Anyone else worried about M pox?

[girlfriend44]

It's been in the news today. Monkey Pox or M pox is spreading they have found a case in Sweden now and hinted it could spread more.
Anyone worried or is it scare mongering.

It seems to be in the news again?😪

How others may see my opinion is none of my business. They will interpret it however best suits them.

If people want to see me saying life is short, there are no guarantees, live it as much as you can as me being selfish, that's up to them.

My opinion as stated upthread remains unchanged.

We cannot control these things. Diseases kill people. People kill people. Lack of food and water kills people. The world cannot shut down. It is unrealistic. We all need to live until we die.

If individuals want to withdraw that is entirely their choice but they can't impose that on the other 8 billion + people in the world.

Pandemics have happened before and will happen again.

It's quite likely that at some point there will be a huge one that will kill fucktonnes of us.

Or Yellowstone will erupt.

Or a massive asteroid will hit the earth.

What you call selfish I call accepting reality.

The word "selfish" has been so overused during the pandemic, it's just lazy and boring now to cry selfish when somebody doesn't want to lock themselves up at home.

This is true. It no longer means much to many of us in a pandemic context, thanks to overuse.

@Goody2ShoesAndTheFilthyBeast

I think your POV was shared by many older people during the covid pandemic as they knew they had a limited amount of years left and didn't want to spend them shut away inside their homes .

A very difficult dilemma for their family/friends . I have been quite upset sometimes thinking of all those people living alone with no contact because their family member were worried about infecting them, but I can also see why they wouldn't have wanted the guilt.

Anecdotally, the very old people I know didn't give a lot of fucks about the covid risk. I didn't find it a remotely difficult choice personally, though.

I’m not expecting to die soon (touch wood) and ‘pandemics’ aren’t a big deal to me either. Call me selfish and a granny killer, water off a duck’s back. Goody2shoes is not selfish, just realistic.

I can’t believe there are people falling for it again. Have you learnt nothing from last time.

#FollowTheMoneyScience

Didn't worry over covid, don't worry about M pox.

However, I hope they don't start putting arrows on the floor of the supermarket, insisting people wear face nappies, although I would take full advantage of help out to eat out again. Saved a fortune last time.

That's it. It's just the reality of life.

We can't, realistically, keep everyone alive. People die of all sorts of things at all ages.

Pandemics happen and they are scary. Of course people want to avoid getting sick but a state of semi permanent lockdown going from one disease to the next is unsustainable.

I've got children, a husband, other family. Do I want them to die before their time? Of course not. I would hope they respond appropriately and sensibly to each and every risk in life, including diseases.

But there must be balance in life. Being too afraid to have any sort of life is no life.

As soon as I saw the first, very short, reports of a new virus in China I made a mental note to keep an eye on it. Which I did.

Didn't predict the panic buying, though I did make sure we had a couple of packs of paracetamol in the house. DH had Covid before the lockdown started, though we didn't realise at the time because no-one was talking about loss of taste and smell being a symptom. He worked in retail then and had customers just back from Italy come in, they even announced that they should have been quarantining themselves. He was quite ill and felt ill for months afterwards, DS and I caught it and it was quite mild for us.

I'm keeping an eye on mpox anyway - not worrying yet, I have too many things to worry about that are happening now, but it is concerning. As is bird flu.

I'm not too worried about it right now, but I will be if it evolves to be more contagious

It is inherently selfish to spread a deadly disease because you're bored.

If MPox does affect people on here, it is much more likely to affect young children and pregnant women. Parents will isolate with their young children if they think a virus circulating locally could kill them.
It may never be needed. But if any local quarantine is necessary, I think there will be high compliance rates from pregnant women and parents of young children - whatever they might say on here.

I think the discussions have been more about lockdown, haven't they? Local quarantines are more difficult in some ways, because they're less likely to include back up infrastructure like national lockdowns do. I'd expect pregnant women to do all they could to protect themselves, but they're not a particularly large percentage of the population. Gets more complex with kids because of the need for childcare if parents have to work.

It depends what you mean by "isolate". Those of us who had young children in the first lockdowns also saw the impact on them of restrictions. Things like staying off school and clubs, plus closing soft plays and activities, can all be forced. Isolate though, no, even at a 10% death rate keeping number of contacts limited can be sensible and we would keep up some walking distance little friend contacts with those who will also keep contact numbers small. Because mental health matters too and we know from covid later lockdowns that this limit worked fine.

Regardless, the idea that our government might choose lockdown over boosting vaccine facilities and running a vaccination programme is baffling. This is not an unknown virus and it has a vaccine, it is not the same as covid.

There's a cargo ship in Argentina been quarantined. Maybe it will be like that

I've just seen this which is reassuring

www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/article/2024/aug/22/new-mpox-variant-deadly-complacency-covid