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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...

Or they could live with an older relative, or have a partner who is a healthcare worker, etc. My guy is married to a nurse, for example.

I'm just gonna venmo my guy for a massage and take it later.

Real estate is going to take a big hit there and it had pretty much only just recovered from 2008-10.

I have washcloths and laundry detergent, I'll be fine when I run out. People are incredibly stupid. Which is how we got in this situation in the first place....

Jeri Ryan needs to get her own spinoff series out of this.

The issue isn't an individual one. Yes, if you yourself get coronavirus, the odds you yourself will have a serious complication are low. It's about slowing the SPREAD. We are likely all going to get it, but if we all get it in a two month span, there will be hell to pay. About 5% of patients require a stay in the ICU. We only have about half a million ICU beds in the country, most of which are occupied at any given time. So that's more like 200,000 "free" beds. 5 % of 330 million is over 16 million. Assuming people are in ICU for just a week, the cases need to be spread over EIGHTY WEEKS to not overload the system. When the system DOES get overloaded, those "complications" become far more likely to become "fatalities." The school closures/event cancellations are not to protect the kids, they're to disrupt the trajectory of infection and spread it out over a longer period so fewer people die.

I wouldn't count on travel insurance covering you, as since the outbreak was already known about in January, it's quite possibly excluded in the policy language.