Marjorie Taylor Greene says Americans should “mock” monkeypox since it affects gay men
Subscribe to our newsletter to stay up-to-date with the latest LGBTQ newsJournalist Allison Royal posted video to the rightwing video sharing platform Rumble of a short interview she did with Greene at the Turning Point USA Student Action Summit in Tampa.
Royal asked Greene about how the World Health Organization declared monkeypox a public health emergency of international concern this past weekend.“How can Congress ensure that this doesn’t turn into another COVID ‘pandemic’ that steals another few years of our lives?” Royal asked.“Of course, monkeypox is a threat to some people in our population,” Greene said. “But we know what causes it, and that’s pretty much, um… it’s basically a sexually transmitted disease.
So it’s not a threat to most of the population.”“People just have to laugh at it, mock it, and reject it,” she said. “It’s another scam,” she added, referring to COVID-19.Greene is incorrect; monkeypox is not a sexually transmitted infection.
The disease is spread through direct contact with lesions, prolonged face-to-face contact, touching items like clothes and linens that an infected person used, or via the placenta to a fetus.Currently, most cases have been among gay and bi men, but the World Health Organization is already suggesting that that could be because gay and bi men are “the canary in the mine that’s alerting us to a new disease that could spread to other groups.”Greene’s statement that Americans should “laugh at” and “mock” monkeypox because it’s primarily affecting gay and bi men at the moment comes as LGBTQ advocates are accusing the U.S.
