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My wife is buried in a cemetery about 1/2 mile from my home. There is also a way through the cemetery that cuts through and shortens certain trips I make on a frequent basis. As a result, I travel through the cemetery and most times, I pass by my wife's (and eventually my) gravesite. I stop for a minute. I usually do not get out of the car but I do reflect back and recall some of the pleasant memories we made together. Today, Father's Day, there were many more cars in the cemetery than on a usual day which I expected. What set me to wondering was if these visits were out of respect or expectation that the location is somehow as special one for remembrance. I can reminisce anywhere, but I do find my frequent trips through the cemetery and the brief stops at the gravesite more calming and more reparative than other times. I should say, that if the cemetery was not a handy shortcut, I probably would never have made a special pilgrimage there. As an example, I have not been to my mother and father's gravesite in fifteen years or more. So do you go to the cemetery? Do you find it a healing experience to go? Do you think that it is all voodoo and superstition?

I has one escort with whom I was friendly and who came to me for my professional services. We saw each other weekly and he did an hour of training and an hour in bed and then dinner for the cost of an hour service. I offered him my services for free. When he broke up with his fiancé, he needed a place to stay and stayed with me for a few weeks. The next to last night he asked is could sleep with me instead of in the guest room and I said of course, He initiated the fooling around and did not wish payment. It may be that he was repaying my allowing him to stay with me, His final night he also slept in my bed and also performed sex acts which he did not provide for a fee, That was very surprising. He moved into an apartment and unfortunately he became ill, hospitalized and passed away within two months of this. I still think of him fondly, more than 15 years later.

Is it the tan lines that are sexy or the asses and cocks which are highlighted?

Probably not as funny but still, there is a combination of arrogance and stupidity here that reached a predictable conclusion. And I am sure all of those events would be funny to someone,

. Grew up in NYC live at the Jersey Shore now. Still have strong NYC connections though Wow goes to show you video is everywhere Maybe one will come out of this latest incident. I would love to see it again rather than just replaying it in my mind, I was glad no one was hurt. I was also glad that the mini parade ended,

There is a commercial 4 lane highway (2 lanes in each direction) near my home. I was running out to buy some dog food and as I was waiting for the light to let me cross and head northbound, two truck passed, each with a person in the back holding a Trump 2020 flag. As I entered, I noticed the flag from the lead truck fly out and the flag pole break through the windshield of the one behind it , causing the the second flag to go flying past my car. Once I realized I was safe, I just passed them and could not control my laughter, Is it wrong to laugh at the misfortune of others, even others who are completely reckless in their support of something or someone with who you disagree? Well perhaps not wreck less. No one was injured as far as I could tell. Please try to keep to topic and keep this in the lounge.

This man seems to have two oranges packed away in those shorts

I think the author of the article is quoted as saying that additional information is needed before this information becomes useful. I agree with that but would have added, if it ever becomes useful. Facts may be true and not useful. That the ACE2 pathway is a means of entry to the cell proved useful in spotting a reaction to vaccine and antibody determined entry in to cells now needs a work around in order to make a vaccine. This fact may bear fruit or it may just be an isolated, interesting Medical Jeopardy answer,

The difference which is statistically significant, is not, in the end clinically significant, Type A blood people have a higher risk of Stomach Cancer than the other blood types, There, where endoscopy can be done to check for the presence of gastric cancer, one might use the information to further inform a clinically decision, At this time, blood type may eventually be a key to a treatment, but for now, it is merely a statistically interesting fact, I doubt the people who would take increased risk because they have Type O blood would be informed enough to know that bit of information or even their blood type. I did see on AOL that had a headline about it CoVid and Blood Type. Tomorrow will be a different statistical nugget, Anything to keep the headlines coming, But in answer to your question, you did not misinterpret what the article stated, but as with most things, odds are for gamblers, with patients, there are really only two odds, 0 and 100, You either have it or you don't, No change is made because of this information, at least not yet.

Both Type A blood and Vitamin D deficiency have been known in the medical community for months. While both are risk factors, blood type cannot be changed so that point is moot. Getting more sun, eating Vitamin D enriched foods and even taking Vitamin D supplements, in moderation have been recommended to patients for some time. Be aware, vitamin D overdose is possible and can cause severe problems, so stay within prescribing guidelines if you decide to take it. Zinc is also though to be helpful in preventing viral infections in general and Coronavirus in particular. Vitamin C has its advocates but the evidence of a benefit in CoVid is scant.

So 1000 deaths a day and 10 times the number in Western Europe are just fine? And as you know, most expect spikes to occur in the fall and that while overall the rate of deaths is going down, there are areas in which spikes are occurring, so ymmv,

So 1000 deaths a day and 10 times the number in Western Europe are just fine? And as you know, most expect spikes to occur in the fall and that while overall the rate of deaths is going down, there are areas in which spikes are occurring, so ymmv,

Sure anarchy is very cool.

Sure anarchy is very cool.

. And that is my guest room bathtub, but again, never seen that guy there and that ass is unforgettable.

This looks a lot like my shower, but I do not recall his being in there,

Indubitably that is why I am happy for those who would do Casey, but I will not be At Bat for Casey.

Even if Casey Wood, I wouldn't. Does nothing for me but I am pleased that he is offering services for those of a different mind.

I believe that most men of a certain age have heard of sleep apnea. I am more sure that most men of a certain sleep around have heard a man snore. I think you are letting your insecurity get to you. If your sister in law could put up with snoring for 44 years, he could put up with it for a night, If he can't, well better to find out now. As to text-iquette, he seems a bit on the flaky side but a bit on the horny side. Which is more important?

Ah you go around the world

My issue with using. cases per million or number of new cases is testing. Test everyone around the world and then cases per million mean something. Compare the US where we were slow to test with other countries which were faster to test, the number of cases was initially lower than expected but the death rate per incident was high, When our testing got better, deaths per case decreased but there was an increase as far as the number of new cases. Nothing had changed by perspective. The numbers do not get higher and testing does not affect daaths in the same way. Tested or untested, you die you die. Now some would point out that if you are untested and you died of a Cvid related disease you may not wind up in the statistics for CoVid deaths. Others would say, if you had cancer and were terminally ill, and you happened to get CoVid, it was really the cancer which killed you and that should not be a CoVid death, Florida seems to like that loophole. So statistics can be manipulated any which way you like, Florida governor says the opening of the state did not cause an increase in number of cases the increased testing did. Well, the deaths per case decreased but the number of deaths increased. So there is a constellation of statistics and if you cherry pick the results, you can make them look any way you want them to look. I think perhaps the most accurate measure would be number of deaths above the expect number of deaths per million over a set time period. Of course, our need to know ASAP leads this to this slow to occur statistic being unusable for arguments to open up and to close down. It is more the wait and see what happens statistic and no one wants that. That is how I settled on CoVid death numbers as the one really important statistic. I will grant Stevern Kessler that I am not that concerned about the economy when I walk in the hospital door in the morning and ask how many people died. IF the number is 10 we had a bad night, if the number is 2 we did okay. For me, I want to do all we can do to keep that number closer to 2 than to 10. I understand that at some point in order for people to work and live and pay their bills and hire escorts, that we will need to accept some level above zero as a compromise. What that number should be is zero, what that number will be is going to be more than that. We accept 36000 influenza deaths a year in the US as the price of doing business. We accept 32000 gun related deaths a year as the price for having the NRA buying government officials. We will determine how many CoVid deaths a year it costs to keep the economy open and to have the 1% not have to have their taxes increased to pay for government support of those hit hardest by the closing.

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The rise in the number of cases is only significant in giving a relative risk of those who are sick getting chronically ill or dead. If everyone in the US got sick with Covid and no one died or had a long lasting illness, then we would all be going to restaurants and working and living our lives. The total number of cases only allows us to say what percentage of people suffer bad outcomes. Of course for the individuals that suffer bad outcomes that number is 100%. Total number of cases therefore is a weak indicator of the severity of disease. If 100000 people in the US had CoVid and they all died, well, all of us would be huddled in quarantine and building fortresses to keep out strangers who might bring us the disease. So the significant of the death rate can only be appreciated in the number of cases out there and the number actually dying. The more cases, the lower the rate but the number deaths stays the same, So ultimately, I think the number we need to rally focus on is not new cases, not death rates, but actual deaths. If there is consistently 1000 deaths across the US daily related to Cover, which has been the case for awhile, then having more cases without more death is significant for the cost of the disease and in the rate of deaths, but there are still 1000 people dead at the end of the day. 365000 at the end of the year. We should focus our statistical attention to number of deaths, number of hospitalization, number of days spent in the hospital and in the longer run, chronic disease associated with survival of the disease. Whether we have 1 million or 10 million cases causing those statistics, is irrelevant except as to help stratify risk. New cases will go up as a result of testing, That is how the Florida governor excused the record number of new cases in a day that occurred in Florida this week. No one asked him how many people died, which was also a record and had nothing to do with testing. I can remember watching Huntley and Brinkley on NBC news in the 1960s. They would report the number of American deaths in Viet Nam every day and then total it at the end of the week and the month. This was a very real way of expressing the tragedy of that war and it did not matter how many troops were there. Those 300 men a week were a testament that there were too many American soldiers there. Similarly 7500 dead Americans in a week would testify to the severity of the impact of Covid on the US and would speak to there being too many cases and that we need to continue to try to do things to limit it. Everything else is lies, damned lies and statistics.

I really do not understand deniers. Say flat out you do not care is thousands of people die as long as you are not one of them and your IRA looks good and move on. The rhetoric that is put out by them is repetitive, inaccurate and self serving

Except that in Florida when the beaches were open for spring break, they followed the cell phones students on one beach and found spikes in cases in most places that those students went back to. There were dozens of beaches open and all you need is one case, like in New Rochelle, to create a spike. Or have you forgotten, in November there were a few cases in China and now eight months later from those few, really from that one, all these that have followed. What do you not understand about that?