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What a splendid idea about getting an at-home test for the virus. Would you be so kind and post the name of the test company and how the company can be contacted? I assume the test company has offices in various states and large cities. Several times I tried to get a test at a drive-up facility. It required waiting behind a long line of cars. The line moved very slow. Then, after an hour or more of waiting in line (in my car), three different days and times someone from the testing company came to my car and said I should return another day when it is not so busy. This happened even though I supposedly had an appointment. An at-home test seems much easier and convenient. Thanks in advance.

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How many Americans are aware of the famous old lady painter - Maria Lassnig https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/02/img-lassnig-fig-2174142781831.jpg Her paintings set off strong and much talked about messages.

I think you are correct. I decided to contact the escort through his ad. Initially, he seemed friendly. He said his rate is $330 and that he is staying in the Brickell area of Miami. After I asked him why his IG account shows him in France, he suddenly went silent and disappeared. Also, I asked him in one of the foreign languages he lists in his ad. He understood me but, when he answered me, he answered in English. So, I must agree the guy is a probable fake. Incidentally, $330 seems a bit high for the Miami area. And, who knows who would appear at the door if you agreed to meet with this advertiser.

I know what you mean to be nickeled and dimed for incidentals. I met him a while back before he went to Manhattan. In earlier times, he was not greedy or high priced. After he went to Manhattan, he learned from other escorts what he could charge, then he joined the high price crowd.

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Correction, you exchanged a few messages with the "handler" or agent who responds to the inquiries directed to ads. Yes, the handler "seems like a really nice, sensible guy", because he wants to make money by sending you a provider he represents. There are several "escorts" who travel with a provider. The photos shown in the ads are not of any person who will show up if you agree to hire.

Yes, every pot has a lid. Unfortunately, some lids do not fit. Check out the photos in the ad. The photos are found all over the internet in many parts of the world. Here is one of his photos from the Czech Republic. https://www.super.cz/175208-pepo-kokto-co-ty-na-to-tento-polonahy-playboy-v-sortkach-s-vypracovanou-hrudi-se-dvori-tve-milence-ornelle-stikove.html How about these from Russia: https://xn--24-6kchq2abwi5bc.xn--p1ai/di-matarazzo-357178635.html https://i.pinimg.com/736x/23/8d/d4/238dd434f1044414fd6d0265a75ffc58.jpg

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- Based on the posts here about how the escort responded, he seems incredibly naive and inexperienced. He will not make it in this business.

- Sadly, he was never there. Only stolen photos.

The University of Illinois at Chicago to Test Coronavirus Vaccine in New Trial Researchers at the University of Illinois at Chicago are set to conduct a clinical trial beginning next month Published June 16, 2020 • Updated on June 16, 2020 at 12:54 pm A vaccine aimed at preventing coronavirus infection in those most at risk will be tested on at least 1,000 people in Chicago in a new trial. Researchers at the University of Illinois at Chicago are set to conduct a clinical trial beginning next month using a vaccine developed by biotech company Moderna. The trial will look to determine the efficacy of the vaccine and will be the only site to conduct the trial in Chicago, the university said. “We want to see if the vaccine will prevent people from getting COVID-19 or if it will prevent people from experiencing severe illness if they do get the disease,” Dr. Richard Novak, lead investigator of the clinical trial at UIC, said in a statement. The study is set to begin July 9, with nearly half the people tested being 65 or older. “We want to test this vaccine in people who are most at risk of experiencing complications and death due to the virus,” Novak said. According to Novak, the clinical trial network hopes to enroll up to 30,000 people, with about 1,000 initially enrolled through UIC’s trial. The test features an RNA-based vaccine, or one designed to help the body produce antibodies that protect against COVID-19. “RNA vaccines represent a new class of vaccines that researchers hope will be more effective than other types,” Novak said. “The application of this type of innovation to COVID-19 is exciting, although the need for a vaccine of any type against COVID-19 is a pressing and urgent public health necessity.” The trial will separate volunteers randomly into two groups, one of which will receive the vaccine, and the other, a control group, will receive a placebo. Neither the researchers nor the participants will know who gets the vaccine. “This type of randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial is the best way to determine if the vaccine works. We hope that participants who receive the vaccine will have better protection against COVID-19,” Novak said. He noted that volunteers will receive a stipend for their time but did not specify how much that stipend would be. Anyone interested in volunteering should contact UIC researchers at (312) 413-5897 or email [email protected].

I do not like the 2:1 ratio chance. If I were to gather enough nerve to volunteer for a vaccine study, I would not want to chance to be in the group that gets a placebo.

You are too modest. You are brighter than you hide.

Do you really ask your clients (who respond to your ad) to pay money upfront? If you read this forum often, you will see that the pay-in-advance policy is a "no-no" and that most clients rebel at such requirements. Most clients cancel.

The issue of blood types and the coronavirus have been reported in countless news outlets all over the world. Innumerable articles were written in many languages, then translated into English and reported in the United States. Are you saying those articles are distorted or incorrect? The articles are similar in content. Many countries have superb medical facilities with expert scientists. Strange, is it, not one reputable scientist, such as Dr. Anthony Fauci, for example, has come out to contradict the news media articles as being distorted? While it is true there is nothing one can do about one's blood type, it is helpful to know that certain blood types are more at risk from the virus than others. Those more at risk can exercise more caution against the virus, such as masks and distances et cetera. Here is another article that continues along the same line as the other recent reports concerning blood types and the coronavirus. Is this article also distorted? https://medicalxpress.com/news/2020-06-blood-genetics-impact-odds-severe.html

Thank you for posting. However, you posted about age and the virus. There is a different thread that deals with age and the virus - https://m4m-forum.org/threads/more-interesting-data-regarding-covid.157633/ This thread is supposed to be about blood type and the virus - Here is the title of this thread: "Your blood type could influence whether you live or die if you catch the coronavirus" You are not the first poster who got the threads confused and posted about age rather than blood type. Many news outlets are posting articles about how the virus is affecting blood types regardless of age. The virus is an ever-learning process

Those of us with Type A blood need to be more cautious than other groups considering recent revelations that this blood type is likely a factor for a higher risk for serious coronavirus complications. Needless to say, it is not a good feeling to learn that one's blood type puts one at around 50% greater chance of developing major complication issues if you come down with the coronavirus. Incidentally, if you do not know your blood type, it can be learned from your military "dog tags" or you can find the information on your military discharge pages, FormDD-214. You can also learn your blood type when you donate blood. Or you can spend money and have your doctor test your blood for a fee. Distribution of blood types There are 4 main blood groups: A, B, AB, and O, of which group O is the most common. In the United States, the average distribution of blood types is as follows: O-positive: 38 percent O-negative: 7 percent A-positive: 34 percent A-negative: 6 percent B-positive: 9 percent B-negative: 2 percent AB-positive: 3 percent AB-negative: 1 percent Here is another article about the blood type issue: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/coronavirus-blood-type-patients-sickest-covid-19/

"They found people with Type A blood have a higher risk of catching coronavirus and of developing severe symptoms, while people with Type O blood have a lower risk. 10 states are seeing their highest average of daily new Covid-19 cases since the pandemic started "Our genetic data confirm that blood group O is associated with a risk of acquiring Covid-19 that was lower than that in non-O blood groups, whereas blood group A was associated with a higher risk than non-A blood groups," the researchers wrote in their report. They found people with Type A blood had a 45% higher risk of becoming infected than people with other blood types, and people with Type O blood were just 65% as likely to become infected as people with other blood types. The large international team first published their findings on a non-peer-reviewed preprint server. The report has now been reviewed and published in the widely respected journal."

The chart presented in the prior post is interesting in that it shows the mortality rate of patients with the virus based on age. However, this thread was intended to show the effect of the blood type of a patient becoming ill from the virus. Here is a recent article citing the New England Journal of Medicine that suggests genetic markers such as blood type has a major influence on whether virus patients have a higher or lower probability of a mild case versus a severe case. https://www.9news.com/article/news/health/coronavirus/qa-study-identifies-blood-type-as-marker-of-risk-for-severe-covid-19-response/73-30412456-c680-486c-92c8-e2e6cdbb00c6

You mentioned John Browne. Blackmail is a bitch. It caused the end of his career at British Petroleum. Here is an article that discusses the blackmail, the impact on Lord Browne, and his accomplishments since he left British Petroleum: https://www.thisismoney.co.uk/money/news/article-6770009/Twelve-years-quit-BP-scandal-gay-lover-Lord-Browne-speaks-out.html

JUNE 18, 2020 / 10:50 AM / UPDATED 13 HOURS AGO Blood type, genes tied to risk of severe COVID-19: a European study Vishwadha Chander 2 MIN READ REUTERS: The ultrastructural morphology exhibited by the 2019 Novel Coronavirus (2019-nCoV), which was identified as the cause of an outbreak of respiratory illness first detected in Wuhan, China, is seen in an illustration released by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in Atlanta, Georgia, U.S. January 29, 2020. Alissa Eckert, MS; Dan Higgins, MAM/CDC/Handout via REUTERS/File Photo (Reuters) - A person’s blood type and other genetic factors may be linked with the severity of coronavirus infection, according to European researchers looking for further clues about why COVID-19 hits some so much harder than others. The findings, published in The New England Journal of Medicine on Wednesday, suggest people with type A blood have a higher risk of being infected with the coronavirus and developing worse symptoms. At the peak of the epidemic in Europe, researchers analyzed the genes of more than 4,000 people to look for variations that were common in those who became infected with the coronavirus and developed severe COVID-19. A cluster of variants in genes that are involved with immune responses was more common in people with severe COVID-19, they found. These genes are also involved with a cell-surface protein called ACE2 that the coronavirus uses to gain entry to and infect cells in the body. The researchers, led by Dr. Andre Franke from Christian-Albrecht-University in Kiel, Germany, and Dr. Tom Karlsen, from Oslo University Hospital in Norway, also found a relationship between COVID-19 severity and blood type. The risk for severe COVID-19 was 45% higher for people with type A blood than those with other blood types. It appeared to be 35% lower for people with type O. “The findings ... provide specific clues as to what disease processes may be going on in severe COVID-19,” Karlsen told Reuters by email, noting that additional research is needed before the information becomes useful. “The hope is that these and other findings ... will point the way to a more thorough understanding of the biology of COVID-19,” U.S. National Institutes of Health director and genetics expert Francis Collins wrote in his blog on Thursday. “They also suggest that a genetic test and a person’s blood type might provide useful tools for identifying those who may be at greater risk of serious illness.” Reporting by Vishwadha Chander in Bengaluru; Editing by Nancy Lapid and Bill Berkrot Our Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles.

Thank you for the rapid response. As to blood type, those (like me) who have been in the military, know their blood type. We were always required to carry our "dog tags" on which contained our name, military identification number, and blood type. I have Type A blood. I am a bit concerned after reading the "50% more likely" to be one of the ventilator patients or worse. I realize 50% is merely a statistic, as you wrote, but it does signify a higher risk. I think it is good to be aware that Type A people are at greater risk so that we can utilize greater caution until a vaccine is available if ever one is. Thanks again.

Thank you for your response, purplekow. The main reason I commented on the blood type difference was more philosophical than educational. When I read that those with Type O blood had a considerably less chance of getting ill from the virus, I thought those Type O people might be more likely to take chances and not be as concerned than those who have Type A blood type. In short, Type O people might engage in more risky sexual behavior and/or may or not be concerned with masks and social distancing. On the other hand, based on the articles, those with Type A have about a 50% greater chance of getting seriously ill, being placed on a ventilator and dying, versus those who have blood Type O. Am I misinterpreting the articles?

Immediately in anger? When I read the post, I saw the word "it" and I interpreted "it" to mean the advertisement (contains one 5 star review, not the person). This is just a fun forum to exchange ideas and information. I cannot imagine anger being produced over a simple word that can be interpreted in a number of ways.