Monkeypox: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)
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- Опубліковано 6 сер 2022
- John Oliver discusses the recent monkeypox outbreak in the U.S., how we’ve fumbled our response to it, and some aspirations for this coming autumn.
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out of context "it's basically a sexually transmitted disease so it's not a threat to most of the population" is such a hilarious quote.
Yeah. And more on the whole fact people are using this like AIDS as a disease for the gays- I'm a lesbian and a scientists, and even I get that yeah, gay men usually are the first to get these sort of things literally only because one of the more common forms of sex for them is directly through mucous membranes and/or we don't do gay sex education in our sex ed courses. In any case, no amount of safety will stop that being the easiest way of getting a thing like this and that is in no fucking way their fault. Condoms are never 100%. But it always, ALWAYS comes to more people who aren't gay men getting these things in the long run because, well, it isn't a fucking "gay disease" :)) Anyone can get it but some communities are always gonna be at higher risk no matter the precautions taken- and we should lean into that to help protect them rather than mock them and shame them for having a sex life...
She couldn’t just come right out and say “it’s just gay people”, so she said something equally stupid
@@kstar1489 I'm honestly surprised she had that much self-restraint. She is a complete idiot.
"Just gay people who enjoy bowling.."
Yepp!! Especially when you realise that they said the exact samething about AIDs 40 years ago,, a virus that's no longer mostly confined to the gay community,, it's prevalent in millions of women across the world
Back in college, when I studied Pathology, I had a great professor who loved to say "Nature only respects 3 things: Biology, Chemistry, and Physics. It doesn't respect things like lines on a map, governments, ideologies, language, religion, or egos - just Biology, Chemistry, and Physics."
That is a fantastic perspective. Cheers to your professor!
and biology is basically chemistry which is basically physics so it respects physics
doesn't really respect those three things either lmao
@@jehannes1000 Biology is chemistry 😂😂😂
Try explaining ecology using a chemist perspective. I dare you. NO! I double dare you.
@@jehannes1000 holy oversimplification, batman. 🙄
That news footage from 2003 looks like what news footage from 1983 looked like to me, back in 2003. I love getting old 😂😂😱
"If we had an outbreak associated with bowling, would we not warn people to stop bowling?"
Ironically 2 years ago we warned people not to go out and wear masks because of Covid, and look at the reactions.
Based on the above analogy, people would only want to go bowling even more because it's their "freedom" to go bowling
A good solution to the current 'idiot' infestation is to tell people they don't have the 'freedom' to shoot themselves in the head, and laws will be passed to outlaw it and remove this freedom! That should get rid of a few of them.
Some of us were medical professionals who knew immediately all the errors and flat out lies weren't going to help. Masks didn't help, and the asymptomatic infection period was nothing ever experienced before. By the time you got sick, everyone else was already infected. By May of 2020 millions of experienced health professionals realized that the only way to get over the pandemic was to have the maximum exposure as possible in order to get immunity. By Jun we were called names, the science put forth ignored, and thence grew the completely untrue allegations of spreading misinformation and the banning of posts and closing of accounts. So take your viewpoint and your superior attitude about fellow human beings and try to learn something by listening this time around.
Not the greatest analogy though since not wearing masks violates the safety of others who cannot consent whereas close contact like sex involves more consent and communication between people who can assess risk together. Their behavior does not put people outside their group at the same kind of risk that literally breathing next to someone in the store does with COVID. Complicated stuff.
@@11corvus11 You are responsible for yourself. So if you are afraid of catching something, knock yourself out by wearing the correct mask for the infection, and wearing it correctly. Not hanging from your top lip., not by buying a cheap mask that doesn't filter correctly for the pathogen. Nuff said.
@@septemberamyx I am aware of how masks work, are you? Masks primary function is protecting other people from the WEARER of the mask in terms of covid and many other respiratory pathogens. An N95 has pretty good protection for the wearer as well, but masking works best when everyone wears them, especially people who are sick or who have been knowingly exposed. And if it's still not clear, I still wear a mask to protect myself but also because I actually care about protecting other people, too. Imagine what the past few years would have looked like if everyone just acted like they gave a sht about others.
Always nice to drop in on John Oliver when I get too optimistic about life.
Why cant you tell gays to stop having orgies? But have no problem telling everyone to cover their disgusting mouth holes, or you'll kill grandma, and oh, by the way, your dying father who has cancer can't say bye to his grandkids. But you expect me to shed even one tear over the fact other gays can't stop having group sex for a month. How about just one partner for a month? Hold off on group sex? So no, my father died alone in a hospital because I couldn't see him.
It actually cheers me up to hear some intelligence and compassion. That seems scarce lately.
Ignoring shit is how we got here. Eyes wide shut people.
Jesus died for our sins, rose from the dead, and gives salvation to everyone who has faith in him! True faith in Jesus will have you bear good fruit and *drastically* change for the better!
Also, did you know God is three in one!? The Father, The Son, and The Holy Spirit! Bless him!
Have a blessed day, everyone!! ❤
Your worries (yes, anxiety), depression, suicidal thoughts, EVERYTHING will melt away and be NO MORE when you lean on God and put your trust in him! When I have physical pain, I literally pray and the Lord quells it, that I am healed!
Know that there is power in the name Jesus Christ! His name casts out demons and heals! People are bothered by his name. The world hates the truth and wants to continue living sinfully! God's children are set apart (holy) and righteous.
"And it's just 1 of the 1 ways, the war on terror has made us safer" is a massively underrated joke
legit audience missed that one
Comment Boost +
It was funny. Audience thought it was funny. Massively underrated? It's a basic joke that's very much in line with his usual joke format.
Worst thing about it: its not even a joke, its just funny cause its true...
The same with "Although that really should not be that hard" at time index 19:41. Masterful pun that one was.
"On a scale from 1 to 100 we scored a NO." Good god I'm gonna be using that. 🤣
as someone who still eats a lot of freezies despite being a grown adult man, that "just snap it in half, no scissors necessary" revelation is legitimately mind blowing
WHAT HAVE I BEEN DOING WITH MY LIFE?!?!?!
Where I'm from, we all did that when I was young. It was also good because we'd sometimes buy 3 flavours and share the third.
That's something lifechanging for me as well. Who the hell knew?
I just tried it while watching, with this off brand “fun pops” and it didn’t break, just bent and messed the popsicle up haha
@@tylerkempfer750 My experience too and why I was less impressed with the life-hack lol
Hey John,
would it be financially and administratively possible for you and your Team to build up a "what happend sice" website, where news or articles are listed which are linked to specific previously produced episodes?
All of your topics are extremely important and it would be great to have an easy and source-approved way to keep on track with them.
Greetings from germany.
keep us updated, John. you are a so correct! they are all important subjects.
Germanistan*
That is an excellent idea!
Why cant you tell gays to stop having orgies? But have no problem telling everyone to cover their disgusting mouth holes, or you'll kill grandma, and oh, by the way, your dying father who has cancer can't say bye to his grandkids. But you expect me to shed even one tear over the fact other gays can't stop having group sex for a month. How about just one partner for a month? Hold off on group sex? So no, my father died alone in a hospital because I couldn't see him.
Including links to all the crazy websites they built. I still enjoy making my own everest pictures 😁
I’ll never make fun of a zombie outbreak moment in movies ever again. Given what we’ve seen over the last few years, I’d be shocked if large numbers of people didn’t go out fishing for bites, to “own the libs”. There was a time I was hopeful about humanity, sadly, that was a long time ago.
if youre so liberal then why do you clowns force everyone to think like you?
Same.
Well, all I can say is if the world ends, I'm going out with a J in my hand and a smile on my face!
Who knew zombie movies were describing reality 🤷🏼♂️
A zombie outbreak may be the natural selection our species desperately need
I visited a couple different breeders in 2011 when I was looking to buy pet chinchillas. One of the breeders had an open air enclosure with several prairie dogs. The breeders proceeded to explain to me that they were legally required to disclose that they had been in part responsible for monkey pox spreading several years back. I was only 20 at the time, but looking back, the fact that they were still somehow selling prairie dogs after that fiasco is just wild.
That young lady with NF1 has been such an amazing ally and even though she was thrust into the public eye against her will and forced to reveal to everyone her private medical information, she's been strong throughout. I have lupus and get looks when I'm flaring up with contagious looking "rashes/lesions" on my face and body. I've heard people whisper comments and it hurts. I cannot image having someone publicly and ignorantly pointing out my lesions on social media.
I hope good things come from this -like awareness about NF1 and that not everyone's skin is perfect. Maybe a big brand can give her a lotion commercial to promote the fact that not everyone's skin looks like an airbrushed photoshoot. She deserves good things to happen to her. I'm happy John Oliver is helping to get the truth out there to his massive audience. And I hope the cowardly douchebag that tried to embarrass her on TikTok is going through hell right now as karma.
I'm not meaning to question your suffering and how shitty it is that people jump to judgements. But try not to take it too personally - people are often inconsiderate because they just don't know about your condition and let's face it, there are enough people out there who have no problem with going out in public while having an infectious disease, no f*cks given. Thankfully, we're getting better with information about diseases being disseminated among people. I know it's silverlining, but there were times when people were shunned completely for diseases that were visible yet non-infectious, while invisible deadly disesases were essentially allowed to roam free because of bad hygiene.
@Amazon 421
I am so sorry you have to deal with idiotic assholes. My mom also has lupus which can present as psoriasis and other skin conditions and has had her confidence shattered by one stupid bitch coming up to her in the middle of the grocery store and saying “ew, that’s not contagious is it?” so I absolutely hate that you have had to go through something similar and I wish you all the best. Lupus is hard and assholes make it even harder.
A country so fragile, the CDC is afraid to give an honest public health response.
CDC did say that 99% of infected with monkeypox are men, and that 95% of those are homosexual men, WHO also released a message saying homosexual community should take greater care and to stop swapping partners so much, not sure what more can they do ?
@@regardzz How do you know we swap around a lot?
@@regardzz lol, source please.
CDC has lost all credibility.
@@regardzz Straight Christian men swap partners more than homosexuals, they also lie about sex more, and then blame everyone else for being irresponsible. When the white Christian community is more irresponsible than anyone else’s out everything.
In spring of 2019, I took a virology class in college. My professor said, "the next big one will be a coronavirus. We had a warning shot with sars, we had a warning shot with mers. And we haven't done anything."
Amazing how we still haven't done anything after the pandemic of a century.
Smart professor.
Drug companies don't make money off of healthy people. They have far too much pull on capital hill.
I sat in environmental classes in University in the mid 80s. The professor had us calculate the size of a resulting lump of bacteria growing under ideal conditions for 48 hours. Of course a few parameters were given and a few assumptions like the bacteria being spherical were made but what astounded everyone was that after 48 hours the resulting lump would be a larger diameter than the known universe. He did that to display just how powerful biological processes are. He also had us calculate average wind speeds depending on average temperature increases. His prediction was that humanity will go extinct due to one of 3 things or a combination of it: computers, nuclear fission or genetic technology. Needless to say we're talking 80s here - Internet was non-existent, nuclear was basic and genetics just started up. He was so right about it. He stopped giving the classes a few years later because as he explained: I've given this class for over 10 years - the first environmental class in the country. I don't see any result from teaching this topic - it's useless to have these classes. He was right about that too. To this day we have classes about environment and then once the students leave the university all that happens is to try to pry a profit from the problem but in reality nobody really cares. Humanity has it coming. Not in my lifetime anymore, for which I'm thankful, but soon thereafter.
@@uweschroeder Very interesting! Thank you for sharing.
@@uweschroeder I see your point, but it saddens me that you've so thoroughly given up on trying to change the world, and just accepted the problems. I don't mean to devalidate you, but I feel it is better for everyone if we keep moving on and try to improve on everything we can. Humanity will get past this, we always do-the question is if we'll come out with some light damage and societal change or a complete breakdown of everything we've ever known.
It still amazes and saddens me that we get our truth from comedians such as John Oliver and Jon Stewart rather than government "officials" and our representatives who are to serve our best interests. Still, thank you Oliver, et al, for all you do. It's greatly appreciated.
It’s more digestible from Oliver and Trevor
@Zack Smith l have so many questions..
That's _an_ issue with politicians. Despite their political leanings, they all know the facts and know what things are uncertain and how uncertain they are.
They're just too preoccupied with holding power and their positions to keep from spinning information to fit the two main parties' narratives.
Comedians keep their power so long as they're being entertaining. It seems like some of them have found their niches in being entertaining _and_ informative.
That guy straight up telling people to rub one off together A, caught me by total surprise as I never expected someone in public announcement so say that, and B earned my respect by saying things how they are and telling solid advice and not shying away from that.
20:25 "So, what can we do now?" Every time I watch your show, John Oliver, I wait to hear this line. It's why I watch your show, while I never watch other political opinion shows (Maddow, Hannity, Carlson, etc.). All those folks ever do is manufacture outrage, point fingers, give people someone to blame and hate. They never offer solutions or say to viewers that we can take responsibility for doing anything ourselves. They never proceed to the final, crucial parts of a good argument: what actions should be taken and who should take them. You do. Thank you.
Oh please don't list Maddow with those idiots from Fox, shes way above them!🙄😇
Agreed
Great comment. Well said.
I agree. I like him and Beau Of The Fifth Collum. Taking the fear out of news and just getting the facts out.
So true. As much as I get stressed or increase my impending doom watching Jon, I also have one more talking point with an actual plan of action to back it up when discussing these issues with others.
My son has NF1. It is horrible. It needs to be closely monitored as tumours can appear on the eyes for example. Sad to see people jump to conclusions about that poor woman and try to shame her on social media.
I hope his health remains stable and his condition manageable ❤
I’m sorry. I’m hope he’s coping well. I hope your whole family is coping well and working together. Honestly I don’t know why people like this feel it’s okay to film complete strangers and post them online. It’s not like she’s in the middle of committing a crime and he is compelled to film for evidence. She’s not being violent. She’s not harassing anyone or being bigoted toward anyone. She’s a woman on her way somewhere, minding her own business. Why did the creep film her and post her to world? Why did he feel entitled to do that?
@@kamcorder3585 Thanks for your kind words.
I have it too, people suck. It took getting over 100 of the tumors removed to have the confidence to wear snug clothes again. So my heart goes to your son
Wishing you all good health stay strong mama ✌💛💫💐
Best advice I've ever seen to avoid monkeypox. If it's wet sticky and not yours don't touch it.
“Yellow thumbs, plopping their asses down on shards of glass”
😂😂😂
I found the idea that "if bowling made you sick nobody would go bowling" ironic when the last 2 years have proven that yes people will still go bowling. Heck some will go bowling BECAUSE you said it'll make you sick
sigh.... yeah.... this world be lookin bleak
#Bowling4freedom
"i LiCkEd A bOwLiNg BaLl To OwN tHe LiBs."
Nope, Nada, Nah... i'm self-quarantining from people, I Refuse to get a gross disgusting virus. Give me a G#dd@%n break already!!!
good point
I learned basically all I needed to know about disease from the board game Pandemic. If you don't treat a disease somewhere you don't really care about, it will inevitably affect somewhere you do.
Why cant you tell gays to stop having orgies? But have no problem telling everyone to cover their disgusting mouth holes, or you'll kill grandma, and oh, by the way, your dying father who has cancer can't say bye to his grandkids. But you expect me to shed even one tear over the fact other gays can't stop having group sex for a month. How about just one partner for a month? Hold off on group sex? So no, my father died alone in a hospital because I couldn't see him.
@@williamwilson6499 Thank you for the shout. It has been edited
I actually got rid of that game, used to be my favorite, because it's just too depressing now. Oh yay we developed the vaccine for the yellow thing (but nobody will get it because of Fox news damn it!)
yeah, cause we travel and all live on the same home....
We loved the android game Plague inc up until 2020, was too real
"Wash your hands" is GREAT advice!!!
John hit the nail on the head - if it doesn't concern us directly, why should we care or do anything about it? The selfishness of this country knows no bounds. It's very sad. 😔
This was an open book test where the teacher gave us the questions ahead of time and still we managed to write the answers incorrectly onto our arms.
So i read this and thought, i remember open book tests! But then asked myself for the first time.
Whats the point of an open book test?? How does that test your knowledge of something?
Its probly so the schools scores look better at the expense of kids gaining intellect.
Open book exams tests your understanding of the topic, your interpretation and ability to apply it to solve problems, which are how the questions are structured. There is no straight answer answer from the text book that you can simply look for that will answer the question.
I have no doubt there are places they will miss use it to prop up pass rates though.
@@sirwilliamericclaptonpower1706 Open book tests are in a way even better to test your knowledge than conventional tests.
With conventional tests there is a huge parts of just remembering data without a context. The key part i education nowadays is not to simply know facts, it is to know how to use your knowledge. For that open book tests are quite good.
If you go into a proper open book test without learning anything you're not going to do well either because an open book test is not going to ask for a specific fact that you could simmply look up. Instead it ass a broader question where you understanding the concept of what is asked is important.
You can't learn this in just the short time of the test but you can look up the facts you need to use the knowledge.
Taake physics as a simple example: In a test you might need a specific formula. You can definetly learn that formula and then you are asked a question to fill in the correct numbers and that's it. That is the conventional way.
Or you you get a question where a problem is described so now you use your knowledge to find out which formula you need and how to use it in this case. Knowing the precise formula itself is not important. You can just look that up there is no point in just knowing those formulas anyways. The crucial part is the understanding of the given problem, how to solve it and how to use the given tools.
@@sirwilliamericclaptonpower1706 it really is a dumb idea🤦♂️
@@Kennorx It also makes students comfortable with learning how to use a resource that would be hopeless to memorize (and will be offloaded from memory as soon as the semester is over, or next Summer at the latest). In the real world, we don't remember everything! But we know what resources to keep at hand, what each one is likeliest to hold, how to find it, and how to bone up on its significance.
Yes scientists and other professionals can recite from memory important, or frequently, or recently used formulae. Go ahead and ask a specialist the range of specific gravities of white maple lumber at varying dryness levels, and they'll reach for the resource where that info is located. The only people who actually know shit like that are children who are into dinosaurs or sharks, or old ladies (and then only as it relates to their rhododendrons).
Furthermore, referencing your sources is vital to participating in a professional or scientific setting that has any rigor whatsoever. Which means you need to find a well-respected set of sources ANYWAY because "I know it because I memorized it in third grade" not only invites but demands ridicule.
Finally, open-book tests typically have more demanding questions that require the open book resource to complete. You skip the typical first 5 questions on a 20-question quiz that are things like "draw a line between the term and its meaning" and one of them is "The powerhouse of the cell."
We all knew a kid who managed to be one of the only ones to fail the test even though the teacher gave out all the answers and didn’t even bother to change anything from the practice exam. But gd I didn’t realize they would all have jobs running the country
😆
One could argue the US is that kid when it comes to countries.
Teachers are on a lower rung than wall mart empoyees (In scandinavia). Im the high school chemistry/math teacher, you never had. They do not run ANYTHING except the grocery part of wallmart...
Who did you think was running our country? 😆
@@frederikhyrup2871 well I mean...not all MDs end up practicing either...Not all people with a degree end up teaching. The best of us get far "better" jobs, and some end up teaching. The rest still have bills and end up at horrible places like Walmart.
Look up Beauty and The beast , a TV show from 1980's. Marjorie T Greene looks exactly like Vincent, played by Ron Perlman. An old reference, but once you see it, it can't be unseen! 😄
Thanks John Oliver for constantly reminding me of the incompetence of the Powers that Be ❤️
As an avid fan of the capybara I will now ONLY refer to them as big pensive sweetie. Highly accurate and adorable.
After discovering that there is no official name for a group of capybaras, my nephew had suggested a "Capyparty" and my friend had suggested a "Capypatch". Please, we need to raise awareness on this issue to adopt an adorable name for a group of capybaras. This is important.
@@henrytawnn8694 cringey ass fcks
@@henrytawnn8694 I'm guessing since they are Earth's biggest rodent, they'd probably just default to a "mischief" of Capybara.
But Capypatch is hilarious.
Why cant you tell gays to stop having orgies? But have no problem telling everyone to cover their disgusting mouth holes, or you'll kill grandma, and oh, by the way, your dying father who has cancer can't say bye to his grandkids. But you expect me to shed even one tear over the fact other gays can't stop having group sex for a month. How about just one partner for a month? Hold off on group sex? So no, my father died alone in a hospital because I couldn't see him.
@@normaforsyth7950 since people eat them it may just be a barbecue of capybara
I'm very sympathetic with the girl with NF1. Some people can be so thoughtless and hurtful. I admire the girl for coming forward and taking this opportunity to inform people about NF1.
I have NF1 and am very grateful John talked about it in the episode. The past few months have been utter hell for people with ‘different skin’ and it definitely needs more awareness than it’s gotten.
ok
I have NF1
My sister has NF, she doesn't have skin fibromas, but a lot of her friends from NF camp do and have been getting monkeypox stigma shit
We did a whole case study in my college for a class- it's super fucking sad people don't know more about a very hard thing to go through :/ NF1 is really... I'll put it this way, not fun and debilitating. She's living her absolute best life and looks very happy- i'm happy for her to be out-spoken and angry at these people!
I have Neurofibromatosis (NF1) and monkey pox has made my life absolutely hell. People will come up to me and as if I’m infected. They’ll move away from me and shield their children.
I have never despised my body more. I have to wear sweaters when it’s over 90° to avoid being gawked at like a zoo animal.
Seriously makes me wonder if it’s worth continuing this existence if I’m gonna be ostracized for the rest of it. Genuinely thinking of checking out early if someone films me and it goes viral.
Hello Jay. How are you doing?
@@geekfreak5100 Good to hear from you Geek. Where are you from if you don’t mind asking.
@@geekfreak5100 My sincere motive was to get to know you more better i believe asking questions about each other will enable us get to know ourselves more better
A hand of friendship for a start will be nice.
@@thomassmith1080 bro are you seriously trying to get laid in the UA-cam comments section? 🤣🤣🤣🧃
I am SO sorry. You deserve to live, to occupy public spaces, and to be treated with respect. Fuck those people.
The guy at 15:32 they interviewed runs karaoke at Downtown Olly's in Indianapolis. He has a fantastic singing voice along with being a dope guy in general. It's a fun time
Medical offices use faxes because getting HIPAA compliance documentation from software vendors is like a nightmare shared by Terry Gilliam and Franz Kafka.
also came here to say this.
That’s true! The obsceneness of fax machines has only made them safer! It’s almost impossible to accidentally send a fax to the wrong number.
Can confirm, it's an industry where "Yeah, we have a fax machine" is a WELCOME phrase.
Most software vendors think that any type of compliance is a waste of time and a useless bureaucratic trap, and that's the ones who know that there is some compliance requirements, a big portion looks at you like deers caught in the headlights whenever you ask if they have any compliance beyond an ISO standard 🤣
Worse! and also the actual file formats can (somehow) be incompitbale. Their are HIPAA complient basic weby-weby side solutions that have been around for years.
Worse yet of worse is the physically printed forms can also leave out stuff from the software.
Take Gerry Gillian, Neil Franz Kafka, a whole lot of fever dream, and then you get the GD nightmare. So scan to upload,and fax works.
Please, dear gods, don't let the next LWT start with zooming in on John into the blank void and him saying "Well, he we are again."
ok
Only if it ends with him blowing up 2022 at the end of the season.
Well, if you think about, wouldn't that mean medical progress because we are all preventatively quarantined again?
Luckily this one isn’t as effectively transmitted through the air. “Not rubbing up against strangers” is a lot easier than “not breathing the same air as anyone from outside your household.”
Honestly i hope we go back to Lockdowns, the world was kinder, quieter and working was easier.
Fuck assholes that spread shit.
I have NF1 as well and this is the exact thing I've been thinking about since monkeypox started.
I love you John. On point as usual.
"Basically, on a scale of 1 to 100, we scored a 'No.'"
I'm gonna have to use that now, that was too good.
I genuinely laughed out loud at that 🤣 😂
Could also say on a scale of 1 to 100 we got an F
"It is just one of the one ways that the War on Terror made us safer" is such a good line.
When did he said that because im about to stop watching it
@@theblukatlife 11:27
@@theblukatlife I only lasted 2 minutes into this horsesh_t before I hit paused and starting reading the comments for actual real information.
@@fleatactical7390 lmao, imagine thinking that youtube comments have real and accurate information!
@@fleatactical7390 horseshit
"Pour one out for the dumbest friend of Laura Ingles Wilder" I am SLAIN
5:19 Big Ounce from The Urban Rescue Ranch. They’re cuddly, incredibly sociable, and cheer when happy or excited. They look like fat confused squirrels and I love that for them
It feels like this Pox outbreak is the first viral pandemic in human history. I'm sure we just had another one this decade that could have taught us how to handle something like that, but I'm not entirely sure.
You give humans far too much credit.
"Think about how dumb the average person is. Now, realize that half of them are dumber than that!" - George Carlin
🤣🤣
We had our one serious but relatively gentle reminder.
I get a feeling we didn't heed it all to well.
The irony goes even deeper.
Long ago the battle against the pox infection is the primary example where we invented our countermeasures against viruses.
@@dark14life "you ever realized that 50% of people have an IQ below 100?"
-no idea who, but I love em whoever they are.
"Which is just one of the 1 way the war on terror made us safer" was a genius line.
Why cant you tell gays to stop having orgies? But have no problem telling everyone to cover their disgusting mouth holes, or you'll kill grandma, and oh, by the way, your dying father who has cancer can't say bye to his grandkids. But you expect me to shed even one tear over the fact other gays can't stop having group sex for a month. How about just one partner for a month? Hold off on group sex? So no, my father died alone in a hospital because I couldn't see him.
Hey! Did you know God is three in one!? The Father, The Son, and The Holy Spirit! Bless him!
Jesus died for our sins, rose from the dead, and gives salvation to everyone who has faith in him! True faith in Jesus will have you bear good fruit and *drastically* change for the better!
Have a blessed day, everyone! ❤
Your worries (yes, anxiety), depression, suicidal thoughts, EVERYTHING will melt away and be NO MORE when you lean on God and put your trust in him! When I have physical pain, I literally pray and the Lord quells it, that I am healed!
Know that there is power in the name Jesus Christ! His name casts out demons and heals! People are bothered by his name. The world hates the truth and wants to continue living sinfully! God's children are set apart (holy) and righteous.
@@Call_Upon_YAH you're barking up the wrong tree, friend.
@@billmozart7288 All shall hear the Gospel of Jesus Christ. All have freewill to choose or deny him, but all shall know.
Matthew 24:14 KJV
14 And this gospel of the kingdom shall be preached in all the world for a witness unto all nations; and then shall the end come.
on a scale of 1 to 100, John Oliver is a ...
YES!
That deputy coordinator is absolutely amazing ❤
As the saying goes, America will always do the worst option first before doing the right one.
That actually sounds familiar and I don’t know why, you take it from somewhere specific?
Before? Best I can tell, it's been "rather than".
And where did that saying come from?
@@demonzabrak I think it’s a reference to a Winston Churchill quote; “You can always count on Americans to do the right thing - after they've tried everything else”.
America will invent a new problem so they dont need to solve the origional problem
I’ve had monkeypox for the past three weeks and agree with everything in this video. Navigating the entire process through Kaiser has been a disaster. Thank you for talking about this!!
How did you get it?
I hope you feel better soon!
Hope you feel better soon!
So sorry to hear about your experience. It has to be frustrating. I hope you get everything resolved quickly and feel better soon. Wishing you the best.❤️
I've heard nothing good about Kaiser Permanente tbh.
I was just watching the original Coronavirus video and this video made me laugh a bit. I love the reference and the balls John and the team had to admit they were as lost as the rest of us in the beginning.
I feel terrible because I have trypophobia and whenever I see pictures of monkey pox rashes and bumps I get hours of goosebumps and shivers; it is 100% a me problem of course but I can imagine how horrible it must feel to see someone have a reaction like that. Do any others have similar reactions and know how to lessen them? Ever since high school biology class (whenever I had to look at those damn onion cells through the microscope) I’ve had these reactions and want to stop them
The US has an amazing capacity for saying "It isn't happening here so it doesn't affect me so it doesn't matter." And it almost never works out well.
That's how everything works
And then, “This doesn’t involve America so they won’t bother me”
So frustrating that we as a country are just so resistant to helping literally anyone, ourselves or other people. Had we given out those vaccines before they expired, we might not be experiencing this outbreak right now. And we will not learn from this.
It's not "our country" doing this. It's a few key individuals that have too much power. They just happen to be in the US.
That the vaccines were not given before expiration isn't necessarily because of some "resistance" to help others, the SARS2 vaccines were given sort of on time to other countries, including mine. Often things are just more simple when abstracted from all the real world factors, bureaucratic and logistic. And people in charge are also not necessarily as capable as they'd want to be. I'm not sure "selfishness" plays a significant role in sabotaging such efforts, at least not most of the time. There's even some saying along the lines of how we should always prefer to assume some degree of ineptness or other issues over malice. The saying isn't phrased as nicely though, it's the "Hanlon's razor."
That's not to deny that there aren't many "America 1st" type of people who'd be lamentably easily primed into the most selfish takes possible depending on what their leaders/idols thought was convenient to their own careers, but out of such bad influences even them are probably most often reasonably good people and probably even proud of being of a country that's helping others. Even on personal/individual level it seems that they fare better on things such as charity.
@@keenfire8151 It's easy to say that, what's harder is recognizing that most people are ignorant or indifferent about it. Sure, most people would prefer if the country helped others, especially if the vaccines were going to expire anyway. But can you honestly say that most people aren't kinda just "okay" with that not happening? Truth is empathy is genuinely hard, and it's much, much harder when it's for people you've never seen who live half a world away from you and whose welfare (or lack thereof) impacts you in no way whatsoever.
@@bobjones2959 "Its easy to say that".
Yes that's why I said it.
@@keenfire8151 Right, you do come across as the kind of guy to only do things if they're easy ;)
John & co. do an incredible job helping keep a sense of humor in the face of our egregious for-profit healthcare system, in conjunction with our tragically neglected public healthcare system (or lack thereof.) Why so many put up with it is beyond me.
HAVE YOU EVER SEEN A PRAIRIE DOG DO THE YIP AND POINT!? How are you so mean to them John!?
John - as an immunologist and prairie dog lover I must take issue with some of your comments. The prairie dogs that became infected were exposed to infected, imported, Gambian pouched rats. Domestic PDs continue to be Monkey Pox-Free! I am however concerned that the US brown rat population is setting itself up to be the next carrier species.
Bump
The brown rats are waiting on the movie deal. 😉
@Erico Wattstf
I misread that as that you were a prairie dog who was also an immunologist.
Monkeypox-free, sure. They do have bubonic plague though
Just when I thought Marjorie Taylor Greene couldn't be any more of an inhuman monster she proves me horrifically wrong
She's not the one indulging in or promoting the behavior which causes the spread of a bunch of viruses.
@@anacc3257 By downplaying the severity of the disease, the pain it causes, and the ongoing threat of larger-scale outbreaks, she absolutely IS demonstrating behavior that causes the spread of the virus. Ignorance is the ultimate disease incubator.
Nice sexism, you incel.
@@jasonblalock4429 and how much power does she have vs. demented Biden? What has demented Biden done to stop this outbreak? Absolutely nothing. This is in part due to his blatant homophobia and also because he’s a dummy. Great for you to focus on MTG when you should be focusing on your demented leader Sleepy Joe.
@@jasonblalock4429 If you want to stop the spread of monkeypox, don't have butt sex.
No bias, no shaming, no understatements, just pure and blunt discussion of real world problems and how they can be helped.
Thanks JO, that’s what is most important, not the People or Person but eventually all of us
Anyone else like me, who heard of the monkeypox outbreak and immediately thought, "That wasn't even on my Apocalypse Bingo card! I wasn't even aware that you could double up on pandemics! Who the hell is running this Bingo?!"
Nature. I also call it cause and effect 😁
Rookie mistake - I put plague, mutated plague, and second and third plagues as my first four boxes 🙃
I have NF1! People SUCK when they see your bumps. I wanna give that girl a hug of solidarity
And I'm giving you a big hug!
A hug for you internet stranger! 🤗
Hugs, friend.
Hugging is a GREAT way to spread monkey pox…
@@zaddyjacquescormery6613 Butt play is a better way…
At the beginning when Jon said the US had the largest number of cases of Monkeypox in the world, I silently said "We're #1" Go Merika😄
This show just keeps getting better and better.
Keep up the great work.
I was happy when I saw this.
Not because I was expecting good news (HELL, no), but because I was finally going to get a well-researched take on something scary.
You do good work.
highly recomend breaking points here on youtube, they did a bit on this story a week ago I believe also very intellectually honest.
Blaming the CDC and the fact that people can use an experimental drug is weird. We learned from Covid that if X drug isn't cleared for this virus, you wont get it.
Lol good work from John Oliver? He’s telling you what you want to hear
@@randomdude189 Who wants to hear this?
@@randomdude189 Then what's your belief? Or do you have to wait for Trump to stop ear-f*cking you to hear the new narrative?
This was incredibly helpful
Excellent.
👍
Nice
Hi
Very interesting
"Guineapigs, excellent." It is good to see we hold the same and very important opinion John.
Remember when people actually cared about containing viral outbreaks? That was nice.
For a little historical perspective, I read how the eruption of Tambora in 1815 (the biggest of the millennium) caused changes in weather patterns globally, which then led to cholera pandemics over the next couple of decades. When cholera reached the British Isles, the aristocracy was at first unconcerned because it was only affecting poor Irish communities. It wasn’t until the disease began spreading to the aristocracy that the government began making an effort to help the people in general. This, iirc, would eventually lead to the establishment of the NHS in the UK.
In other words, we’ve already learned a lot of these lessons, but we keep forgetting or getting distracted by shiny things. 🙏
@@Paonporteur Well it was a lot more than that. Back then sewage wasn't piped to a treatment facility, it was stored in local cesspits (basically a huge nasty brick-lined pimple underground full of feces) and those seeped into local wells (basically a brick-lined tunnel straight down until water starts seeping in from the walls). People didn't really wash their hands the way we'd expect now; for example doctors would go from elbows-deep in a cadaver, wipe off, go straight to a maternity ward, and people wondered why expectant mothers were suffering from corpse-borne diseases. It's shocking how stupid people were. Which means in 200 years (if not 50) our descendants will be shocked by how completely stupid WE are now. And they'll be like "Why did they all drive cars?" and grandpa will shrug and say "I ever tell you kids about conservatives?"
Read up on the final cholera outbreak in late 19th century New York that took out 1/3rd the population. The editorial in the newspaper in the early days of the epidemic literally say " let the animals die". They forgot those "animals" did their labor and cooked their meals.
You giving people so much grace. They didn’t forget.
It's crazy how many things stem from the Tambora eruption : Turner's sunsets, modern vampires, SF, computer programming...
Fascinating
As a species we don't learn well from the mistakes of others.
The first recorded case of clear cut logging was in ancient Greece. They discovered the top soil had washed away, and nothing would grow. They couldn't cultivate the land, and it took a long time until sparce, hardy wild plants would grow, beginning mostly around the edges of logged area. There were no animals. Those responsible wrote about the consequences, even saying 'We will never do this again.'.
There is a reason history repetes itself, even in such an educated time.
"And we screwed it up." is the perfect slogan for contemporary America.
Contemporary? Golden years being when exactly?
...the world, I guess
Lol look at all these spam ads
More like, and we keep screwing things up...
2002 was 20 years ago and somehow I am still as miserable as I was back then, monkey pox notwithstanding. It never gets better. 😑
Faxes are used absurdly often in the healthcare system. Sometimes it's the most efficient option we can use. Granted, not the most efficient option in existence, just the most efficient one that's been given the okay by The Powers That Be. I was once told that faxes are used instead of email in some cases because it's supposedly more secure, in that a fax system "can't be hacked like email". But the fax number can be mistyped when sending it. Which can result in fantastically secure results, such as a medical document ending up being sent to a car dealership rather than a medical center.
22:20 This may be a game quote but I feel that it is quite fitting for this situation. "To ignore the plight of those we could feasibly save is not wisdom, it is indolence."
I did not expect a quote by the late great Louisoix Leveilleur, but it's a welcome surprise. It is very fitting indeed.
FFXIV. Alphinaud to dad, if I remember right.
@@cyryl3827 it was alphinaud's grandfather who said it. alphi is quoting him when he says it
Not when it comes at the cost of millions of peoples free everday lives. Viruses happen we cannot just shut down every time a new disease is here
I was not expecting Louisoix with my weekly Existential Dread Weekly
"One-star Uber passenger" is the best description yet I've heard for MTG.
Nice misogyny.
Such a bougie thing to say.
@@skiprockjr.6881 it isn't misogyny to dislike a person for the horrible, insensitive, and cruel things that they say. gender has nothing to do with it. 🙄🙄
@@lowbeeman So it isn't misogyny to dislike man-hating Marxist feminists who say horrible, insensitive, and cruel things about white men?
I personally prefer "blown tread lot lizard", personally.
The story I always heard was that Prairie Dogs are called "dogs" is because when Caucasians came west they saw these remorseless rats digging in the same manner as canines. They also have this weird squeaky bark. But no one should have one as a pet. They are not trainable. Their habitat needs are massive, they should not be isolated from family groups, they carry the Black Plague, and they bite.
That was amazing. I've been waiting for a news report like this. It reminded me of trevor noah before the subtle hate-mongering and political agendizing. This report was funny, factual, to-the-point, and humanitarian as hell. Thank you.
I once witnessed two prairie dogs crossing a road and one was struck down. I watched as his companion dared traffic to seemingly rescue his unfortunate friend, dragging him to the side of the road like a scene from Saving Private Ryan! My heart was unbelievably touched and my eyes were full of tears, until he started munching on the other one like an AYCE buffet on Sunday after church!
my heart was warmed until that last sentence slapped me in the face with a boxing glove
@@paperart0 absolutely same 😂😭
can't let food go to waste.
Nature you scary
@@paperart0 watch "casual geographics" on UA-cam if you want a rea l one-two punch
Thank you John Oliver and all the writers of Last Week Tonight for handling this issue respectfully. As a gay man, this is important information that I think you shared in an informative non-alarmist way.
Pretty sure that it's not just you guys that are getting monkeypox.
The only way you can get a monkeypox test is if you are gay.
They're doing the same thing they did for HIV.
Stop having gay sex and you'll be fine
Why is this important for you "as a gay man"?
I dont want to offend you, but there is a clear misconception I want to point out:
This isnt about gay people (btw same with aids), this is about people mindlessly fucking around with other people they dont know.Hetero, gay, whatever, doesnt matter.
-> you should say: "As a man with a lot of random sex, this is important information"
or, if this is not the case, the information isnt more important for you than for anyone else who doesnt regularly stick his Wiener in unknown holes.
in no case, this is somehow important for you because you are a gay man!
It`s important to understand, because
1) I think it`s just wrong to lable gay people in general as people who have a lot of mindless sex with strangers.
2) When things are labled as a "gay community issue", it gives false signs of security to the heteros..like "oh yeah, the gays again.."
I think this is a really bad episode! While trying to be sensitive and somehow making amends for everything that went wrong in early media education about aids, it makes this fundamental mistake in portraying this as a gay issue.
Yeah honestly if anyone says something along the lines of, "Well it's only The Gays(tm) getting it so we're fine," they need to remember HIV which is even more specifically an STI than monkeypox. Look how far that spread without caring who it infected. This disease can be transmitted non-sexually. Diseases don't give a damn about your demographics, if not stopped, they WILL spread to you.
That prairie dogs link is not surprising. They're like a super-highway for disease and one of the consistent sources of Yersinia pestis (bubonic plague), anthrax, hantavirus and a host of others.
How they haven't been the subject of an extermination campaign is frankly amazing.
Because the live in their own fields and don't bother anyone. It has nothing to do with gay butt sex.
Too all those saying right wing people "Just don't have gay sex" when have you ever liked the government telling you what too do , I seem too recall multiple protests and meltdowns at staff over wearing a fucking mask.
America seems to love scoring a big fat “No” on every test it can.
Look, you can either have freedom from the godless commie hoard and their lackeys the canadians, or you can have a "functioning society" I think we all know which one is the right option
This one's on the left
@@Omnip073n77 Republicans are the ones afraid of science and learning.
@@Omnip073n77 your point?
@@donovanlocust1106 What they possibly mean is that the vast majority of cases are found in the community where same sex(homosexuality) is allowed which is definitely not in the right wing areas
"On a scale of 1 to 100, we scored a no." - John Oliver.
Low bar for brilliance
Have you never heard a human communicate before? Im with this other person, thats a pretty generic line lmfao.
I want to say how much as an artist I appreciate the lovingly rendered that minions picture was done.
Thank goodness lessons were learned during the pandemic.
As a healthcare worker in one of the hotspots, one of the hardest things I had to do this week was tell patients “I’m sorry, we ran out of the vaccine.” So many are afraid and frustrated. It’s shameful and unjust.
Are you advising people to quit having casual sex with multiple partners? My frustration is we shut down everything over Covid but we refuse to stop any pride events which have very clearly been super spreader events.
@@brasshouse9822 of course not, that’s homophobia.
We really comparing a super infectious air-spreading virus with a sexually/contact transmitted virus?
COVID forced shutdowns because simply being in the same room as someone infected could kill people. Monkeypox doesn't do that.
Also as for the "Are you advising people to quit having casual sex with multiple partners?" watch the video as it is addressed. 17:53 onward.
As someone who didn't get vaccinated, I am particularly confused as to how all the people I know that did have recently contracted covid again but, still, I have not..? Pls explain healthcare person. Ty.
@@z0mn1a Right? There isn't going to be a "next time", either.
Most people aren't buying the fearporn anymore.
To put this into perspective, our failure to respond to all this would be like your crazy doomsday prepper uncle being the first to die in a zombie apocalypse. He's been preparing for years just to deal with his neighbors turning into flesh -eating monsters, stockpiling supplies for the eventual collapse of society, only to get ripped apart by the first zombie horde he came across. All the rest of us can do now is play things safe and not stigmatize people who might get infected.
Also props to Jon Oliver for still biting the hand that feeds him because talk about head-scratching decisions from people at the top!
It is nuts that they didn't fix these issues with COVID.
@@darcieclements4880 Nuts? Yes, indeed. Surprising? Not in the least.
@@inarisarp lol, same corruption- different day.
What do you mean? What’s happening with the network?
@@minieyke I was referring to some of the wider decisions being made by Warner Discovery, all the various cancellations and reshuffling, and Jon's comment about them "definitely NOT burning down the house for the insurance money" (with obvious sarcasm).
amazing that he calls out Prairie Dogs names being a fallacy, and in the same breath say Meerkats and doesn't callout them not actually being cats.
Woah we all have to respect the best prairie dog BIG OUNCE
As a Broadway geek, that Lea Michele joke was absolutely fantastic!
Hey, I'm a molecular scientist and am validating a monkey pox test for multiple private labs across the country. There IS an early detection test where you test blood. HOWEVER, once pox start appearing (some ppl have mild symptoms and it may not be ass apparent) it's not really detectable that way and can cause false negative results. Theres just a window where it shifts to pox that causes us issues. Unfortunately our labs arent able to participate in research to test other sample collection processes. Next time I get a fever I'll swab myself in every way I can think though to give us a justifiable direction if it is mpxv though.
I should add, not even the CDC is accepting blood. They are only accepting swabs in viral transport media.
Yeah, in research science here.
I was helping with the initial SARS CoV 2 rapid tests. Those first few months were critical and CDC jamned the gates with their faulty tests.
They're still not being used the way they should.. 😒
Very little learning opportunities took place in our public health sector during Covid (and that's still actively something to be concerned about).
@A Potato your pcp should be able to test it. My mom had it and doc tested her. Very painful.
"ass apparent"
hehe
Also I'm a CS student and I'd love to find a place to work where I could help improve the way vaccines are distributed. Imagine replacing those bulky fax machines with raspberry pis or AWS servers
1890 ua-cam.com/video/L6z84sedczM/v-deo.html 😳
"Hey I've seen this one before"
"What do you mean you've seen this before? It's brand new"
Oliver, the only thing I remember about 2020 is that you BLEW IT UP!!! Good times :D
John Oliver and his team are definitely getting another Emmy - their reporting is just incredible
Yeah continuing denial of the Rona lab leak helps.
@@TylerShacklefordDurden What credible evidence did this show explicitly deny?
@@OC-CPA Lol there's been a single study recently saying it's wasn't a lab leak. Vs several suggesting otherwise since the leak.
@@TylerShacklefordDurden Cite your sources and show me where the show explicitly denied them.
@@OC-CPA Ask Jon's old boss.
It’s really sad and pathetic that we can have vaccines and know information about a disease and still not be able to properly respond to an outbreak of that disease.
Or wars, pandemics, medical treatment, climate change… your pick
won't*
Becoming informed, doing research with credible sources universally verified, and agreeing on things with people you don’t like for whatever reason has proven too difficult for America. Way easier to just pretend you get all your info from the “real” sources, none of which you ever cite.
@@callmekirkland8 Some of us aren't incels.
@Zatoiichii like your mom when she still let her Johns smash raw, even after having the clap.
Thank you so much for emphasizing the important facets of this epidemic.
I understand fax machine bashing. Yet, refreshed inboxes and complicated log ins will never replace the shrill printing alert sound as notification. Not too mention the expedience of just handing someone a piece of paper vs formatting for specific devices, attachments and installs. Japan still uses faxes and seem to be handling mass communication more efficiently than most countries. You know how many seem to have suddenly recognized vinyl LPs are the most concise media format. It helps that they’ve been in standardized international production and use for 80+ years. We may want to consider preserving the fax machine for the similar reasons.
I like your funny words magic man
Listening to MTG give medical advice IS like sitting on shards of glass.
Almost as bad as listening to AOC with climate.
@@theclamhammer4447 well we all have our poisons. I don’t argue with brick walls, and neither should you. Carry on and have a nice day✌🏾
@@ParahSalin I was agreeing with you. Being an elected official does not make these people experts in any way and it’s tiresome listening to them preach down when they very clearly have no expertise in the field.
i absolutely hate mtg. seeing her in hot pursuit of victims from Florida h.s. shootings, yelling, trying to pick a fight and harassing the young and vulnerable. how contemptible she is!
Like DJT advising bleach?
Was watching on Hbo and had to come here to leave a comment:
For the “Smallpox Secretariat” bit, I feel like the better tag line for the movie would’ve been “You can’t beat this dead horse.” Splitting hairs, love the show 🤙🏽
*literally here for the comments on prairie dogs
15:55 💯💯❤️
Letting those doses expire is showing how inhumane this humanity is.
Why cant you tell gays to stop having orgies? But have no problem telling everyone to cover their disgusting mouth holes, or you'll kill grandma, and oh, by the way, your dying father who has cancer can't say bye to his grandkids. But you expect me to shed even one tear over the fact other gays can't stop having group sex for a month. How about just one partner for a month? Hold off on group sex? So no, my father died alone in a hospital because I couldn't see him.
Or how a planned crisis can be exploited by a corrupt Government.
More likely ineptitude than inhumanity. The end result is the same, but it's less likely that someone said "Screw those guys, they can't have them!" and more likely that an overworked and underqualified bureaucrat was in a position for which they were ill-suited and failed to exercise appropriate oversight
Capitalism*
Yep - its what happens when leadership tacitly and openly categorizes nations as 'shit-hole countries'.
You'd think COVID taught us something - we survive or die together; not even Elon with his terra-formed Mars can escape our common human destiny
I want our public health response to be like our military. We should be spending money on vaccines even if we don’t need them just in case we do. Just like (or instead of) spending money on fighter jets even if we don’t need them but just in case we do.
We could cut the military budget in half and use the savings to fund healthcare.
Even like a tenth would probably be enough to cover everything for all citizens lol.
What's wild is that defense money was also spent on this, yet it's still a hot mess. Including in NYC which was a major focus. Wtf happened with the money.
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13:12 now we know where the “Peoples” character Jeffrey Wright was playing in Shaft was based on 😂
That Batgirl line was uncalled for😂😂😂😂