To ask if you are worried about monkeypox?

[WhenTheNightFalls]

Can't help but feel a little anxious about it all. Aibu?

No. A handful of cases amongst a particular community. Doesn’t seem much risk to the wider public.

You're not being U. But it's not something that worries me in the slightest.

I’m not worried. Though I’m aware that’s what people were saying in Feb 2020. 😂

Exactly this 😅

I'm a bit concerned. Not for me personally but the impact on an already overstretched health service. And I fear we're not being told the true extent of it.

The dr on the radio said it categorically doesn't have pandemic potential so no not worried

No. Prior to Covid this would have gone completely unremarked in the media. Now however, the media are whipping every last thing up into a mass frenzy and in doing so making a massive play on everyone’s health anxiety.

Are you worried about TB? Are you worried about Legionnaire’s disease? Are you worried about Scarlett Fever? No, because it’s not in the media spotlight. Don’t let yourself be played like this.

I can't be.
I refuse to tolerate another worry.

20 cases out of 67 million..... YABU.

No I'm not.

Take a look at the nhs page on monkeypox OP -
"Treatment for monkeypox aims to relieve symptoms. The illness is usually mild and most people recover in 2 to 4 weeks."

The media are trying to whip us up into a frenzy again!!!! 🤬

No fgs. Has everybody gone insane since Covid?

I am a little worried. On Monday the BBC website reported 4 cases in the UK, and now it's 20. It's spreading.

This

No, it can be prevented by the smallpox vaccine (I think it's something like 80% effective) and doesn't cause serious complications in most people even if it was spreading rapidly, which it isn't. The risk is very low.

No.

Not really but the BBC have just reported the cases have doubled from ,obviously very small numbers at present
There are also outbreaks in Spain and Portugal.

No not at all worried.

I have an amazing collection of screenshots from various healthcare experts from March 2020 calling people idiots for thinking it is anything serious.

no

It's nothing like as contagious plus I don't think evolves like a cronavirus, so unlikely to have pandemic potential.

@forinborin yes but covid was a new infection. Monkey pox has been around and studied for a while so we know much more.

Except Covid was a brand new unknown virus. Monkey pox is not new and we know how to treat it.

Yes but that is different. Covid was a novel illness - no-one on earth knew what it was or how to deal with it.

monkey pox has been on earth for a long time - it’s mild, doesn’t Spread as easily, we have treatments and vaccines already.

it’s a totally different kettle of fish

I am and I'm not. I am only a little worried as I am pregnant and getting anything like that in pregnancy can be worrying. But (from the v small bit I have read here www.nhs.uk/conditions/monkeypox/) it isn't hugely contagious betweeen people so hopefully nothing much will come of it.

monkey pox has been on earth for a long time - it’s mild, doesn’t Spread as easily, we have treatments and vaccines already.
First discovered in 1970s, not for a long time... and even with treatment and vaccines the case fatality rate is still around 1 in 100. Not in elderly like covid, mainly in children and young.