the world health organization has announced that it would start calling monkeypox m-pocks after hearing complaints that monkeypox was racist and stigma tieing. it s not clear how many of those complaints were serious or if they were made by anyone hurling feces. who has a mandate to rename existing diseases avoiding any association with a country, region, animal or ethnic group. so i guess my idea that san francisco smash rash is out. [laughter] greg: it s also not clear how you might accuse another person of racism for using the term monkeypox. sure, experts say that monkeypox is mostly found throughout africa until recently, but it was called monkeypox, not africa pox. and you can t associate the term monkeypox with racism unless you yourself are already associating the word monkey with africa.