Compared to COVID, monkeypox is much harder to spread (as you can see in the statistics - it's mainly in one very specific group, gay men in specific cities wit

Compared to COVID, monkeypox is much harder to spread (as you can see in the statistics - it's mainly in one very specific group, gay men in specific cities within specific subcommunities where members have a lot of sexual partners), and in some sense, more eyebrow raising results. It's likely that Monkeypox is actually less deadly than COVID, but the possibility of lesions growing on your genitals, anus, mouth that with a quite high possibility leads to permanent tissue scaring is quite frightening. The fact that it's mainly in populations of gay men in San Francisco and New York also help - I would wager that cross section of the population is heavily left leaning, and heavily vaccine supportive. The monkeypox vaccine is just the smallpox vaccine. The US has a stockpile of it and it is still given to military members.