There is a huge difference between COVID and monkeypox in terms of public health danger.<p>COVID is infectious for several days before any symptoms. This makes classical spread control mechanisms highly inefficient. You can reduce the human-to-human interaction through lockdowns and restrictions, but cannot stop it completely. So a small percentage of pilots, police officers, nurses and other essential jobs will always carry and spread COVID, just because that's how probabilities work. The only thing you can do with restrictions is reduce this number to hopefully lower R0 below 1, but that's not viable.<p>Monkeypox spreads through visible and identifiable scabs. You can easily tell whether someone is infections from a simple visual inspection, so if we ever start running low on hospital beds due to it, the spread-reducing measures will be much more effective.<p>Also, from the original article:<p>>vast majority of cases is observed among [...] not previously immunized against smallpox (knowing that vaccination against smallpox is effective in protecting against monkeypox as well).<p>So:<p>1. We already have a working vaccine<p>2. The potential R0 will be much lower due to lack of asymptomatic spreaders<p>The media will do its best to paint it as the next apocalypse and divide people further based on their perception of the risk, but I do not think it would be wise to follow that lead.