You don't shake hands with co-workers, you don't have friends that you hug, shake hands or share things with? you don't have family members?

Hell no! What are you, Italian? Sit down Governor Cuomo.

I reserve the right to stand and glare stoically at my close family and that is absolutely all the intimacy I will tolerate from them.

... but no seriously,

Most westerners don't engage in physical contact (except Italians, and maybe greeks) most of the time. Again, the lesions are gonna be wherever you are had contact, so if you're shaking your hands and have monkey pox, it's not likely you're gonna shake hands. On top of that, they're not just saying some over-the-shoulder-one-arm-hug with clothing on. They are talking about two people with no shirts fully embracing each other. More-over, I've got to emphasize petting was the fetish here that led to the outbreak. This means putting your hands all over someone.

That's the reason you are saying it spreads like an STD. The only time you would engage in that level of skin contact in a western society is if you were with a romantic partner. You're not going to give you're a hug when neither of you are wearing shirts. Not even if you're Italian.