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Link to the article: https://www.politico.com/news/2022/11/22/who-monkeypox-mpox-rename-00070614
I tend to avoid Politico, though this was the article of reference by other media sources.
It would make sense that a proposed shortened designation for monkeypox would be MPOX, though the above proposed reasoning for changing rather than proposed shortened designation is nonsensical. The reason for the virus's association with monkeys is that it was first isolated from laboratory monkeys, nothing to do with race. This is a really weird spin on the subject. I've concluded that the introduction of the socio-political and divisive construct of race into the monkeypox discussion is to contribute more propaganda (a decent video on propaganda in the context of worldview warfare) to perpetuate the racial divide aspect of the zeitgeist (a decent video introduction to the concept of zeitgeist in the context of worldview warfare). It's just a pox virus that was first isolated from laboratory monkeys and named as such. This nomenclature practice is not at all out of the ordinary in microbiology. There is no need to affirm the false idea that continuing to reference the virus as monkeypox imposes racial disparity.
Link to the article: https://www.politico.com/news/2022/11/22/who-monkeypox-mpox-rename-00070614
I tend to avoid Politico, though this was the article of reference by other media sources.
But the Biden administration for months worried that the virus’ name was deepening stigma — especially among people of color — and that the slow movement toward a new designation was hampering the vaccination campaign it started over the summer, the people with knowledge of the matter said.
The WHO said Wednesday that it would share details on a new name once they were finalized and that “a number of individuals and countries” had raised concerns about the virus’ name and asked the organization to address it. The White House declined to comment.
Public health experts and LGBT activists had similarly called for abandoning the virus’ name, which it received upon its discovery in 1958, since it began spreading widely this past spring. They argued that calling it the monkeypox is imprecise, plays into racist stereotypes about Africa and is detrimental to the global response.
It would make sense that a proposed shortened designation for monkeypox would be MPOX, though the above proposed reasoning for changing rather than proposed shortened designation is nonsensical. The reason for the virus's association with monkeys is that it was first isolated from laboratory monkeys, nothing to do with race. This is a really weird spin on the subject. I've concluded that the introduction of the socio-political and divisive construct of race into the monkeypox discussion is to contribute more propaganda (a decent video on propaganda in the context of worldview warfare) to perpetuate the racial divide aspect of the zeitgeist (a decent video introduction to the concept of zeitgeist in the context of worldview warfare). It's just a pox virus that was first isolated from laboratory monkeys and named as such. This nomenclature practice is not at all out of the ordinary in microbiology. There is no need to affirm the false idea that continuing to reference the virus as monkeypox imposes racial disparity.