps an eye out for as long as he can and Nick, our editor, adjusts until it's out of his hands. Pity Nick. He has to do the hard work.
@@ryantwombly720 super interesting to get a lil insight to how y’all put out content on stuff like this! thanks!
... the Tangent camera ... Why are we informed when it cuts in? Is there danger that we won't recognize who's there, if we won't be informed?
Hi Joe. I suffer from Lupus and have scabs all over my arms, chest and it's starting under my right eye. I scratch in my sleep that makes it worse. On the plus side it is definitely not monkey pox! Thanks for the information. Love the posts!
Have you already tried wearing mittens/gloves before bed to help with dulling the scratching? Glad it's not monkey pox!
I have lupus and luckily do not have that as a symptom.
That sucks. I hope you find a way to manage it.
i hope you find a way to manage it and it gets better ❤️
Eucrisa helped my daughter
I discovered your channel and have been addicted to it ever since! I think your assessment of Monkeypox is totally on-point (for now). And I think that unfortunately as we become even more of a global species and we have to adjust that out outbreak problem will get worse before it gets better. Until then, we just have to get used to being more sanitary.
3:00 - Yep, I was at an industry conference when COVID was starting. "Oh, we'll just elbow-bump instead of handshake." Came home, got news that one person who was at the conference (on the first day, stayed in hotel second day, went to hospital third day,) had died.
One of my earliest memories is at age 5 standing in front of a big window box fan covered in white lotion that my mother had applied all over my body. I had chicken pox. Standing in the wind helped with the itching. As a result I can't even look at pictures of monkey pox without immediately closing my eyes and looking away like a phobia. (Sometimes I'm reminded why I rarely comment on youtube. Yes, chicken pox...not small pox. Thanks for pointing out my typing error. It is fixed, and wtf to some of you. To give you an idea of my age...In the wise words of the late, great Elmer Fudd, 'Weewax, weewax')
sound like child abuse. you should report her.
Smallpox or chickenpox? What country was this in?
Unless you're older (like over 50) you didn't have smallpox. Probably chicken pox
@@esecallum wut
@@allanfifield8256 the last case of small pox outside a lab was in 1977. It was declared eradicated by 1980. I’m sure there are a good handful of people as young as in their 60s that still have stories like this. Definitely possibly to have a memory about this from childhood, but like you implied, it was probably much more prevalent outside the developed world.
I miss the days when it was only a hand full of germaphobes that paid attention to the latest virus scare. The media really seems to have manged to break people. This is life. It has been life for all of recorded history, often much worse than what we have experienced in the modern day. Should we improve, yes. Should we freak out and act like the world is ending, no.
Who is freaking out?
It is smart to be informed enough to know how to hopefully avoid this. It's not like a bunch of people are acting like Trump cult TRAITORS on an airplane!
There are always "Chicken Littles" and the sky is always falling.
A person that is 70 years old has spent pretty much 50 years dying. It's a slow process.... until it's not.
And nobody gets out alive.
don't know if you hear this or not... but appreciate your efforts to put this topic into a balanced and reasonable presentation.... for the most part, us, the audience, don't realize the thought, skill and effort that goes into a production...and putting an emotional topic into entertaining educational format and relating it to the bigger picture of the global culture sounds easy but with today's culture... is kinda risky as well... thanks for the vid
You realize that he is just the delivery tool and that a team of writers and producers actually make his videos. You understand this right?
@@tac6044 ya know... yeah, i think they mention that it's a team effort in some past vids as well... and you also know that in today's culture presenting a social issue is going to get blowback from somewhere and that can be risky... so as a part of the audience, i appreciate their production...(in my above first comment, i used "you" as reference to the collective and not the singular ... maybe i should've used ya'll )
@@superman9772 Almost every single large Channel on UA-cam has a staff similar to a TV station. We are talking about large teams of people all working together to create these videos. There are exceptions to this rule but not many. I can assure you this channel has a very large staff. Of course there's nothing wrong with this.
He states it is being stigmatized, but every news channel I see, with a few exceptions, is the opposite. People are simply afraid to discuss mode of transmission, just like covid, people were afraid to talk about the source.
"People are simply afraid to discuss mode of transmission, just like covid"
People discussed mode of transmission all the damn time, dude.
Ahh yes, the “source”. Interesting to bring this to a channel devoted to sharing truthful analysis.
@@amicloud_yt you cropped off my comment. In Covid, discussion of the source was stigmatized/called a conspiracy theory for 1.5 years, just like discussion of the primary source of transmission here is stigmatized.
@@pisceanbeauty2503 thank you for proving my point.
Even today, just bringing up the topic causes many people to get defensive. I made no claim of where it came from, just pointing to the discussion causes defensiveness... which I find very odd.
@@jeremyscherbert7336 I’m not defensive, just sick of people spreading misinformation and lies. The source was talked about extensively. If you don’t believe it was, then you obviously are trading in conspiracy theories.
Providing an obstacle like vaccines or antibiotics for a living thing to have to avoid is exactly how you cause mutations
Denmark huh.... Kind of like how Spanish flu was first seen at an army base in Kansas. Oh the history we forget to teach...
The men involved in what euphemistically can be called “super-spreader events” should probably curtail their hedonism for a while.
It was a superspreader event in every sense of the word.
they didn't in the 80's with aids, they wont now. fauci involved in both XD. its why they get used as attack vectors.
That's a thought crime right there and a hateful fact.
Informing and thinking for yourself is not permitted. Consider yourself warned.
Even on NPR this morning they were over-the-top with the Monkeypox news. Although, I haven't watched cable news in years so what I consider too much is probably tame by TV standards. I just can't stand it. Everything has to be sensationalized because if you can keep people scared you can keep their eyeballs on the screen.
Prairie dogs are a vector that often gets overlooked. There's a population of prairie dogs in Colorado that still carry the plague.
I heard Ted Cruz carries it too!
Have loved this channel for YEARS. So glad to be a member finally.
Thanks!
@@Drteomas ok?
@@Drteomas did you skip 1st through 5th grade?
@@Drteomas Actually I asked you because usually 1st through 5th grade is where people learn to interact socially with other human beings. Those are the ages where social play is key. Your comment was awkward af. Kid...
@@Drteomas if that includes the worth of his house he ain't exactly Daddy Worbucks. I swear, if I have to explain to some 15 year old who that is I may invite Joe for a nice 40's only Scotch session.
We've pushed our boundaries as a species and become complacent in feeling like we're the top of the food chain. It's only a matter of time before we see a Super Bug, resistant to treatment, with a longer incubation period (5+ days), high transmission rate (20+), and high mortality (30%+).
I'm ok with depopulation based on hubris.
@@aserta Assuming that the vast majority of deaths won't be the regular, day-to-day people who don't deserve any of it.
@@aserta people say this but the reality is you’re not okay with your friends, family and possibly yourself dying for the overarching sins of humanity are you.
@@finnmacmanus5723 nah I'm most probably ready. Stop projecting.
....We already have that issue they're called antibiotic resistant bacteria.
I think covid highlighted that the real pandemic we are facing is one of growing ill health due to diet, lifestyle and perhaps even how we perceive and deal with health issues in general.
Nope, it's rightwingers.
True. Mainly because the USA treats healthcare as a luxury commodity item rather than as a necessity for life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. The extra bad news is we are beginning to treat clean water, clean air, and food safety the same way as healthcare.
@@Val_Emrys nothing is free in this universe, when you grow up you will learn that.
@@RedboneUnincorporated seek help
Yes, and also inadequate health care and elder care facilities and staffing in many regions
They all laughed at me for having an appearance and personality that makes it really hard to get laid.
Well who's laughing now?
Thanks for doing your part 👍
Us celibates will keep civilization going (provided they don't ask us to have sex)!
My parents were vaccinated for smallpox during the last outbreak in Belgrade. And then there is that one time someone found a small pox scab in a really old book. Aaand before you know it, whole neighborhood was walled off, hazmat suits and yeah. That must’ve been fun.
Thank you for this level headed piece on this topic. It's way too easy for me to get worked up about various news stories. I feel like Chicken Little at times.
It's natural but not healthy. I've gone so far as disconnecting the TV (before the internet) or nowadays just watching fishing channels or SNL clips when I find myself doom scrolling. Eventually the doom and gloom suggestions fade from your algorithm and the world seems friendly again.
@@pakde8002 "Seems" being the keyword. The world is always ending, and always beginning. The circle of life will continue even if we're not part of it. "Life...finds a way."
Bolt Ron: Agreed. Given the click-baity title, I was concerned this would be nonsense, but was pleasantly surprised at the rationality and good overall data -- consistent with science.
Being old and not running around having sex with random people or even touching anyone but the occasional doctor touching me, I don't personally worry about it UNLESS it becomes airborn. (Though like with Covid, motels, hospitals, etc. creep me out more than they used to, knowing lazy or poorly treated employees may not follow cleaning protocols properly).
But for young people running around and casual sex with strangers being common -- one wonders how big this might need to get to stop growing. Or how long the system will wait to mass manufacture the safe and effective vaccines, as it continues to spread.
Yeah there’s some really weird work stuff going on around this but if I was gay I would want to know that I have an elevated probability of getting it so I think that’s really a disservice to not tell people that that’s the case.
I know lots of other gay guys who are getting the monkeypox vaccine. I’m not going to do it for now since I’m old enough to have gotten the smallpox vaccine, and I’m in a monogamous relationship.
Joe giving us the combo between tumblr ads and “doctors hate him” clickbait with that thumbnail… all and all I’m here for it.
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"it spreads through close skin to skin contact"...guess I'm immune then...sweet
You touch something a person with monkeypox touched, you can catch it too.
People keep making these jokes but when I hear the skin to skin contact, I think of things as simple as interacting with hairdressers and nail salons. No?
i think i definitely have pandemic fatigue… graduating high school during the pandemic really drained my energy and kind of made me not care as much (i’m still careful and take precautions) so MP hasn’t been on my mind much. i don’t think my brain could handle another 2020 😅
Same here, capping off high school in a global pandemic was not exactly how I imagined it going down tbh
Yeah, I feel bad about kids who had their senior year and activities robbed from them.
@@darwinawardcommittee there are kids graduating college soon without the classic college experience
That sucks, I can relate kind of. I Found out my wife was pregnant right before the start of the pandemic. We got lucky to have my daughter delivered during one of the lulls so I was able to be there even though we were only allowed one visitor per day.
I sympathize with you and I've lost many a sweet moment in my life because circumstances took these away, but you got to admit, that's a 1st world problem you've just stated, no offence.
I will take a guess that what actually drained you is that society, as a whole, did not do all it needed to take in order for the situation, this pandemic, to resolve quickly and with a better outcome and trajectory for the future. You did your part, it went on and on unnecessarily, and now you're feeling a little apathetic. Don't be.
This isn't a new thing, we have always had waves of pandemics. The last 100 years have technically been an anomaly. At least this time we have the ability to fight back and potentially get ahead of it.
Yup!
I was vaccinated against smallpox when I was in the army at 19... that was 35 years ago though. It would be one less thing to worry about if it's effective against monkeypox too...
Every study I’ve read ( all pre hysteria) say that the smallpox vaccine is over 80% effective against other varicella strains like monkey pox AND immunity declines over time but very slowly.
The smallpox vaccination lasts 3 to 5 years, if your version even covered it.
Yeah, ppl on south America are still vaccinated against regular smalpox as our regular vax program at birth
I was wondering how well covered we are down here
Me too! Ft McClellan, Nov 1987 to be exact. 👍
@@matheussanthiago9685 If its the same all over Africa that might be why it was prevented from blowing up so much in Africa like is it is elsewhere. With the general protection it gives makes me wonder if they should continue to keep giving it.
It's almost like nature doesn't want us hanging out together by the millions.
Or encroaching into the territory of other animal populations.
Or raising the planetary temperature and moving animal populations around, forcing mixing.
...by the billions.
@@care2think611 I meant cities and towns, direct contact. But yeah fuckin billions.
Don't touch anyone.
Wash your hands.
Don't touch your face.
There ya go. You did it.
Unless someone coughs in your face, you should be fine.
Thank you Joe! I think 'crises fatigue ' is why I haven't wanted to look into this. A great reminder to wash your hands consistently, particularly when going out in the public. They whole gay thing felt like misinformation, will be sure to point out to people it can be transferred by skin to skin contact. Keep up the good work.
Intimate contact. And yes, it's a gay dude thing.
Alec Burns: The "gay thing" might have to do with the risk of spreading disease from casual sex. But of course, anti-gay idiot types will use ANY excuse to attack groups they don't like because they are different.
(I'm straight, but don't believe in bothering people unless they are actively trying to harm me. And even then I prefer to walk away, try to run away, call the cops, etc. Now, why someone "being gay", etc. harms me in any way is simply beyond me. And if a man asks me out on a date, for example, I can always politely decline.)
Gay men safety alert: Don't fool around with guys who keep prairie dogs as pets!
Keeping people off balance and fearful is the goal.
Media companies MAKING MONEY is the goal.
Of who?
Viruses aren't sentient.
@@radaro.9682 Find out who those are who you are not allowed to criticise. They are the people who rule over you.
@@iknklst No, I mean specifically who? Not some vague "could be anyone". Who wants to, in this instance, keep us off balance and fearful?
The problem is that our health system is not up to par. I'm disabled and I have a wait of 3-4 months to see my doctor due to the high case load
Nothing on factory farm's? That's going to give some wild new plague at some point.
I've completely become desensitized by all of this. I'd rather live my life with a sense of normalcy than live in fear and be suicidal, which is where i was quickly getting with COVID lockdowns.
good for you. other people dont want to be forced to get doused in deadly diseases for less than the cost of living.
I'm going to be the last non-covid standing. It's a game of Plague Inc. to me at this point.
Depression onset from the lockdowns is no joke. In an effort to save everyone from Covid eventually we'll find what other damage was done, and hopefully learn something from it. But the way it was all quickly politicized, I doubt it.
Thank You! Addressing the std stigma is honestly so important right now. Not just to make sure the right information gets out there but because everyone needs to protect themselves.
Stigma, also known as the truth. 95% of transmissions so far happened in sexual relations between men, but let’s pretend that’s not relevant because l, you know, the woke mob wouldn’t like it, and pleasing them is more important than setting the facts or promoting healthy behavior.
I have scars and callouses on my hands from working in a kitchen and some anxiety biting on my knuckles. people have already been staring at my hands in a grossed out disapproving way. Oh and the callouses turn white when in the water for a long time, so should be interesting to see how I get treated on my vacation. Hope they'll listen to my explanation and don't think it's monkey pox
I have similar scars and marks on my hands; I have ocd and pick at my skin. I have to wait about an hour to go anywhere after getting out of the shower because it’s so pronounced lol
Gardener, so my hands are cut and calloused. Acrylic and watercolor painter, so my hands have index finger and thumb calluses, plus where I hold my palette knives. The chemicals eat through my skin, so I'm usually kind of abraded on top of everything.
is this a result of repeatedly cooking/preparing food and then washing hands? if so, i feel you may have already considered using gloves but then decided against it because it feels unnatural/is inconvenient?
i hope that doesn't develop into something more troublesome for you. for me, repeated hand washing combined with the psychological stress during c0f1d-nineteen triggered an eczema flareup on my hands and a skin allergic reaction elsewhere on my body - and the ordeal lasted quite long. and it was very disturbing and bandwidth consuming, especially because it had the appearance and itch of some other dermatological disorders that are infectious (i'll spare you their names as that may feed into one's anxiety unnecessarily). i hope you don't experience any of that or anything serious for that matter, but consider/reconsider gloves if you could/if the work allows. and of course if you cook/prepare food, then i'd add: only if there are food grade/food safe gloves.
@@JabrHawr yeah that plus burns, scrapes cuts, ETC that are common in the kitchen
My carers son got monkey pox who just happens to be gay and living in Brighton, known as the gay capital of the uk! They had all been taking precautions with monkey pox when it came to sex but they hadn’t realised enough that it can also be caught by kissing so he came home to his mum who is an amazing cleaner (she started with me as a cleaner and took on more and more care care jobs as she saw the need of them) and a pretty great mum and she is treating it incredibly seriously. When the infectious disease people came round to check that everything was being done properly they Said they wished everybody was like her!
I love Brighton. (I'm from the US, but love visiting the peer and shops in Brighton when I visit the UK.) I am glad he has help from his mum to get through this. I can imagine that Monkeypox is not fun in any way.
It’s crazy that this channel hasn’t been in my feed for several months now
If Monkeypox is declared an emergency, and the Smallpox vaccine (or a specific vaccine for Monkeypox) is brought back into circulation, then I'll be content.
Based on a few meta studies I've read, the reason Monkeypox is spreading is that the Smallpox vaccine was around 85% effective for Monkeypox, and now that the cohort that has had no Smallpox vaccine, the disease is able to proliferate.
Also, all plagues are zoological
Smallpox isn’t zoological. That’s why we were able to eradicate it.
This is why I'm vegan
@@characterized_tony
In other words, you're a *massive* hypocrite.
@@springbloom5940 how...
@@springbloom5940 about what?
"We evolved as isolated tribes of people" is being questioned by anthropologists, archeologists etc.. Check out "The Dawn of Everything" written by the late David Graeber (2020) & David Wengrow. It's a good book that addresses the accepted assumption that the agricultural revolution caused civilization, when in fact they emerged long before.
I like to point it to when people started building 'permanent' structures, (usually for religious purposes)which, obviously, required a lot of people and at the time more than one generation....which requires a lot of people, who all happened to believe in the same thing, all in one small area as an actual large scale community. Hence early civilization.
This by far one of my favorite you tube channels to watch regularly, keep them coming
Stuff like this has been happening for years, and tracked by public health organizations. We're just more aware of it now, after COVID-19 got past the contain and monitor stage. It's the same sort of thing as the effect experienced when you first hear about something, and suddenly you see it everywhere. So, I don't know that things are any worse than they were. I'm also not an infectious disease expert. Or amateur. I mean, other than dabbling in spreading the common cold.
not really this is different than the other outbreaks
@@oleonard7319 How so?
@@cortster12m in the prior outbreaks it spread via exposure to rodents and it never established a human to human spread of the virus. This is what happens when a virus establishes itself as permanent fixture
@@cortster12 this is likely how small pox established itself in humans
@@oleonard7319 black plague resurgence incoming
The V-sauce troll was amazing. 👏
Wasn’t a “troll.” It was a sly reference.
And ftr, there ARE adjectives in English other than “amazing.” Try ‘em some time!
@@papaclanc Sorry, Papa. Your demonstration of wisdom followed by the exhibition of a your intellect 'flexing' really is just too much for my simple, corn fed peasant brain.
@@papaclanc keep fighting the good fight, Sir.
I'd like to think my immune system is pretty strong, I grew up in the 90s playing in the dirt, having mud fights, and swimming in a questionable Florida River that flows thru plenty of cow pastures lol
Monkeypox has an estimated r0 from 1.4 to +2. With no prevention measures this is bound to be "another covid" sooner or later. Old smallpox vaccines are somewhat effective apparently. Lethality is yet unclear, as lasting effects.
Well at least with this one we can tell when someone is infected, instead of covering up with a mask and risking it keeping it 6ft apart. 🙄🙄🤮
@@Inaros404 We're now kind of finding out...you can't. Long pants, long shirt...and it can go airborne at low infectivity rate. Well, before any mutations, of course.
Enjoy.
This strain has that r0, but that is due to how it is being spread. Maybe if people stop having gay orgies for two weeks the r0 will drop below the native rate of r0 < 1.
I get what you meant.
- but I get a little bit of dark humor out of imagining "Lethality is yet unclear" is referring to the smallpox vaccines.
95% of monkeypox cases are gay men. Most people don't get it. This whole video completely neglected what the details are.
Great honest take! The problem with the news is... panic sells. Thanks for being reasonable.
Honest?! Are you mental?
Ask how or where did it come about in Europe and the US so suddenly. Specifically Europe.
@@kojack57 he proposed that exact question and showed a map of known outbreaks and indicated that it was unusual. The "honest" bit is that he presented what's publicly known without doing it in a fear mongering way. So my question would be two fold. Did you watch the entire video and if so which part is objectively dishonest? Maybe I missed something.
@@ecds7393 Challange accepted and answered using three words.
Superspreading events (SSEV). Plural.
Uh, dude… it can be caught by close respiratory contact. You can get it from skin to skin contact, body fluids, respiratory droplets and exposure to things that have come into contact with lesions; so maybe bring a sleeping bag if your staying in a hotel. Think smallpox blankets. So mask up friends, wash your hands and be careful out there.
4:23 - Quick note: COVID-19 _also_ was and still is a mild disease in most cases with an extremely low mortality rate. The main issue with COVID was basically that its contamination and hospitalization rates would rapidly increase and surpass the recovery rate, which means your health care capacity per patient decreases over time and the mortality rate goes up accordingly.
The British CDC called it an STD.
Because it is.
Isn’t it just semantics? It can be transmitted by sex, so it is an STD. But it also can be transmitted other ways. So it’s an STD not but only an STD.
I never tire of your brand of humor. Plus, I pretty much always learn something watching your channel! You've been around for quite awhile, please stick around FOREVER. 👍🤗
Joe, I say this with all sincerity, thank you for being able to present topics at a very basic surface level without asking any important rabbit-hole questions. It’s really important for me to be able to understand what people who only listen to the narrative think and believe. So keep doing what you’re doing!
You want to believe everything your told? Well that’s dangerous
Oddly backhanded compliment.
Is this sarcasm? It *feels* like sarcasm.
Why is this "really important" to you?
@@anatomicallycorrectmuppets8180 indeed it is, but you also need to know what other people believe.
Wow, cannot even escape homophobia in the comments on THIS channel when this topic comes up. I mean, sure, most of you are being very careful about it, but you might want to try a little harder - like, maybe try not bothering at all, that's the easiest way to not get 'caught'.
Dude. How is the F is this homophobia. Literally 96% of the cases are from gay men. All of them have multiple sex partners or come into direct contact with people who do. If is not homophobia to point out that gay and bi-sexual men are literally the cause of this outbreak because they engage in extremely unsafe sexual practices with multiple partners.
How about stop having unprotected sex? Did you ever thing of that? No.. You just want to blame everyone else.
“Slightly more prevalent in gay communities”
That’s an odd way to say almost 100% only between men/men sex
Norwegian health authorities recommend that people avoid kissing and skin contact with strangers in addition to normal protection for sexually transmittable deceases. I think the main advice to all is to use common cense when interacting socially with people.
Very informative video! Thank you!
So, question here. I was told that I have a higher immunity from small pox because I had cow pox already. Does the same hold true with money pox? Not that it matters all that much, although my wife is a nurse so I guess I’m still slightly at risk there.
“It has been spread by ‘knocking the boots’”
So im safe then
3:30 - You say 'first seen' it'd be interesting to know what that may mean in this context - is it likely to have originated in Denmark, or is it more likely that monkeys have always had monkeypox, it'd just what it was only actually observed first under laboratory conditions in Denmark? Of course, we could also just not know, but I'm sure epidemiologists could make an educated guess.
It's been presumed that smallpox came from cowpox. But as to whether monkeypox came from smallpox or cowpox...
@@BronzeDragon133 Its hard to say when or where exactly and in what direction this type of species jumping happened because the thing about Pox viruses is that they are pretty complex and ancient viruses being part of the Nucleocytoplasmic Large DNA Viruses (NCLDV) a ancient clade of viruses sharing likely monophyletic origins with Eukaryotes or at least the Eukaryotic nuclear genome and the homologous structures we call the Nucleolus in Eukaryotes or viral replication factory in NCLDV.
Why this matters is that for these much more complex DNA viruses they don't need to be as hot specific as most RNA viruses which rely entirely on host genes to complete their life cycle
It's amazing that he left out the fact that the Monkeys in Denmark that had the first ever cases of Monkey Pox were being used for Polio Vaccine research in the late 50's. Perhaps the vaccines caused an extremely high mutation rate in a virus that has always existed in Monkey populations.
Man, I got spooked for a moment there. Then you got to the main means of transmission and I knew I'm probably never gonna catch this one. The distance between me and the nearest humans drops below 250 feet maybe once a month, and below two or three feet approximately once every never. I obsessively go to great lengths to avoid getting touched by people.
When a disease transmits from feline to human it’s a meowtation
that pun was pawthetic
@@daemenoth I thought it was purrfect.
Oh great, another pawdemic..
this comment section is littered with cat puns
The Vsauce take, love it
You know pandemics were alot more interesting back then when one isn't happening.
Is Klaus Schwab a mad man or?...Maybe a nice topic for a next video.
One thing I’m confused about is why did you keep calling this a new pandemic? It’s just semantics but I feel it’s important
"A pandemic is an epidemic of an infectious disease that has spread across a large region, for instance multiple continents or worldwide, affecting a substantial number of individuals."
Wikipedia.
I think that counts.
@@webchimp And with cases doubling every 48 hours with no slowdown in sight (and contrary to information, this is way outside the gay/bi community already, so it's not community-restricted either)...yeah, pandemic.
The virus can also be caught from contaminated clothing, bedding, etc.. Not just skin-to-skin. Similar to Smallpox in that regard. Pustules breaking and seeping stuff. At least it doesn’t seem airborne.
Thank you the info on where it originated.
I am 100%, wholly unfazed by the Monkey.
Have loved this channel for about 2 years and being a patreon just is that better to see these videos first!
*the best part is you get to say neener, neener neener to others and laugh in their face for not being patrons as well*
Weird flex
I'm a reverse patron. Joe sends me five bucks every month and I get to see the videos before he even makes them.
Hi Joe
I have a strange question, would love to join your channel so i could ask you properly (maybe someday)
I recently watched a video about electric eel. I am no electrician, so when it comes to voltages and watts i only "understand" the very basic. Since i have been a chef for many years i have tried to keep up with news about lab grown meat "muscles"
I think you can see where this is going. But i was so facinated with the amout of energy created by the electric eel that i started wondering why the energy industry is not going togeather with companies growing lab grown muscles.
Do you this there is a possibility this could work? could this be a sci fi way of having stored energy when other renewable are not available?
maybe even a way where we could grow and implant these "organs" into humans reducing the need for phone/accecories batteries as we can generate our own eneregy for it.
It is a bit of a far fetched idea, and the complicated science behind it is something i would not be able to work out. but i have worked with enough apprentices and non proffesionals to know that somethimes a crazy idea or question can change how you work or see things.
And while my own vison of this might be far fetched, does not mean that the idea can't have any merit or even spark another idea in others with a better understanding
I hope you see this! Really enjoy your content, hope you keep it up for a long time to come
Michael
If we'd just stop testing for it, the cases would drop.... 😕 (Sarcasm)
The fear machine in motion
Can’t believe the random chimp event is actually happening
Thank you for taking the time to unpack this and bring it down to earth in a way I didn't feel I needed a degree in epidemiology. Could you clarify, if monkey pox is transmitted through sexual contact, how does that differ or make it not a sexually transmitted disease?
because it makes the left look bad if you call it an STD.
Hello there! Monkeypox is transmitted via physical contact. Sexually transmitted infections are generally only transmitted via sexual intercourse. You can have physical contact without sex which makes monkey pox a physically transmitted infection and not a sexually transmitted infection. Hope this helps.
@@briandugas144 So just hugging someone infected can fuck you up?
it's not sexually transmitted because it doesn't transmitted in the sexual fluids
98% of all patients are homosexual or bisexual and 44% of all patients have aids.
Dont worry.
Most get the infections in Dark rooms - because you cant see who you **** with.
Joe literally avoiding the principle driver and tiptoeing around an issue without mentioning any confirmed data sets - AWKWARD