The federal government is asking gay and bisexual men to reduce their number of sexual partners to curb the spread of monkeypox. But community health workers and advocates say that spread is being fuelled by the lack of government support, financial and otherwise, for those who are at risk.
“The Public Health Agency of Canada recommends practising safer sex (and) having fewer sexual partners, particularly anonymous partners, even when they don’t have symptoms, can also reduce your risk of getting infected,” said Dr. Theresa Tam, Canada’s chief public health officer, at a news conference Wednesday. Tam also stressed the value of vaccination in thwarting the disease.
Graeme Lamb, a union steward of Steamworks Baths, a bathhouse in Toronto’s Gay Village, responded by saying, “Monkeypox is not spreading because gay men are having too much sex. It’s spreading because we have not had governments that are willing to commit the resources that are necessary to stop it from spreading and stopping it from causing people a lot of pain.”
Because you need cash to refrain from random sex and get an available vaccine for a widely publicized affliction targeting Gay men.
Is the Trudeau government homophobic or what!
