On: Monkeypox declared global health emergency by WHO ...

[ornornor]

Didn’t everyone say that when Covid started? Now you’d be hard press to find someone who doesn’t know someone who had it (or had it themselves)

[thinkingemote → ornornor]

I think when it (lockdown, not the initial spread) started everyone knew a friend of a friend who heard about someone with it. Degrees of connection.

Indeed there were posts on this forum in the early days about it with first hand accounts. No such accounts with this so far?

Personally, a school friend was one of the first cases in the country.