Yale Prof: Telling Gay Men to Stop Having Sex With Strangers to Halt Monkeypox Spread is Untenable

Chris Menahan
InformationLiberation
May. 24, 2022

"You can take our freedoms but you'll never take our bathhouses."

Amazing. They told us to lock down and stop living our lives for years to avoid COVID but now they say it would be stigmatizing and unfair to tell gay men to stop having random sex with strangers to avoid monkeypox. These are our "public health experts," folks. https://t.co/7RQExW5man
— Matt Walsh (@MattWalshBlog) May 22, 2022

Gregg Gonsalves is an associate professor at Yale School of Public Health and a public health correspondent at The Nation, according to his Wikipedia.

First, it is not a gay disease as @klts0 @Neurofourier and @Boghuma have said. If you are say it is, you are perpetuating stigma and ignorance, damaging the public health response to this and endangering lives. 2/ https://t.co/eIfj8zCd0c
— Gregg Gonsalves (@gregggonsalves) May 22, 2022

The answer isn't shut down all these parties, tell gay men to stop having sex at them or dancing in close proximity to each other. It won't work. It hasn't worked for HIV or other kinds of infectious disease outbreaks among gay men. 4/
— Gregg Gonsalves (@gregggonsalves) May 22, 2022

"If we jump to 'cancel events and stop having sex,' we lose any hope of an effective response later if this doesn’t burn itself out." 6/
— Gregg Gonsalves (@gregggonsalves) May 22, 2022

Remember how Fauci said go ahead and use Grindr for hookups during the start of the covid pandemic?

"If you want to go a little bit more intimate, well, then that's your choice regarding a risk," Fauci said.

For those who don’t have #Snapchat, here is Dr. Fauci on dating apps like #Tinder during the #coronavirus (via Good Luck America) pic.twitter.com/HrV3IJasnf
— Eamon Convey (@EJConvey) April 16, 2020

This monkeypox outbreak is a perfect opportunity for Fauci to start hitting up the gay bathhouses again like he did in the 1980s to "investigate."

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