A Pox on All Our Houses

‘Tis but thy name that is my enemy;
Thou art thyself, though not a Monkeypox.
What’s Monkeypox? It is nor hand, nor foot,
Nor arm, nor face, nor any other part
Belonging to a man. O, be some other name!
What’s in a name? That which we call an orthopoxvirus
By any other name would sicken as much;
So Monkeypox would, were he not Monkeypox call’d,
Retain that dear perfection which he owes
Without that title. Monkeypox, mutate,
And for that name which is no part of thee
Take all myself.

Juliet is just asking to be patient zero.

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