What do you mean by $currentThing? Certainly this is, indeed, a current thing. But so are most things in the news - it's named for it! (O, the ceaseless march of time.) I don't understand why it's necessary to call attention to the fact that the news is new.
Ah. I don't really see how making fun of people who performatively support popular causes is relevant here, but I suppose memes move in mysterious ways. Perhaps it's assumed that because this may become relevant, actions against monkeypox will surely get performatively supported? But then, I'd say that pre-emptively aggressively opposing that is only going to make it more likely, not less, that this becomes some kind of a "culture war" issue that gets performative support. (As any teenager knows, an ostentatious roll of the eye at the other side only intensifies the argument.)
The vaccine is hundreds of years old, there's no money in it
There is money in making people afraid.
There is more money in going the conspiratorial way, precisely because that appeals directly to the hindbrain. Fear, paranoia, distrust, persecution complex, the whole kit.