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May you live in interesting times. I did not realize that this may have been a translation a Chinese curse and is usually used in an ironic manner. So without irony I suggest. May you live interesting lives.

By the way, about 1/4 of the people with coronavirus do have some diarrhea. It is not a major symptoms but it is definitely a higher than expected association

Realistically I knew I was going to have to cancel, but the vague hope that maybe things would brighten kept it a bit easier to see each day through. This is the right decision but it is one that just brings the nature of this into closer sight. So Oliver, I suggest you set the date for 2021 so that we may start the countdown to that joyous reunion. We all need a little hope these days and seeing that date might be just the bit of hope that makes it easier to get through this. Thanks for your efforts through the years. This event has brightened my life and let me be myself more than I am any other time of the year.

You guys have a large enough group that you could band together and tell the manager the meeting is yearly and perhaps have him consider putting aside a block of rooms for 2021 at a major discount

He was here on Monday and I must say, he looked terrific. It would be indiscrete to go into the details as I would have in a review in the past. Lets just say that one comforter, two sheets, four pillow cases and 2 pillows were put into the wash when we recovered as the sweat and the other fluids drenched them. We started out the first 10 minutes in a steam shower and after that the sweat was flowing and after we retired to the boudoir the sweat continued unabated for the full two hours plus that he was here.

The hospital I work at opened a 10 bed ER screen area for Covid and a 25 bed Covid inpatient unit yesterday. Today, both are full today. And it is only Tuesday.

As I have written elsewhere, I worked at St Vincent's Hospital in Greenwich Village at a time, late 1970s) when the AID epidemic would be measured in the hundreds of people with Gay Bowel Disease and GRID (Gay related Immunodeficiency). The panic was there for health care workers and gay men and their friends but mostly life went on as it always had even as the wards in St Vincent's filled up. It took several years to figure out the nature of the disease, the cause and eventually a treatment. Most statistics date the epidemic to 1981 though there are rare case reports of cases going back to the 1960s 1988 and 1989 were years of a large number of HIV related deaths, although globally 2004 was the peak year. Still, worldwide, even now, yearly more than 600,000 people die of AIDs related illness, the majority, more than 80%, in Africa, So, more than 40 years down the road, and that particular epidemic is still ongoing. To expect a simple end to this particular virus, coronavirus, is probably foolhardy. Immunity conferred is not complete and not long lasting. We will get better at diagnosing it. We will get better at treating it. We may even get to a point where there is a somewhat effective vaccine. This virus also may mutate to a less toxic form. But all of those things will take time. The world is a completely different place than it was when that first case occurred in Wuhan. It will never be the same again. But more than likely, advances will make it seem not so bad, just at the 1/2 million deaths a years from AIDS seems to be not so bad, AIDS Death in 2018 According to the WHO, 32 million people have died of HIV since the beginning of the epidemic out of the 74.9 million who have been infected (roughly 43 percent).1 Moreover, of the 37.9 million people living with HIV today, just over 770,000 died in 2018. All told, AIDS-related deaths have been reduced by more than 56 percent since the peak in 2004.2

Well the number of cases at the hospital at which I work doubled two days ago and then doubled again yesterday. Sounds ominous. We had one case, then 2 then 4. Not quite so ominous. The truth is, that we are preparing. We have contingency plans if there is a surge in cases. We will be testing in tents, We are telling people to stay home unless thy have a fever, shortness of breath and a cough. If you are not sick like that and you come to the ER, you will be sent home. In those cases, there is nothing medically to do but wait for you to get better or worse. For those who get worse, we have too few negative flow rooms. We have been using hep filters and we will be soon opening a floor of the hospital just for the Covid cases. The fact is, there are not enough people to work. Yesterday a doctor retired rather than care for Covid patients. I check my temperature twice a day as I have a chronic cough and chronic shortness of breath. If I get a fever, I am staying home, if not, hi ho hi ho it is off to work I go. I worked at St Vincent's Hospital in the late 70's and we had many cases of the "gay virus". No one knew how you got it for sure and no one knew for sure what the cause was. People were scared, People panicked. Slowly facts came to light. Precautions were taken, Some fiddled while Rome burned and others took heed. Take heed. Doing things to be safe ultimately will cost you less than if you don't and you wind up ill. If you live alone, have friends check on you. Sometimes the fever can be debilitating and can make it very difficult to be in contact with the outside world. Stay home if you can, Pronhub is your friend. Netflix is your friend. A good book is your friend. Seek out health care if you need it, Even if you become positive, you will likely do well. My guess is that once testing is widespread, the mortality rate will drop, though those at risk will still be at risk and those who get very sick will still need to get care. Resources will be strained and some are already in short supply. Panic does not help. Ignorant behavior can kill. Find you place between those two for the best way to handle this in a reasonably sane way with optimal peace of mind. Pick a number between 1 and 100. If the number is not 47 you survived like the 99% of the people who will eventually test positive for coronavirus. And I say, 99% because the number of positives will surge with further testing and mortalities will stay the same or decrease as a result of the testing. Therefore the rate will decrease but the danger is still there. Facts will eventually emerge. We will get better at this fast. We already have.

Glad I was not trying to get some rest in that neighborhood

He had quite the physique especially for those times when steroids were less readily available.

He hopes he is miserable

Live action character that is. Just about everyone on the symptoms has had a character for longer.

Retribution Drive. https://video.search.yahoo.com/yhs/search?fr=yhs-dcola-015&hsimp=yhs-015&hspart=dcola&p=retrubution+drive+youtube#id=1&vid=d8004abb99f79bce2974a4d1f70fb555&action=click

Except for the Fire all your guns at once. I prefer sequential gun firing rather than simultaneous gun firings.

I am with Steppenwolf.

I am still optimistic that in a month things will have settled down and 10 days in Palm Springs would be just what the doctor ordered. Hope springs eternal.

I was speaking with a friend today who mentioned that his dog needed to lose 12 pounds. I asked him what he was using for treats and he said he gave the dog 2 slices of American cheese individual wrappings. I told him with all assuring that it was found that only 1/100th of a slice of American cheese was sufficient incentive for a dog to consider it a treat. Here is my point, I know I read that in the distant past. In my mind it is as true as anything else. However, there is really one way to verify the veracity of this statement and I have absolutely no idea where and when or even why I would have heard this,. Why I have taken it as gospel and spout it out at the first opportunity to use this nugget is a mystery to me. However, until proven otherwise, it takes only 1/100th of a piece of American Cheese to use as a training tidbit for dogs. So, who else has totally unverifiable trivial truths locked in their head and have you had the chance to use this small pearl? Have you just dropped it in conversation to the amazement and bewilderment of your fellow conversant?

Feliz cumpleaños I believe is the correct salutation for where you are at the moment. I hope all is going well.

Just learned that the business trip that was the tail end of my stay in California will not be paid for by my employer. So now I have five days in California after Palm Springs with nothing on may schedule. Sounds like a vacation provided the virus cooperates.

As a health care worker, I knew it would eventually be the case that the coronavirus would strike close to home. A good friend of mine is an Xray tech and he just found out he was exposed to the coronavirus from an ER patient who is now on life support. He works in a hospital in northern NJ. My friend tells me the hospital does not have a cogent plan as to how to handle this and he is being asked to work despite having had direct contact with the patient, The other two local hospitals here have had their first cases and my guess is my hospital will have one very soon. Our disaster plan is also a work in progress at this time. The concerns are having enough staff to take care of the sick patients. It seems the hospital is also very short on gloves and facemarks. This virus will present all kinds of logistical problems and the costs to the health care industry will be very high. Of course there will be morality and mortality. Hopefully this will peak soon.. The weather is changing and that speaks well for controlling most coronaviruses.

I am thinking many of these are based on more financial risk of lawsuits vs actual risk. Not to say that there is not a risk. In NYC the cases have doubled in the last two days but they number under 400. If they continue to double, now that would become very serious, very fast. But as people are aware and taking precautions and the known cases are quarantined, the curve of new cases will likely flatten and then decrease, One know exposure had led to the closing of a school district. Columbia University has closed down classes for a few days. It would seem that densely populated areas would be at greatest risk for transmission. so the NYC and NYS emergency precautions are valid. All that being said, I am still planning on coming to PS and then to a medical convention in LA afterwards.

Throw up on the pilot's shoes

Unfortunately several ships have been centers of concern. I saw today that a ship had 2400 people quarantined to their room for the remainder of the cruise as a result of a single person with an exposure. The next item on the news was tracking the first case in NYC in which 18 people have been confirmed to have contracted the disease from him and another 168 have been quarantined. With that kind of spread and the heightened sense of worry, it is possible for just the hint of a sneeze or a cough or a fever would be enough for the cruise line to quarantine the entire ship. Ten days on a boat in a room, is not my idea of a good time. If I had travel insurance I would definitely cancel. Without it, I would weigh the pros and cons and make my decision based on number of cases in your area and type of screening, if any, the cruise line is doing.

Hip movement,

Assuming you had at most carryon, could you just get off the flight at LAX feigning illness?