Monkeypox: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)

Always nice to drop in on John Oliver when I get too optimistic about life.

out of context "it's basically a sexually transmitted disease so it's not a threat to most of the population" is such a hilarious quote.

20:25 "So, what can we do now?" Every time I watch your show, John Oliver, I wait to hear this line. It's why I watch your show, while I never watch other political opinion shows (Maddow, Hannity, Carlson, etc.). All those folks ever do is manufacture outrage, point fingers, give people someone to blame and hate. They never offer solutions or say to viewers that we can take responsibility for doing anything ourselves. They never proceed to the final, crucial parts of a good argument: what actions should be taken and who should take them. You do. Thank you.

It still amazes and saddens me that we get our truth from comedians such as John Oliver and Jon Stewart rather than government "officials" and our representatives who are to serve our best interests. Still, thank you Oliver, et al, for all you do. It's greatly appreciated.

I'm very sympathetic with the girl with NF1. Some people can be so thoughtless and hurtful. I admire the girl for coming forward and taking this opportunity to inform people about NF1.

That young lady with NF1 has been such an amazing ally and even though she was thrust into the public eye against her will and forced to reveal to everyone her private medical information, she's been strong throughout. I have lupus and get looks when I'm flaring up with contagious looking "rashes/lesions" on my face and body. I've heard people whisper comments and it hurts. I cannot image having someone publicly and ignorantly pointing out my lesions on social media.
I hope good things come from this -like awareness about NF1 and that not everyone's skin is perfect. Maybe a big brand can give her a lotion commercial to promote the fact that not everyone's skin looks like an airbrushed photoshoot. She deserves good things to happen to her. I'm happy John Oliver is helping to get the truth out there to his massive audience. And I hope the cowardly douchebag that tried to embarrass her on TikTok is going through hell right now as karma.

"And it's just 1 of the 1 ways, the war on terror has made us safer" is a massively underrated joke

For a little historical perspective, I read how the eruption of Tambora in 1815 (the biggest of the millennium) caused changes in weather patterns globally, which then led to cholera pandemics over the next couple of decades. When cholera reached the British Isles, the aristocracy was at first unconcerned because it was only affecting poor Irish communities. It wasn’t until the disease began spreading to the aristocracy that the government began making an effort to help the people in general. This, iirc, would eventually lead to the establishment of the NHS in the UK.
In other words, we’ve already learned a lot of these lessons, but we keep forgetting or getting distracted by shiny things. 🙏

So frustrating that we as a country are just so resistant to helping literally anyone, ourselves or other people. Had we given out those vaccines before they expired, we might not be experiencing this outbreak right now. And we will not learn from this.

"If we had an outbreak associated with bowling, would we not warn people to stop bowling?"
Ironically 2 years ago we warned people not to go out and wear masks because of Covid, and look at the reactions.
Based on the above analogy, people would only want to go bowling even more because it's their "freedom" to go bowling

Fax machines are still huge in the medical and legal system because they insure a point to point communication. It is far more secure than an email.

as someone who still eats a lot of freezies despite being a grown adult man, that "just snap it in half, no scissors necessary" revelation is legitimately mind blowing
WHAT HAVE I BEEN DOING WITH MY LIFE?!?!?!

Back in college, when I studied Pathology, I had a great professor who loved to say "Nature only respects 3 things: Biology, Chemistry, and Physics. It doesn't respect things like lines on a map, governments, ideologies, language, religion, or egos - just Biology, Chemistry, and Physics."

Your discussion of monkeypox was brilliant and inspired! I appreciate and applaud your sense of justice for all people. You consistently bring an intersectional lens to all the issues you present. I am an ordained Christian minister who believes that the core spiritual principle of most religions is compassion. I appreciate how you call us all from judgmental religiosity and immoral indifference to compassion and justice. My mother used to tell me that I was a "preacher and a comedian" because I intentionally integrate humor in my spiritual teachings as a way to open people's hearts and minds to be more receptive to loving challenge. I call you are a "comedian and a preacher" because of how you use humor to invite us to live by the spiritual principles of compassion, caring and justice. I have kept you in my prayers for many years and will continue to do so. Bless you.

It was insanely ableist for this woman to be targeted for her illness (not to mention the issue of whether or not a coincidence that they felt comfortable targeting a woman of color in particular).

I have Neurofibromatosis (NF1) and monkey pox has made my life absolutely hell. People will come up to me and as if I’m infected. They’ll move away from me and shield their children.
I have never despised my body more. I have to wear sweaters when it’s over 90° to avoid being gawked at like a zoo animal.
Seriously makes me wonder if it’s worth continuing this existence if I’m gonna be ostracized for the rest of it. Genuinely thinking of checking out early if someone films me and it goes viral.

I visited a couple different breeders in 2011 when I was looking to buy pet chinchillas. One of the breeders had an open air enclosure with several prairie dogs. The breeders proceeded to explain to me that they were legally required to disclose that they had been in part responsible for monkey pox spreading several years back. I was only 20 at the time, but looking back, the fact that they were still somehow selling prairie dogs after that fiasco is just wild.

I feel terrible because I have trypophobia and whenever I see pictures of monkey pox rashes and bumps I get hours of goosebumps and shivers; it is 100% a me problem of course but I can imagine how horrible it must feel to see someone have a reaction like that. Do any others have similar reactions and know how to lessen them? Ever since high school biology class (whenever I had to look at those damn onion cells through the microscope) I’ve had these reactions and want to stop them

This was an open book test where the teacher gave us the questions ahead of time and still we managed to write the answers incorrectly onto our arms.

Great episode, timely and hardhitting. What a mess we are in we are so lucky to have journalism like this that cuts straight to the story served with a little comedy to help the medicine go down. LWT has become my favorite weekly news program.

I once witnessed two prairie dogs crossing a road and one was struck down. I watched as his companion dared traffic to seemingly rescue his unfortunate friend, dragging him to the side of the road like a scene from Saving Private Ryan! My heart was unbelievably touched and my eyes were full of tears, until he started munching on the other one like an AYCE buffet on Sunday after church!

Thank you John Oliver and Team. You guys are amazing and also self-reflective.

No bias, no shaming, no understatements, just pure and blunt discussion of real world problems and how they can be helped.

A country so fragile, the CDC is afraid to give an honest public health response.

Early stuff on on SARS-2 wasn't nearly as off the mark as he jokes about, it was actually an impressive gathering and promotion of the best available information, excluding of course all the made-up stuff not promoted by scientists or health authorities but random bloggers and vloggers, or the initial denial/cover-up from the country of origin and denying-president countries. Most stuff sort of still holds valid, with minor caveats.

Was watching on Hbo and had to come here to leave a comment:
For the “Smallpox Secretariat” bit, I feel like the better tag line for the movie would’ve been “You can’t beat this dead horse.” Splitting hairs, love the show 🤙🏽

John & co. do an incredible job helping keep a sense of humor in the face of our egregious for-profit healthcare system, in conjunction with our tragically neglected public healthcare system (or lack thereof.) Why so many put up with it is beyond me.

John Oliver is awesome! He's a comedian many people don't like him but why don't you check his research I have and most of it's pretty rock solid and shows how screwed up the United States is in their politics and also when it comes to outbreaks like monkeypox.

I was just watching the original Coronavirus video and this video made me laugh a bit. I love the reference and the balls John and the team had to admit they were as lost as the rest of us in the beginning.

I learned basically all I needed to know about disease from the board game Pandemic. If you don't treat a disease somewhere you don't really care about, it will inevitably affect somewhere you do.

Fax is in some ways more secure than E-Mail or other server-based sharing services. You need to be physically connected to the phone line at the correct time to intercept a message, making it practically impossible to steal, in this case, medical data en masse.

As usual, thank you for inform me, making me laugh and depress me. But mostly I wanted to thank you for helping me to explain my thirteen years old son what a fax machine was (an unexpected topic that emerged yesterday). So, my eternal gratitude and love for that from here, Argentina, to my dear John and the whole staff.

This show just keeps getting better and better.
Keep up the great work.

Medical offices use faxes because getting HIPAA compliance documentation from software vendors is like a nightmare shared by Terry Gilliam and Franz Kafka.

I’ll never make fun of a zombie outbreak moment in movies ever again. Given what we’ve seen over the last few years, I’d be shocked if large numbers of people didn’t go out fishing for bites, to “own the libs”. There was a time I was hopeful about humanity, sadly, that was a long time ago.

Every now and again this show comes out and one believes: “this is it, this is the topic they’ll have to collapse to and pander around” and it keeps getting better, realer more honest and concise. Wow.

Remember when people actually cared about containing viral outbreaks? That was nice.

It seems to be the theme of my week that the amount by which I am disappointed in the way Americans behave is beyond my ability to express. This is only distantly followed by my appreciation for people who care about others, which is itself almost beyond expression.
John is doing amazing work by spreading useful information. I can only hope enough people listen to steer us away from self-annihilation.

John hit the nail on the head - if it doesn't concern us directly, why should we care or do anything about it? The selfishness of this country knows no bounds. It's very sad. 😔

We all knew a kid who managed to be one of the only ones to fail the test even though the teacher gave out all the answers and didn’t even bother to change anything from the practice exam. But gd I didn’t realize they would all have jobs running the country

Funny - my wife is a heterosexual woman - and a nurse BTW. We thought she ‘might’ have MonkeyPox. She went to the local ED who decided she did not have the risk factors and could still be tested… but the fee for testing would be on us… we decided no. Testing is not widespread.

Thank you John for all the amazing episodes not that you'll see this but I always wish you could do a piece on video games I'm sure you could find a good story the subject

My son has NF1. It is horrible. It needs to be closely monitored as tumours can appear on the eyes for example. Sad to see people jump to conclusions about that poor woman and try to shame her on social media.

Unfortunately, we're talking about the United States -- the place where people INTENTIONALLY spread potentially deadly viruses in a supposed attempt to achieve "herd immunity".
At time index 19:41, "Although that really should not be that hard" was a truly masterful pun that was clearly overlooked and unappreciated by the studio audience.
Regarding who is affected most by monkeypox, my response is "Who cares who's most affected? We're all in this together, so we all need to help each other." Although Tree was talking about racism in their song "All Of Us", their underlying message is apt here as well -- "One people, one race, one life / it's time we get it right".

Faxes are used absurdly often in the healthcare system. Sometimes it's the most efficient option we can use. Granted, not the most efficient option in existence, just the most efficient one that's been given the okay by The Powers That Be. I was once told that faxes are used instead of email in some cases because it's supposedly more secure, in that a fax system "can't be hacked like email". But the fax number can be mistyped when sending it. Which can result in fantastically secure results, such as a medical document ending up being sent to a car dealership rather than a medical center.

It feels like this Pox outbreak is the first viral pandemic in human history. I'm sure we just had another one this decade that could have taught us how to handle something like that, but I'm not entirely sure.

A great deep dive into the issue, as usual. It would have been insightful for Mr. Oliver to contrast the US approach with other countries. In America, the CDC's guidance says that vaccination should occur:
1. For known contacts of known positive cases.
2. For anyone who had a sex partner in the last two weeks who is known to be monkeypox-positive.
3. For certain GBT men (and yes, the CDC limits it to men) who've had multiple partners or group sex in the last 14 days, who had sex in a commercial sex venue, or who had sex in association with an event or venue where monkeypox transmission _is_ occurring.
I went to Europe recently. I was in Amsterdam during their Pride celebrations. I thought I _might_ want a sexual experience while there. Yet, I didn't qualify under the CDC's guidelines. You don't stop a spreading virus by only treating people who are already presumably exposed already, and might then have passed it on further. You stop it by prophylaxis, by targeting people who are likely to be exposed in the future, but that's not what we're doing. The CDC says we should only give PrEP vaccination for monkeypox to people in certain occupational risk groups, which doesn't, by the way, include sex workers. Rather, it just includes people handling diagnostic tests and health care response teams.
Contrast this to Britain. The guidance is similar, but they are doing much more to vaccinate their LGBTQ population. Granted, this has drastically lowered their stock of vaccines, but they're preemptively vaccinating the people at higher risk. It's insane that the CDC isn't doing the same thing.

Thank you! So important to realize that we are all connected and that especially if we want to continue to do things like travel and have international trade, we need to be better humans, and not descend to intertribal strife.

That guy straight up telling people to rub one off together A, caught me by total surprise as I never expected someone in public announcement so say that, and B earned my respect by saying things how they are and telling solid advice and not shying away from that.

I have NF1 as well and this is the exact thing I've been thinking about since monkeypox started.

In spring of 2019, I took a virology class in college. My professor said, "the next big one will be a coronavirus. We had a warning shot with sars, we had a warning shot with mers. And we haven't done anything."
Amazing how we still haven't done anything after the pandemic of a century.

I love you John. On point as usual.

That was amazing. I've been waiting for a news report like this. It reminded me of trevor noah before the subtle hate-mongering and political agendizing. This report was funny, factual, to-the-point, and humanitarian as hell. Thank you.

Great episode. I would like to see an episode on how adults with autism (even just level 1) are in danger of suicide and need help but are bullied and ignored. Do an inviisible disability episode. We are used to being ignored by healthcare, coworkers, friends, and family. We also have one of the highest suicide rates, yet no one talks about it. No one talks about how we are the only disability group where we are expected to change our disability instead of being provided with accommodations.

I'm an Uber driver and I haven't heard anyone, including here, talk about what's going to happen with transportation if this spreads more widely. Only let people with long sleeves and pants on buses, subways and in ride shares? The heat index is over 100° so I'm not too sure drunk folks are going to go for that. But sitting on a seat where someone else sat, both wearing shorts or tank tops, sounds like a great way to catch it.

Honestly, the pandemic is a bit of a head scratcher. I've been hearing for decades now a pandemic is due from the scientific community, and hearing how easily spread by fast travel even before symptoms it is from them.. and hence, the way things work, it is bound to happen unless precautions taken. And for decades they apparently ignored all warnings.
Not to mention, I thought all states had emergency agencies who were supposed to prepare to deal with emergencies. What are they getting funding for? I know some have weather emergencies and such. But you also have to prepare for other stuff. But I suppose every time some weather stuff happens that mess was an indicator of how badly prepared they are for anything apparently.
The denial and time gaps just make them worse. With my limited scientific knowledge and awareness of pandemic history from a documentary type series (I actually watched the black plague one right before the pandemic and it was made a couple years before that I think) as well as my common sense and knowledge of people.. I feel I'm better qualified than those in charge to make decisions. And that's scary because I haven't had the education or experience in the profession and yet.. smh. I could and did know everything of how it would happen once it had that delayed response and I saw the way they did things. So ridiculous. And who would have thought not educating people properly and consistently no matter their income or what neighborhood they resided in, nor the overall lack of health orientated mindset along with the work no matter what, paycheck to paycheck dependency would affect things and hurt society in the long run? Not I.. oh, wait, yes, I. Smh. The USA is a perfect storm of perfect stupidity on things that could run smoothly and be fixed. History will always repeats itself because people aren't largely taught it and what it means. They also overestimate their abilities as well.
The whole situation screamed to me Masque of the red death. They, the rich, don't care as they party unaware they have servants or anyone who eventually will bring it to them. It is in everyone's best interest, health care. Smh.

majory taylor-green is like a side character on family guy that appears in a few episodes every season when the writers want to say something that they think is too over the top for any of the main characters to say.
But seriously, and this is not only directed at her, it is laughable for any official to tell people not to have sex. good luck with that.

Well said, We need to shut down and NOT send kids to school before it gets worse…The timeframe and reality of the surge of spread and uncleanliness of restaurants and stores etc… has gone back to normal… Gross and visibly dirty. smh… So sad and shameful lack of action and accountability.

As an avid fan of the capybara I will now ONLY refer to them as big pensive sweetie. Highly accurate and adorable.

I remembered the prairie dog thing and was telling a coworker who recently moved from South Korea about it, but he didn't know what a prairie dog was, so I said "if a meerkat was also a rat"

That prairie dogs link is not surprising. They're like a super-highway for disease and one of the consistent sources of Yersinia pestis (bubonic plague), anthrax, hantavirus and a host of others.
How they haven't been the subject of an extermination campaign is frankly amazing.

2002 was 20 years ago and somehow I am still as miserable as I was back then, monkey pox notwithstanding. It never gets better. 😑

I got a bump on my hand this week and have been watching it like crazy. I don't know if I'm watching the news too much or I am just that pessimistic about my fellow humans and how they handled Covid. Also just getting over Covid, so I figure, next I will get moneypox from some idiot I know.

Best advice I've ever seen to avoid monkeypox. If it's wet sticky and not yours don't touch it.

Hey John,
would it be financially and administratively possible for you and your Team to build up a "what happend sice" website, where news or articles are listed which are linked to specific previously produced episodes?
All of your topics are extremely important and it would be great to have an easy and source-approved way to keep on track with them.
Greetings from germany.

"""one of the best thing about dude is that he never takes credit for himself when he achieves something .he always respect us , the audience and his team , and he is polite in all his videos .we congratulations ourselves on this achievement . more to come 💕💗

The story I always heard was that Prairie Dogs are called "dogs" is because when Caucasians came west they saw these remorseless rats digging in the same manner as canines. They also have this weird squeaky bark. But no one should have one as a pet. They are not trainable. Their habitat needs are massive, they should not be isolated from family groups, they carry the Black Plague, and they bite.

How awful that plague may yet still ravage mankind, far into the future. I pray for the safety and good health of all souls effected by this tragedy.

If 4 weeks of complete isolation isn't possible, we've been told by our hospital system to instruct patients to cover lesions with bandaids / clothing (full-sleeves, etc) before going into public or touching any surfaces

The tax machine comment's very telling. I used to work for a veterinary hospital chain not long ago, and a working fax machine is still downright integral to getting prescriptions filled and files sent between offices and external pharmacies for clients.

I found the idea that "if bowling made you sick nobody would go bowling" ironic when the last 2 years have proven that yes people will still go bowling. Heck some will go bowling BECAUSE you said it'll make you sick

This was incredibly helpful

Okay, I say this as a gay man myself, but many of my rainbow brothers need to just zip it up for the moment. Here I'm someone who hasn't been dating or getting down to any business for several years because of covid and my living with a health vulnerable elderly father, and I have friends who start to feel all needy if they haven't been at the bedroom business for just a few weeks. Dudes, you'll survive, and no guy will want to smooch you if you are covered in pock marks after contracting a painful disease. Yeesh.

I have been watching this since I first began seeing just 2 known cases in US. It was only about a week 1/2 ago since the Austin TX government page for health concern announcements was finally announced & I thought ok great finally so I then went with my next act in what I had already been planning to do since school will be back in session on 8/15th & I began calling & looking for any info about the roll out of the vaccine since I already knew that there was a stockpile of a vaccine that has been used previously & actually works per valid resources I used to research very thoroughly on top of having a formal education in medicine that I fortunately have too. Turns out there is no vaccine available & despite finally making a public health concern announcement absolutely no one out of all of the doctors & nurses from local hospitals, ERs, various medical providers at clinics & private providers not a single one of them had any clue as to what monkey pox even was nor that there was an announcement of community spread & multiple cases already in our city & had no idea as to diagnosis, treatments, or the ways it spread, or any info about a vaccine or if there were even plans to get any of the vaccine or a scheduled roll out that was in the works & definitely no idea as to who was going to be able to qualify to get the vaccine first dependent on high risk factors or age groups or preexisting conditions or whatever else may be decided. Not one single person in the medical providers sector was able to provide me with any answers nor had any clue as to its existence at all. So then I called TX Health & Human Services Commission & it was the exact same thing & I spoke to more than one of the employees with them & out of the 6 different people I spoke to employed at TxHHSC none of them knew anything about it nor that they released a public announcement on its community spread & some generalized info & case reports at the time locally which the first released announcement did have some incorrect information about its spread & about there being no known treatments or vaccines or tests for it that could be provided at all. So then I tried calling the CDC to find out if they could maybe answer my inquiry as to what they are doing if anything or if they were actually going to ever be more public about sharing the fact that it was already in level 4 concern for potential pandemic by their own measures I had located online which has been privatized public access to viewing now since my call to them & the one person at the CDC I spoke to was as clueless as the rest of the people I spoke to locally in charge of such health concerns & providing care for the peoples medical needs. My biggest concern is for children b/c I would not at all be surprised if once schools are back in session there begins to be an expedited rise in cases amongst elementary & high-school & possibly younger aged children that attend day cares or Montessori schools b/c kids are not as conscientious about germ sharing b/c they’re kids & that’s what kids tend to do & with there being next to no actual public reporting to address the public spread concerns & inform people & especially those in the medical field as well as at our schools & daycares & to parents it is a disaster once again waiting to happen. I’m sorry but F the red tape providing generalized info to at least get people to be on the look out at best is preventative & preemptive health safety measures that should have been done 5 mos. ago as far as I am concerned & that would also help in misinformation, rumors, & paranoia or hysteria & fear-mongering to also be controlled much better. This is exactly what I distinctly recall watching occur with COVID which I had watched small reports on the news as early as Sept. of 2019 & while in the ER with my young son mid Dec. 2019 due to his having asthma & at that time a respiratory infection from pollen allergy struggling hard to breathe sufficiently & being very concerned for him holding his hand trying to keep him calm & relaxed & not get terribly scared or panicked waiting for the ER doctor to return with his results & suggested next step for treatment(s) the news was on muted with CC & I was reading the reports & in my head I already knew we probably had at best till Feb. maybe March before it would begin to be reported here in the states & I surmised NY, FL, CA more than likely being the first potential states hit. It was horrifying b/c I felt the same thing I do now although I know Monkey Pox has viable treatments & vaccine that had previously been used to stop previous small outbreak years ago & was maybe a bit more alarming that chicken pox & not as concerning as small pox & low fatality but extremely painful & extremely infectious due to the sores & being a parent who experienced having gotten chicken pox twice as a elementary child & then as a 7th grader which is extremely rare to get twice & I remember those sores very clearly. My son would not fair well with such an experience of pox at all no matter which pox it happened to be. Anyhow now I’m terribly anxious for him since school is less than 4 days away from starting back up & there still being absolutely no reported progress on tests or vaccines or treatments & no updates from TXHHSC or otherwise about how they are addressing this concern or what is going on with any possible supply of the vaccine being provided for who & when. & the schools have not addressed any real level of acknowledgement that they are watching out for this & have plans already in place on how they may address this worst case scenario & the heir every time it’s brought up is very unsettling to me as if it’s nothing to be remotely concerned about that it’s all under control when it definitely isn’t under control at all. & to top it off just like the woman from the subway I too have 3 different severe skin disorders so I am in high risk all ready for a more severe case if I had the misfortune to actually get it somehow. It’s just not at all reassuring.

The scary thing about monkeypox you can have it and not know it...Me I have no contact with anybody and I got it from using a public toilet.. I only had a few skin lesions in fact I didn't even think I had until I went to the doctor for an ear infection and then showed them my few marks I had they weren't really even noticeable..Affects everybody a little bit different and they don't know enough about it..Over the course of the four weeks or so I got a few more like one would it show up and one would disappear... totally I had about eight over the course of four weeks all over different parts of the body.. No other symptoms ..My lesions weren't bad Just don't touch them about the size of an eraser head and flat with the skin with me

We're getting a do-over on pandemic handling and we're going to blow it. There's failing to learn from the past and then there's doing the same thing over and over expecting different results.

How cute. There are still people who think that humanity is capable of learning from the past😂

I’m a huge fan of yours. Ask your producers if they will run an educational segment of Veterinarians.

John went from an absentee father to an abusive father

To understand the state of US public health and pandemic response better, The Premonition by Michael Lewis is a great book

amazing that he calls out Prairie Dogs names being a fallacy, and in the same breath say Meerkats and doesn't callout them not actually being cats.

I want our public health response to be like our military. We should be spending money on vaccines even if we don’t need them just in case we do. Just like (or instead of) spending money on fighter jets even if we don’t need them but just in case we do.

Amazing episode very informative!

Thanks John Oliver for constantly reminding me of the incompetence of the Powers that Be ❤️

Thank you so much for emphasizing the important facets of this epidemic.

atleast john oliver has been on top of monkeypox since the begining and has been consistently spreading awareness of this since the very beginning, and not using it as a talking point

As a healthcare worker in one of the hotspots, one of the hardest things I had to do this week was tell patients “I’m sorry, we ran out of the vaccine.” So many are afraid and frustrated. It’s shameful and unjust.

Actually, government and other agencies that have a duty to protect private information still use fax machines frequently. Email is not considered secure enough for these purposes (mostly because the agencies can't guarantee the security of the lay person's email.)

Prairie dogs are great! They're the only rodent I've ever met that have a sense of humor. They like physical comedy, like little hairy Jim Carrey/hamster hybrids

Praire dogs are very smart, they will mimic you, they will shake your hand and play with you fetch, and such. They are super adorable and very non-aggressive creatures. Think of a less bitey squirrel then give them the ability to learn complex tricks. That's why.

I love how the audience laughed when the Fauci segment started, then quickly died down..

I’ve had monkeypox for the past three weeks and agree with everything in this video. Navigating the entire process through Kaiser has been a disaster. Thank you for talking about this!!

Well stated and explained. Thank you

The CDC has really outdone itself due to its dereliction of duty.

Covid didn't make us assholes, we already were. Covid just gave us a reason to all be at home at the same time and really commiserate in being assholes together.

this show is excellent in content and entertainment value

John - as an immunologist and prairie dog lover I must take issue with some of your comments. The prairie dogs that became infected were exposed to infected, imported, Gambian pouched rats. Domestic PDs continue to be Monkey Pox-Free! I am however concerned that the US brown rat population is setting itself up to be the next carrier species.

I am a zookeeper in chicago and I regularly feed the hippos day old sausages so they have a taste of their home. I put strings on the sausages and swing them around the hippos they get so mad at me and scream but it's an obsession sometimes the hippos try and break out of their cages but I keep swinging those hotdogs in wide circles over their heads. Luckily my boss doesn't know I do this or my coworkers

The US has an amazing capacity for saying "It isn't happening here so it doesn't affect me so it doesn't matter." And it almost never works out well.

Big Ounce from the Urban Rescue Ranch is the perfect example of why someone would want a prairie dog as a pet.