In article <t2fn31$3jbnm$196@news.freedyn.de>
<governor.swill@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> ...I spent all night sucking cocks.

A veteran top infection control specialist at the city Health
Department claimed he was reassigned in �retaliation� after
having a dispute with brass over monkeypox messaging.

Dr. Don Weiss, director of surveillance, was transferred to
another unit after publicly criticizing the department�s advice
to gay men about reducing the transmission of monkeypox.

He repeated his barbs in a July 18 letter to Health Commissioner
Dr. Ashwin Vasan, which he posted on his website.

The reassignment was first reported by Gothamist.com.

Weiss accused the department of offering misleading information
by suggesting that having sex while infected with monkeypox
could be made safer if people avoided kissing and covered their
sores.

He argued that abstaining or reducing sex for a period of time
was the best way to limit the spread of monkeypox.

�Monkeypox in NYC is a sexually transmitted infection. Not
communicating this clearly and often is a public health
failure,� Weiss said in the letter to Vasan.

�DOHMH continues to emphasize skin-to-skin contact as the major
risk and have now dangerously suggested that sex is not a risk,
as long as you don�t kiss and cover your sores. This is
completely contrary to the evidence.�

He said that department leadership �is more concerned with
stigma avoidance� for gay men rather than �giving people the
risk information they need to protect themselves and others.
People are suffering.�

Four days later, Weiss received a letter from Sean McFarlane,
assistant commissioner who oversees personnel and labor
relations, notifying him that he had been reassigned to the
division of family and child health effective Monday and that
his new title was �infant and reproductive health medical
specialist.� The letter is posted on his website.

McFarlane said Weiss� salary would remain unchanged, according
to the letter.

Weiss also posted an audio recording of a conversation he had
with a health department official who would not tell him who
ordered his reassignment.

Noting that the reassignment came just days after publicly
taking issue with department brass over monkeypox guidance,
Weiss said, �You are aware under the whistleblower statute that
you cannot do any retribution to me for my coming forward with
information that I thought was necessary for the public to know?�

�This could be seen as retribution, especially the timing of it.�

He also asked if he could appeal the decision of his
reassignment and was denied because it was a reorganization.

The health department had no immediate comment.

But The World Health Organization director general, in new
guidance issued Wednesday agreed with Weiss� approach � saying
men who have sex with men should limit the number of sexual
partners they have to reduce their risk of contracting monkeypox.

Meanwhile, state Health Commissioner Dr. Mary Bassett Thursday
declared monkeypox an imminent public health threat.

�Based on the ongoing spread of this virus, which has increased
rapidly and affected primarily communities that identify as men
who have sex with men, and the need for local jurisdictions to
administer vaccines, I�ve declared monkeypox an Imminent Threat
to Public Health throughout New York State,� Bassett said.

�This declaration means that local health departments engaged in
response and prevention activities will be able to access
additional State reimbursement, after other Federal and State
funding sources are maximized, to protect all New Yorkers and
ultimately limit the spread of monkeypox in our communities.�

It was revealed earlier Thursday that New York state will
receive 110,000 new doses of the monkeypox vaccine � with 80,000
coming to the Big Apple alone � as the Biden administration
finally released the stock of shots and is expected to declare
the virus a public health emergency.

Aides to Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) told The
Post that the new allocation is coming to New York from the pot
of 786,000 monkeypox vaccines previously stuck in Denmark thanks
to an FDA snafu.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has recorded
4,639 confirmed cases of monkeypox in the US as of Wednesday,
including 1,228 in New York state.

In New York City alone, 1,148 have been diagnosed, according to
the data.

Comments:

Alfred
28 July, 2022

Can't the alphabets just help keep the rest of us safe by
abstaining from doing it with randos during this public health
crisis?

Washington Park
29 July, 2022

We were supposed to mask up, stay six feet back, avoid crowds of
more than 5, but asking gay men to keep it out of other people's
rear ends in bath houses is just too much of a sacrifice to make.

https://nypost.com/2022/07/28/nyc-infection-control-specialist-
claims-retaliation-in-monkeypox-dispute/