“Msm will push monkeypox lockdowns within the next month……….here we go again,” reads another post from Monday. “Soon: Just 2 weeks to flatten the monkeypox curve,” a member of a conspiratorial Reddit group with over 1.7 million users posted last week.
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But for the average person, on a worry meter from 0 to 10, it’s probably below a 1.”īut over in the bizarro world of pandemic truthers and far-right conspiracy theorists, many folks have been spreading a drastically different message: Monkeypox is clearly “Covid 2.0.” Naturally, this crowd baselessly believes, global elites will soon enact a new wave of supposedly inane and harmful mass lockdowns, vaccinations, and more. So few see any cause for widespread concern-and no actual experts or officials of any note appear to be calling for COVID-style control measures.Īs Grant McFadden, a poxvirus expert at Arizona State University, put it, “For a virologist, this transmission is worth study, and it’ll probably teach us a few new things about monkeypox. It doesn’t spread all that easily between humans, nor, to experts’ current understanding, asymptomatically. But unlike the novel coronavirus, several experts on the disease told The Daily Beast, monkeypox is a known entity. Sure, the global outbreak of a couple hundred cases of a disease usually confined to clusters in Africa is odd and not yet well understood, and after two years of COVID, news of a virus potentially doing something new inevitably has people on edge. Public health experts and most mainstream media outlets have spent much of the last week or two assuring people that monkeypox is not the new COVID-19.