I'm also sorry to hear about your cousin. But, let's look at numbers for a moment. And, this is not being harsh, etc. OK, you have "supposed" one million people die of covid. Well, with a population of around 333 million in the US that's a mortality rate of oo.3% (that's 3tenths of 1%) mortality rate. which is a very low number. A regular old fashioned flu kills more than that. OH, and last year or two, did you hear many cases of the old fashioned flu??? I sure didn't. And, when one of the guys that I used to work with in the FD (he was a rookie back then) told me of a car wreck where there was a decapitation and the cause of death was Covid??? Yea right. From that point onward, I lost all complete faith in how things were being reported.
It will be the same thing with monkey pox. Just wait and see. You have one confirmed case in the US currently. He did not travel to Africa, but he had been in Canada, so finding patient zero should be real easy to find. What do you want to bet that finding patient zero happens? It won't happen. In the past, when a bad seasonal flu would come forward, you'd have as much as a 1 sometimes 1.5% mortality rate. But did we ever hear about it?? not really.
Just sit back and follow the patterns. You'll see that this monkey pox will turn out just like the covid crap did---a case or two here and there, and then in a few weeks, that creepy fauci fellow will re-appear with his new set of instructions, and the sheep will be quietly led to slaughter. Not getting political, but I'll wager that the breakout will happen in a blue state. Go figure. I'm independent, so for me it's not a political thing and I really don't follow politics. That's what's got us in the mess we are in now. After all, with mid terms coming in a few months, and a huge change is predicted, oh you have to have something to prevent people from going to vote.
You were talking about natural immunity, I'm sorta wondering in the back of my mind if many years ago, I didn't by chance get it, or something very similar to it. The year was 1979. I developed a very high fever of 105 and had it for 5 days. Hospitalized, nothing broke the fever, but when it did break, boy howdy was that bed soaking wet. the only thing it did to me was make my red hair turn white, and I did lose most of my hair within a month afterwards. I was also very weak for about 6 months after that. But, from that day forward, I really haven't been terribly sick. I guess the body anti-bodies had gone into overdrive to combat whatever it was. Back then, the labs never figured out what I had, except it was an unusual infection. I didn't have clogged lungs or anything, just a super high fever.
My circle of folks is rather small, but the ones that I know that didn't get the jab, two did get sick, ran a fever for a day or two, but recovered--but like everyone else, afterwards, they were very weak for a good while. One was a husband and wife--neither had the jab, the husband got sick, did have bumps on his back, like a bed sore, but the wife never got sick, and although they didn't sleep together during that period, they were still in the same household, ect. Now, that wife's older sister (she's 60 now) got the covid, and then afterwards--took the jab, got real sick again and developed what the doctors are calling "Covid dementia" She's in real bad shape and will never recover from the dementia. That doctor of the older sister did say that the Covid dementia is somewhat common, especially if they took the jab. The second person I was originally talking about did develop a cough. He refused the jab. He was working for me, and I let him stay here for a couple of days in my extra room. He didn't have a family close by. And, I didn't go around wearing a stupid mask. The only thing I did differently was to wash my hands more frequently and also take some either bleach or Lysol and wipe down contact surfaces.
For now, I'm just going to watch and see.
