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Who didn't see this coming?

"The virus is mutating up to 12 times faster than expected."

And where have we seen this before?

Somebody ask Dr. Baric.

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You could say, this puts the crown* on monkey business.

* (lat. corona)

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Jun 27, 2022Liked by Moriarty

A POX ON ALL YER HOUSEZ! "A monitoring of the University of Emory and Stanford revealed that the concentrations of the DNA of the virus #monkeypox in the wastewater of #SanFrancisco have increased considerably, suggesting that there are 4 or 5 cases per 100 K people, and there are only 10 official cases" [...] "So using the 4 cases per 100k that is around 128 cases vs the 10 official ones 😣"

https://twitter.com/SheriD17536431/status/1541452102576267267

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How about the meningitis that's hitting the same community? Reports were that they've never had that many people die from it at once... 7 out of 24 cases. That was in Florida

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With all respect, you are eager to jump down the 'scientific' rabbit hole. Here is the definition of "French Pox" from thornber.net page titled "Glossary of Medical terms used in the 18th and 19th centuries" French pox : venereal disease, former name of syphilis. Johnson gives two meanings: pustules & many eruptive distempers and venereal disease. See also Syphilis. So do we have a known STD we call syphilis being rebranded as an 'outbreak' like how 'covid' a run of the mill respiratory virus, possibly the flu, was labeled as a 'pandemic'? Point a finger in any direction and you will find people contracting, or spreading, or dying from disease. Here is a quote from public health.jhu.edu/2022 on their page 'What you need to know about monkey pox' "It could also be that because monkeypox can look initially like the rash from syphilis, people who are particularly attuned to and watching for signs of syphilis would seek medical attention sooner than other people. So we don’t yet know what’s going on, but it has spread farther than we would have expected or have seen in the past. We’re trying very hard to understand the extent of transmission: Are we seeing most of the actual cases? Or are we seeing the tip of the iceberg? We don’t really know that yet."

Hmm, is that like how the signs of covid can initially look like other basic respiratory viruses? They never 'understood' the extent of covid transmission, either. Imagine, French colonizers bringing syphilis to Africa and now it is coming back to them with a brand new name!

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