SirBillybob

Oxygen and nitrogen molecules move at least 1,000 feet per second without the need of a current. That travel is the length of a few city blocks in the time it takes to suck back one inhalation cycle. I assume viral particles are comparatively sluggish on the air racetrack yet disperse quickly with very very very considerable dilution, but where there are hosts there are varying clouds of virions. Where there are potential disease hosts I wear the covering depending on pinch points like sidewalk people volume, how much they are bellowing to each other or on their phones, etc. I am not recommending it but I do it anyway. It is not that difficult to do without being bossy or getting bossed about it. I am sick of hygiene theatre where everybody wants to be a director. I just want 100% compliance with the minimum and for people to stop obsessing about others’ deviations towards precautions that exceed the guidelines if they are not hurting self or anybody else.

Novel coronavirus turns the term “bad breath” on its head, and given one of its syndromes it can be “hell on toesies”.

No that was down between wellesley and college, brass rail is near bloor/danforth

It hit the news big, though, so punters should have the presence of mind to follow the media. A quarter of a century ago they had a few male dancer nights, called Heaven I think. Mixed crowd but I recall most customers often men. The dancers were equal if not a cut above in looks compared to the gay venue(s) at the time and some would agree to offsite. Like all the clubs back then the lap dances were pretty much out in the open prior to a very vital invention: the cubicle. Prior to this invention I had finessed the skill of coming with a guy grinding on my crotch. LOL. Cubicles were then comparatively a breeze.

Well if the bot’s interest group agenda and MO ends up facilitating access to hot bot-tommed bods with whom to get bawdy ... I cannot imagine what would draw a bot here after all, however ... bring on the bots, I say!

This has potential for great rhythmic cadence for stand-up at a café poetry mic, calling out the dynamics of socials, as the word choice is creative.

I never did get to The Gaiety but Montreal dancers I hooked up with regularly told me that they would typically assembly-line tricks in their hotel room following their stage commitments. They usually shared a car driving down to Manhattan. I went with one guy up here for an extended period and essentially financed a more desirable vehicle for him but The Gaiety went the way of all flesh at some point during my liaison with him. Apologies to the thread but in these times we must be needing to get nostalgia out of our system.

My dearly departed momma learned me that whoever requires the last word most should get it, but that I shouldn’t capitulate to the illusion that it ever needs to be me. I should never fall into the ego trap of conflating my worth with hierarchical supremacy. She emphasized that not all alpha need totally reflects some manifestation of narcissistic injury the apparent opponent possesses, but that it is always better to offer splint support than splinter one’s psyche. In other words, walking away is a kind of transient psychological first aid to the other party. It is up to them to judge their own sense of worth and you do not need to promote their internal locus of control if they are inclined to draw on what is external in order to achieve a sense of personal value. While it may feel that you are buttressing somebody’s position against you by truncating the conflict, if you cannot rapidly metabolize that affect and access objective perspective then you are essentially developmentally inferior anyway. Internal locus of control is more evolved and that should be your concern for yourself, not that somebody is trying to score a goal on your defences that is puny compared to the characterological liabilities of obsessively playing long past the whistle should have blown.

The question invites a yes/no level of advice. There is no point repeating mitigation measures over and over, and that gym fitness is AYOR. Given that mitigation is a generally known component, for me it comes down to probability of contagion based on CoV prevalence at any given point of time, assuming the gym co-bunnies are representative of the epidemiological trend in Palookaville or wherever you and possibly a spiky virion or more co-exist. I prefer quantitative specificity to complement my own fretful recognition that we are continually ramming up against an ambiguous grey area in our decision-making. What is your risk tolerance, 0-100% that another gym member is on site with (typically unknown) contagion potential? Such calculations are possible using a mathematically anchored binomial algorithm. You can position your acceptance of risk, that is, your own % comfort, against real world CoV surveillance that changes daily and gets plugged into the formula. I make all my various bubble aversion decisions integrating these sorts of data. Better than Sudoku for brain fitness cuz it has prevention pertinence. A propos of relative regional risk this week novel coronavirus loves Iowa and The Dakotas but has never much cuddled up to Maine, Vermont, or New Hampshire. Where your gym lives is relevant.

Personally I find the competitive pissing contests, however friendly vs hostile, among real and often prolific posters more off-putting. That is: writing about how others write or think. It tends to fizzle through exhaustion rather than armistice or resolution. It can be like a study seminar from hell. Yet outside of signs of antipathy the participants may be whip smart and are paradoxically eroding the value of their input. It is also a challenge to follow a lengthy thread that has good input throughout but you have to intensely study some parts and scroll through vast quantities of written text to try to integrate the gist of what is discussed. Sometimes at the basis of some exchanges is a construct outside of reference points (cultural, specific, etc) that I can easily relate to ... a bit of a glossary approach might be useful when a new complex concept is introduced ... I know I know that also adds to the volume. Unless you are a daily board consumer, arriving early at each party, some really valuable threads with dozens of posts can be lost on you. But I think much of this is just par for the course for message media. I have to say that I have not flagged any bots so that part is a bit mystifying to me. The majority of what I consume appears to have a personal flavour indicative of a real person not an invariant artificial mechanism.

Never have I ever ... not blown my load at a YUL stripper venue. One local guy here, gorgeous, was told by the female Gaiety owner he had to trim his gut when he was in bulking mode of training cycle, if he wanted stage access. He was not insulted and took it to heart. She must have run a tight ship.

Hahaha, we are likely historical DNA bros by virtue of saliva swapping (etc) in common. In those days many of the dancers had periodic sideline gigs, zipping down to The Gaiety. Too bad memory lane is pushing aside the recommendations agenda due to the present reality.

My current favourite provider in São Paulo, from Spring, is looking even better in his socials, though I don’t understand how improvement on perfection is even possible. His images are not done professionally though he is a natural physique competitor, more well built model than traditional bodybuilder. Admixture of four continents. He just comes at the lens hot in any random pose. Today he is mugging with a few fit female friends at their gym. He is functionally bi. Sigh. Fuck this pandemic. Hope to return with a vengeance.

I am doing the same amount of formal exercise as ever, and diet even more balanced than previously, but just went out to buy four pairs of pants a size up. I have a lot of wiggle room to slack off due to a lifetime of care and restraint, but the additional time seated activities at home must be adding a molecule of fat per click.

In the past 19 years of being in Montreal I have hired less than 1% of paid meet-ups from ads. As far as individual separate guys on RM or less prominent ad sources, can count on one hand. They have been generally good, but not worth repeats, yet their ads met my tastes. Most of the images do not match my expectations. The available pool from clubs has extremely dwindled if you are determined to go that route.

He is also under ... everyone’s feet. Trudeau is barely OK but just doesn’t really get in the way. My province Quebec has been a shit show; regional leadership counts. There is ineffectual and there is ineffectual with a dollop of loopy. There are two male Québecois and one male American I wanna punch in the face whenever they appear.

Most foreign nationals with whom I am friends hail from and reside in subSaharan Africa, so my quality-of-life reference point as a privileged White developed world inhabitant is a bit of a different perspective. Can’t complain. These folks would be appalled at the idea of risking so much to maintain access to experience beyond basic necessities.

Applying Harvard’s colour code model, wherein many USA zones are red, only Northgate in Edmonton reflects the next (lower) level of risk: orange. So it is this week’s hotspot, unless a recent Globe&Mail article imported slightly dated info. Most of Canada outside urban areas is coded green (least prevalence). Like most cities, Toronto and Montreal have a patchwork of yellow and green. For all intents and purposes a visitor to these two urban centres is depositing himself into a code yellow sitch. Some of this stratification is directing school operational strategies. Short of green or zero transmission potential, many parents and teachers are in gridlock with local Ed boards. I have seen a few folks considerably junior to me in age in my lofts building wheeled out by paramedics, and this has occurred in the frame of but a few minutes a day I am passing through the lobby; otherwise I have no clue as to the true rate in my ‘hood. I go out with a mask and shield and do not interact with anybody in person.

He could be a Labradoodle City boy? Squeaky clean but himself vulnerable.

The guys I know are in hiatus mode because they seem to grasp reality, but are also keeping in shape for the sake of the as yet not foreseeable horizon of resuming trade. So I am collaborative with them in my own reluctant cock-blocking. Most of them had not recently been bright-eyed and bushy-tailed newbies barely out of adolescence and leasing expensive muscle cars, etc, that only cavalier decision-making can sustain.

It will undoubtedly not make zero difference. In health there is the notion of number needed to test or treat to prevent one death for a given malady. There are limits to funding, and the ratio of effort to reducing mortality is a big factor in determining standards of screening and care. Life is precious but life also hinges on distribution of limited resources. Vast amounts of capital are withheld that essentially enables circumventable death. Moreover, vast amounts of funding are spent to prevent illness and death that is preventable if people behaved in a manner that mitigates poor outcomes. I loosely name this phenomenon: squandering based on blameless human frailty. I am personally connected to a large volume of outcomes where natural human deficiency in self-regulation was instrumental in life erasure. The sharing of approaches to life choices may be catching. Example, the synergy of two unfortunates behaving in a way that beckons the grim reaper. The pandemic has flipped this on its head ... the broad potential reach of any individual’s careless dismissive attitude. This is an enormous game-changer. There are too many shooters to track. People criticize lack of formal pandemic playbook preparation but I think the human system factor will always have driven the outcomes we see far more than a structured pre-emptive plan. A plan would not have nullified the cognitive distortions and societal malaise to which the current patterns are attributable. In contrast to health utilities mentioned above, it is extremely challenging to comprehensively evaluate the application of resources for pandemic control. It is inarguable that some death will be averted by sending in authority to reduce anomie. It is philosophically justifiable in that we largely support the idea of the means justifying the ends. But there is no real world precedent for literally spending every iota of general societal resource capital to spare a life. I say this figuratively, theoretically. Of course it is multiple lives and the clinical algorithms quantify for a single case because numbers are interpretable and often valuable in complex decision trees. I am just trying to make a point about the vicissitudes of trial-and-error and the impediments to efficacy evaluation in the current out-of-control context. I oscillate between affirming “go for it; throw everything we have at it” and a jaded “sheesh, when does the resource well run dry?” I come at this as a person not yet dead and must defer the answer to the question: is what is allocated worth it? Obviously not if I end up debilitated or biting the spikey bullet.

Well I don’t know the OP’s origin story, but I am glad that you added the part I missed: returning Canadian’s obligation to self-isolate as well. Same bin of apples, not an added bin of oranges. Reading between the formal lines of the law, it may seem unfair, but a foreign national however exempt or Canuck however pre-quarantine endpoint is restricted relative to a slutty local punter. I am not going to the ‘homeland security’ site for confirmation of the fine print. One episode is negligible risk but there is no point to our sacrifice if many look to the next guy to conform. The Western tendency is to differentially value individualism or collectivism. That has become a huge liability for overall population health and safety in the developed world where economic advantage has not been a substantial bonus that might have been expected to affect pandemic incidence in our favour.

Damn inflation. The price of a ticket to pandemic management theatre is bound to shift around. The thing is, likely well under 20% of infractions anywhere are detected. Could be in the ballpark of 99% under the radar; who knows? When has aversive behaviour modification ever appreciably altered human inclinations towards self-efficacy. Someone dies after gasping how reckless they were, someone gets an infraction invoice, what have you, it all appears to be newsworthy. ‘That’ll learn ‘em’. The curve tells the story. It is far too overarching epidemiologically to quantify the effect of fines on it. Correlation is not causation but at this point there seems to be an association, likely spurious, between criminalizing disregard and upswing in CoV incidence in Spain.

Interesting and controversial topic. Could not bite my tongue here in Montreal.

You must be Canadian if you are able to be in Toronto or Montreal and hook up with a commercial service without an initial 2-week quarantine. Even if you are a foreign national and have some exemption to be here, it is not the provider’s or your prerogative to green light the transaction. Perhaps you are Canuck and unfamiliar with these two cities, hence, your inquiry. If you do not fit the permissible criteria or have immunity (not a criterion but mitigates the situation) you may not pose a true CoV risk or get pulled over, but the regulations exist for a reason irrespective of your level of respect for them. There is concrete evidence that the rules are reducing death here and that a juvenile or misinformed attitude militates against the goals of pandemic control. If you are actually going to end up flaunting our laws ... I don’t know the full context of your plan ... why indirectly post the intention here and/or possibly reinforce a stereotype of entitled privilege? Moreover, you may not be aware, depending on your true status and your grasp of Canada’s pandemic management intent and legislation, that your asking for names of providers amounts to their ending up in collusion with the types of protocol breaches that are showing demonstratively the emerging tidal ripples of a second wave. Can’t we all just use our heads?! My objection is obviously appropriately backpedalled if the plan has built-in viable impunity. Have fun; don’t give or get novel coronavirus. If and when this is over I may share some local skinny on the the query.