Totally Stupid Call by LGB Alliance UK for Sex Venues to be Shut Down
Lesbians making health policies for Gay men. Come back for revisions, there are layers of stupidity here and I will likely remember more stupid aspects about this.
NO REASON TO DO THIS. NOT BASED ON SCIENCE.
BAD PRECEDENT FOR GOVERNMENT TO SHUT DOWN GAYS.
This is what an abridged initialism might do, but I doubt any Gay group would. (Okay, maybe some group of Respectability Gays might.) It also shows that the LGB Alliances are much the same as the LGBT groups, in terms of their politics except the T. They both support an assimilationist respectability Gay mentality and are itching to shut down sexual liberation. The difference is one wants the neoliberal agenda of 2012 for sexual minorities and the other is happy with the neoliberal agenda of 2022.
Should Lesbians be making health policy for Gays? Don’t we hear all the time about men passing legislation related to women’s health? Disclaimer, I don’t know how LGB Alliance made this decision or what their arguments were. It could be that they are all stupid and it has nothing to do with Lesbians.
So this is the story. The LGB Alliance UK has issued a call to shut down sex venues om Britain. This is a story in Pink News.
https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2022/05/31/lgb-alliance-monkeypox-twitter/
This is so stupid that I had to check if it was fake, but NO, it is real. This is their Facebook page post on this.
1st Page is here
https://www.facebook.com/LGBAllianceUK/photos/pcb.753676339388316/753676312721652/
2nd Page is here.
https://www.facebook.com/LGBAllianceUK/photos/pcb.753676339388316/753676286054988
I saved pdfs of all the pages for my records.
So lets go through all the stupidities of this.
REASON ONE THIS IS STUPID.
First thing, first thing before I get into the specifics of Monkeypox and the recent infections is this serious danger to the Gay community.
The current justification of the religious right to shut down porn and shut down homosexual activity is to argue that it needs to be done as a public health measure.
The measure to shut down sex venues as a public health measure sets a precedent to shut down other Gay activities and interests and homosexuality itself as a health measure.
This would give governments around the world the pretext to shut down Gay venues on the basis of health measures, because if the United Kingdom (Britain) does it, it would give it credibility.
THE OTHER STUPIDITIES IN THIS CALL BY THE LGB ALLIANCE.
What we know about the Monkey Pox strain is that it is 1% fatal. It isn’t like HIV. It is very treatable and containable.
To quote from this article in Nature magazine. https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-022-01421-8
But monkeypox is no SARS-CoV-2, the coronavirus responsible for the COVID-19 pandemic, says Jay Hooper, a virologist at the US Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases in Fort Detrick, Maryland. It doesn’t transmit from person to person as readily, and because it is related to the smallpox virus, there are already treatments and vaccines on hand for curbing its spread. So although scientists are concerned — because any new viral behaviour is worrying — they are not panicked. [Boldface added.]
And:
Most people recover from monkeypox in a few weeks without treatment.
And:
This strain causes milder disease and has a lower death rate — about 1% in poor rural populations
Much less would be the death rate in a group of people not poor, not in poor health and with a modern first world health system.
And in conclusion this is what the expert recommends instead vaccinating a large number of people.
Health-care workers would probably instead use a method called ‘ring vaccination’ to contain the spread of the virus: this would vaccinate the close contacts of people who have been infected with monkeypox to cut off any routes of transmission.
On the basis of the data that she has seen so far, McCollum thinks the current outbreaks probably won’t necessitate containment strategies beyond ring vaccination. “Even in areas where monkeypox occurs every day,” she says, “it’s still a relatively rare infection.”
Yes, vaccinate people close to the people infected, “ring vaccination.”
This is an article in Science. https://www.science.org/content/article/monkeypox-outbreak-questions-intensify-cases-soar
“We should definitely be concerned about this new situation,” agrees epidemiologist Rosamund Lewis, head of poxvirus diseases at WHO. Still, Lewis stresses that monkeypox, which causes skin lesions resembling those of smallpox, is not easily transmitted, and its spread can typically be limited by isolating cases. “It’s not a concern for most people,” she says. What’s more, several drugs and vaccines developed for smallpox can also treat and prevent monkeypox.
The smallpox vaccine is very effective and can even be used after catching monkeypox.
But vaccines, which prevent disease even if used up to 4 days after a person is exposed to the virus, could also be used.
So the sky isn’t falling.
What we need is a major roll out of smallpox vaccines to persons likely to get monkeypox. Nations have kept inventories in reserve. Older Gays are likely to have had small pox vaccinations which were discontinued in the 1980s.
What we don’t need is to set a precedent for governments to shut down Gay life on the basis of a public panic.
Although the initial cases are mostly men who have sex with men, we don’t know if it is really related to Gay men, or the initial point of spread just happened to involve Gay men. Waiting a week or two to know exactly what is happening would be wise, since it is monkeypox and not the bubonic plague.
I have been getting the impression that the LGB Alliances and some of the anti-trans groups are just bundles of resentment with no clear thinking.
This was a poorly thought out plan to seize leadership of the Gay movement.
This is also why I have dropped out of their Facebook groups, because they don’t really have a plan and just seem to be collections of resentments against trans and no idea how the present situation arose.