Sexual Wellness and Safe Sex related Discussions

[Captain Solo]

Goyo.

Have no idea where this Sharp hospital is.

Looks like a lot of hospitals were ordered to delay all elective treatments to reserve room for Covid-19 patients, so they stay empty. There were news doctors and nurses got furloughed or hours reduced. People also vastly cancel or delay visiting their doctors so revenues are down. Healthcare workers are mad.

Even before CoVid-19 I know a few hospitals in SoCal that ran on empty most of the time. Their nursing staff are mostly temporary, careless types. Their doctors are known to make a lot of serious mistakes, some even fatal. They are known as death-trap hospitals. Rich doctors pool their money to build medical and surgeries centers that had very few patients, running on empty. A few were foreclosed.

[Goyo61]

I was at a Sharp clinic up here for something not related to the virus and it was dead! Amazing how few people were in the Sharp clinic. Bare-bones crew. The media and politicians can go back and forth about the danger level but the hospitals really give you a clue to how this virus is not the flu at any level.

Goyo.

Travv,

Surprisingly hospitals, especially those in poor countries like Mexico and Asia, carry high risks in spreading diseases. Even in the US, look at doctors and nurses who have been infected with CoVid-19 and died. If you feel healthy, it's wise to stay away from hospitals. But if you are infected and feel sick, you will need to get in line for one of those ventilators.

Americans are over-medicated, take a lot of medicines, sometimes unnecessarily. There are super-bacteria that are resistant to antibiotics. When they really need the medications, their bodies may have already been immune to treatments. Damn. I would take as little medicines as possible.

In So Cal a few hospitals are known as death traps. Their staff are unprofessional, incompetent, unreliable, make lots of lethal mistakes, causing permanent injuries or deaths. Nurses and doctors deal with people in pain, dying or dead. They are highly stressed, angry, sad and depressed. Their lifestyles are not fun and happy.

Tourists hospitalized in Cancun and other places in Mexico have been known to have to pay in advance with cash or credit cards. Some bills were in the hundreds thousands.

[Artisttyp]

https://nypost.com/2020/06/10/nyc-he...-zoom-parties/

[Artisttyp]

Wearing a face mask during sex can reduce COVID-19 transmission, say doctors.

Elise Solé.

Kissing is a 'high risk behavior' for COVID-19, warns a new study.

In the wake of conflicting studies on whether or not COVID-19 is present in semen, researchers from three Boston hospitals have released sexual health guidelines describing the riskiest behavior, and offering some unusual advice about when to wear masks.

The guidelines, published in the Annals of Internal Medicine, note that any type of in-person sexual activity is a COVID-19 risk factor given the limited data on sexual transmission, and the knowledge that SARS-CoV-2 can spread through saliva, mucus, aerosolized particles or, although less common, by touching the eyes, nose and mouth after touching an infected surface.

The sex-positive study ranks habits from the safest to the riskiest through the CDC's social distancing model. Sexual abstinence and masturbation are the safest moves, followed by phone or video sex (which comes with its own risks, the authors warn) and sleeping with a live-in partner, if neither has been exposed or is asymptomatic. Sexual activity with a person other than those with whom you're quarantining is considered the riskiest behavior — and the researchers recommend wearing a face mask in that case.

"We recognize that it may come as an unusual recommendation, but wearing a mask during intercourse with someone from outside the home may reduce risk, as may a range of other strategies, including showering, hand-washing and cleaning surfaces where the virus may reside following sex," Dr. Jack Turban, lead author and resident physician in psychiatry at Massachusetts General Hospital and McLean Hospital tells Yahoo Life. "Unfortunately, the virus is easily spread via respiratory particles, making kissing a higher-risk behavior than other intimate acts," Turban adds.

Despite the risk associated with this type of intimacy, the study encourages doctors to be nonjudgmental when asking patients about their sex lives. Luckily, public health experts are starting to pay attention to the fact that abstinence-only recommendations are unlikely to be successful and may lead to worse outcomes. Turban tells Yahoo Life.

Major health organizations recommend the use of face masks to prevent passing on respiratory droplets that could spread SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19. But while face masks may help mitigate risks for non-live-in sexual partners, experts say it's not a perfect solution — and note that anyone engaging in sexual activity may be putting themself at risk.

"We're not saying, Wear a mask and don't worry, Dr. Kenneth Mayer, professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School and one of the authors of the study, tells Yahoo Life, More that if you wear one, you'll decrease risk. The study notes that research is mixed on whether or not COVID-19 is present in semen, with one study from China finding virtually zero evidence that it is and another finding the opposite. Until this is better understood, it would be prudent to consider semen potentially infectious," the authors write.

Dr. Alex Keuroghlian, director of both the National LGBT Health Education Center at the Fenway Institute and the Massachusetts General Hospital Psychiatry Gender Identity Program, tells Yahoo Life that sex may be a hazard for the foreseeable future. "The risks of physical contact among persons not in quarantine with one another will remain very real in the absence of adequate vaccination across the population," says Keuroghlian.

The report results, of course, are not meant as a prescriptive list of sexual do's and don'ts; rather it provides recommendations for how to slow the spread of SARS-CoV-2. The researchers say couples will have to decide what they're comfortable doing behind closed doors. "The major takeaway from this paper is that risk lies on a spectrum," says Turban. "Abstinence is the safest recommendation to prevent the spread of the virus, but for many people this will not be attainable. Sex with those from outside the home is higher risk than sex with those residing in the home, and is one way to decrease risk. ".

[LuvMexicanas]

Dickus,

We were in Tijuana Saturday afternoon. Car and foot traffic were probably 5% before lock down. Hotels are open but all bars were closed. Restaurants and food carts only the take out. You don't even have a place to sit down to eat or drink. It was boring and tiring hanging out in La Zona.

HK had a clandestine lounge with a small bar next top Cascada's North lobby. There were no clients, only 4 older and unattractive girls were sitting around with half dozen meseros moping around looking glum and worried. Guys reported 40 girls at night but that makeshift lounge is big enough to cram in no more than 10 girls, not even counting clients and meseros.

About 30 to 40 girls were in the alley and the surround streets, some of the hottest and most popular, Camilla, Edith, Samantha etc. There were no mongers and very few people on the streets while we were there. Quite a few street girls were actually hot and attractive, far more than the 4 HK girls. Guys can hang out in the alley doing street girls and eat take out food. My wingman contacted a few escorts but they were either busy or not working.

Plan on doing street girls or get a hotel room and book your favorite escorts. Without nice places to sit to eat, drink and be entertained it's boring to hang out in La Zona.

I have been down three times by car in the last month. Twice to visit someone there and once to travel elsewhere in Mexico. Never a problem crossing or returning. If asked I will tell them I'm going for a medical consultation (usually a doctor next to most major pharmacies for a cost of about 100 pesos.)

You had better have a plan however. Nothing is really open. You can take out food from a restaurant and go to a motel or shop at Costco. That's about it.

Hotel room and a revolving door of escorts is all the plan I need. I just need to get out there and execute the plan.

[Captain Solo]

Dickus,

We were in Tijuana Saturday afternoon. Car and foot traffic were probably 5% before lock down. Hotels are open but all bars were closed. Restaurants and food carts only the take out. You don't even have a place to sit down to eat or drink. It was boring and tiring hanging out in La Zona.

HK had a clandestine lounge with a small bar next top Cascada's North lobby. There were no clients, only 4 older and unattractive girls were sitting around with half dozen meseros moping around looking glum and worried. Guys reported 40 girls at night but that makeshift lounge is big enough to cram in no more than 10 girls, not even counting clients and meseros.

About 30 to 40 girls were in the alley and the surround streets, some of the hottest and most popular, Camilla, Edith, Samantha etc. There were no mongers and very few people on the streets while we were there. Quite a few street girls were actually hot and attractive, far more than the 4 HK girls. Guys can hang out in the alley doing street girls and eat take out food. My wingman contacted a few escorts but they were either busy or not working.

Plan on doing street girls or get a hotel room and book your favorite escorts. Without nice places to sit to eat, drink and be entertained it's boring to hang out in La Zona.

I have been down three times by car in the last month. Twice to visit someone there and once to travel elsewhere in Mexico. Never a problem crossing or returning. If asked I will tell them I'm going for a medical consultation (usually a doctor next to most major pharmacies for a cost of about 100 pesos.)

You had better have a plan however. Nothing is really open. You can take out food from a restaurant and go to a motel or shop at Costco. That's about it.

I have been down three times by car in the last month. Twice to visit someone there and once to travel elsewhere in Mexico. Never a problem crossing or returning. If asked I will tell them I'm going for a medical consultation (usually a doctor next to most major pharmacies for a cost of about 100 pesos.).

You had better have a plan however. Nothing is really open. You can take out food from a restaurant and go to a motel or shop at Costco. That's about it.

[Dickus Maximus]

But words on the streets said people are crossing over to Tijuana in cars and on foot, no checking or restriction whatsoever.

I have been down three times by car in the last month. Twice to visit someone there and once to travel elsewhere in Mexico. Never a problem crossing or returning. If asked I will tell them I'm going for a medical consultation (usually a doctor next to most major pharmacies for a cost of about 100 pesos.).

You had better have a plan however. Nothing is really open. You can take out food from a restaurant and go to a motel or shop at Costco. That's about it.

[Captain Solo]

But words on the streets said people are crossing over to Tijuana in cars and on foot, no checking or restriction whatsoever.

https://www.bajabound.com/travelupda...rderupdate.php

Tijuana.

On March 26th, the mayor of Tijuana signed the Emergency Declaration of Sanitary Risks in which the city outlined steps to take in order to prevent the spread of COVID-19. All residents are encouraged to stay home and to avoid going out in public. Essential businesses are open, which include: hospitals, pharmacies, medical clinics, financial services, markets, supermarkets, restaurants (take-out or delivery only), among others.

Rosarito.

Inspection points have been set up in the entrances to Playas de Rosarito to ensure drivers are obeying the stay at home order. If they are found to be out for non-essential reasons, they are being directed to return home. The inspection points are in Ejido Plan Libertador, Popotla and the corredor 2000.

All beaches are closed in Playas de Rosarito and are being patrolled by authorities to ensure the closures are being respected.

Ensenada.

On April 20th, the municipal government of Ensenada announced their initiative "Vamos Juntos" in which the city outlined measures to be taken in order to try to prevent the spread of COVID-19.

As one of the measures, Ensenada's mayor announced the city would block access in order to protect its citizens. Checkpoints have been set up across the city verifying that people have a reason to be entering. The only permissible reasons to enter Ensenada are for emergencies, medical appointments, transportation to essential workplaces, and to supply food and medicine.

People entering Ensenada may be asked to provide proof of domicile, such as a utility bill. The checkpoints are are set up in the following areas: El Sauzal de Rodríguez, Real del Castillo (Ojos Negros), Punta Colonet and San Quintíand, as well as in la Ruta del Vino.

A curfew from 9:00 pm to 6:00 am has also been implemented.

The measures were initially going to last until April 30th, however, they have been extended through the month of June.

Mexicali Municipality.

Mexicali is following the guidelines set forth by the state and Mexican Federal Government.

[Captain Solo]

Mexico's death is hitting new high:

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2020/...232724685.html

Wed June 3 2020,01:33 GMT. Mexico reports new one-day high of 1,092 coronavirus deaths.

The coronavirus toll in Mexico has soared to a new daily high, with the health department reporting 1,092 test-confirmed deaths. More than double the previous one-day record and in line with numbers in the United States and Brazil, according to AP news agency.

The announcement was an embarrassment for officials, who have consistently predicted that cases in Mexico were about to start leveling off. The country began a gradual reopening of industrial and business activity on Monday.

Mexico has at least 101,000 cases and more than 11,000 deaths.

[Captain Solo]

https://nypost.com/2020/06/02/china-...to-who-report/

China reportedly delayed releasing critical coronavirus data to WHO.

By Mark Moore June 2, 2020.

10:09 am.

Chinese President Xi Jinping learns about progress on a vaccine and antibodies during a visit to the Academy of Military Medical Sciences in Beijing. Getty Images.

China delayed releasing critical information about the coronavirus in the weeks after the outbreak was first reported — even as the World Health Organization publicly lauded the Communist country for its quick response to the pandemic, according to a report Tuesday.

The WHO in January praised China for "immediately" releasing a genetic map of the coronavirus and said its efforts to be transparent were "very impressive, and beyond words," the Associated Press reported.

At the same time, WHO officials behind the scenes were frustrated that China was slow-walking their ability to get information to combat the spread of the virus, which had first been reported in late December in Wuhan, China, because they were losing valuable time, according to the report.

"We're going on very minimal information," said American epidemiologist Maria Van Kerkhove, now the WHO's technical lead for COVID-19, in one internal meeting during the week of Jan. 6. "It's clearly not enough for you to do proper planning."

"We're currently at the stage where, yes, they're giving it to us 15 minutes before it appears on CCTV," the WHO's top official in China, Dr. Gauden Galea, referring to the state-owned China Central Television, said in another meeting, the AP reported.

The Chinese Communist Party did not release the genetic map of the virus for more than a week after three government labs had decoded the information, the report said, because of tight controls on releasing data.

The genetic map was finally released after another lab published it on a virologist website on Jan. 11.

It took the Chinese Communist Party another two weeks to provide the WHO with full data on patients and cases, according to recordings of internal meetings by the United Nations health agency.

The delay in releasing the genetic data slowed the development of a vaccine and the absence of detailed information about patients made it difficult to determine how quickly the coronavirus was spreading around the world.

Between the time a Chinese lab decoded the info on Jan. 2 and Jan. 30, when the WHO declared a global emergency, the virus spread by a factor of 100 to 200 times, the AP reported, citing infection data from the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention.

"It's obvious that we could have saved more lives and avoided many, many deaths if China and the WHO had acted faster," Ali Mokdad, a professor at the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation at the University of Washington, told the wire service.

There are now more than 6 million cases worldwide, and the death toll has surpassed 370,000.

President Trump, who has accused the WHO of colluding with China to hold back data on the coronavirus, last Friday cut ties with the UN agency.

"China has total control over the World Health Organization," Trump said at the White House, noting that the US contributed $450 million to the WHO each year compared to China's $40 million.

[Travv]

Google for full article: Yale Epidemiologist: Hydroxychloroquine Should Be 'Widely Available And Promoted Immediately' As Standard Treatment.

Hydroxychloroqine. A cheap, widely-prescribed anti-malaria drug which was deemed safe for decades until it showed efficacy treating coronavirus. Needs to be made "widely available and promoted immediately for physicians to prescribe," according to Yale epidemiologist Dr. Harvey Risch.

In a Wedensday manuscript detailing how high-risk COVID-19 patients should be treated, Risch notes that the combination of hydroxychloroquine (HCQ) and the antibiotic azithromycin (AZ) "has been widely misrepresented in both clinical reportsand public media," and that "Five studies, including two controlled clinical trials, have demonstrated significant major outpatient treatment efficacy. " Risch recommends the combination of HCQ+AZ "preferably with zinc" as a "standard outpatient treatment, at least until we find or add something better, whether that could be remdesivir or something else."

"Every patient I've prescribed it to has been very, very ill and within 8 to 12 hours, they were basically symptom-free," said LOS Angeles doctor Dr. Anthony Cardillo, adding "So clinically I am seeing a resolution."

Piri's is selling HCQ for around 650 pesos if you want peace of mind about the CCP flu. . . Possibly zinc sulfate pills also, but you'll need to ask the pharmacist about those. . .

[Captain Solo]

These doctors made anecdotal observations in clinical setting.

Unless the original virus stops spreading and they have RNA proof CoVid-19 has mutated into less deadly strains, they are only talking out of their Italian asses.

The epidemiologists are far more qualified to make this determination.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/coronavir...184358113.html

New coronavirus losing potency, top Italian doctor says, Reuters May 31,2020, 11:43 AM PDT.

ROME (Reuters) - The new coronavirus is losing its potency and has become much less lethal, a senior Italian doctor said on Sunday.

"In reality, the virus clinically no longer exists in Italy," said Alberto Zangrillo, the head of the San Raffaele Hospital in Milan in the northern region of Lombardy, which has borne the brunt of Italy's coronavirus contagion.

"The swabs that were performed over the last 10 days showed a viral load in quantitative terms that was absolutely infinitesimal compared to the ones carried out a month or two months ago," he told RAI television.

Italy has the third highest death toll in the world from COVID-19, with 33,415 people dying since the outbreak came to light on Feb. 21. It has the sixth highest global tally of cases at 233,019.

However new infections and fatalities have fallen steadily in May and the country is unwinding some of the most rigid lockdown restrictions introduced anywhere on the continent.

Zangrillo said some experts were too alarmist about the prospect of a second wave of infections and politicians needed to take into account the new reality.

"We've got to get back to being a normal country," he said. "Someone has to take responsibility for terrorizing the country. ".

The government urged caution, saying it was far too soon to claim victory.

"Pending scientific evidence to support the thesis that the virus has disappeared. I would invite those who say they are sure of it not to confuse Italians," Sandra Zampa, an undersecretary at the health ministry, said in a statement.

"We should instead invite Italians to maintain the maximum caution, maintain physical distancing, avoid large groups, to frequently wash their hands and to wear masks. ".

A second doctor from northern Italy told the national ANSA news agency that he was also seeing the coronavirus weaken.

"The strength the virus had two months ago is not the same strength it has today," said Matteo Bassetti, head of the infectious diseases clinic at the San Martino hospital in the city of Genoa.

"It is clear that today the COVID-19 disease is different. ".

[Captain Solo]

$840 K for 2-week treatment of a CoVid-19 patient. The medicines alone costed over $250 K. Damn. This is way more expensive than living full time all year with 50 hottest HK girls in Cascada's penthouse suite with all food and booze catered by Azul's.

The CoVid doctors are ecstatic of their exceptionally high income this year and already started shopping for new MBZ AMGs for themselves and the wives.

The bros should send their CoVid-19 bills to Chairman Xi JinPing for payment. Have the nastiest collection agencies call him everyday until he pays all bills in full. If not, just seize all US Treasury bonds owned by China's government.

COVID survivor receives $840,000 statement for treatment, with more on the way.

By: Jason GruenauerPosted at 4:48 PM, May 29,2020 and last updated 3:48 PM, May 29,2020.

CENTENNIAL, Colo. — Robert Dennis spent weeks in the hospital, fighting and beating the coronavirus. He's now back at home, working his way through recovery, but he's not done with the virus entirely just yet. The high school teacher just received his first itemized statement for the cost of his care: $840,386. 94.

"Seeing that number yesterday for the first bill it kind of took your breath away again," Robert's wife Suzanne, who also beat the virus, told Denver7.

The statement covers Robert's time at Sky Ridge Medical Center, where he was in the intensive care unit and intubated for two weeks.

"His meds just at the hospital are a quarter million dollars," Suzanne said.

What is not included is Robert's three weeks at Spalding Rehabilitation Hospital, or his wife's trips to the emergency room when she was fighting the virus. The couple estimates their total bills to top one and a half million dollars.

"It's scary. I don't care how much you have covered. It's scary to see that kind of number and not really know," Suzanne said.

The couple has insurance. They plan on calling to make sure that they are covered early next week.

The Colorado Division of Insurance tells Denver7 that if their department regulates the insurance, that patient will be protected by a state emergency regulation. Also, if the hospital that treated a patient received CARES Act funding, they are not required to send bills for COVID-19 treatment.

On March 10th, Vice President Mike Pence told reporters, "All of our major health insurance companies have now joined with Medicare and Medicaid and agreed to waive all copays, cover the cost of all treatment for those who contract the coronavirus, they've committed to no surprise billing, and they've committed to encourage telemedicine."

"I would have probably sat down and cried yesterday if didn't know we had insurance and that was pretty good, but if you don't have that comfort of knowing something is there, I don't know how you make that ok with yourself," Suzanne said.

Denver7 is committed to helping you navigate the healthcare system, save money and get the care you need, through a new initiative called Contact7 Cost of Care.

[Captain Solo]

Travv,

Surprisingly hospitals, especially those in poor countries like Mexico and Asia, carry high risks in spreading diseases. Even in the US, look at doctors and nurses who have been infected with CoVid-19 and died. If you feel healthy, it's wise to stay away from hospitals. But if you are infected and feel sick, you will need to get in line for one of those ventilators.

Americans are over-medicated, take a lot of medicines, sometimes unnecessarily. There are super-bacteria that are resistant to antibiotics. When they really need the medications, their bodies may have already been immune to treatments. Damn. I would take as little medicines as possible.

In So Cal a few hospitals are known as death traps. Their staff are unprofessional, incompetent, unreliable, make lots of lethal mistakes, causing permanent injuries or deaths. Nurses and doctors deal with people in pain, dying or dead. They are highly stressed, angry, sad and depressed. Their lifestyles are not fun and happy.

Tourists hospitalized in Cancun and other places in Mexico have been known to have to pay in advance with cash or credit cards. Some bills were in the hundreds thousands.

[ScatManDoo]

He said the test is unreliable. LabCorp does the Abbot test which is more reliable and costs only $10 for record keeping, balance is billed to insurance or US Government. In contrast Quest Diag charges $119 for test plus $13 for recording. Damn.

https://www.labcorp.com/test-menu/search?query=covid-19

Over two weeks ago the FDA put out an announcement stating their concerns about the accuracy of the Abbot test.

https://www.fda.gov/news-events/pres...t-id-now-point