Monkeypox infections, as the outlet acknowledged, “are highly concentrated in men who have sex with men,” others “can contract the virus through non-sexual contact and by sharing infected objects. “
Despite this reality, and the fact that the city of San Francisco has declared an ape pox emergency among the gay community, “Thousands of gay men dressed in leather, latex and much less, had fun here last weekend on Folsom Street at the kink and fetish festival,” the Post noted.
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The newspaper quoted California State Sen. Scott Wiener, D-San Francisco, as saying, “If other people need to have sex, they’re going to have sex,” indicating a non-interventional technique to regulate the disease.
“People will make their own decisions about their own levels,” Wiener added.
The newspaper also noted that “health officials in San Francisco, Chicago, New York and other U. S. cities are noted. U. S. governments dealing with waves of violence that disproportionately disgust gay men are avoiding calls for sexual restraint, fearing further stigmatize same-sex intimacy. “
This tightness in dealing with the latest global fitness emergency angered online conservatives who saw the global coronavirus emergency as tough.
Conservative commentator Ian Miles Cheong brushed aside what he perceived as the hypocrisy of fitness boards. He tweeted: “They forced everyone to separate from their dying parents and grandparents in hospitals, banned and forced young people to drop out of school and make Zoom calls, but ‘Men who have sex with men can’t calm down for two weeks?’
Former Republican congressional candidate Dave Giglio also observed the double standard, tweeting: “It’s vital not to forget that calls for abstinence to prevent monkeypox from working, yet cloth masks and totalitarian lockdowns actually prevent COVID. “
Freelance journalist Tim Pool mocked the fitness officials featured in the article for being politically too correct to combat monkeypox. He tweeted: “You can’t tell other people they don’t have a homosexual fitness emergency, it’s discrimination. People have a constitutional right to have sex with each other, as well as abortions. “
Conservative radio host Dan O’Donnell didn’t mince words about the report, saying, “They’ve shut down the whole country because of COVID-19, but they probably won’t shut down homosexual over monkeypox because of science. “
Virginia Republican delegate Nick Freitas tweeted: “Yes, bigots!Instead, let’s pretend that everyone is in danger and shut down the economy!”
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“Have we thought about making one-way grocery aisles?It’s a good idea,” tweeted Washington Examiner columnist Becket Adams, recalling one of the most memorable precautions of the pandemic.
“They ruined the economy for 2 years because of a virus with a 99% survival rate,” the Tennessee Libertarian Party Twitter account tweeted.
Real Clear Investigations frontman Mark Hemingway commented on the Twitter headline of the Post report, which read: “Sex is a major driving force of the global monkeypox epidemic. But fitness officials and longtime HIV activists say calls for abstinence aren’t working.
Hemingway reworked the name to highlight the dual popularity of fitness officials now to fitness officials at the beginning of COVID-19. “
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“Now excuse me as I’m going to hit a wall,” he added.
The Washington Post report presented a reaction to similar accusations of hypocrisy, saying that “public fitness officials reject comparisons to the early days of the coronavirus pandemic, when they imposed masks and closed public spaces. They pointed out that the novel coronavirus was unknown, much more fatal and in the air, with hospitals hit with patients sometimes for more than two years. “
He added: “Monkeypox has known remedies and vaccines, they have been difficult to access; it also didn’t kill anyone in the United States and hospitalizations are rare. “
Gabriel Hays is editor of Fox News. Follow him on Twitter at @gabrieljhays.