Right-Winger Calls for LGBTQ+ People to Be Put in Camps Over Monkeypox

Source: The Advocate

Right-Winger Calls for LGBTQ+ People to Be Put in Camps Over Monkeypox

BY TRUDY RING
AUGUST 06 2022 10:30 AM EDT

A supporter of Kari Lake, the Republican nominee for Arizona governor, has called for LGBTQ+ people to be put into camps to stop the spread of monkeypox.

“We need to quarantine and isolate all the folks of the LGBT community,” Ethan Schmidt-Crockett said in a video posted to social media. “We need to find all of them. We need to hunt them down and put them into isolation camps for their own protection.” He asked why the U.S. government isn’t speaking out against “reprobate fornication.”

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Monkeypox, or MPV, is spread largely through skin-to-skin contact, such as that which occurs during sex, but it is not a sexually transmitted disease. The majority of cases in the current outbreak have occurred in men who have sex with men; however, there are cases in other populations as well. The federal government has declared MPV a public health emergency, as has the World Health Organization, and they have recommended that people reduce their number of sexual partners. There is a vaccine against MPV, although supplies have been insufficient, and there is treatment for the virus.

Schmidt-Crockett’s remarks echo those made early in the AIDS epidemic. In the 1980s, right-wing extremists such as minor-party presidential candidate Lyndon LaRouche pushed the idea of isolating people with HIV.

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DU Schmidt-Crockett thread from 2021: TFG-endorsed gubernatorial candidate appears with Nazi sympathizer and QAnon-linked activists at c