IntuitiveTactile

Some hysterical nurse who "works in a hospital" is not an expert.

Supply and demand is a beautiful thing. You get to vote with your wallet. If there is no demand at a certain price per hour, the price will likely come down. Which leads me to conclude that they are seeing business at that price point. Insert “folks are flush with stimulus cash” joke here. 🤓
 
Vent if you must, but it is unlikely to fix the situation or make you any happier. 😏

I absolutely love Palm Springs. Most of the money that I make there is from people who are there seasonally, out of town visitors, tourists, etc...and most of them do not go there during the summer months, so I go massage there during the other seasons when they are there. I’d imagine it’s the same for other masseurs as well.

Did someone say Kevin James?

he's not trans can say that with certainty

I've never taken the position that people should be ridiculed for taking whatever precautions the personally would prefer - as long as those people aren't advocating policies that dictate the precautions everyone else should take.  Certainly there is *some* Covid risk involved for fully vaccinated people, but that risk is exceedingly low, so one person's personal decision to be extremely careful is all well and good as long as they aren't taking the position that everyone should follow their example.  ETA: If it wasn't clear, I'm not saying you fall into the "everyone else must do as I say" category - if others were following your lead, I wouldn't have any issue with that whatsoever.

"the county's COVID-19 death rate among the fully vaccinated is 0.00036%., said Los Angeles County Department of Public Health Director Barbara Ferrer. The numbers show that coronavirus vaccines are proving to be extremely effective, she said." 
This from Los Angeles.. Gives further proof that dying from covid after vaccination is an infinitesimally small chance. 
Providing further comfort is this quote from Rochelle Walensky of the CDC,
" The emerging data confirms what many of us thought would be the case—that not only do the vaccines stop symptomatic COVID, but they also make it highly unlikely that someone can even be infected at all." 
In additional good news, the 8 members of the New York Yankees that tested positive after vaccination apparently have zero symptoms. 
I think it's safe to say that the" Follow the Science " crowd for some inexplicable reason is going against their better judgment. 
 
https://patch.com/california/los-angeles/933-vaccinated-angelenos-test-positive-covid-19-12-died

I actually think the reason is quite "explicable"........ but I'll leave that to everyone's interpretation.

"the county's COVID-19 death rate among the fully vaccinated is 0.00036%., said Los Angeles County Department of Public Health Director Barbara Ferrer. The numbers show that coronavirus vaccines are proving to be extremely effective, she said." 
This from Los Angeles.. Gives further proof that dying from covid after vaccination is an infinitesimally small chance. 
Providing further comfort is this quote from Rochelle Walensky of the CDC,
" The emerging data confirms what many of us thought would be the case—that not only do the vaccines stop symptomatic COVID, but they also make it highly unlikely that someone can even be infected at all." 
In additional good news, the 8 members of the New York Yankees that tested positive after vaccination apparently have zero symptoms. 
I think it's safe to say that the" Follow the Science " crowd for some inexplicable reason is going against their better judgment. 
 
https://patch.com/california/los-angeles/933-vaccinated-angelenos-test-positive-covid-19-12-died

Sometimes I worry that we as a society have lost all ability to reason but the response to my post (and lack of support for the science-denying and logic-free post above mine) has been encouraging. 

Am I the only one who wants to have hot monkey sex with @preppystudent? 
 
Just me? 
 

Oh gosh - I 'm not sure I have the energy or the crayons to respond to this, but here we go. 
Contracting COVID is not "essential 0" for vaccinated people. mRNA vaccines provides a 95% risk reduction, less with J&J, and less against any of these variants. None of these are = 0. This has been widely published. 
About 38,000 died in car accidents last, about 500,000 died of Covid-19. 38k is not less than 500k. Not that these two are events are even comparable equivalents. See "false equivalents". 
Just because you can't mitigate all risk doesn't mean you can't practice risk reduction (or a modicum of common sense). First remove the threat then remove the protection. 
Not sure what you were a [preppy] student of, but I'm guessing it wasn't math, science, or stats. TV/VCR repair, maybe? 😉

But big daddy government says it's OK. Listen to you Masters

Just had a great session with him.
I asked for and got good deep pressure
I could easily see him going more sensual with someone who wants that.  For me I need a good deep massage and got it.
Definitely recommend 

Covid-phobia is a really thing. Sadly, it is rooted only on anxiety, and not necessarily on reality. 

Well since you feel the need to be condescending, and clearly don't understand the many logical fallacies of your post, I'll try to spell it out for you.  When I said the chance of contracting covid AND having significant illness, I emphasized the "AND" by capitalizing it precisely for people like you.  If you wish to avoid all risk of contracting Covid, please, by all means, don't ever leave your house, but if you want to enjoy your life and eliminate the risk of experiencing significant illness resulting from a Covid infection, then get vaccinated and live your life.  Up to you.  I
And as you note, there were 38,000 car crash deaths last year - would you be so kind as to inform me how many fully VACCINATED people have died from Covid in the US this year?  Is there even 1 documented case of that?  That is the accurate comparison - not comparing car crash deaths to total Covid deaths by all people, whether vaccinated or not.  Of course they are different - that's the point of a comparison.  You don't "compare" two things that are identical.  My point is that while we do practice risk reduction and common sense when it comes to driving cars (see, eg, seat belts, speed limits, etc.), we don't try to eliminate all risk or even adopt measures that would still allow us to drive cars and would result in fewer deaths (eg, 30 mph speed limits everywhere), because that wouldn't be practical.  So I'd suggest you practice some common sense before lecturing me on the topic...  I'm not going to tell you not to wear a mask, but please don't pretend your decision to keep wearing one is rooted in reality.
And I'll have you know I was a finance major and graduated from one of the top 3 law schools in the country. So I'd be happy to do a side-by-side comparison of our education...

If you are vaccinated, who cares if other people are vaccinated or not??  The chance of you being vaccinated, getting Covid, AND having significant illness as a result is essentially zero - you are more likely to die in a car crash driving to the massage.  And the chance of you being vaccinated, getting Covid AND passing Covid on to someone who isn't vaccinated (for a reason other than just their personal choice) is also basically zero.  This is all a risk allocation issue - you can't completely eliminate all risk in life.

I'll be joining the Trader Joes "Follow The Science Crowd" , 100% vaccinated, unmasked and terrifying the Karen's https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/shopping/2021/05/14/trader-joes-masks-not-required-fully-vaccinated-after-cdc-guidelines/5093425001/

Shows plenty of ass in his private pics!

My guess was actually Century Day Spa bc they said “spa known for catering to gay cliente”. If it has been Flex, I would have expected the word bathhouse. But I’m very intrigued too as to where it was.

Sorry guys! I just recognized the name from the Twitter account I guess. My bad.

They can't be the same person... they look nothing alike.
 
(...Right?)

Aren't those 2 different guys with the same name?

As if wearing a mask inside a steam room will protect anyone from the virus. That's just silly.

Ehh his place was a mess in a sketch part of town in la, nice guy but with the atmosphere being a mess it made me feel uncomfortable getting a massage from him.