{"id":1951193,"date":"2023-06-19T16:09:02","date_gmt":"2023-06-19T20:09:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-advisor-defends-unsafe-sex-one-persons-idea-of-risk-another-persons-idea-of-a-great-festival\/"},"modified":"2023-06-19T16:11:29","modified_gmt":"2023-06-19T20:11:29","slug":"biden-advisor-defends-unsafe-sex-one-persons-idea-of-risk-another-persons-idea-of-a-great-festival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-advisor-defends-unsafe-sex-one-persons-idea-of-risk-another-persons-idea-of-a-great-festival\/","title":{"rendered":"Biden Advisor Supports Diverse Perspectives on Safe Sex"},"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\">16<\/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%2Fbiden-advisor-defends-unsafe-sex-one-persons-idea-of-risk-another-persons-idea-of-a-great-festival%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=1951193&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>President Joe Biden\u2019s monkeypox advisor appeared to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-advisor-defends-unsafe-sex-one-persons-idea-of-risk-another-persons-idea-of-a-great-festival\/\" title=\"Biden Advisor Supports Diverse Perspectives on Safe Sex\">defend risky sexual behavior \u2014 waving<\/a> it off as simply someone\u2019s idea of a \u201cfun Friday night\u201d \u2014 during a Sunday appearance on MSNBC.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Demetre Daskalakis, a physician and gay activist who specializes in the prevention of HIV and other <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/san-francisco-poop-testing-startup-charged-with-fraud-likened-to-theranos\/\" title=\"San Francisco Poop-Testing Startup Charged With Fraud, Likened To Theranos\">sexually transmitted infections<\/a>, has <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/POTUS\/status\/1554489702513786886\">served<\/a> as Biden\u2019s Deputy National Monkeypox Coordinator since August 2022 \u2014 and he told MSNBC\u2019s Jonathan Capehart that his role in the administration is to \u201cget the word out in a way that supports people\u2019s joy\u201d rather than warning them that their behavior could be \u201crisky.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>WATCH:<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Biden monkeypox advisor Demetre Daskalakis says the Biden administration aims to &#8220;support peoples&#8217; joy as opposed to calling them &#8216;risky'&#8221;:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;One person&#8217;s idea of risk is another person&#8217;s idea of a great festival or Friday night.&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/nKsRQNmOwY\">pic.twitter.com\/nKsRQNmOwY<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 RNC Research (@RNCResearch) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RNCResearch\/status\/1670433692312018944?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 18, 2023<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\u201cI work in HIV normally,\u201d he explained, adding, \u201cI always say that I\u2019ve never made an HIV diagnosis in someone that hasn\u2019t somehow related to stigma, I think M-Pox is the same.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cStigma tends to be a barrier to testing, a barrier to vaccination,\u201d he continued. \u201cAnd so, you know, really addressing stigma intentionally and making sure that we get the word out in a way that supports people\u2019s joy as opposed to, you know, calling them \u2018risky.\u2019 So I think, you know, one of the things to think about is one person\u2019s idea of risk is another person\u2019s idea of a great \u2018festival\u2019 or Friday night, for that matter, so we have to sort of embrace that with joy and make sure that folks know how to keep themselves safe.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>What Daskalakis did not say aloud was that monkeypox (renamed \u201cM-Pox\u201d in an effort to lessen the stigma he had warned about) is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mayoclinic.org\/diseases-conditions\/infectious-diseases\/expert-answers\/monkeypox-faq\/faq-20533608\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">often transmitted<\/a> through close contact with the skin or mucosal surfaces of an infected person \u2014 and that it appeared to have <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/california-report-shows-lgbtq-community-hit-hardest-by-monkeypox\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">hit hardest<\/a> among men who engaged in sexual contact with other men.<\/p>\n<p><b data-stringify-type=\"bold\"><\/b><\/p>\n<p>Daskalakis recently came under fire when a video circulated of him appearing onstage wearing a business suit and a bondage harness alongside two men wearing bikini bottoms. According to a <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/biden-administration\/biden-monkeypox-adviser-video\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">report<\/a> from the Washington Free Beacon, Daskalakis was there \u201c\u2018on assignment\u2019 in his role as the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention\u2019s director of the division of HIV\/AIDS prevention \u2014 for which he <a href=\"https:\/\/openpayrolls.com\/demetre-c-daskalakis-134512204\">was paid<\/a> a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/now-is-not-the-time-fauci-advises-against-super-bowl-parties\/\" title=\"\u2018Now Is Not The Time\u2019: Fauci Advises Against Super Bowl Parties\">taxpayer-funded salary<\/a> of about $246,000 last year.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Joe Biden&#8217;s monkeypox advisor, Dr. Demetre Daskalakis, defended risky sexual behavior on MSNBC, dismissing it as a &#8220;fun Friday night.&#8221; As a physician and LGBTQ+ activist focused on preventing HIV and other infections, Daskalakis holds a prominent role as Biden&#8217;s Deputy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":93,"featured_media":1951194,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[7462,3620,6446,16492,6551,7937,9787],"class_list":["post-1951193","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-advisor","tag-biden","tag-diverse","tag-perspectives","tag-safe","tag-sex","tag-supports"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1951193","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/93"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1951193"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1951193\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1951194"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1951193"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1951193"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1951193"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}