For Walky

Off-season wrote:
Science Vs podcast has 2 episodes this week on monkeypox. Everyone should listen to both of them.

This variant is still being studied. There are 2 new, alarming things. The first is that we are seeing the first, sustained human-to-human spread of the virus. The second is that some cases *may* have been spread through aerosols rather than skin-to-skin contact. If that second thing turns out to be true, this could become extremely serious, extremely quickly.

tl;dr - what walkie said

If your post was tl;dr, then who would've read walky's?

At any rate, maybe I'm ignorant, but Monkeypox is last on my list of worries currently. Kind of like when I didn't wear a mask in an open field after being vaxxed from Covid.

Off-season wrote:

sweetcell wrote:
there are anti-vaxxers/i-don't-trust-the-government-types among the LGBTQ community.  their straight compatriots were largely responsible for scope the first pandemic.  rinse, lather…

True, but perhaps not relevant?

or perhaps relevant: it's tempting for some to say that monkeypox has become the problem that it currently is, because it was (still is?) seen as a "gay disease", and that as a society we were happy to let gays die of this through inaction.  homophobia is clearly still alive and well today, but i'm not convinced that's mainly how we got here.  i think blame for the current monkeypox mess lays somewhere between how little we know (knew?) about the disease, our pandemic fatigue, and the don't-trust-the-government-types spreading it because "science is making too big a deal of this." 

walkies shared with us an internal view.  i'm attempting to offer an external view.  truth is invariably somewhere in between. 

It’s has really only been around for months.  How much disinformation could be out there
It made news because there was a small trend in a small sample size
Then people got kinda bent on how to discuss that

But that’s just my take

It’s risky, yes
but I am more concerned about things like MRSA… which kills something like 20k a year…. That you should be concerned about anytime you are in a hospital

Eric-Hatch wrote:
It’s has really only been around for months.  How much disinformation could be out there
It made news because there was a small trend in a small sample size
Then people got kinda bent on how to discuss that

But that’s just my take

It’s risky, yes
but I am more concerned about things like MRSA… which kills something like 20k a year…. That you should be concerned about anytime you are in a hospital

Small trend?

X-posted to great headline thread

Have monkeypox? CDC advises no sex, but says masturbation 6 feet apart…to reduce risk

sub-Hatch wrote:
…to reduce risk

… of being caught, and charged?

Yada wrote:
https://twitter.com/buitengebieden/status/1559970221682819072?t=ULRIfhsVWGdU8DIdQAl4QQ&s=19

Ah yes, this ole goodie.  It was super cute when I first saw it and even super cuter now!  Plus, I love that Twitter page.

Walk,on,by wrote:

Yada wrote:
https://twitter.com/buitengebieden

Plus, I love that Twitter page.

Can confirm

Not talking about something, because you know it is a shitty opinion to have, is a tough position to be in.

Walk,on,by wrote:
Not talking about something, because you know it is a shitty opinion to have, is a tough position to be in.

Preach grrrl

"Gay and straight people joining forces to shit on Billy Eichner and Bros, is the closest we'll ever get to unity."

this is funny related to our comment about Rolling stone and their rankings

“Rolling Stone already has BROS on the list of the best comedies of the 21st century,” Eichner said

Not sure you should be bragging about that billy

Also blaming the straight people isn't a good move either ‘Straight People Just Didn’t Show Up’

I, like a lot of people, grew up on RS. Now, I don't understand reading about bands, and what they are doing . . . or opinions of positions. Is the magazine format, the same? I can't even remember, the last time seeing one in the grocery store. I can't remember that last time, even shopping in a grocery store.

I mean, does anyone really get magazines anymore? I only see RS content if someone tweets a link…

grateful wrote:
I mean, does anyone really get magazines anymore? I only see RS content if someone tweets a link…

I subscribe to a wild # of magazines: New Yorker, Economist (a newspaper really), Harvard Business Review, Sloan Management Review, The Atlantic, Harpers, New republic, Conde Nast Traveler, n+1, In These Times, Paris Review, London Review of Books, Cahiers du Cinema.

Your bathroom, must be a treat.

Walk,on,by wrote:
Your bathroom, must be a treat.

Eww. They’re on the coffee table in the parlor.