(Not The Bee) The Chamberland filter. Penicillium rubrum. The Salk vaccine. At numerous times in human history, tremendous medical breakthrough have occurred that have completely re-oriented the way we view the world.
Well, brace yourself, folks, because it’s happening again. Scientists have made a breakthrough that nobody, absolutely nobody — I mean not a single person in the entire world — saw coming:
Sex between men, not skin contact, is fueling monkeypox, new research suggestshttps://t.co/2XF3l9laeU
— Tim Pool (@Timcast) August 18, 2022
Whoa.
I am telling you, this completely upends everything we thought we knew about the ongoing monkeypox epidemic. We’ll have to seriously reconsider every single thing we previously believed about how this virus spreads.
You will recall that experts have been really, really, really nervous to implicate the manic, fairly hedonistic sexual lifestyle practiced by many gay men as having anything to do with the spread of the virus.
But: