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>>51454721
>Bro, face facts. It's neither smallpox nor COVID. The monkey just doesn't spread that well.
Fact is, monkeypoop is a GOF bioweapon
>Study: Monkeypoop Virus Has Had ‘Accelerated Evolution,’ Around 50 Mutations In DNA
>Monkeypoop may have undergone 'accelerated evolution,' scientists say
And those headlines were from months ago. The situation is far worse now.
You're naive if you believe the public health authorities' claims about declining cases. Testing has dropped off considerably and they doubled down on stigmatizing it as a gay disease so only people with severe cases are actually getting tested.
There's also a lot to be said about the actual test itself, a lesion swab is very prone to false negatives.
The narrative control is strong with monkeypoop but it's definitely not over. SIGA is still a go, maybe not in the short term, but institutions are still holding while retail caves

>>51410538
>believing their statistics
ngmi

SIGA sissies and monkepox fudders - I was looking over the CDC's data on testing and I think I found something significant.
The WHO and CDC have been claiming that monkeypoop cases are trending downward, reversing the months-long trend of increasing cases.
However this seems to correlate with a HUGE decrease in the # of tests being administered. At the end of August they were doing about 18,000 tests per week, now it's down to 2,000 tests per week. That's almost a 90% decrease in testing. At the same time the test positivity rate has stayed basically constant at around 20%. This suggests that they'd be finding and reporting FAR MORE cases if they were testing at the same rate as before...
Am I looking at this data wrong? Are my conclusions off base here? It seems like they're lying with statistics to justify the narrative of a downward trend