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This 30-minute timeline is odd. For an escort, he could be doing a session that is an hour or more in length. The client also could be in a meeting at work, or even at a movie. It's not a generous timeline.

What is ur favourite GAY SEX position??? ...ERECT!

I found someone to agree with me! Not someone, somewhere. It is a guy right here named @Unicornwho also thinks masks should be worn on public transit. I don't agree with his spelling of buses though. 🙂

https://descansoresort.com/

I searched for prices on this, and the result said Kohl's had the best price at $127. But that was wrong as Amazon had a special on it for $99. I bought one!

For some well-heeled patients, the cost of a face lift now exceeds $200,000! "The doctors touting their “designer” face-lifts insist that their advanced technique, elevated aesthetic sensibilities and experience allow them to charge these rates. Dr. Lara Devgan, a plastic surgeon in Manhattan, likened what she does to “commissioning an artist to make a very beautiful painting for you.” Dr. Devgan charges up to $200,000 for a face-lift. “At first blush, it may seem like a big number, but I think of this as a question of value, not of cost,” Dr. Devgan said. “Your face is your job, it’s your love life, it’s your identity.” Dr. Julius Few, a plastic surgeon in Chicago and Los Angeles, charges $50,000 for a “basic face-lift,” he said, and “well into the six figures” for more extensive procedures. In an interview, he spoke about his love of painting and photography and 22 years of focusing on faces. “For the affluent patient I treat, this is really more like purchasing artwork than purchasing a technical procedure,” said Dr. Jacono, who helped pioneer a technique that’s referred to as an “extended deep plane” face-lift, which he has taught to other doctors around the world." Read the article: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/03/style/and-now-the-200000-face-lift.html

The A's should be giving out free tickets. Their attendance is horrible. https://www.thebiglead.com/posts/athletics-attendance-low-record-tanking-vegas-move-01g24g726a6d

Karen Slater? Hmm, this name changing has taken an interesting turn!

And speaking of dicks, scientists have discovered that Covid can cause impotence, and it may linger even after the patient recovers! Another reason to avoid Covid! nytimes.com: Now scientists are examining a possible link to an altogether unexpected consequence of Covid: erectile dysfunction. A connection has been reported in hundreds of papers by scientists in Europe and North America, as well as in Egypt, Turkey, Iran and Thailand. Estimates of the magnitude of the problem vary wildly. A paper by Dr. Ranjith Ramasamy, director of reproductive urology at the University of Miami’s Desai Sethi Urology Institute, and his colleagues found that the risk of erectile dysfunction increased by 20 percent after a bout with Covid. Other investigators have reported substantially higher increases in that risk... ...“Six months after the initial infection, patients had gotten better overall, but they continued to complain of these problems,’’ including both erectile dysfunction and low sperm counts, Dr. Ramasamy, who has written several papers on the topic, said.https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/05/health/covid-impotence-erectile-dysfunction.html

All The Old Knives is the movie version of an Olen Steinhauer novel of 2015 about a terrorist incident on a plane. The question is who tipped off the terrorists as to what was being planned by the authorities. I read the novel then, and reread it last week once I heard that they were making a movie of it starring Chris Pine. And tonight I watched the movie. Oh is it slow! Chris looks good though, even when aged to look older. It seems like it is really his butt shown, but they are good at faking that I hear. The movie has dramatic music and lots of flashbacks. There is beautiful scenery. And, ultimately, it is worth watching for the way the story turns.

Appalling. I lived through the AIDS epidemic, and there were people then too who said things like "It's just gays dying. Let them." You dismiss the old, the sick, the diabetics, and many more people who were killed by Covid. But it wasn't you dying, so life goes on...

Covid v. The Flu From sfchronicle.com: Health officials are saying it, friends are saying it: COVID-19 seems on track to become as common and familiar to us as influenza. But experts stress that there are still limitations to this comparison — COVID is still, and may always be, no ordinary flu. “It is time to accept that the presence of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, is the new normal,” leaders at the U.S. Food and Drug Administration wrote in a paper published Monday in the Journal of the American Medical Association. “It will likely circulate globally for the foreseeable future, taking its place alongside other common respiratory viruses such as influenza.” At the beginning of the pandemic, experts noted, drawing comparisons between COVID-19 and the flu was highly politicized — a way to minimize a new disease that would go on to kill nearly a million people in the U.S. alone. But now, with vaccines and treatments more widely available, comparing the two is more appropriate. “Today, for a vaccinated and boosted person, the chances of a severe outcome are comparable to the flu,” said Dr. Bob Wachter, the chair of medicine at UCSF. He noted that Paxlovid, the antiviral pill used to treat COVID-19, even further reduces the chance of death. In the Bay Area, for example, where the vast majority of people are vaccinated, all types of severe outcomes from COVID-19, including both hospitalization and death, are far lower than they were in winter 2020 through 2021, despite a surge in cases. For many, the experience of having COVID will likely be similar to being sick with the flu — the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention notes that the two can be difficult to tell apart on symptoms alone. But there are still key differences between the two infectious diseases that limit just how much we can learn from the yearly flu. While the disease manifestation might be similar in the two, the underlying viruses are still very different, Dr. Jorge Salinas, an assistant professor of infectious disease at Stanford, said — and the virus that causes COVID-19 is still not very well understood. He compared the viruses interacting with our immune system to a soccer match: getting the flu is like playing a team you know well. While surprises and upsets can occur, we generally know what to expect. But getting COVID is something different entirely. “COVID is a very sneaky team. We don’t know that much about it, and they may not play by the rules of the game,” he said. Experts also noted COVID is far more infectious than the flu, which means that it puts more people at risk of severe disease and death by way of infecting far more people. “There’s never been a flu season when you would look around and know so many people that had it,” Wachter added. COVID also brings the potential for long-term effects, including neurological complications, heart disease and diabetes, something that the flu does not have on a large scale, experts said. “I don’t want to be an alarmist, but there are certain viral diseases that don’t manifest until 10 to 20 years later,” Salinas said. “I am positive that we don’t know yet what the full scale of short, mid- and long-term manifestations are of COVID-19.” Finally, COVID is still too new and unpredictable to compare to the seasonal flu, which comes and goes over the winter, experts said. While COVID has shown signs of being worse during the winter, like the flu, that is largely a product of behaviors like spending more time indoors. “I think that there is going to be and there is already some seasonality, some variation with seasons, but I haven’t seen yet that transmission has gone down to very negligible levels in warmer months,” Salinas said. Experts noted that COVID surges continue to happen at any point throughout the year, and with new, more infectious variants repeatedly popping up, there’s no way to predict what happens next. “The surges have been too frequent so far to say that it will be just like flu season,” Myoung Cha, president of home-based care and chief strategy officer at Carbon Health, previously told The Chronicle. “Counting on us having six or eight months each year of essentially freedom from COVID —I think that’s wishful thinking,” Wachter said. But one takeaway that the flu may give us is a yearly vaccine, as the FDA noted. Salinas noted that with the flu vaccine, experts try to predict the most common strain several months ahead of flu season before mass producing a vaccine for it, with some years producing better results than others, a pattern he thinks is conceivable for COVID as the virus continues to evolve. But Wachter said that COVID’s lack of seasonality will make it more challenging to produce a yearly vaccine that significantly slows transmission for an entire year, making continued efforts of better, easier-to-administer vaccines and treatments even more important. Beyond rejiggering the vaccine every season, he said, “we’re going to have to come up with different therapy or combination therapies.” But all of this does not mean we have to live in fear of COVID forever, Salinas said. If you get vaccinated and boosted, try to limit time in crowded indoor spaces and wear masks when transmission is high, and try to gather mostly in well-ventilated places or outdoors, you can limit the spread of the disease. “You can still socialize, you can still do a lot of things, but you can still prevent many COVID infections,” he said. “You’re not going to be able to prevent all of them, but it is possible to continue with your life and at the same time, reduce your risk of getting this infection.” Danielle Echeverria is a San Francisco Chronicle staff writer. Email: [email protected] Twitter: @DanielleEchev

I hate the Red Sox, but not adorable Bobby Dalbec!

When are you coming to Southern California?

The Waterpik is not a substitute for flossing.

Don't forget the Imodium!

The CDC continues to recommend masks on public transportation: https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2022-05-03/cdc-restates-recommendation-for-masks-on-planes-trains-despite-court-ruling "U.S. health officials on Tuesday restated their recommendation that Americans wear masks on planes, trains and buses, despite a court ruling last month that struck down a national mask mandate on public transportation. Americans age 2 and older should wear a well-fitting mask while on public transportation, including in airports and train stations, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommended, citing the current spread of coronavirus and projections of future COVID-19 trends."

Today's Washington Post writes up the I Bonds: https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2022/05/03/inflation-government-i-savings-bonds/

"I'm not sure why some people feel some sort of sense of pride because they can find one person in the US who agrees with them. " I'm not sure why a retired doctor repeats his position on the topic with every post that seems, even in some small way, to disagree with him. He even posts these pieces while he is on vacation! Nobody is right except him!

More homophobes get kicked off the plane: http://www.back2stonewall.com/2022/05/homophobic-couple-kicked-off-plane-claims-its-because-they-love-trump-videos.html

Studio One in West Hollywood was my go-to bar for several years back when I could fit in! back2stonewall.com tells the story: http://www.back2stonewall.com/2022/05/gay-history-may-1-legendary-disco-studio-one-opens-in-west-hollywood.html

Is this the @JoeMendoza who creates elaborate surveys? But you can't post a link? You just need the .com! So, Joe. Have you used this site successfully? What information caused you to post it?

Last night Giancarlo Stanton robbed Matt Chapman of a home run!

Review in sfchronicle.com: https://datebook.sfchronicle.com/movies-tv/dangerous-same-sex-love-in-cold-war-era-soviet-army-tale-firebird

Masking up again in San Francisco: UCSF’s Wachter masking up again: Dr. Bob Wachter, UCSF chair of medicine and a prominent voice on pandemic issues, said Monday he is resuming rigorous masking as coronavirus cases spike in San Francisco. He said the city’s asymptomatic test positive rate, a reliable proxy for community prevalence given the downturn in citywide testing, shows cases are surging. About 1 in 30 San Franciscans may have COVID-19 without knowing it, he said. “If you’ve decided you’re OK getting COVID ... then fine to keep mask off in crowded indoor spaces,” he tweeted. “If you’d prefer to avoid COVID & have become less cautious, it’s time to re-think.” Wachter cited his concerns about long COVID and other virus-related risks (”heart/neuro/diabetes”). For masking: “I’ll now do 100% N95 in crowded indoor spaces.” People should keep their “eyes open” because “there’s a lot of COVID out there,” he warned. (sfchronicle.com)