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

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

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

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