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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.

I would be concerned that between now and then there will be some travel restrictions placed whether by the government or your employer and you might be forced to take 2 weeks off work involuntarily. Do you know if they would pay you?

Deodorant stays in better when you shave. I do it for that reason not particularly for aesthetics.

I think the fear would be of local officials taking an interest and people thinking the escort assisted in suicide or something worse.

I have to say, if Bel Ami is your "type" the vast majority of their models are close enough to each other in appearance I'd think ot would mitigate the "not the guy in the pictures" issue. It's not a profession most people approve of and a lot of these guys have day jobs. I can't get too worked up about what they do to preserve the semblance of anonymity if the pictures are close enough. If the picture is not even close, then yes it's a problem.