{"id":1577655,"date":"2022-07-29T08:31:31","date_gmt":"2022-07-29T12:31:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1577655"},"modified":"2022-07-29T08:31:34","modified_gmt":"2022-07-29T12:31:34","slug":"watch-tucker-carlson-confirms-viewers-prefer-a-new-name-for-monkeypox-schlong-covid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/watch-tucker-carlson-confirms-viewers-prefer-a-new-name-for-monkeypox-schlong-covid\/","title":{"rendered":"WATCH: Tucker Carlson Confirms Viewers Prefer A New Name For Monkeypox: \u2018Schlong COVID\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fwatch-tucker-carlson-confirms-viewers-prefer-a-new-name-for-monkeypox-schlong-covid%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1577655&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>On Thursday, roughly six weeks after the World Health Organization decided to rename the disease monkeypox after some claimed the name was discriminatory, Fox News\u2019 Tucker Carlson confirmed that his viewers had decided to give the Centers for Disease Control and the American people a new name for the disease.<\/p>\n<p>Carlson made an implicit reference to the manner in which the disease has been largely spread through homosexual behavior in addition to a side reference to \u201cLong COVID\u201d as he pronounced his name for the disease.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo monkeypox is about the coolest name ever for a disease \u2014 \u2018can\u2019t come tonight, I got the monkey\u2019\u2014 but <em>they\u00a0<\/em>are changing the name, \u2018cause racism or something,\u201d Carlson asserted.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWell, for once, we know who <em>they <\/em>are; we\u2019re not going to allow it,\u201d he declared. \u201c<em>We<\/em>\u2019<em>re <\/em>going to change the name this time.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re going to do it with the public\u2019s help, because democracy is real,\u201d he quipped.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier in the week, Carlson had <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DailyCaller\/status\/1552464415219400705\">stated<\/a>, \u201cWe like the name monkeypox; it\u2019s a great name, but as long as they\u2019re going to change the name, we should have some role in naming it. It shouldn\u2019t be left up to Tony Fauci and Deborah Birx. So what should we call it? Democracy Pox? Schlong COVID, our favorite? Tweet us your suggestions.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Carlson took a <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TuckerCarlson\/status\/1552814471026016257\">poll on Twitter<\/a>. He continued on Thursday,\u00a0\u201cSo we had a vote; there was no ballot harvesting; you can trust our counting, and the new name for monkeypox Is now officially, and we\u2019re declaring it: Schlong COVID.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Targeting the CDC, he continued, \u201cThat won our audience election with about 40% of the vote. So let Rochelle Walensky (director of the Centers for Disease Control) at the CDC know; her number is 1-800-232-4636. Wait for the prompt on \u2018monkeypox\u2019 and make your voice heard, cause it\u2019s still a democracy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The results are in. Monkeypox will now officially be called \u201cSchlong Covid.\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/nEFZjvWAnV\">pic.twitter.com\/nEFZjvWAnV<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Tucker Carlson (@TuckerCarlson) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TuckerCarlson\/status\/1552834184409976835?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 29, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<p>In mid-June, the World Health Organization, apparently responding to over 30 researchers who \u201csigned a position paper stating there was an \u2018urgent need\u2019 to change its name given the current outbreak, which has mainly struck gay and bisexual men,\u201d as the Daily Mail\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/health\/article-10918619\/World-Health-Organization-rename-monkeypox-scientists-claimed-RACIST.html\">reported<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/dailywire.com\/news\/world-health-organization-will-rename-monkeypox-because-name-is-discriminatory-stigmatizing-to-africa\/\">announced<\/a> the disease would be renamed.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Tedros Ghebreyesus, WHO Director-General, stated that the organization is \u201cworking with partners and experts from around the world on changing the name of monkeypox virus, its clades, and the disease it causes. \u2026 We will make announcements about the new names as soon as possible.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>On Wednesday, Ghebreyesus implicitly addressed the homosexual community, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2022\/07\/27\/health\/who-monkeypox-msm-sex-partners\/index.html\">saying<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p><em>This is an outbreak that can be stopped if countries, communities and individuals inform themselves, take the risk seriously and take the steps needed to stop transmission and protect vulnerable groups. The best way to do that is to reduce the risk of exposure. That means making safe choices for yourself and others.\u00a0For men who have sex with men, this includes, for the moment, reducing your number of sexual partners, reconsidering sex with new partners and exchanging contact details with any new partners to enable follow up, if needed.<\/p>\n<p><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Thursday, roughly six weeks after the World Health Organization decided to rename the disease monkeypox after some claimed the name was discriminatory, Fox News\u2019 Tucker Carlson confirmed that his viewers had decided to give the Centers for Disease Control and the American people a new name for the disease. 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