CDC Recommends Wearing Masks around your Bottom to Avoid Monkeypox, Ignoring an Important Factor

Just in case you needed yet another reason not to take the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) seriously, this story should suffice. The agency released a study on Friday recommending that people wear face masks, among other measures, to avoid catching monkeypox.

The problem? The precautions the CDC suggested do not line up with what the data shows about the spread of the illness.

This week’s Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR) contained research on the spread of the monkeypox virus through contaminated surfaces. The study centered on two patients who lived together and had contracted the virus.

“To assess the presence and degree of surface contamination of household objects contacted by monkeypox patients, [Utah Department of Health and Human Services (UDHHS)] swabbed objects in the home of the patients,” the report explained. “The patients identified high-contact objects and surfaces for sampling; the patients also described cleaning and disinfection activities performed within the home during their illness and locations within the home where they spent substantial amounts of time while ill.”

The study examined 30 different samples from the home and found that 21 of the surfaces showed positive real-time polymerase chain reaction (PCR) results. However, none showed the presence of a live virus.

Still, this did not prevent the CDC from trying to convince us to mask up and take other steps because monkeypox could be spread through surfaces. The researchers wrote:

“Monkeypox virus primarily spreads through close, personal, often skin-to-skin contact with the rash, scabs, lesions, body fluids, or respiratory secretions of a person with monkeypox; transmission via contaminated objects or surfaces (i.e., fomites) is also possible. Persons living in or visiting the home of someone with monkeypox should follow appropriate precautions against indirect exposure and transmission by wearing a well-fitting mask, avoiding touching possibly contaminated surfaces, maintaining appropriate hand hygiene, avoiding sharing eating utensils, clothing, bedding, or towels, and following home disinfection recommendations.”

However, other studies have clearly shown that those who become infected with the virus are predominantly men who have sexual relations with other men. In fact, the New England Journal of Medicine published a study showing that 98 percent of those infected were gay or bisexual men. Only two percent of cases did not fit into this category.

These findings suggest that masking only protects the wrong part of the body.

Perhaps people should be focusing their attention a bit lower?

ZK2A:

The Torres Strait communities are demanding a treaty, and “sovereignty.” Take note Australia, this is what you can expect from a “Voice.”

I’m tempted to give them Sovereignty.
Let them make a deal with China, let the Chinese strip their fishing grounds bare and let them establish an airfield on Thursday Island.
Then watch them regret it as the Chinese rename it Haiku South and flood the islands with settlers (*cough* administrative family supporters *cough*)

Wodger:

It’s a path to more resentment and division.

Well, yes.
That’s its intent.

Until rich sceptics like Gina buy major media outlets and refocus the narrative Plimer is irrelevant.

One of life’s biggest recent disappointments came when Gina abandoned her quest to buy Fairfax. It would have been crack-of-the-sofa small change for her. Stock bottomed out at 48 cents.

Instead, the Age is now edited by Margo Kingston’s sister, the newsroom is full of rainbow flags, hijabs, bicycle helmets, vegan lunches, tattooed kiddies and preachy 22-year-olds who, going by this morning’s perusal, couldn’t spell ‘Zorko’ until someone with better than Grade 4 literacy clocked on.

How has Andrews managed to get away with crapping in Victoria’s lap? Watch his next presser and observe the lame questioning and insipid follow-ups. Both Melbourne comics are guilty, but The Age more so by vast degrees.

While mention of The Age has my ire quotient surging, consider what the editrix did when the wallopers gave one of her snappers an up close and personal pepper-gas spritzing during the big freedom rally: Nothing.

Oh, she did write a please explain letter. Whooppee-do!

You an editor, your staffer is assaulted by the forces of law and order running wild with Spring Street’s blessing, there’s only one course of action: J’accuse all over the front page.

But The Age is so morally and ethically compromised it ignores even its own people’s pain because that might reflect badly on the DanFilth.

From JC’s link.
Look how happy to the fat guy in the grey t-shirt is being thrown sweeties.

Flyingduk:

and systemic promotion of unhealthy food via the ‘food pyramid’ has left the majority of the population ‘fat, dumb, sick and lazy’.

Knuckle Dragger
August 15, 2022 at 12:17 pm
Winston Smithsays:
August 15, 2022 at 11:42 am

JC/Monty:
If every hefty American got treated at these drugs’ current prices, the annual market for incretins would be a trillion dollars.
If every hefty American – or Australian, for that matter – actually got off their arse and stopped blaming CoRporAtions, McDonalds, teachers, the internet and infomercials for being morbidly obese disease magnets, they wouldn’t need fake weight loss pills.
If someone can explain to me why these things will magically make you ‘healthy’, and in the face of years if not decades of deliberate sloth it would be greatly appreciated.
The drugs will be widely used if studies can show they prevent diabetes, heart disease, and other costly ills.

Put. Down. The. Fork.

The government caused this weight gain crisis with the Food Pyramid and the constant vilification of the meat/eggs/dairy diet.

Bullshit they did. I will flay gummint’s skin and hang it from flagpoles for many things. Many, many things, but not this.
Even if people believed that ‘government caused this weight gain crisis with the Food Pyramid’, why the necessity to paint themselves as victims?
‘Oh, it’s the government’s fault I am a cellulite-riddled subcutaneous fat museum. Woe is me. What’s that? Go outside? Walk around for a bit? Decide, of my own free will not to have that sixth cheeseburger? Preposterous – there’s no way I can write letters to the editor blaming other people for my own shit level of personal responsibility if I did that.’
The ultimate cop-out, if all else fails, is of course ‘Oh, all my family are heavy’, or the truncated version: ‘But muh genes.’ Anyone running that line should be looking in the mirror, each and every day, not liking what they see and saying to themselves: ‘This is my fault.’
Don’t blame the market for responding to weak people’s shit demands.

Sorry, Flyingduk. I am reliably informed and corrected on my part about the Food Pyramid.

Check this out. Sublime.

It’s the wallpaper on my phone, Calli.

the sacred rock

It is not a “sacred” rock. It’s a rock. A rock that punters are not permitted to climb.

It amuses me that journos who are more than happy to dismiss churches as “just buildings” think rocks are holy.

Here’s a nice little genset – 10kVA for $7.5k

I think that this may be the solution to the Abortion fracas.

Apparently, a team of Israeli entrepreneurs is planning to grow human embryos in artificial wombs. After they grow, organs could be harvested from such infants. To avoid ethical dilemmas, human embryos will be grown without heads. No kidding. The article does not explain how growing human embryos without heads would “avoid ethical dilemmas”, leaving the reader needing to figure it out on their own.

Rabid abortionists could use IVF to have an embryo implanted in them that has been genetically engineered to not have a head. Then they could abort it right up to birth, and because it has no head, Catholics and other pro-lifers would have no standing.

Discuss.

Here…have another bowl of Sugar Frosties!

Consider it a Booster.

Blaming the Food Pyramid for obesity is like blaming the Reserve Bank for your home loan woes.

Fuck you’re dumb rosie. The food pyramid has been promoted in schools since the 1970’s at least, and it’s completely fucking wrong. People followed it because they wanted to be healthy, following “the science”, and they ended up fat as fuck.

No one I know who is in decent shape eats anything like the food pyramid suggests.

I’m such a food nazi. Watching all those hyped up kiddies at the animal park this morning eating all manner of junk food and buzzing around like blowies in a bottle. Sniff.

The two grandies, carefully fed on toast and peanut butter/vegemite with water in their popup bottles, were no different. Not even in scream pitch.

Tonight will be a reeling delirium of fatigue. For us, not the children. Their healthy, righteous diet will keep them going well into the evening. Pity help us if they had gone anywhere near sugar.

Put. Down. The. Fork.
The government caused this weight gain crisis with the Food Pyramid and the constant vilification of the meat/eggs/dairy diet.
Bullshit they did.

Absolutely fucking wrong. Eating per the food pyramid creates hunger, mainly via the intake of excessive carbohydrates, which is only satiated by the intake of carbohydrates. Vicious cycle established.

If someone “wakes up” and realises what the problem is, and they eliminate carbohydrates, they will go through 2-3 weeks of withdrawal symptoms that are nearly as bad as going cold turkey from any drug you are addicted to.

As with any addiction, a lot of people crash out of the cold turkey and return to the addiction worse than ever. Ask any young lard arse how many diets they have been on.

Blaming the Food Pyramid for obesity is like blaming the Reserve Bank for your home loan woes.

I’ll play the choice card on this one.
If you don’t like the Food Pyramid’s advice, you can get dietary advice elsewhere.
If your bank’s loan interest rates are too high because of the minimum set by the RBA, which other bank will you go to that doesn’t have their minimum set by the RBA prime lending rate?
I suppose that isn’t necessarily a rhetorical question, but the RBA would have to be the main source of loaned funds, surely.
I agree you can’t blame the food pyramid as a proximal cause of obesity, but that was not a great way to argue it.

How would food consumption and obesity levels differ today both in the type and quantity if the food pyramid never existed?

It would mainly on whether or not this incorrect information was supplanted with accurate information.

If the food pyramid never existed, then we’d probably be in only slightly better shape.

If the food pyramid was replaced with the correct information, and was promoted in the same way. We’d be in much better shape.

Most people don’t want to be as fat as fuck like munty, they just don’t understand what they need to change. They think it’s mainly about portion control, and it isn’t.

Roger

From what I remember, meals were smaller in the 1970s and, of course, there were far fewer fast food oulets.

Hamburgers had beetroot, onion and lettuce with the meat pattie, decadence was a Chiko Roll, fried, but the contents largely vegetable, with a smidgen of meat. Chips were still chips, but probably fried in animal fat. Fish deep fried in batter, probably also in animal fat.

Another disaster will be the “Eat the Bugs” movement.

The tragedy of eating bugs will be the end of pets. Dogs and cats are out of the question if you can’t get access to meat. If they keep selling pet meat the proles will start eating it and the HR department won’t be having that.

meals were smaller in the 1970s

Plates and bowls were certainly smaller back then. They introduced those white plates in the nineties to serve as a canvas for the celebrity chefs to create their masterpieces. White plates the size of a toilet seat which have the effect of making normal sized portions look tiny.

Growing up in the 60’s and 70’s (born 56), any sort of takeaway food was almost unknown for us. We might have got fish and chips once a month if lucky, I can remember getting Chinese once, we had to take our kitchen pot to put the food in, no plastic containers then. Most nights meat and three veg, everything cooked in butter or dripping. School sandwiches wrapped in waxed paper.

A roast on Sunday if lucky, usually lamb or beef, chicken was a special treat then. I can’t remember eating spaghetti till the early 70’s when the concept of ‘healthy eating’ began to be promoted. Mum suddenly started making pasta dishes and cooking fat free a lot. No one in my family was fat, grandparents, parents, kids and almost no one I knew was fat. The only fat kids at school, there was usually one in every class were usually Italians, pasta?

No one in my family worked particularly hard physically, dad was copper, mum at home and the same for nearly all my mates and relatives re easy work.

Nope it’s the food pyramid I reckon and now we eat a lot more.

Confessions of a former lard arse:

In my teens I could eat whatever I liked, never got fat. I was aware of the food pyramid and we had received classes on it through primary and high school. As I moved into my 20’s and got an office job, I slowly accumulated weight, just a bit each year. By late 20’s I was well overweight but hid it reasonably well due to my height. I didn’t want to be overweight but I had no idea how to fix the problem.

Importantly, my professionally trained gym instructor and health guru girlfriend didn’t have much of an idea either. In fact her suggestions around diet and exercise were completely wrong. She had been trained with the wrong information.

Doing my own research and thinking about the problem myself I decided that I needed to eradicate all carbohydrates and sugar. The compromise was that I could eat as much meat and fruit and vegetables as I liked.

Coming off carbohydrates and sugar was very unpleasant. But within two weeks I was over the worst of it and feeling much better. I did minimal amounts of exercise for this whole period.

The end result was that I lost about 30kg in 4 months with weight loss slowly tapering away after that. All up loss was almost 40kg.

Because of the food pyramid and its adoption through the health profession, there are very few people who can genuinely help people lose weight and get fit in a manner that’s permanent.

@ RickW:

Carb “withdrawal”?

Talk to folk from Asia about RICE.

The way I see the role of rice in the diet all across vast swathes of S E Asia, one would get the impression that it was the RICE doing its Darwin thing and co-opting humans to hugely support its propagagtion..

Maybe it is the “super-grasses, like rice, wheat, corn, barley, etc. in their various strains, that are “exploiting” the humans.

“Rice-withdrawal” is a REAL thing.

Frank:

The tragedy of eating bugs will be the end of pets. Dogs and cats are out of the question if you can’t get access to meat.

In the bush, while we’ve got roos, we’ll have pets.
Or if Fido wants variety, we’ll take him out for a fresh roadkill. Even an Armadillo is tenderised when a road train has finished with it.

GreyRangasays:
August 20, 2022 at 5:42 pm
BJ, you’re pushing it a bit with the Chiko Roll. Nobody knows what’s in a Chiko Roll. Lift your game please.

The shredded cabbage was easy to identify, and that seemed to be the majority of the content.

Zipster

Adams and North have uncovered an absolute scandal with one Australian bank Suncorp pushing microchipping propaganda onto its customers.

This is another attempt at pushing programming on the general population to embrace a dark totalitarian world where individual freedom is surrendered to Big Government, Big Business and Big Tech.

Wouldn’t it be easier to simply say “Big Fascism”?

Rabz

It’s better without me there, but the collectivist imbeciles that he lets run riot there are (inadvertently) hilarious.

Not Trampis (Homer), Prospero (probably Steve from Brisbane), False Equivalence (may be a sock) and Passing By (also may be a sock. Dubbed by me the Four Bike Riders of the Minor Inconvenience.

One Honest DC Attorney– Incredible Opening Statement Made by Progressive Democrat Public Defender at J-6 Trial: “THEY HAD EVERY RIGHT TO COME TOGETHER – AND OBJECT THE CERTIFICATION OF THE ELECTION!!”
Although some will say Natasha Taylor-Smith was just doing her job by defending her client Kyle Fitzsimons, she is a rare exception to the rule. Many J6 public defenders have completely neglected their clients.

Adams and North have uncovered an absolute scandal with one Australian bank Suncorp pushing microchipping propaganda onto its customers.

Btw, Suncorp Bank was sold to ANZ on 18 July. What that means I don’t know, but the big 4 will probably have various security initiatives in the pipeline.

Suncorp pushing microchipping propaganda onto its customers.

Wonder where exactly on the body they are going to be implanting them. This is important because those are the bits that will get amputated when some scumbag decides to drain your grandmother’s account.

They’d rather kill the media outlet than allow any opinion that differs from their own.

I thought that’s what happened- surely the Aged and the Sydney Morning Vomit don’t exert much influence except amongst their cult readership.

So ANZ, the second most loathsome of the big 4 after the NAB, took over Suncorp? So now they control GIO and AAMI too I presume. That sux.

Cassie

They’d rather kill the media outlet than allow any opinion that differs from their own.

Their terms are acceptable. Kill it.

Why is a woman used as a metaphor for Muttley??

I’m confused.

For those of us who aren’t into watching (Katie Hopkins) videos, can you provide a precis of the argument?

Power prices rising astronomically and people will have to choose between heating and eating.
I think het argument was ambiguous – the million people may decide that life is not worth living in the UK.

het s/b her