" The disease can also spread from person-to-person via large respiratory droplets in the air, but they cannot travel more than a few feet so two people would need to have prolonged close contact.

"It transmits through large droplets, which don't travel very far, or through contact with lesions themselves or touching someone with bed linens or clothes or recent contact with lesions," Doron said. "It's not something you get without very close intimate contact, which is why it doesn't tend to cause outbreaks."

She added this transmission route is different from that of COVID-19, which is spread through small aerosols that can hang in the air for several minutes.

"Aerosols are not subject to gravity but large droplets, they get pulled to the ground," Doron said. "Also, monkeypox isn't an illness that is transmitted during the asymptomatic phase, which is what made COVID such a formidable foe.""

I'm not saying there won't be further spread, but it's not a pandemic so it seems very unlikely that there will be a pandemic response.

Pretty similar to how it is now really, since there are no restrictions to speak of here.. (with the exception of the impact on the economy of course - due to a multitude of reasons, this certainly being one of them).

Edited by BlueJay (23 May 2022 10.25pm)

Pandemics tend to result in a global response. I was one of the the first to say that beyond the first lockdown, it was possible that more harm was being done than good, though in retrospect regardless of the response taken (Sweden for instance) tremendous damage was done anyway. People seem to rule out the nature of the virus itself as a massive contributing factor, and your solution appeared to be to do nothing, including vaccinating no-one.

The above combined with big changes like Brexit, and of course the Russian invasion of Ukraine and response to it to form a perfect storm. A lot more in life in haphazard timing wise than planned. I'm certainly not saying that people don't position themselves to take advantage of that, but that not everything is some dark plan in the making. Monkeypox isn't covid, and isn't a pandemic. We're not going to be plunged into a monkeypox lockdown, and as our own government don't even listen to their own edicts, I suspect that even in a legitimate pandemic situation in future of massive risk to health, I doubt most people would adhere to restrictions anymore anyway.

Is your business suffering or something? Absolutely relentless torrent of drivel. There is an excellent market for this sort of verbal waste on various social platforms which you can promote and monetise.

Did you know? 98.0000001% of people are morons.

I know, I can barely recall going to the office all 5 days a week and not just 3 or 4, there not being hand sanitizers in supermarkets and... wait that's about it. The Pepsi Max in my local supermarket has gone up by 10p per 2L bottle and I certainly remember what it was priced at previously!! Oh the mayhem and tyranny that has ensued!!! How were we so foolish?? How were we so blind!!!

Now Zaha's got a bit of green grass ahead of him here... and finds Ambrose... not a bad effort!!!!

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