I gave up on California and of course SF in the 90s. Downtown SF stunk and got tired of what I saw on the street. Now the monkey pox has them just like AIDS did in the 80s.
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The latest example is the Dore Alley or Up Your Alley fetish fair in San Francisco. The fair is a reminder of why promiscuous gay sex can be such a disease vector. It's not just the multiplicity of partners. It's what they're doing with their partners. A citizen photographer known only as Zombie has photographed the fair (once in 2008 and once in 2015). View these photos at your own risk because they are nauseating.
Despite the fair being the perfect opportunity for spreading the virus ever further, creating more and more points of contact between the gay orgy population and the general population, the San Francisco AIDS Foundation is telling people "full speed ahead":
Read the article at the link I just posted. Written by a person on the front lines in San Fran at the beginning of what would become the AIDS crisis.TX04Aggie said:
Seems they desperately want/need it to be our problem and not just a gay problem. So let's just speed up the outbreak with these types of events to make it a general community spread type of issue…. "Seeee, it isn't just a gay issue, you homophobes!"
captkirk said:
Old Sarge said:I'm pretty sure the Pox isn't on their houses.captkirk said:
A pox on all their houses
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The government agency charged with helping Americans obtain treatment for monkeypox may once again be allowing red tape to stand between doctors and the treatment their patients need.
As the global monkeypox outbreak continues to grow across Europe and the United States, public health authorities have consistently been several steps behind an illness that has infected at least 5,000 Americans in the past three months. Now, with access to the nation's vaccine supply finally loosened after months of bureaucratic back-and-forth kept hundreds of thousands of doses trapped overseas, epidemiologists, physicians, elected officials and advocates for LGBTQ communities say that red tape is still restricting their ability to actually treat the virus.
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Tecovirimatalso known as TPOXXan antiviral drug approved by the Food and Drug Administration four years ago for the treatment of smallpox, has quickly become one of the most important tools in treating monkeypox infections. The disease, which causes deeply painful blisters in addition to flu-like symptoms, is the same genus as smallpox, which has prompted physicians to prescribe it as an off-label treatment for severe cases.
But TPOXX was only approved to treat smallpox infections under animal studies rather than human trials, which are impossible to conduct, given its global extinction four decades ago. Without human trials for monkeypox, TPOXX's use must be conducted only by doctors who are part of a hospital's internal review board, each of whom is required to fill out dozens of pages of paperwork in order to secure TPOXX for their patients. With some cities seeing scores of new cases on a daily basis, doctors are facing an increasingly unmanageable patient backlog.
"Only certain individuals are allowed to do consent… that limits it to a small number of individuals," said Dr. Timothy Brewer, a professor of epidemiology at UCLA's Fielding School of Public Health and of Medicine. "At UCLA, we're trying to expand the number of people who have that authority, and I'm sure other institutions are as well, but that clearly is the limiting factor."
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The labyrinthine process requires physicians to submit reams of information to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, state or local health departments, or sometimes all three. Until recently, paperwork required clinicians and patients to fill out a half-dozen forms, as well as to schedule multiple examinations, collect and ship specimens to the CDC and to provide photos of monkeypoxa near-impossible request for patients with internal lesions.
captkirk said:
So not every gay community in the world is stupid.Quote:
The LGBTQ community in Spain has advocated abstinence and the limiting of sexual partners to fight the monkeypox outbreak.
After Spain recorded its first monkeypox-related death on Saturday, something seen only in Brazil and Africa at this point, the country's gay community sprung into action to battle the virus "whether it's abstinence, avoiding nightclubs, limiting sexual partners or pushing for a swift vaccine rollout," according to Agence France-Presse.
OG UNF said:
Ah, the same city that wouldn't let people see their dying husbands and wives in the hospital one last time during covid.
"Sorry, it might look bad to tell the gay fetish orgies folks to cut it out for a bit"