1. Whenever there is a viral outbreak, people tend to fight the last war. During the Ebola outbreak of 2014, there was an extreme paranoia, which led to downplaying of coronavirus at the initial stage.
Now, because people catastrophically underestimated COVID, they are panicking about monkeypox. The first test is now how we handle the current crisis without panicking. “I don’t think people should be freaking out at this stage," Carl Bergstrom of the University of Washington told the Atlantic. 2.
COVID was completely unfamiliar when it first appeared, but monkeypox is a known quantity. “Monkeypox does not scream ‘airborne’ at me; COVID-19 did," Linsey Marr, an aerosol expert at Virginia Tech.
But the concern is, it is a zoonotic infection. “We can’t use what happened with previous monkeypox outbreaks to make sweeping statements.