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Well, everybody is talking about monkeypox.

Apparently, the WHO has now declared an international global emergency over monkeypox.

By the way, this is super scientific stuff. When I say super scientific, I mean that apparently

the head of the World Health Organization overruled a divided expert panel to issue the group's highest

alert in order to do this. Okay, so that right there tells you that this is not actually

a scientific question. It is a political question because, again, the panel of the WHO is

like not a global health emergency. And because what's gotten so much media attention,

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