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This is categorically false. In NY and NJ, the deaths from COVID are significantly exceeding all other causes put together. Death rate in NYS at the peak was TRIPLE the normal death rate for that time of year. The only reason it might not hit the heart disease total this year is precisely because of all the shutdowns and masks reducing the incidence and severity of the disease. Severity of the disease is directly related to the amount of virus the victim is initially exposed to, because it determines how long the body has to build up antibodies before the viral load in the body reached critical mass. It's misleading and/or dishonest to use the numbers after intervention to argue that intervention was unnecessary, which is what is happening all over the place right now. People who know jack shit about data analysis are suddenly spouting off false "facts" they neither attempted to verify nor have the foggiest clue how to analyze. They just know they know more than "the libtards out to impose socialism." It might well be the case that had we all started wearing masks on February 1, there never would have been the need to shut down en masse. But as usual, we all half-assed it for the first couple of months. But for all this talk of other countries getting through it with "no lockdowns," all those countries closed significant parts of their economy, and/or people stopped going out, which had much the same effect. SK and Japan did close schools and gyms and put restrictions on nightlife. But because of their higher degree of mask wearing, that was enough.

Area codes were around, but it wasn't until the 90s that you had to dial the area code WITHIN an area code, and IIRC even then it wasn't everywhere. I remember when it was a big deal that in NJ we had to start dialing 1 before a long distance number(which now you don't need to do with cell phones, which was confusing to me when I first got one). Then they started adding area codes and we had to dial the area code even to call next door.

My employer at one time offered long-term care group coverage. The person who came to talk gave us a lot of interesting snippets. At the time(this was about ten years ago) the average nursing home stay was a bit under 3 years. However, that masked two large sub-populations with very different averages. If you were there for Alzheimer's or the like, your average stay was over eleven years. If you were there for almost any other reason, your average stay was under a year. Partly because when it's not dementia, either the patient fights the move or the family isn't willing to acknowledge the need until things have gotten pretty bad. So...there probably is something to the notion that many of the nursing home fatalities were truly not long for this world anyway. But it's still a horrific way to go and to be avoided.

At that level of wealth they usually have companies set up to deal with finances for tax purposes. That house likely belongs to Krasinski/Blunt LLC or something and they probably put some agreed upon amt in there. But they're also at a level of wealth where their housing expenses are pocket change and maybe they don't really pay much attention who pays for what in that regard.

Let's be honest, most of us secretly crushed out on a straight boy or three in our formative years, so for many that holds a certain appeal.

I know at least one of the Adonis dancers told me he was an electrician in his day job. I think you've got a much better shot finding someone that way than the other way around.

No showers frankly seems like overkill, amd makes going to my gym more of a hassle than I care to deal with. I belong to Equinox and its just not worth their rates to lose all of the amenities. I'll just join my local YMCA(which is on the swankier side of YMCAs because it's in an affluent town) amd pay less than half. Whenever they do reopen.

If you have arthritis the walk-in tub might be nice actually. they have a seat that would serve as your shower bench. Those places that install them are used to having to work quickly, as many people only get it once they absolutely have to.

If you think you're going to stay there for the rest of your life, you might consider a walk-in tub. They make some with jets etc.

A lot of them haven't updated the questionnaire to the new 3-month thing and still say 12-months. But frankly given the new FDA guidance I would feel comfortable lying and saying it had been 12 if it actually had been 3 months.

That article is misleading. It goes on to say that what's holding them up are things like.not having the swabs or other supplies to administer the test. If you don't have the supplies needed to test but just have the "test kit" piece, you do NOT have tests available.

If the nursing home has enough patients that already have COVID, staff that is infected might be taking care of just those residents.

It could simply be the case that the essential workers have already "taken the hit" and have almost all already had it/gotten over it. I expect going forward the fraction of deaths from nursing home victims will trend down for the same reason.

mid-late 30s is when you first start to feel that you've lost a step physically. When I was 33 I still felt like if I worked out and ate right I could set PRs in any physical endeavor I tried. Then I joined an adult dodgeball league, played well for a couple of seasons then all of a sudden I was the slow old man on the court. That change seemed to come out of the blue and was alarming because mentally I was projecting that trend and thinking things would be getting pretty grim pretty fast. But it was more like a leveling off than a sharp decline so it became less traumatic. I don't think in 10 years you will feel that way unless you are unhappy about other aspects of your life.

There are a fixed number of slots in American medical schools, so if you don't get into one here, you need to go abroad. That's a conscious decision on the part of "the system."

Yeah, I found I got way fewer colds when I just started wearing gloves on the subway in the winter, and fewer still when I made it a point to wipe down treadmill and bike handles at the gym BEFORE using them, not just after. I think that does a lot more to break up chains of infection than people realize, and hope it proves to be the case for COVID. We won't be able to see that for a while though.

For the fogging thing you could also take a twist tie or a pipe cleaner and attach it to the mask and use it to crimp down the mask around your nose so air doesn't blow up into the glasses. Paper surgical masks tend to have a small piece of metal in them for this purpose.

EJ also disappeared from social media though. Makes me think he either got married or went back home to Turkey.

I'm not in CA but I think they just extended the power to order stuff closed until Aug 1, that doesn't mean they will use that power. Some restrictions are already being eased in some places in CA. The headlines miss a lot of the details and say shit like "Stay at home until X" and then what the article ACTUALLY says is "the orders COULD last until X."

Haircut, massage, then Vegas.

That seems like a misleading article. She talked about lifting restrictions graudally over the time period and they make it sound like she expects every restriction currently in place to still be in place the whole 3 months. Sounded more to me like she's saying SOME restrictions will still be going through July, not all of them. There's a real communications issue here where many people are summarizing any and all restrictions as shelter-in-place and any relaxation at all as dropping the restrctions, making it sound like anything goes, which is far from the case. We need some agreed-upon terminology and consistent usage.

I suppose if you restrict yourself to activities where you're both wearing masks that's not really horrible in terms of risk.

I don't think hiring makes sense for a long time. Finding an exclusive fuckbuddy you trust though, isn't really outlandishly dangerous. In the "you never know exactly where they've been" sense sure, but you have that every time you go to a store.

uh...they're Sean Cody models...

Public restrooms are going to need to put lids on toilets so people can close the lid then flush.