When it comes to monkey pox, the only thing you have to fear is fear itself.

Hello everyone, Dr. Chris Martinson here with your monkey pox episode.

Of course, a lot of people have been asking for it, and we're going to talk about it.

Hey, here's the punchline. There's not that much to worry about. But we're going to talk about it. Hey, here's the punchline.

There's not that much to worry about. But we do have to worry about the official reactions to it.

It's been way overplayed. And I really want to dive into that. In fact, hey, we get to learn something about everything we look into. So we're going to be learning about monkeypox pox viruses a little bit

and actually the official reactions to all this.

So let's go take a look, jump right in here. Episode 62, should you be worried, short answer is no.

And look, we're seeing charts like this. By the way, that's it, R slash monkeypox over on Reddit.

The first three days of that subreddit, that was actually a pretty

cool place to go. But then it got taken over by Ahmad from our coronavirus. And so it's now just an

echo chamber of centrist positions. And they love, what is the centrist love right now? They love

charts like this. That chart looks exponential. Case case,

cluster, cluster, boom. Oh my gosh. Look at the total number of confirmed monkeypox cases since the

first case. That's 162 worldwide out of nearly, you know, eight plus billion people. So what do we

know about monkey pox? Hey, it's really typically

not deadly depending on the clade we're talking about. The clade is the family, the family that we

have going on around the world right now. It's not really a deadly clade or family version of that.

I'll show you more in that in just a second. It's really only transmitted by close contact,

in fact, sexual contact. hey, with symptomatic people.

So it's kind of easily avoided.

It has an R-naught of less than one, meaning one person transmits it on average to less than one other person, which means this is a virus that goes out of business all on its own.

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