{"id":19945,"date":"2022-06-02T23:08:57","date_gmt":"2022-06-03T03:08:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ckms.ca\/?p=19945"},"modified":"2022-06-02T23:08:57","modified_gmt":"2022-06-03T03:08:57","slug":"opinion-media-coverage-of-monkeypox-paints-it-as-an-african-virus-that-makes-me-mad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/?p=19945","title":{"rendered":"OPINION: Media coverage of monkeypox paints it as an African virus. That makes me mad"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Ifeanyi Nsofor is a physician in Nigeria, which has seen a monkeypox outbreak over the past few years. He does not like the way the media is covering the current outbreak in Western countries.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/sections\/goatsandsoda\/2022\/06\/02\/1102199023\/opinion-media-coverage-of-monkeypox-paints-it-as-an-african-virus-that-makes-me-\">OPINION: Media coverage of monkeypox paints it as an African virus. That makes me mad<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p>for shits and giggles, i did a GIS for &#8220;monkeypox&#8221; and got this:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/monkeypox-site_pinterest._-Google-Search-2022-06-02-23-04-45.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1007\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/monkeypox-site_pinterest._-Google-Search-2022-06-02-23-04-45-1024x1007.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-19947\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/monkeypox-site_pinterest._-Google-Search-2022-06-02-23-04-45-1024x1007.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/monkeypox-site_pinterest._-Google-Search-2022-06-02-23-04-45-300x295.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/monkeypox-site_pinterest._-Google-Search-2022-06-02-23-04-45-768x755.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/monkeypox-site_pinterest._-Google-Search-2022-06-02-23-04-45-1536x1510.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/monkeypox-site_pinterest._-Google-Search-2022-06-02-23-04-45-750x737.jpg 750w, https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/monkeypox-site_pinterest._-Google-Search-2022-06-02-23-04-45-1226x1205.jpg 1226w, https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/monkeypox-site_pinterest._-Google-Search-2022-06-02-23-04-45-675x664.jpg 675w, https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/monkeypox-site_pinterest._-Google-Search-2022-06-02-23-04-45.jpg 1777w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>seems fairly balanced to me.  not all white bread canucks, but certainly blacks aren&#8217;t over-represented.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Given Google&#8217;s use of meta data on me, this search result relfect much about me.  it would be interesting to here or see other&#8217;s results of the same searche.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Ifeanyi Nsofor is a physician in Nigeria, which has seen a&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[282],"tags":[257,728,1318],"class_list":["post-19945","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article","tag-africa","tag-monkeypox","tag-racisim","wpcat-282-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19945","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19945"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19945\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19945"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19945"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19945"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}