TUCKER CARLSON: If they change the name of monkeypox, it should be 'Schlong Covid'

As woke health officials seek to change the name of the "monkeypox" virus over concerns of racism and stigma surrounding the virus, Fox News host Tucker Carlson said on Thursday its new name should be decided by the "people."

"We like monkeypox. It's a great name. But as long as they're going to change the name we should have some role in naming it," Carlson said. "It shouldn't be left up to Tony Fauci and Deborah Birx."

"So what should we call it?" Carlson asked. "Democracypox? Schlong Covid? Our favorite!"

In June, the World Health Organization (WHO) announced that they were consulting with experts in orthopoxviruses on finding a more appropriate name, one that does not have discriminatory and stigmitizing nomenclature. More than 30 scientists said there is an "urgent" need for a new name.

They scientists argued that "The prevailing perception in the international media and scientific literature is that MPXV is endemic in people in some African countries. However, it is well established that nearly all MPXV outbreaks in Africa prior to the 2022 outbreak, have been the result of spillover from animals to humans and only rarely have there been reports of sustained human-to-human transmissions. In the context of the current global outbreak, continued reference to, and nomenclature of this virus being African is not only inaccurate but is also discriminatory and stigmatizing."

"The most obvious manifestation of this," they continue, "is the use of photos of African patients to depict the pox lesions in mainstream media in the global north. Recently, Foreign Press Association, Africa issued a statement urging the global media to stop using images of African people to highlight the outbreak in Europe."

On Tuesday, the New York Health Commissioner, Ashwin Vasan, jumped on board the name change and wrote a letter to the World Health Organization demanding that the monkeypox virus be immediately renamed, citing "racism" as the primary reason.

However, individuals on social media slammed health officials for their own apparent racism, since they automatically associated the disease with"black people."

"If the first thing you think of when you hear "monkeypox" is black people and now want to change it so it's not 'offensive', you're actually the racist," author Adam Coleman wrote on Twitter.

"Yes! When they said 'monkeypox is racist' my first thought was 'against who?'" Libby Emmons said, Editor-in-chief of The Post Millennial.