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    Recent air travel

    in The Lounge

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    For the first time since February, I took a flight to Seattle on Alaska in premium economy on Thursday. The flight was supposed to be 5 hours but we took off early and arrived 50 minutes early. The plane was absolutely spotless. I was in 7D and the middle and window seats were empty. The flight crew were great and all the passengers complied with the face mask requirement. Before boarding, I washed my reading glasses in the restroom using soap and water and then dried them off with the Dyson blower. It really worked, as I experienced no fogging during the flight. It was really one of the more pleasant flights I’ve experienced. The FA even handed me a can of Alaska Amber.

     

    At TSA pre✅ the staffer told me she didn’t need to see my ID! That’s a new one.

     

    what hub were you flying out of if you don’t mind me asking? And how filled was the flight? Were airports busy? Lines? I’m flying sfo > jfknext month on the 25th and just a bit anxious that I won’t be able to social distance. Apologies for the hundreds of questions. Haha.

    When are you willing to hire again?

    in The Deli

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    I feel that you may think too much ;) The escort has not login the website since Shelter in place happens. He might not be in the market as for now...

     

    Lol. i mean i'm having ongoing conversations with him right now, he definitely has not remained celibate during shelter in place i can tell you that. haha.

    A vaccine may not be forthcoming.

    in Men's Health

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    The likely bigger driver of success is the large testing and contact tracing efforts in "successful countries" because they identify many asymptomatic cases before they spread the coronavirus far and wide. Here in the USA, testing is so limited that we generally only test people with symptoms and our overemphasis on illusory individual freedom over community good means enough of us resist wearing masks, isolating, distancing, and contact tracing that the virus still moves freely across America. There was a big birthday party in Pasadena not too long ago. One infected person was there coughing without a mask, no one else was wearing a mask or distancing, and now multiple people were infected, some seriously ill.

     

    It's not just the large amount of testing and contact tracing (both of which we undoubtedly need), but they are making sure and have been making sure that patients who test positive are well. even those with mild symptoms. that's why their fatality rates are significantly lower.

     

    https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/04/world/europe/germany-coronavirus-death-rate.html

    "They call them corona taxis: Medics outfitted in protective gear, driving around the empty streets of Heidelberg to check on patients who are at home, five or six days into being sick with the coronavirus."

    A vaccine may not be forthcoming.

    in Men's Health

    Posted

    i'm not a doctor, but from what i've been reading about the way successful countries (germany for one) have treated this is that they monitor and provide care for patients who have tested positive, no matter how mild their symptoms are. whereas here in this country, we are telling patients to stay home when they are showing symptoms. and by the time they go out to seek care it is far too late and they are already presenting with a severe case that requires ventilation. it seems to me that we need to completely reexamine how we're managing patients who test positive.

    The worst has not begun and today, I found it hard to go on.

    in The Lounge

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    Also young and fit, 37, he is doing slightly better than the previous patient but his is definitely a touch and go situation.

     

    Thank you, thank you a thousand times for everything that you're doing right now during this crisis pk. you are a true hero. and we all are forever indebted to you. just curious how many "young/fit" patients you're actually seeing coming in having to be hospitalized, and are they seemingly fit, but maybe have underlying conditions? i'm in sf now sheltering in place, but live in nyc and it makes me nervous as a healthy/relatively fit 37 year old with no underlying conditions who is eager to get back to nyc. :/

    ?thank you!

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