The Hill quoted a Brown University “public health expert” who said it was like walking a tightrope. “The tightrope you’re trying to walk is making sure that people don’t see it as just a gay men’s illness, but not alarming people so that they use up resources that need to go to the people who need the most right now.”
In other words, they don’t want worried heterosexual people hogging the monkeypox vaccine. Even though it affects everyone equally.
Like on the Animal Farm, some pigs are more equal than others. San Fransisco Mayor London Breed explained it like this: “We know that this virus impacts everyone equally — but we also know that those in our LGBTQ community are at greater risk right now.”
Oh, okay. It impacts everyone equally. But it impacts gay people MORE equally. Okay. Makes sense. Got it.
And then the Hill just went ahead and said it, what we all know is going on:
Part of the effort not to perpetuate social stigma has been a messaging strategy that doesn’t ask members of the LGBT community to limit their sexual partners.
Hahahahaha! The reveal is not that this attitude cuts DIRECTLY against the CDC’s latest wimpy guidance, or that the public health establishment is going to ignore the CDC anyway. And it’s NOT the wacky admission that they aren’t going to tell gay men to cut out sex — even for a little while. We already knew all of those things.
But … the bizarre logic! Or rather, the illogical premise. In other words, the unstated assumption that, if you ask gay men to limit their sexual partners, then THAT ALONE is stigmatizing.
Nobody is telling public health that it has to call monkeypox “the gay disease” or create monkeypox passports allowing hetero people into festivals while banning gay people. They could try just closing down the “festivals” for everybody: gay people AND straight people. But nope. That would “stigmatize” gay people, so instead, we are pursuing a “let ‘er rip” strategy, apparently.
What public health experts don’t realize is that all their efforts to prevent stigmatizing gay people is actually ... stigmatizing gay people. We’re focusing a LOT on all these sex clubs, parties, and festivals, and frankly it is appalling. It’s giving ALL gay people a bad rap. But public health’s tortured efforts to avoid asking gay people to stop having anonymous sex for two weeks is making things even worse, stigma-wise.
To justify not telling gay people to abstain, even temporarily, the Hill quotes another public health “expert” who explained that gay people won’t — or can’t — stop:
> [San Francisco public health officer Susan Philip] noted that adopting abstinence as a public health strategy doesn’t work, and can often be counterproductive because community members will stop listening to other guidance from officials.
Oh. So, the picture that is emerging from all this non-stigmatic messaging is one of widespread, stomach-turning, out-of-control gay sex orgies that either will not stop or the gay people are so sexually crazed they simply can’t stop. And the public health experts ASSURE us that abstinence won’t work, not even for two weeks.
Now, add the anger generated by all the disparate treatment. You know what public health experts think DO work? MANDATES. Mandates for hetero people, like lockdowns. Mask requirements. Vaccine passports. Jab mandates.
But, apparently, mandates do NOT work for gay people.
It’s a bad look. It doesn’t seem fair. While I’m totally anti-mandate for anybody, I know that the experts are NOT anti-mandate. They LOVE the mandates. Mandates for regular folks. But the response makes it look like the well-connected gay lobby is getting special treatment.
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