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Episode 197 - Pox Romana (w/ Dr. Steven Thrasher) (Patreon)

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2022-08-01 05:24:20
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This week Brie speaks to Dr. Steven Thrasher, author, assistant professor of journalism, & scholar of the criminalization of HIV/AIDS about monkeypox, stigma, and all the lessons we haven't learned from the last two years of COVID pandemic.

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Produced by Armand Aviram.

Theme by Nick Thorburn (@nickfromislands)

Comments

Anonymous

"Dr. Thrasher, you know we're not literate!" Brie, sometimes you absolutely kill me. Lol

Anonymous

Steven Thrasher sounds like a lovely guy, but he's NOT a medical doctor. Don't know what this episode was suppose to be about, other than DRs don't care about our health & well being. Duh. Please do a fun and informative episode about Star Trek in combo with the new movie, "NOPE."

Anonymous
>>88727432

You deleted your earlier comment & now too tired to restate why I loathe the trend of titles. I hav advanced degrees & people just call me Toni. Stay immune strong! My Ivermectin order bout to arrive from India. It really is close to a miracle drug. Such potential.

Anonymous

It would be less confusing to refer to him as Professor. In the context of this topic it’s easy to forget he’s a Ph.D and not a medical doctor. He makes several good points but is a bit too credulous when it comes to government/big pharma COVID orthodoxies.

Anonymous

I don’t agree with classifying monkeypox as an STI. I personally think STIs should only be for infections that are mainly transmitted via sexual fluid to blood. Monkeypox is mainly transmitted via skin to skin.

Anonymous
>>88738656

hpv is spread via skin on skin contact, hard to debate that's not an std/i.

Anonymous
>>88738656

hpv is more commonly spread via sexual fluids though, and when it is skin to skin contact transmission, it's usually in the genital region. monkeypox transmission doesn't happen just in the genital region. people get outbreaks on their arms and legs wherein those locations are the most infectious

C. Ries

I see a lot of well meaning people on Twitter pretending that monkeypox isn’t 99% spread by gay men at the moment, like acknowledging that means you condemn gay men or causal sex. Both are self evidently pretty cool so I’m glad people like Dr. Thrasher are pushing back on that because gay men should definitely be prioritized for the vaccine, and people shouldn’t panic about getting it via a hug or something

Anonymous
>>88727432

I did delete them, cuz I just felt like I was beating a dead horse. I think Brie had Thrasher on before to talk about The Plague, and he was stunningly mainstream establishment in his views. I can see the monkeypox crap following the same ramp up.

Anonymous

The FDA receives 75% of it's funding from fees/bribes paid by Big Pharma. How are we suppose to believe ANYTHING they say?

Anonymous

Commenting in real time… as a gay man, I think the comfortability with monkeypox vaccine is that it’s the smallpox vaccine that’s been around for a long time with a history of research behind it. I was comfortable getting it because it’s tried and true and also is effective in ways the COVID vax wasnt. Sorry Dr. thrasher but I’m not going to go out and get a dose of a vaccine 4 times a year. I got my first COVID vaccine. I’ve gotten COVID since having the vax at least once maybe twice and it was nothing more then a cold. You have to consider that for the majority of people, that’s the effect they feel. So those who do get a worse outcome feel more distant at this point and I think that makes society comfortable moving on. And honestly, I think it’s a debatable question to whether people constantly alter their lives on and off (mandates, lockdowns, quarantines, cutting business hours) for a small percentage of the population at risk of death from COVID. At a certain point being protective is on the person who feels or knows they are a higher risk. Also I really hate how the media is saying it’s effecting the LGBT community. It’s not. It’s effecting primarily gay men and some bi/trans. Using the LGBT community moniker is a regressive PC term like saying POC when talking about African-Americans.

Anonymous

Hey Chetzmom - Are you just here to troll? Please find something else to do. FYI- healthcare workers are quitting their jobs in droves, for a reason. Please consider the people closest to the suffering here are sick unto death of the gaslighting and the cognitive dissonance of a society pretending this is over while they work 24 hour shifts and mandatory overtime day after day, where unsafe situations are the norm, as though they are fighting a war that everyone outside the hospital outright denies, all the while this travesty is happening in plain site for anyone who cares to look. How long did you expect healthcare workers would give up everything, never see they children and ruin their own health, throwing themselves head first into a never ending tsunami of infections, while people jabber on about ivermectin - here’s a tip from the ER… whether people realize it or not there are more negative consequences that stem from Covid than simply death. Gotta wonder how it can be that so many are unconcerned that the health system is collapsing- because it is, whether people realize it or not…. If the left is about solidarity, how about thoughtful & principled left critiques of system failures and less of this reactionary contrarian nonsense. Thanks!

Colin Clark
>>88785719

The horrific hellscape of modern healthcare work you describe is 100% the direct outgrowth of the same corporate greed that dictates 75% of what the FDA has to say about anything.

Anonymous
>>88727432

Hey Chetzmom - Are you just here to troll? Please find something else to do. FYI- healthcare workers are quitting their jobs in droves, for a reason. Please consider the people closest to the suffering here are sick unto death of the gaslighting and the cognitive dissonance of a society pretending this is over while they work 24 hour shifts and mandatory overtime day after day, where unsafe situations are the norm, as though they are fighting a war that everyone outside the hospital outright denies, all the while this travesty is happening in plain site for anyone who cares to look. How long did you expect healthcare workers would give up everything, never see their children and ruin their own health, throwing themselves head first into a never ending tsunami of infections, while people jabber on about ivermectin and vitamin D - here’s a tip from the ER… whether people like yourself realize it or not there are more negative consequences that stem from Covid infections than simply death. Gotta wonder how it can be that so many are unconcerned that the health system is collapsing- because it is, whether people realize it or not…. If the left is about solidarity, how about thoughtful & principled left critiques of system failures and less of this reactionary contrarian nonsense. If you aren’t here to advocate nationalizing the pharmaceutical industry, one wonders what you are bringing to the conversation anyway. Maybe read Dr Thrashers book, you will certainly learn something. Every little bit helps. Thanks!

Anonymous
>>88785719

Simultaneity is not not the same as outgrowth. It’s lucky I’m exhausted & too heartsick to respond, I’ve had enough after losing two patients last night. Let me keep it brief. Tailing the right wing on Covid is the epitome of playing stupid games, winning stupid prizes. Good luck out there Colin, you’ll need it.

Anonymous
>>88785719

You entirely missed my point. Thankfully Colin Clark clarified. I'm a Patron, not a troll. But you might know that if you've been watching Bad Faith long. I usually comment early, before work. So, it's just your luck to see a post from after the episode has been out for a while. Anyway, have a Nice rest of your day! 😺