Monkeypox to Be Renamed Mpox ‘Because of Racism’
Monkeypox is to be rebranded as ‘mpox’ after global health experts said the name had racist connotations and could lead to stigmatisation. The Telegraph has the story.
The World Health Organisation (WHO) said the term monkeypox would be phased out over the coming year.
It follows a forum in the summer in which two families of monkeypox – the Congo Basin and West African clades – were renamed as Clade I and Clade II.
At the time, the WHO said the decision was to “avoid causing offence to any cultural, social, national, regional, professional, or ethnic groups, and minimise any negative impact on trade, travel, tourism or animal welfare.”
In a statement about the move to ‘mpox’, the international health body said: “When the outbreak of monkeypox expanded earlier this year, racist and stigmatising language online, in other settings and in some communities was observed and reported to WHO. Following a series of consultations with global experts, WHO will begin using a new preferred term ‘mpox’ as a synonym for monkeypox. Both names will be used simultaneously for one year while ‘monkeypox’ is phased out.”
Worth reading in full.
And what happened to monkeypox, declared a public health emergency of international concern (PHEIC) on July 23rd by Tedros, against the wishes of his advisory committee?
Must have been the lockdowns…
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Will they also rename monkeys to ms? Or would that collide with the M&M trademark?
🙂
LOL
There are monkeys, then there are MS monkeys…
Sadly some of them may be suffering from MS…
Mx if non-binary monkey.
What kind of mind automatically associates the word “monkey” with certain types of human beings?
Not mine.
I suspect that the racists are the people who make these associations and then assume everyone else does the same and then try to regulate our speech, presumably to compensate for their own messed up minds.
Indeed, they are projecting mightily it seems. Freud would have a field day!
American airheads blissfully unaware of anything but their own racist cultural prejudices: Monkeys are considered holy animals (AFAIK) and a symbol of luck in Japanese culture. Said American airheads have already managed to admonish people from Japan for politically incorrect cultural heritage.
Pointless exercise changing the name and phasing out the word “monkeypox”. The entire flaming virus should be phased out and forgotten! Nobody gives a flying stuff about the damn thing.🤯
Why don’t they go all the way and call it ‘Happy time jolly feeling’, then we can all really look forward to catching it.
And what about “chickenpox”? No shortage of humans that behave like them.
Zing!
Isn’t “smallpox” size-ist?
Nice
I dunno – reckon the real reason might be that no-one took it seriously with that silly-sounding name. Mind you, mpox isn’t exactly scary either. SARS-COV-2 is much better.
Ultrapox, with apologies to Midge Ure. Perhaps, I shouldn’t give them ideas?
Nah, I think it needs to be some random combination of letters and numbers to make it sound scientific.
That means nothing to me…
They could perhaps rename it Boris Johnson for services to a pandemic and then declare Boris Johnson a global health emergency.
I have to say, I have always been offended by the term “man-flu”, as I have been at death’s door with this horrible affliction (once I even had to have a beer and some crisps to alleviate the symptoms!) and those who seek to trivialize it should be ashamed. From now on, I will accept no other terminology than “m-flu” for when I’m a bit tired and have the sniffles and can’t budge from the sofa.
That sounds terrible, David, I’m glad you were able to reach for the remote and flip the channel in between visits to the fridge. It’s a miracle you survived….
PEOPLE ARE DYING BETWEEN THE TELLY AND THE FRIDGE
ahem
pEOplE arE DyiNg bETWeEn thE tELly aND thE frIDGe
I am sure the world’s populations of monkeys will be absolutely delighted at this exciting news.
Only the woke ones
Primate-pox? Equally offensive to everyone. Mind you, ‘pox’ has special meaning in UK. (See Shakespeare).
LOL, I see what you did there 🙂
The WHO seem to spend more time making up stupid names for diseases because of some imaginary offence than actually dealing properly with public health concerns.
During the 2020 BLM riots, it was declared that these were ok despite they were not compliant with general corona regulations because racism would be a bigger public health problem than COVID and hence, fighing racism would benefit public health more than social distancing. Hence, the WHO renaming monkeypox to mpox to combat racism just shows that they have the proper priorities.
And even more ironically, Sweden of all countries would not have tolerated these “peaceful protests” as they clearly violate the ONE and only hard mandatory Covid rule they ever had for the general population: the Rule of 50 (or 500 or 300 or 8, depending on the time period), which only applied in public. They apparently did not carve out any arbitrary exceptions for performative wokeness.
https://www.unz.com/sbpdl/when-everything-is-racist-nothing-is-racist-cnn-argues-daylight-savings-time-is-racist-because-is-disproportionately-impacts-people-of-color/
Since when was “monkey” a race instead of a primate? By conflating the animal with certain races it is the WHO that is racist. Perhaps “chicken pox” should also be renamed as the animal could be conflated with politicians and other officials.
“Perhaps “chicken pox” should also be renamed as the animal could be conflated with politicians and other officials”
I think you’re thinking of dickhead pox
Reassuring to know that the people we’re up against are absolute morons.
The problem is, they’re morons with machine guns …
What beats a moron with a machine gun? A lesson with a machine gun.
How about Bolloxpox or is that too gender-specific? It is certainly the best description I can think of Global Health Experts (whoever you are) since it is total and utter bollox.
Let’s just ban words. Lot easier.
“Mpox?”
“What’s the M stand for?”
“Monkey”
“Ah, so it’s called Monkeypox”
What a total and utter waste of time
The M-word
And Avian Flu? Pig erysipelas. Bird flu. et al – oh, sorry Al I meant no offence.
More virtue signalling bollox from the WHO
So, you can just point at something… and say it’s racist… because… it possesses some property or other that also happens to be possessed by, er, something considered to be part of a ‘vulnerable’ category? This reminds of when, as a teacher (God help me) in an English secondary school, I used frequently to be accused by cretinous English teenagers of being a ‘racist’ because I used the word “black” in any context. Any. It became a sort of basso continuo, accompanying every lesson. Teaching colours in French or Spanish (yes, I was a modern languages teacher, God help me again) was, um, frustrating. “Le livre est de quelle couleur? – Il est noir.” “Oh God you’re such a racist sir.” The kids were sometimes serious, sometimes not. But the utter predictability of this reaction was an indication of the degree to which this fatuous obsession had penetrated every corner of their lives. And when it came to Spanish…
You’ll be pleased to hear that I got out of teaching in British secondary schools some years ago. I’m in church mouse territory now, but it’s better this way.
How on earth could the term monkeypox be racist?
Evolutionists claim that we evolved from a common ancestor with monkeys. Isn’t this racist then against the entire human race? If it is offensive to be associated with monkeys aren’t all evolutionists racist? If evolution is true, then why is it an offense to be associated with monkeys?
Also, if the WHO think the term monkeypox is racist, then I can only assume that the WHO are associating monkeys and the pox with Africans in a negative way, therefore the WHO are the ones who are racist.
There is no such thing as a human race! Claiming otherwise is racist! All humans were individually moulded by we-don’t-know-who from wet sawdust and dropped onto the world from the sky in a night without moon. They’re not animals! Otherwise, they’d have sexes and not genders and would reproduce biologically!
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NB: I disclaim personal responsibility for this nonsense, as I’m just retelling it in a less grandiloquent way.
Love it!!!
I really feel for Cows and Chickens. Clearly nobody gives a damn about how they feel.
Guess they will be renaming ‘the black death’?
By referring to it as ‘mpox’ instead of ‘monkeypox’, they are drawing attention to the stupid racist connotation of the word ‘monkey’ and thereby reinforcing it, and giving it undeserved credence, instead of ignoring the stupid connotation.
Anytime I have heard or used the term ‘monkeypox’ in conversation, any racist connotation never entered my mind, but every time I hear the word, ‘mpox’ it inevitably will, how could it not?
The effect of this re-naming will be like the Streisand effect. From Wikipedia:
“The Streisand effect is a phenomenon that occurs when an attempt to hide, remove, or censor information has the unintended consequences of increasing awareness of that information…”.
The word ‘monkey’ is therefore now in danger of becoming a taboo word for the woke, which some people will hesitate to use in case it offends someone, like the word ‘woman’.
Arsepox… surely.