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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.

I think anatomically some guys just find penetration much more unpleasant than others.

He's taking up escorting in his 40s? Seems like a red flag.

He shows a lot on instagram...

And we can't "race towards what we need to do" until we have sufficient data to know what, in fact, we need to do. That is going to take another month at least.

Ezekiel Emanuel also says stuff like we should all just stop wasting medical resources after 75. So I think he's a bit grimmer than most. We simply won't be doing 18 months of shelter in place(if we really did that the virus WOULD die out, and if 18 months of SIP wouldn't cause that, that would suggest the measures being taken are useless, which the data so far does not support), and testing will be ramped up much sooner than that allowing a staggered rollout.

This people for whom the virus is "no big deal" have an all-causes mortality rate LOWER than that of COVID-19. I don't consider more than doubling the number of people who will die this year something we should just let happen.

I've considered buying myself a wedding band to improve my odds...

WTF are you talking about? The reason the death count is low is precisely BECAUSE of the shelter in place orders. It's like saying PreP doesn't work because so many fewer people get HIV now it's not a big deal....

I'm sorry for your loss and your current struggle to find care for your dad. All nursing homes countrywide are currently on lockdown, meaning he will go in there and you will not be able to visit him. I have a friend who put his mother in last month and now he can only talk to her on the phone, and he's wishing he had put her in there a few months earlier so he could have helped her acclimate. If you can afford it you might want to consider a live-in aide at home for a couple of months to see if they ease the restrictions once the numbers are down.(Are mobile physical therapists making house calls now?) Especially since you won't be able to really check out a facility in person until that happens. You say his speech is slurred but how is he cognitively? Does he understand what you say? If he's still mentally alert enough to understand why he can't have visitors, then yes, put him in the SNF for the higher frequency of care. If he's not (and it's financially doable) I'd try to look into home care options. Some states have fairly generous programs to keep people out of nursing homes. Good luck.