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Infectious disease: ignore the rules if the disease is Politically correct

 

The latest monkey pox news is that someone "discovered" you could use a smaller dosage of the vaccine by giving the vaccine subcutaneously. Well, duh.

Did the US get around to importing the millions of dosese they stored in Denmark? Who knows. 

Just like no one knows why it is taboo to say it is being spread by promiscuous MSM, or that the government that closed churches for 2 years won't close raves and other places where this is being spread. 

The reason no one will shut these high risk festivals down is politics, of course: They remember when Diane Feinstein faced a recall after trying to shut down the bath houses that were the source of a local hepatitis and Syphillis outbreak.

1986 Jan. 23: Mayor Dianne Feinstein told a U.S. Conference of Mayors session on AIDS that gay organizations in San Francisco "will regret" opposing her campaign to close the city's bathhouses. "It has been established that the bathhouses contribute to the spread of AIDS and they ought to be closed," Feinstein said. She said that her two-year campaign to close the bathhouses has been blocked by courts and gay groups "who have turned this into a civil rights issue rather than a public health issue.

As for the kids who caught it: well, if you have a lesion and don't wash your hands, you can spread it to kids. 

so maybe those diagnosed with lesions, or those with lesions who suspect they might be infected, should just self isolate? 

Or should the government legally impose isolation on those who are still infectious: i.e. people with active disease, as we used to do for scarlet fever, measles, etc. and indeed do with those exposed to Covid?

Here in the Philippines, we were quite strict about isolation of covid cases during the epidemic of the delta strain over the last two years (less strict now with the weaker omicron strain)

For example, here in the Philippines, Dr. Angie had to self isolate three times last year because she was exposed to someone, and the bank had to close down twice last year fot the same reason. Ruby, on entering the Philippines, had to go into ten days of strict isolation even though she had been vaccinated in the USA. 

And yes, the Philippines isolated the person who came to the Philippines with monkey pox, and also isolated his ten contacts.

in contrast, in the USA, the CDC recommends isolation but adds:

Ideally, people with monkeypox would remain in isolation for the duration of illness, which typically lasts two to four weeks. However, if a person with monkeypox is unable to remain fully isolated throughout the illness, they should do the following:

they then list obvious things like wearing a mask for a disease that is spread by skin to skin contact. 

But of course unless there is someone checking that the patients are actually staying isolated, and this includes arresting those who break quarantine, the precautions are nonsense.

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I have pretty well been ignoring the news from the Ukraine, but apparently the danger is now about attacking a nuclear power plant.

Dr. C explains:

 Dr. C has a headsup about what is going on there: 

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