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They're not a charity. What do you expect them to do? Their mailing list I would imagine isn't so large that they can make it cheap right off the bat and I don't expect them to do something where they are sure to lose money. Maybe as they do more of these there will be sufficient numbers they can lower the price and still turn a profit. Or maybe the "Adonis experience" simply doesn't transfer to a webshow and it's not worth the effort to them. They're trying something in response to customer requests.

We have a risk of HIV at least an order of magnitude higher than the general population. 3/4 of transmission is still MSM when we are well under 5% of the population. There's more data supporting the MSM ban than there is on a number of the other exclusions(travel to the UK for example).

Where did Jorge work before?

Event insurance typically does not include coverage for this particular stuff (there's a standarfd exclusion for communicable disease -even the government telling them to shut down is typically only covered if it's related to a covered cause of loss in the policy) without an endorsement added, which it might not have occurred to seek. Now an event as large as this could have had what's called a manuscript policy, meaning it was custom-written and negotiated with the carrier(or at least it should have been). So it's possible their insurance would cover, but I'm guessing given they didn't make the obvious call, it's not covered.

I'm assuming the promoter simply doesn't have the money to refund people and that's the only reason he's hemming and hawing.

Given that the stimulus bill is adding $600/week on top of unemployment benefits I'd think most of those eligible are going to be okay.

There's also the issue that over the past 10-15 years there has been a crusade of sorts to label any and all sex work as human trafficking, which evokes a more visceral response.

I see this more as gay people tend to start out more conservative as a defense mechanism. It's my 20something gay friends who all want the white picket fence for the most part, for example. And I think they do get inundated by older creeps who are playing a numbers game, and so they put up some walls.

I definitely have some friends/acquaintances like that. One of them got pretty outraged at even the idea of going to a bar where they gave lapdances...."I don't pay for sex." Meanwhile, he had sex with anyone and everyone he met, despite having had a roommate who got murdered by a trick.

I think someone's response to this is largely informed by their financial position. If you have the means to travel, pursue hobbies, etc, you are likely to find a regular job constraining as it limits your ability to do those other things. If your alternative to working is staying at home, cooking and cleaning for yourself, and watching TV you are likely to feel, regardless of whether your work was "meaningful" that you were happier working. At least there you have some interaction with other people.

I suspect they list it because they think it's easy enough to do, not necessarily because they are into it. I can't imagine am escort not being willing to do it assuming we're not talking about to the level of leaving a mark.

Apparently they still make those jerseys with all the little holes in them and hairs tend to get caught, so a lot of guys shave.

Maybe it's a courtesy thing for pickup? Shirts vs skins is common and a lot of contact is involved

Well I mean isn't that always the supply/demand problem...?

Some people just age differently even if they're doing everything right though. I've always had not great skin but somehow seem to be aging better than some much more attractive friends of mine who had beauty regimens. The only thing I do is avoid the sun.

I wouldn't trust any numbers coming out of China. South Korea and Japan, sure.

This level of enforced separation might be longer than a couple of weeks, but if it's 18 months frankly we'll all have bigger problems. I "prepaid" just one so getting it or not isn't going to break me.

Fron the article: "He said that he danced shoulder-to-shoulder with strangers, kissing and showing affection at what he thought would be “the last big party event in the country.” Other festivals and gatherings in Miami scheduled for earlier this month had already been canceled at that point." Good grief. A motherfucking DOCTOR who went to the circuit party, says when he got there they were all like, "man this is gonna be bad." and went ahead and did everything wrong anyway says he's mad about people who gathered in vastly smaller groups of non-strangers(meaning if they were probably exposed to each other already anyway) a few days later? He should have been too embarrassed to talk to the author.

For the second time, it appears my inability to dance and to wear a speedo unironically has unwittingly helped me avoid a plague.

Didn't Kris Jenner jump the queue and get a negative test. I've heard of a few. But we have so few tests here they still aren't giving you a test until they think you have it. i.e. you have flu-like symptoms but tested negative for flu.

The complication rate for young people is still high enough to overwhelm the health system if they all get it at the same time. And then those complications turn to deaths. The death rate is only 0.1% but the complication rate is still 5%ish for younger adults, and there are enough of them to crash the system if they all get infected in a short timeframe. And if that happens that 5% complication rate becomes a 5% death rate.

The rest of the population still has a high enough complication rate that it would overwhelm hospitals.

I'm sort of wondering if it would have been better to keep all the college kids on campus, let it burn out among them, and THEN send them home immune and unable to spread it. The professors could have lectured remotely to avoid contact. We may have made things worse by sending infected people who were least likely to have problems but still likely to get it back to their parents and grandparents who were more susceptible.

As of right now there have been 215 actually.

If I recall correctly it was JC Penney that had the hotter underwear models/better pictures...