pandemic? blame the cats.

monkeying around with pox

hey, let’s play a pandemic wargame and blame leopards!

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NOW - German health minister Lauterbach at G7 meeting: "We will do a very realistic exercise in which a smallpox pandemic results from a leopard bite."

every leopard in the world right now:

i mean, what is this, the simpsons?

i know cats are intimidating to humans, but you people seriously need to get a a grip.

that said, let’s not forget how oddly timely the G7 pandemic wargame for a hypothetical disease that looked an awful lot like covid was…

which, i have to admit, makes this look a little iffy alongside the “leopard pox”

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Can't wait for monkeypox lockdowns and stimulus checks. WHO calls emergency meeting as monkeypox cases cross 100 in Europe

reuters.comWHO calls emergency meeting as monkeypox cases cross 100 in EuropeThe World Health Organization was due to hold an emergency meeting on Friday to discuss the recent outbreak of monkeypox, a viral infection more common to west and central Africa, after more than 100 cases were confirmed or suspected in Europe.

right friends?

i mean, what sort of person would try to run that same play twice in a row?

and for the record, unless something truly dramatic has changed, monkeypox is just not that dangerous.

Is Monkeypox Hype a Paid Media Campaign?

i was going to do a piece on it, but igor beat me to it and i really have nothing much to add apart from the idea that i doubt that it was paid or even coordinated.

it’s just another topic the media all grabbed onto because it might turn into something and it will sell a few papers in the meantime. they all have the same 4 sources, so it’s not like it’s hard to see how it propagates.

there is no need to suspect a conspiracy.

it’s just the emergent property of “scary thing sells papers!”

but even reuters, despite their alarmist “worst ever” and “WHO emergency meeting” headlines is calling this a nothingburger.

(this is a classic practice BTW. alarming headline that few will read past that is actually refuted/disarmed in the body of the piece if you actually read it. only scanning headline nearly always leaves one with a vastly inflated sense of crisis.)

i suspect this is more about clamoring attention, the WHO trying to look useful/needed while they try to push through their massive power grab and posing for the papers, and left leaning media seeking to distract from some other matters like this:

and this:

but as of now, apart from more of this aggravatingly consistent policy of maligning felines for the world’s woes, i suspect the odds are in our favor to ignore monkeypox and media alike.

and just remember, when the gang whose reckless ineptitude broke the world for 2 years and brought you this asks for more unaccountable, technocratic power,

you already know the answer.