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How contagious is it?

Edit: Unlike SARS-CoV-2, which spreads through tiny air-borne droplets called aerosols, monkeypox is thought to spread from close contact with bodily fluids, such as saliva from coughing. That means a person with monkeypox is likely to infect far fewer close contacts than someone with SARS-CoV-2

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Covid was also initially stated to not be a concern because human to human transmission wasn’t thought to be possible, then it didn’t have aerosol transmission, then it became inevitable that basically everyone would get infected.

I think it’ll take a couple weeks until we know whether this is an evolution that has airborne transmission or it’s just being spread through physical contact (and it fortunately seems to just be the latter). Until then it’s some researchers saying it won’t spread beyond a few cases and some people saying it’s the next plague.

This is a known disease that has some pretty distinct clusters. No doubt people would love to draw covid analogies, and will try and use the recent pandemic to try and amplify their own importance, but without some compelling evidence it is absurd to read further into this

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