Indonesia Tries to Calm Public on Monkeypox: ‘You’d Look Ugly, Definitely,’ but Survive.
Breitbart: Indonesian Health Minister Budi Gunadi Sadikin on Monday urged Indonesians not to worry about the recent global outbreak of monkeypox, noting at a press conference that while its signature sores would “definitely” make one “look ugly,” the disease has a low fatality rate, meaning one who contracts monkeypox is likely to “survive,” the Indonesian news website Coconuts Jakarta reported on Wednesday.
“You’d look ugly, definitely, but at least you’ll survive,” Sadikin said during a video news conference about the monkeypox outbreak on August 22.
Coconuts Jakarta reported that the health minister made the remark “in jest, after outlining monkeypox’s relatively low […] fatality rate.”
“As for treating [monkeypox], you don’t have to worry too much. The fatality rate is low, the hospitalization rate is low, and those who died did not die directly from the virus, but because of secondary infections from their infected skin,” Sadikin added.
Monkeypox is a disease caused by the monkeypox virus. The virus is zoonotic, meaning it is “transmitted to humans from animals [such as monkeys],” according to the World Health Organization (W.H.O.). The monkeypox virus is in the same family of viruses as the variola virus, which causes smallpox.
Infections of the type of monkeypox virus (the Clade IIb) that has dominated the recent global outbreak of the disease are “rarely fatal,” according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
“Over 99% of people who get this form of the disease are likely to survive,” the U.S. public health agency observed on August 22. more here
“Indonesian Health Minister Budi Gunadi Sadikin on Monday urged Indonesians not to worry about the recent global outbreak of monkeypox, noting at a press conference that while its signature sores would “definitely” make one “look ugly,” the disease has a low fatality rate…”
“Over 99% of people who get this form of the disease are likely to survive,”
Kind of the coof. I guess the hospitals will be “overwhelmed” by a lot of people “dying of monkeypox” pretty soon. With masks and jabs and contact tracing and lockdowns. Anything to avoid stigmatizing the rampant ass-piracy.
And you’d think that the risk of being ugly would be enough to make the most narcissistic people on earth do anything to avoid Pride-pox. You’d be wrong. But nice try with the psychological ploy, Budi Gunadi Sadikin.
So, a lot of ugly fags then.