Tue May 31, 2022 – 8:15 pm EDT
(LifeSiteNews) — Despite endorsing lockdowns during the so-called COVID-19 pandemic, the World Health Organization says “LGBTQ+” events are free to continue during the viral monkeypox outbreak that primarily infects gay men.
“It’s important that people who want to go out and celebrate gay pride, LGBTQ+ pride, to continue to go and plan to do so,” Andy Seale, a strategies advisory for the WHO Department of Global HIV, Hepatitis and Sexually Transmitted Infections Programmes, said Tuesday.
“Most of these events – the official [gay pride] events – are outdoors, they’re family-friendly,” claimed Seale, adding, “We don’t see any real reason to be concerned about the enhanced likelihood of transmission in those contexts.”
Seale’s statements were met with immediate criticism, as the WHO itself admits that the disease transmits through “prolonged close contact” “mainly, but not exclusively” among “men who have ‘sex’ with men.”
Responding to the WHO, conservative journalist Paul Joseph Watson said the organization’s willingness to push lockdown measures on society with respect to the highly survivable coronavirus while allowing homosexual events to continue during a primarily homosexual viral outbreak, indicates a “double standard” at the WHO.
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