(Mark Pellin, Headline USA) In what might be a record case of global virtue-signaling, the World Health Organization, already notorious for failing to acknowledge the Wuhan Flu’s origins, has succumbed to the intersectionality inferno that reduces everything to the ashes of racism.
WHO officials have announced that they plan to rename monkeypox because of its alleged derogatory and racist connotation, after already taking a battering from social justice mobsters for linking monkeypox to the LGBT community, even though upwards of 98% of recorded cases outside Africa are from men who have sex with men.
The decision to rebrand monkeypox was made following what WHO officials called current “best practices” for naming diseases, which turns out has nothing to do with diseases or medicine, but everything to do with appeasing perpetually woke leftists.
In naming diseases, the alleged scientists at the WHO said the organization tries to “avoid causing offense to any cultural, social, national, regional, professional, or ethnic groups, and minimize any negative impact on trade, travel, tourism or animal welfare.”
In line with that philosophy, the WHO has already renamed two monkeypox strains, also known as clades, to avoid any offense or possible stigmatization.
The WHO braintrust decided to use Roman numerals instead of geographic regions when naming clades, so the Congo Basin strain of the soon-to-be-former monkeypox is now called Clade I and the West African strain goes by Clade II.
In keeping with social DEI dogma, the WHO has decided to serve up the renaming of monkeypox for public input, providing a website where suggestions can be submitted.
Officials are hoping contributors will include academics, doctors and LGBT activists, but the screening process apparently needs some work.
Submissions have ranged from OPOXID-22, submitted by a Harvard Medical School ER physician, to Poxy McPoxface, according to U.S. News & World Report.
Tucker Carlson: “We had a vote … the new name for Monkeypox Is now officially, and we’re declaring it: Schlong COVID.” pic.twitter.com/X46IX3Lj32
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It’s unclear if reports that a dog has been infected with monkeypox after catching the virus from its gay owners would have any impact on renaming submission guidelines (woof hoof? canine callus clade?). WHO officials assured that whatever the name, there’s no evidence that dogs can transmit the disease to other dogs or humans.
The WHO has not set a deadline for announcing a new monkeypox name. Officials will decide among the submissions “according to their scientific validity, their acceptability, their pronounceability (and) whether they can be used in different languages,” U.S. News reported.
“I am sure we will not come up with a ridiculous name,” said WHO spokesperson Fadela Chaib.
Monkeypox gets a new name. pic.twitter.com/T4NeVeFmML
— Phil Albion (@AlbionPhil) August 15, 2022
