Is MTG Saying Monkeypox Should Be Mocked Because It Affects Gay Men?
monkeypox because “it’s not a threat to most of the population,” according to far-right Republican Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene.Greene made the remark at a recent conservative conference, the Turning Point USA Student Action Summit in Tampa, Fla.
The Georgia representative is well known for her anti-LGBTQ+ rhetoric and embrace of conspiracy theories.She has already spread much false information about monkeypox, or MPV.
Its current outbreak has primarily affected men who have sex with men, but anyone is vulnerable. She recently tweeted, “If Monkeypox is a sexually transmitted disease, why are kids getting it?”MPV is not a sexually transmitted infection, although it can be transmitted during the close physical contact that comes with sex.
But it can be spread through any type of close contact with the infectious rash that comes with the disease, through respiratory secretions from an infected person, or through touching items, such as clothing or linens, that previously touched the infectious rash.Greene’s mockery of the outbreak came when journalist Allison Royal spoke to her at the Turning Point conference.
