ROBERT BEST
@ShamanicPoet · 2:17
Monkeypox is Now Offensive, Apparently
I don't know if you remember, but back a few months ago, a very short number of months ago, there was a big bruhaha around the world about monkeypox. And given the last two years of public health advice and scare mongering that I have been extremely suspicious about throughout, I didn't really take it particularly seriously. And of course, there have been extremely low numbers of cases and I don't even know if anybody has died
And naming one of these things according to some sort of naming convention with numbers and letters, it doesn't stick in the mind very easy and it doesn't roll off the tongue very easy. And so it becomes problematic, especially if you're going to have a naming convention where some of these are similar but they're not exactly the same. SARS. Two SARS I can't even remember. There's been many of them. Right? So that's one issue I can see with this myself
ROBERT BEST
@ShamanicPoet · 4:35
I mean, they're amazing creatures and it's obviously a collection of creatures because there isn't a monkeypox, there's just lots and lots and lots of different monkeypox, which, by the way, are not apes, not the same as apes. So you've got gorillas and chimpanzees are apes and bonobos and various other things are monkeys, spider monkeys or monkeys. But they're gorgeous, they're wonderful creatures
Swell Team
@Swell · 0:15
The idea of opening the renaming of Monkeypox Worldwide in light of that story of Bodie McMahon Bays and then saying, you can't use an animal, and you can't use a place. Okay, now come up with a name. And, like, the only place my mind goes, it's, like, totally grossed out. It's the pustules. It's the pox. No, thank you. I don't know. It could be entertaining. It could be entertaining