They just needed a disease and they don't need it anymore

That’s what I said out loud — just because I wanted to blurt something out — after reading the NYT headline “What Happened to Monkeypox?”

I’m reading the article now, and I see that it’s not about the political use of this disease. It’s about how the cases are declining — down 85% since August, we’re told.

“Experts” cite 4 factors:

First, vaccines helped slow the virus’s spread (despite a rocky rollout). Second, gay and bisexual men reduced activities…. The third reason is related: the Pride Month effect…

That is, apparently, during Pride Month (June), gay men had “more parties and other festivities [that] involved casual sex.