We Live by His Great Grace

 Andrea Widburg warns, at the American Thinker today that Biden seems to want monkeypox to be the next pandemic. I would here insert a second Democrat rule: the first being to never let a good crisis go to waste, the second being to make one up if none is available. Monkeypox comes along as a convenient "crisis" just in time for the midterm elections, which the Dems are supposedly going to lose big. If the Dems can gin up a sufficient amount of fear porn out of monkeypox, the thinking goes, they might be able to run some of the same plays as during the 2020 elections.

All this though betrays a certain lack of strategic thinking, and that is simply not the Democrats. They may be the party of evil, but they are not stupid. Everyone knows the old saying fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me. No, I don't think they will run the same scams again, but I do think Biden is trying to distract from the apparent incompetence of his administration, and his party's complicity in it.

Widburg writes:

Preliminarily, Dr. Robert Malone has written a great post about monkeypox (“Truth versus Fearporn”), from which I’ve gleaned a lot of my facts about the disease. Let’s start with what monkeypox is: It’s a variola virus that is related to smallpox, as well as to cowpox (which led to Edward Jenner inventing the first true vaccination), and other animal poxes. Like the animal poxes, it’s not very serious for humans.

Essentially, as cowpox did to those long ago milkmaids, monkeypox makes people have the same symptoms as smallpox, only more mildly. The illness is also contagious only through person-to-person contact, which means that classic quarantining and contact tracing work to stop its spread. Symptomatic people are isolated while health agencies find their contacts, and that’s kind of the end of it. No lockdowns and changes to voting required.

Further lowering the risk of monkeypox is the fact that it’s a double-stranded DNA virus. Those double strands slow mutations, which means that immunity, once acquired is good for a long, long time. Those who have been vaccinated against, or had, any of the other poxes, are almost certainly resistant to monkeypox.

If you are as old as I am, you got a smallpox vaccination before you could attend public school. We all have a smallpox scare on our left shoulder, so us old farts will be alright in any case. But the government stopped requiring the vaccine when it was determined that smallpox was eliminated.  Still, if you are younger, you may be worried about the latest exotic disease to come out of Africa.  Therefore I should point out that: 1) Monkeypox is a mild disease resulting in very few deaths, 2) It is not particularly contagious, requiring actual skin to skin contact. Think how many times a day you rub up against someone you don't know. Doesn't happen much does it? 3) The fact that it is a stable virus that doesn't readily mutate means that normal public health methods can contain it.

Monkeypox thus falls into the category of the myriad threats to us that we daily must encounter, but to which we barely give a thought. You are taking a risk every time you hop into your car and drive down the road. You trust that other drivers will take the same precautions as you, but you know that some of them will not. You trust that the car will not break down, but you know it might. If you know the statistics, you know that 24,000 Americans die in auto accidents every year. Yet you take that risk. And it is only one of the thousands of risks you take every day without thinking about them. Monkeypox is just one more. In the end, it is all in God's hands, and we live by His great grace.