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I read the obit this morning in Toronto's Globe & Mail. It seems he had a fairly decent life after recovering from his early success as a child star and the almost inevitable letdown immediately following that in his 20's. He appears to have kept his good looks late into life. That indicates he did not fall into a life of dissipation consumed by drugs and or alcohol.

Reading the LA Blade article it is clear that MPX will spread like wildfire in LA. Reminds me of how HIV spread in the gay community in the early 1980's, to which I was a witness in San Francisco and elsewhere.

I consult RM regularly and am a premium client. I sometimes read negative reviews which are followed up with a reply from the provider. The replies that stand out and win my sympathy are those that explain the situation in a non-inflamatory way and give the other side of the story. Then potential clients are left to judge for themselves. To me its the best way to handle this if RM is unwilling to remove the review. Your many 5 star reviews will speak for themselves.

I don't think it is sufficient for a client to assume an escort has been vaccinated for MP. Its always best to ask. Another point in the CBC report was that the feds have released 75000 doses to the provinces but to date only 27000 have been administered. As SirBillyBob has reported, there was no-one in the clinic in the Gay Village recently except 22 bored clinic staff. Sometimes gay men and their associates can be their own worst enemies.

I was referring to the public relations aspect of the announcement of his death. Not his actual death nor the public reaction to his demise.

Heard on the CBC news just now that Monkeypox cases are increasing rapidly in Toronto and will soon catch up with Quebec, where they are mostly in Montreal. I just got back from Toronto and found that while some escorts that I communicated with had taken their shot, others were completely blasé. Those latter told me they had no intention of getting one. And they all advertise on RM. I think we will see more escorts declaring their vaccination status for MP on RM the same way as for covid before too long.

Sort of a messy end, isn't it.

It was obviously a mistake for the Times not to have checked the reports of Dow's death on social media. I would have thought that the department that is responsible for running obituaries has procedures in place to verify actual deaths before publishing an obit. It is a different matter for the newspaper to report a death as a news item. That can be easily corrected and such corrections appear almost daily in any major newspaper that claims to be a reliable source of news. I can't even recall the last time an obituary was recalled. Definitely embarrassing.

The Times has now withdrawn the obituary.

I felt the same way when Ricky Nelson died in 1985. Interestingly, the two stars look somewhat similar, especially the hair. I even remember when I was where I learned that Ricky had died in a plane crash. It was a headline in a newspaper in the lobby of a hotel in Acapulco, where I was on vacation with my bf.

The WHO has now declared Mpox to be a global emergency, the same level of concern they declared for Covid in late January 2020. This should result in greater efforts world wide to contain the spread of the virus. In my view 2 months has been wasted in responding to this new public health threat. On May 18 I flagged this issue on this forum. Thankfully there were those here in Canada who reacted more quickly, but not at the national level. Quebec was first out of the gate. But better late than never I suppose.

Yes. You get a certificate with your name, the dose and type of vaccine you got, the date, your e-mail and I think your mother's maiden name but I may be wrong about the last item. I know they wrote it down for their own data bank. This was in Montreal. Other jurisdictions may do it differently. I kept mine to go with the one from 1966. To show I'm fully vaxed. Lol.

Death and dying are facts of life. If people can't bring themselves to using the terms in relation to people or pets they are in some sort of denial. Have you noticed newspapers like the NYT don't use terms like passing or other euphemisms for death. They deal with it straight up.

I agree he deserves every cent. The damage to his lungs may be with him for the rest of his life. Incredible act of valour.

What a hunk!

Sounds like running a marathon just to get signed up. Still, worth the effort if you want some sort of sex life without the anxiety of catching a horrible disease.

So this weekend I am going to trade places with Josh Moore. Lol

I did engage in a conversation with Josh on RM before the pandemic when he was escorting and wish ot would have been possible to get over to London at the time, little realizing we were about to head into a pandemic worldwide.

Ive probably mentioned him already but I just saw him in a new video last night and that was Josh Moore. Ive been following him for several years and he has matured nicely while retaining a gorgeous body and dod. And he is totally versatile. And just such a good looking Englishman.

Kevin Slater told us how he got the Vax in NYC. See up thread.

Its disappointing to hear the take-up is not as good as it could be. I suppose some SMS are not as motivated for whatever reason. Maybe they are thinking of abstaining for the tome being like in the early days of Covid. The difference here is that a vaccine is available. I just cancelled a date with an escort for this weekend becuz while he initially stated he was "fully vaccinated for everything" when I subsequently asked him to come to my hotel with his certificate and I would have mine, he declined, saying " I didn't trust him". Lol I told him trust had to be earned, not given freely.

And I just got a $200 deposit in my bank account from the federal government for 6 month rebate on energy costs arising from the carbon tax, which they said would help neutralize the extra costs at the pump. For the life of me, I don't know why they are sending us this money.

Here in Eastern Canada they have fallen a lot in the last three weeks. From $2.19 a litre to $1.65 today. That's over $40 savings in a fill-up on my SUV.

I had a great time at both of the saunas 20 years ago during the 3 days I was in Sao Paulo. Glad one is still thriving in its new location. .

What did I say that was naive? I may be many things but I'm no babe in the woods.