A couple weeks back we made a quick guide to the #mpxv#monkeypox course of illness but perhaps that would be helpful here in our twitter community of mass infection resisters. 🧵…1/11
P.S. We are not medical doctors. We cannot provide you any kind of medical advice. I’m sure people will have a lot of things to add (especially nuance as this is super general), but we made this to wrap our minds around the course of illness.
Hope you found it helpful as well.
P.P.S. Two more things I really want to highlight in case they haven’t reached your eyes and ears yet. We don’t know how long protection from smallpox vaccine lasts but likely it isn’t fully protective if you got it during the US program that ended in 1972.
Monkeypox can live for a very, very long time. So, even though you might personally stop shedding when scabs fall off (this is disputed by some), that does not mean the virus you shed during infection is dead.
We talked to our health department yesterday about #MPXV#monkeypox and y’all, the future is not good. Essentially, because the public refused to do 10 day quarantines they dropped to 5 hoping they would at least do 5. This is the same with mpxv.
They said “for now vax is for close contacts”
Us: ok but don’t fomites live on surfaces at least 24 hours?
Then: yeah
Us: ok so what about when someone with #mpxv goes in Kroger and touches carts and products with open sores?
Them: we would use cameras to try to identify close contacts
Us: ok that is unserious. But let’s reframe, what about school starting in 6 weeks and the playground? Bathrooms? Cafeteria? Shared markers and pencils?