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I would think, assuming they have PPE (which is not a certainty given the states we're talking about) it's more likely that they're not getting sick on the production line but rather in the lunch/breakroom when they remove their masks to eat. Which seems like a relatively easy issue to fix with some staggering and maybe getting some tents for an outdoor rest area.

I'm saying some states are at different points on the timeline and we will not be having a uniform federal date where phases happen. The virus doesn't recognize borders, but interstate travel of virus carriers has been curtailed drastically. People in Wyoming live pretty damn far apart and tend to stay in Wyoming. NYC people live all on top of each other and mix around a lot more. They are not going to do things at the same pace.

Steven what you are missing is that the US consists of multiple regions where different things are happening because they are at different points. Different parts of the country will be doing different things.

Around 10 or 11, reading comic books and gradually realizing that superhero pictures were basically nudes that were colored over. There was an issue of Dazzler that opened with the Angel flying over Manhattan and he have the most wonderful leg and back muscles and ass...

We don't know that everybody is using the same tests now, frankly, and because they're being fast tracked many have unknown false-positive and false-negative rates.

That one you posted doesn't seem like much of a performance. Are you sure your lust for him isn't overriding your better judgment?

I wonder if Sweden simply chose not to ventilate a lot of older people given that most don't survive? That would be a way to significantly reduce the burden on hospitals as patients would die in a matter of days rather than lingering for weeks causing a backup.

A lot of the "showers" just get hard not any bigger.

Rugby in general has a lot of homoerotic bonding type stuff in their traditions. Having played for straight teams and gay teams, the "straight" teams really seem to do "gayer" stuff than the gay ones(who are all trying to butch it up and be totes masc, though it's been changing in recent years). I really do think rugby has a considerably higher proportion of bisexual men than the general population...BUT... they tend toward the kind of bisexual whose outlet is horseplay/groping/ogling as opposed to full-on sex. They will all get naked in a group at the drop of a hat, smack each other on the ass, drink beer out of each other's cracks, give cock a quick grab, but I think it's very rare they actually fuck or suck and that would not be in the public setting they will do all those other things in. Kinsey ones and 1.5s, if you will.

I think if what you are planning on doing is risky, there would pretty much be no point in adopting any measures at all and we'd all already have gotten it, because for the first couple of weeks people weren't wearing masks and weren't really distancing in supermarkets but numbers still came down. I think it's in all likelihood fine.

Well, that's because "sensible behavior" is a lot more restrictive with this pandemic. With HIV, there were still ways to have intimacy and human contact that didn't risk infection.

Steven, those population density rankings. are suspect. They're counting surrounding suburbs in the NYC stat, which is a completely misleading picture. NYC proper has over 10.000 people per square kilometer according to wikipedia. Manhattan has over 27,000. That's a full order of magnitude greater than what the chart says.

So there's one acquaintance I follow who occasionally posts naked pics and he's got an identical twin brother....who is a doctor. I wonder how the brother feels about it

I would be shocked if he's under 55. He wasn't a twink when the Web was new.

Just FYI, the stimulus bill extended unemployment to cover the self-employed and at least in some states you can get benefits if your hours were reduced. My sister has a side gig walking dogs and now that most of her customers are home, she was able to collect partial unemployment PLUS the extra $600/week they put in the bill.

Countries with just as much density managed fine because they have a culture of not being gd slobs. We'll figure it out. There are simply too many people on the planet currently to just start spreading out. But since once populations move to a "first world" standard of living, their reproduction rate tends to drop below replacement, this could change eventually.

There really are a lot of straight young guys doing the same thing lately. Rugby players in particular tend to show off. Their accounts aren't all ass all the time like a lot of gay guys, but plenty of them are posting naked pics.

If you're fostering, isn't the contingency plan just to return it to the shelter it came from?

On the electric ones you don't have to use the pedal assist, you can pedal under your own power and then turn it on either to boost your speed or get up a hill etc. Or just to go farther than you otherwise would. As for the trike, my cousin with MS has one and she loves it. She can't balance on a bike any more.

purplekow, I live in NJ and just saw that we are expected to hit peak hospitalization on 4/25, while NY seems to have already peaked. Given the fact we took measures at essentially the same time as NY, is that an indicator that NJ patients are staying longer in the hospital? Are we having better or worse mortality than NY? Or does it just mean that NJ is actually getting more people to the hospital while a lot of people who live alone in NYC are dying in their apartments?

It's going to be industry by industry for sure. Your business and lawyers come to mind as needing physical presence for the majority of staff. But insurance back-office, which is the bulk of the employment? They can do 90% of their work from home. Agencies are a different matter. I envision corporations headquarters being for training new hires and the like, with some additional space. Maybe they reduce their foot print and have people each come in 1 day per week by department for meetings etc. It's certainly true that meetings are better in person, but it's also true that a hell of a lot of meetings could be avoided if people just read their emails...

I think what will happen is this is going to go on long enough for businesses to figure out that a lot of stuff can be handled remotely, and commercial real estate is going to take a nosedive, which may spill over into residential rents falling and conversion of office space into residential, resulting in both more remote workers and more people living in the city - or more people living anywhere in the country and telecommuting to the cities where the headquarters will still be.

It's not at all surprising that if you taek steps that reduce transmission of an extremely highly contagious disease, you are going to also reduce transmission of diseases that are less contagious than the one you are trying to avoid. I'm sure STD rates will be relatively low as well given most people aren't hooking up or are at least reducing their number of partners.

NY is a lot more packed together population wise, and during the workday it's even more so. There's really nothing else in the US that is comparable to the NYC subway in scale and terms of sheer numbers of people passing through the same low-air-circulation space. CA way more people exercise outdoors as opposed to in crowded gym, etc.

I see people online on Grindr and Scruff, but I think a lot of them are just chatting/trading pics out by me. The college boys have nowhere to go because their parents are always around, and the older guys seem more sensible. There are definitely fewer online, and many of them say explicitly in their profiles that they are not meeting until this is over. There will always be stupid people but if most people are doing the right thing the curve still gets bent.