2022-05-19

Monkeypox Spreading in the Homosexual Community

iNews: Monkeypox: Gay and bisexual men warned to take precautions as experts fear virus transmitted through sex

Back in 2018, I wrote in Socionomics Alert: Avoid Norwegians to Avoid STDs:

Socionomics theory says rates of STD infection should rise in periods of negative mood. Along with a general rise in disease/pandemic risk, the periods of negative mood also correlate to looser sexual morality.

The last major period of negative mood produced the AIDS virus and the subsequent rise in mood in the 1980s and 1990s saw a major effort towards combating it. This period of negative mood will be far more negative and last far longer than the 1970s decline. Antibiotic-resistant STDs and their rapid spread is one sign of negative mood.

The post was created by a domestic advertisement that upset Norwegians because it implied they have high rates of STDs. I wrote:
The key point here is not the ad itself, but what the people creating the ad are thinking about. During periods of falling mood people shift from social concern (such as banning smoking, attacking junk food, making life healthier for everyone) to a personal concern. This ad is clearly a sign warning you to protect yourself from everyone else. Social mood has turned.
Sure fits with what we've seen the past couple of years, no?

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