News Forum - No more monkey business! Phuket monkeys lose tourists from monkeypox scare

[Thaiger]

Phuket’s monkeys are missing out on their usual feedings from tourists at Koh Siray island’s monkey viewpoint. At the viewpoint, tourists usually buy fruit from vendors to feed to the roughly 200 monkeys there. But following Phuket’s recent monkeypox scare, after a Nigerian man was found to have the virus, fewer tourists are coming to feed their furry friends. Local fruit vendors say there were more people buying fruit for the monkeys during Covid-19 restrictions than there are now. Some tourists still show up to feed the monkeys, but only from a distance. One fruit buyer told The Phuket Express… […]

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[BigHewer]

This is a testament to how stupid ‘the mob’ can be. We don’t catch chicken pox from chickens or Spanish flu from Spaniards, either. 

Also a testament to the power of whatever nomenclature is applied to a new ailment, as the name itself can provide a vehicle for misinformation.

 

[JJJ]

23 minutes ago, BigHewer said:

This is a testament to how stupid ‘the mob’ can be. We don’t catch chicken pox from chickens or Spanish flu from Spaniards, either. 

Also a testament to the power of whatever nomenclature is applied to a new ailment, as the name itself can provide a vehicle for misinformation.

Exactly right.

Rodents however do have the ability to carry and spread moneypox — so maybe it would be better if people didn’t leave their trash laying about outside. 

[Prosaap]

As usual they create their own chaos there are way to many monkeys because of the feeding they making money for years from the feeding. now this go down because tourist stay away they cry that the monkeys have no food (read we not make money ) 

[23RD]

MLM (Monkey Lives Matter).

I blame the Nigerian Princes not the Monkeys. 

And political correctness in the left leaning MSM for under reporting Monkeypox. 

[PapayaBokBok]

9 hours ago, 23RD said:

MLM (Monkey Lives Matter).

came to post this....dangit

[TWS60]

Thought process associating monkeypox with monkeys is the same sort of simple simonism required to get from this article to.....wait for it......BLM to MLM.  

It's a pervasive virus known as Desultory Perseveration, caused by excessive, obsessive-compulsive consumption of internet/television content - in this case, Fox News.   

Symptoms include involuntary scowling of face similar to sucking on a lemon, and semi-permanent furrowing of eye-brows, colloquially known as "Grumpy Old Fart Syndrome" and "Tucker Carlson-itis", respectively.   Acute, obsessive-compulsive thoughts cause a loss of discipline over brain to mouth motor function, resulting in uncontrolled blurting of random, incongruent ideas and comments that somehow, in their minds, and their minds only, refer to whatever Fox News Entertainment hosts were bangin' on about.  Rough approximation of this type of odd behavior presented by Dustin Hoffman's theatrical performance as Ray in the film Rain Man.

Tsunami hits Texas?  CRITICAL RACE THEORY! 

20 car pile up crash on the M4?  HUNTER BIDEN's LAPTOP!

Random article about monkeys in Phuket? 

[ChrisS]

No accounting for stupid!

 

[JJJ]

8 hours ago, TWS60 said:

Thought process associating monkeypox with monkeys is the same sort of simple simonism required to get from this article to.....wait for it......BLM to MLM.  

It's a pervasive virus known as Desultory Perseveration, caused by excessive, obsessive-compulsive consumption of internet/television content - in this case, Fox News.   

Symptoms include involuntary scowling of face similar to sucking on a lemon, and semi-permanent furrowing of eye-brows, colloquially known as "Grumpy Old Fart Syndrome" and "Tucker Carlson-itis", respectively.   Acute, obsessive-compulsive thoughts cause a loss of discipline over brain to mouth motor function, resulting in uncontrolled blurting of random, incongruent ideas and comments that somehow, in their minds, and their minds only, refer to whatever Fox News Entertainment hosts were bangin' on about.  Rough approximation of this type of odd behavior presented by Dustin Hoffman's theatrical performance as Ray in the film Rain Man.

Tsunami hits Texas?  CRITICAL RACE THEORY! 

20 car pile up crash on the M4?  HUNTER BIDEN's LAPTOP!

Random article about monkeys in Phuket? 

Honest question — what does “simonism” mean?