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It depends on what we're discussing when talking about "straight guys." If we're talking about their Sexual Orientation, that is what it is, just like any genetically based environmentally expressed characteristic. As research has shown over the years, Sexual Activity is correlated with Sexual Orientation, but it is independent. It is entirely possible for a heterosexually oriented person to enjoy and engage in same-sex sexual activity. My first sex with a guy was what I can look back on now and see as coercion but it solidly established some of my kinks. Could I change them? With enough processing and therapy, yes I probably could since much of this stuff is very malleable. But why? I'm not hurting anyone and I've had some very fun experiences over the years with straight guys who enjoy same sex activity.

I wouldn't expect any public admissions. It's too risky either way.

Why are you saying it's bad news? It's expected since these trials were supposed to stop at the end of May. It does means access to remdesivir will be limited, but let's hope the results from the trials are good. https://www.mercurynews.com/2020/05/15/gilead-to-end-coronavirus-drug-trials-adding-to-access-worry-researchers/

We are still in early days and on trend for over 150,000 American dead, but this is some encouraging news about long-term immune response against COVID-19. https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2020/05/t-cells-found-covid-19-patients-bode-well-long-term-immunity

One of the greatest feel good songs of all time.

Aren't natural reservoirs fun to think about? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural_reservoir

I do not believe I've used definitive language because we don't have enough good research, but even just thinking in terms of the physics, it seems logical to say masks can reduce the probability of transmission. The question is how much, but while we wait for that answer, we already know enough to reasonably say masks seem to play a source control role in reducing transmission of viruses like SARS-CoV-2. It isn't perfect. But, if everyone wears masks in public, the amount of virus in the environment will likely be reduced. Regarding the doctor probably infected on a recent flight, we know the eyes are a potential entry point. It appears conjunctivitis (pink eye) may be an uncomon COVID-19 symptom. Dr. Fair did not say everyone was wearing a mask. US carriers are generally only encouraging, not requiring, travelers to wear masks. If everyone on the flight wore masks properly for the duration of the flight, the amount of virus in the environment would likely be less than without masks. But, Dr. Fair said the plane was packed, so even with everyone wearing masks, he probably would've been infected anyway, especially if the infected person was within 6ft because of the likely duration of exposure. Nothing is certain, but in terms of probabilities, I believe we should strongly encourage masks in public and require them in higher risk situations like grocery stores, workplaces, airplanes, and the like. But, I suspect this will continue to be a divisive issue. Maybe when the official death count surpasses 100,000 in about a week more people will care, but I doubt it. We can't attribute all of this to masks, but it's interesting data to consider. Have you looked at the natural experiments in South Korea and Czechoslovakia? Those were discussed on the fast.ai research link I shared above. Here are two relevant graphs:

@hypothetically, pubmed.gov is your friend and our tax dollars at work. @purplekow, were you referring to this paper? https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3187504/ or was it this one? https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3187484/ Those were the only two I saw in the October 2011 of J Virology that seemed relevant, but I was quick scanning on pubmed.gov so I may have missed one or perhaps pubmed wasn't complete. While I was searching, I saw this interesting overview of current vaccine candidates. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7211703/

Hand hygiene matters too. Here you go: https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2020/05/how-hong-kong-beating-coronavirus/611524/ Hongkongers insisted on masks very early on, even while their government hesitated. It seemed to be a significant contributor in their success managing the coronavirus and the seasonal flu. And here's an article about some data and modeling spelling out the probabilities and science: https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2020/04/dont-wear-mask-yourself/610336/ https://www.fast.ai/2020/04/13/masks-summary/ And here's another scientific study about the efficacy of surgical masks for source control of coronavirus and the flu: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41591-020-0843-2

Pandemics have biological, psychological, and sociological aspects. That's part of why epidemiology is so complex. The many variables of human behavior on an individual level are complicated enough but get even more complex at population scale.

Yes, I know. I was referring to outbreaks burning out. It's high fatality rate combined with vigilant testing and tracing has so far stopped it from becoming a pandemic, lucky for humanity.

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 multiple people were infected, some became seriously ill.

Daddy has run this and his other site on a shoestring for years. We all need to help him by not exposing him and us to legal action. I'd wager one lawsuit or criminal action is all it would take to shut him down for good. Please save the gossip for other sites. And donate to Daddy if you have a few dollars to spare.

Yes, though MERS and SARS have much higher fatality rates so outbreaks have so far burned out with decent containment. This novel coronavirus is much more transmittable. Hopefully we can create a vaccine because it will be with us for years. Either way, we have to learn to live with it and minimize how many die if we want to reduce the damage, including the economic damage. Whether we can develop a vaccine or not, eventually our species will adapt. Ideally, we will have treatments to manage symptoms, reduce deaths, and help the many survivors with lifelong organ damage. https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2020/03/coronavirus-covid-19-mers-sars-experts/

A vaccine is an open question. The larger macro issue: this won't be the last pandemic. We need a global research fund for vaccine development. Hopefully, as we learn how to live with covid-19, many new norms will be established. Masks in public as a cultural norm would not only reduce covid-19 transmission, but would also reduce the annual flu and common cold. Many things will probably change whether we are able to develop a vaccine or not.

Tina Turner was dynamite and a fantasy for men for decades. Turner and Ramazzotti worked together on that single for his Eros album in 1997 or 1998. I'm guessing, but what if he idolized her or even jacked off to her when he was young? His body would remember. She was mezmerizing in her time.

https://www.billboard.com/articles/news/7990551/richard-sexuality-religion-history

It's strongly suspected the coronavirus is able to hide in the testes. Now we have a very small study that the virus is in semen, which would be expected if it's able to hide in the testes. Yet another reason to use a condom for oral and anal sex just in case it's infectious. https://www.cnn.com/2020/05/07/health/coronavirus-semen-china-health/index.html

Yes, it was in Europe in December or even possibly November. It was in the US in January or possibly December. The US saw earliest cases on the West Coast based on the strain directly from China. The East Coast was infected by a strain from Europe that appears to be more contagious and became the dominant global strain by mid March. Something else to consider, the 2019-2020 flu season was bad compared to previous years. Perhaps many early coronavirus cases were missed and misdiagnosed. We'll never know for sure because so many cases are asymptomatic and testing remains very limited in the USA. Heck, it'll be a year or more before we have a solid understanding of how many humans actually died because of this coronavirus. https://slate.com/technology/2020/01/flu-season-a-strain-b-strain-deadly.html

This is basic biochemistry. It isn't anecdote. Erectile Dysfunction medications and poppers affect cardiovascular dilation. When combined they can cause all sorts of side effects including a serious drop in blood pressure. Even a healthy human male can die if the variables line up. Every human male who wants to take an ED medication should talk to their doctor about it. During that conversation, ask the doctor about poppers. Why? Because there are many variables and presumably the doctor knows the specific issues and can best advise on the relative risks. https://www.health.harvard.edu/mens-health/are-erectile-dysfunction-pills-safe-for-men-with-heart-disease

The math is irrefutable without magical thinking. The nonpartisan reality is the USA being on trend for 80,000 to 100,000 dead by the end of May in a best case scenario. Epidemiologically, it's impossible to contain a pandemic when a large enough portion of a population fail to comply with public health guidelines and the USA has somewhere between 20 and 30% noncompliance depending on the city, state, and specific demographics being discussed. The USA seems to have chosen to mitigate and reopen while attempting to "thread a needle" of a few hundred thousand deaths this year as a best possible case. These deaths will disproportionately be among the poor, which is presumably why this choice was made since we already tolerate hundreds of thousands of dead poor every year in our society. This is different though, because there is a real risk that these additional deaths will cause major disruptions in supply chains, especially food, and the immigration freezes only increase this risk. If these disruptions occur, consumer panic will likely crash the economy again and likely be worse than what we've just been through these past two months. That could cascade causing another lost decade for the vast majority of Americans. For the record, I very much hope to be wrong, but to deny the data is to succumb to magical thinking and I rarely do that, especially as I need to plan and prepare to continue protecting my family.

You're excused.

https://abcnews.go.com/Health/accurate-us-coronavirus-death-count-experts-off-tens/story?id=70385359 And supposedly another 100,000 body bags have been ordered by the federal government. If we keep seeing 2k official deaths every day and the real number of deaths is more in the 3-4k range, we will see another 100k deaths in about a month. I really hope they're wrong, but the data trends don't look good for poor Americans.