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Yeah when I see some hot guy in the locker room who's being over the top in his efforts to not expose any flesh I will joke, "Dude if I looked like you I'd be naked out on the gym floor!" ( Usually I think this to myself but I've said it once or twice to guys I had gotten to know...)

I don't have to think China did a good job or is at all honest to think it's not manmade. It's quite possible for it to both be true that China's data is fudged and the virus is not manmade. Why does having a Nobel mean his motives are not suspect? Maybe he misses being the center of attention so he's making up shit. Or maybe he's simply losing his marbles. A scientists's life is not the story of 1000 successes and one fail. It's the story of hundreds of failures, and, if they're lucky, a success or two.

Market forces apply to everything. That doesn't mean the same negotiating tactics are appropriate for everything. I expect escort rates will come down simply because it looks like we are in for an extended downturn. But bragging about it feels like dancing on a grave, frankly. and haggling(beyond one offer) is unseemly, IMO.

Luc Montagnier is 87 years old. You also cited him as saying we can clear HIV as logn ad we have a good immune system, for which there's exactly zero documented cases. Maybe he's just losing it in his old age? Linus Pauling won two Nobels and missed a third by probably a couple of months(he was neck and neck with Crick and Watson), but his Vitamin C claims were pretty much all simply not true. Being great at something doesn't mean you aren't able to have poor judgment ever. If the second wave is milder, it probably means that the hygiene methods people are adopting will make any initial exposure lower, OR...the virus ran through the most susceptible part of the population first, and the remaining cases will be of people who are in somewhat better on average health to begin with.

Honestly I think while I'm gay I'm not totally sure I want a full-time relationship as I prefer a fair amount of alone time. I would probably be fairly content to be the exclusive side piece to a bi guy married to a woman(with her knowledge). I sort of wish when I was younger I'd have had the courage to seek this out openly.

They were actually close to a vaccine on SARS, but stopped because the virus stopped spreading in the population and there was no longer any need - so they couldn't ethically continue human trials with no gain to be had and unknown risk. And there are animal vaccines for different coronaviruses.

No, but most 40somethings who are not actually competitive athletes and look like that are taking something. There's a reason all these "anti-aging clinics" are advertising on the radio nonstop. His saying he would do it "healthier next time" I took as an implicit acknowledgement of steroids.

Its the distancing measures and masks. Between all thise things, the infections that do.happen happen at lower initial doses. It takes time for the virus to replicate in the body, amd it only goes up by a fixed factor each "generation" of replication. Which means if you get a lower initial dose, your immune system will likely have time to generate enough antibodies to either keep the virus in check or at least mitigate the severity of illness, and then your immune system starts killing off the virus faster than it replicates and you recover.

My encounters with bisexual guys tended to be EITHER they had a very specific type of guy that turned them on, whether that be super fit, super fat, or hairy, or smooth, or tattoos, etc.; OR they really didn't care much at all, possibly because they so rarely got with a guy that if the opportunity presented itself they would take it. I will say I found to my surprise that a higher proportion of bi guys were LESS picky about looks than gay guys. Like the hottest guys I got with were bi, not gay. The hot gay guys by and large only would go with other hot guys. And there were certainly bi guys like that too, but not as many in my experience.

Most of the ones I'm aware of don't give the appearance of generating enough revenue that they are likely to survive if the shutdown lasts much longer.

Strangely road deaths haven't gone down much. To the extent that fatal car accidents tend to involve at least one person with bad risk-avoidance skills, this might not be surprising.

There are things between dying and full recovery. What if 15% of the population were to suffer a permanent 40% drop in lung capacity? We have no idea what the long-term effects on the recovered are.

Florida is actively tampering with the data. Local health departments are saying the state numbers don't match up with theirs. Their deaths from pneumonia are up sharply. They were starting from a lower infection rate so it will take some time to see, but in 4-6 weeks I expect it will be clear they aren't doing well.

In northern NJ where they did overlay codes where you can have a different area code than your next door neighbor, the compromise was if you don't dial the 1 your local phone company handles it, but if you dial 1 then your long distance carrier carties the call. Now that most people use ine provider and pay a flat monthly fee that's less of an issue.

I'm thinking I'll book a trip for mid-July and see how the first few weeks go.

cell phones always had to use 10 digit dialing.

FYI that 41% is an annualized figure, so it's 10.25% not almost half. NYC's experience was worse because cases hit there first and the alarm wasn't sounded until there were a large number of cases out in the population. The virus doesn't spontaneously generate, it has to be transmitted. Then there's NYC's unique density. People closer together=more exposure. It's not that complicated. Same reason why once it's in a nursing home even with heroic efforts it spreads. It's airborne and people are in close proximity. Other states both had lower density AND started lockdowns before they had a large number of cases in the first place, and all the measures combined DO drive the R(t) below 1, which means it that is sustained, they virus will "die out" at some point before herd immunity is maintained. But except for Hawaii no state has driven it much below 1, which is why the tail of the curve is so gradually sloping downward.

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.