As Twitchy reported back in July, chicken little Eric Feigl-Ding was trying to scare everyone about monkeypox, citing a study saying there was an airborne risk of transmitting it. Science writer Benjamin Ryan took Feigl-Ding apart, reporting on a study of 528 global cases that found just 0.6 percent were from household transmission; 95 percent were likely transmitted via sex between men.
We’re guessing the White House didn’t yet have a monkeypox coordinator, because they sent out Covid Response Coordinator Ashish Jha, who stressed that it’s “really important” not to use this moment “to propagate homophobic or transphobic messaging.” In other words … science.
It looks like the White House has finally finished tip-toeing around the subject and sent out monkeypox coordinator Demetre Daskhalkis to signal to those for whom it’s really important to have an awareness that it’s circulating.
WH monkeypox coordinator Demetre Daskalakis: We're "signaling to people who are in the gay/ bisexual/other-men-who-have sex-w/-men communities, & also transgender people who have sex w/ men, that it’s really important to have awareness that it's circulating." pic.twitter.com/Oqb7UiJmar
— Tom Elliott (@tomselliott) September 7, 2022
As Twitchy reported earlier, NBC News put out a piece on how monkeypox is ruining men’s plans for hot boy summer. As Oilfield Rando put it, “This is an actual NBC news article MOURNING the loss of gay orgies.”
Daskalakis looks handsome in that suit, but underneath, he walks the walk.
Look this guy up in Google Images. The results will shock you. https://t.co/HWKdALNmZV
— Ian Miles Cheong (@stillgray) September 7, 2022
Picture I found when googling him pic.twitter.com/SG8YUWaPh5
— Tom Elliott (@tomselliott) September 7, 2022
The leather pentagram is cool.
Now we know what he's wearing under his suit. At least the pentagram is right side up.
— Off The Deep End (@GypsyGentry) September 7, 2022
Possible ensembles for his next monkeypox presser:
1) the classic mesh tank top w/ hot pink daisy dukes pic.twitter.com/KuTNbyrtc0
— Tom Elliott (@tomselliott) September 7, 2022
If they TRIED to be their own parody they couldn't do as good a job.
— Jon Nicosia (@NewsPolitics) September 7, 2022
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— Beth Baumann (@eb454) September 7, 2022
Yep. The White House hired a Leather Daddy to coordinate their monkeypox response. You couldn't make this up.
— Ian Miles Cheong (@stillgray) September 7, 2022
— Jon Nicosia (@NewsPolitics) September 7, 2022
“Face coverings are a sign of respect.”
on a website called Nasty Pig Heroes pic.twitter.com/w1TdIO1Q6q
— DPR56X (@DPR56X) September 7, 2022
Biden's new monkeypox spokesperson may not be an Admiral like Rachel Levine yet… but he's already dressed for the role. pic.twitter.com/PQE9sqlDPx
— Tim Young (@TimRunsHisMouth) September 7, 2022
— Val Dobo (@DoboVal) September 7, 2022
— JenniferW (@JenWoodruff79) September 7, 2022
Hey, the guy’s pretty fit.
— 217Tbone (@The_217Tbone) September 7, 2022
So is he gay??
— Ettyd (@ettyd) September 7, 2022
Hard to say … not that there’s anything wrong with that.
20 bucks says he's wearing it under his suit in the white house video.
— jeffvader (@jeffvader20) September 7, 2022
I think we’re all beyond being shocked these days… pic.twitter.com/MV6cUlyF0i
— Jim McDonald (@CatchYrselfOn22) September 7, 2022
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Related:
NBC News shines a spotlight on the gay men and queer people who are suffering because monkeypox has ruined their summer sex party plans https://t.co/vrLhAbuqjw
— Twitchy Team (@TwitchyTeam) September 7, 2022
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