Syphilis doesn't kill that many but it sucks to have it. Monkeypox could have been drastically slowed or perhaps even nipped in the bud, but for largely politi

Syphilis doesn't kill that many but it sucks to have it. Monkeypox could have been drastically slowed or perhaps even nipped in the bud, but for largely political reasons it was not. We're now looking at yet another endemic disease especially among men who have sex with men. Even if a disease doesn't have a huge death toll it's still worth doing what we can to stop their progress. One thing I haven't seen much discussion of: future scarring. A Twitterer has Monkeypox sores all around his mouth because of oral-anal sex (he helpfully included a photo of said act taken during an orgy). That might not be the kind of thing you want to advertise on your face for the rest of your life, but YMMV.