Houston man with monkeypox says pain, stigma, isolation are the hardest parts

“You look at it, and it’s such an ugly virus. You look at it, and you recoil. And you think I don’t want to be anywhere near that," Wesley Wallace told us. He got monkeypox blisters on his mouth after kissing someone in a bar.

[kellydawes]

Fear of isolation? Isn't isolating yourself to keep others from being infected more important than your feelings?

[joemomma]

I don’t think he kissed a stranger. I think he did something else with a stranger

[mttdlln]

If only y’all would take 5 seconds to find his personal twitter and you’d be puking your guts out. Of course the guy got some disgusting infection when he’s all over random men he meets on the internet 🤢🤢🤢

[Sharmuta]

Semen and shit are not supposed to be in one's mouth.

[poloonthegod]

"Kissing another person" right...

[monkeytennis]

Stop kissing "people" in bars.

[Vikingsmoke]

Difficult for me to feel sympathy for this, live right. He knew well in advance this shit was spreading in the gay community.

[thewholetruth]

There is photographic evidence of where he got it. A man sat on his face. Now that mans rear end matches his face

[UHeardMestTime]

He got it from kissing another person? It was a man! Why don't you just say it?

[hemingwaytrout]

That’s strange how the sores are around his mouth and between his forefinger and thumb ? It’s almost as if he had something in his mouth and between his fingers at the same time. We should figure out what he was doing at the time so this doesn’t happen to anyone else

[deebee]

You can see right where those bags were slapping him.

[George]

I admire him for doing this as it teaches the lesson that being the prettiest one at the orgy is not the highest pinnacle of achievement. In the 80's, when AIDS first came out, I went to many funerals of several people I ran errands for during their end days. One guy confessed he kept the behavior up because he'd never see the people he infected again. Hard to feel sympathy.

[cryptocashflo]

It's real dangerous to be promiscuous out here everybody gotta turn they freak down a notch 🤦🏾‍♂️😂

[krupag]

From kissing another person... Love how y'all tried to hide the fact that the other person is a male as well ... You want people to know but still won't tell everyone who's transferring it

[sv]

It's funny how they say kissing a person and not specifically say he kissed a woman or a man 🤔. Based on his speech and appearance he seems zesty

[sharionberryman]

I really think the government has something to do with this.

[ficationsare]

If only people worried about not spreading illness as much as stigma.

[infinityseren]

So you went and messed around with some that had sores on them and kissed them any ways. Obviously it’s spread from direct contact with body fluids or rash or scabs. You actively kissed someone with scabs like herpes. People are freaking nasty.

[TheIndependentLens]

Why do I get the feeling something was spread open and homie was given it his all?!?!?

[StabbyMcStabwood]

We all know why 95% of cases are in a certain community.