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Can't it leave disfiguring scars?

• tempsy 4y ago
  Is that alone cause for declaring something a public health emergency? I’ve only seen videos of men who have contracted and recovered from it and no one mentioned disfiguring scars so far and couldn’t tell that was an issue myself based on their appearance.
  • HarryHirsch 4y ago
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    • dang 4y ago
      > We wish you would get yourself monkeypox out of the gym and give it to your wife or your child gets monkeypox out of school I can barely believe that you would post something as awful and as shameful as this, not once but twice (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32216037 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32216037). Obviously we have to ban accounts that post like this. I'm not going to ban you right now, but if you pull something like this again on HN, we will have to. Please review the rules and stick to them regardless of how wrong someone else is or you feel they are. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
  • abeppu 4y ago
    Maybe that's not a good sample? Both by size, and selection, insofar as if you've recently got disfiguring scars perhaps you'd be less likely to make and share a video of yourself. Also, how long does it take to know if marks from pox sores are going to be permanent scars anyway? Or how much they might fade? This is all so recent that even if you did still have marks on your face afterwards, could you really know whether they'll be "disfiguring" in the future?
  • tshaddox 4y ago
    A contagious disease that makes a lot of people sick, has a considerable death rate, and often causes scars is definitely cause for declaring a public health emergency. Under what possible definition of the term would you think otherwise?
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