With the daily cases on the rise here in LA, I’m just wondering if anyone is planning to stop hobbying for a while, and has anyone actually caught covid from a provider??

I am not really seeing anyone at the moment because of my financial situation ( fuck you Newsom and the US government for shutting down the entire F&B industry and not providing any form of financial relief ). As far as provider goes.. it is a calculated risk.. I think your odds of catching it depends on her lifestyle, how many clients she sees etc.. but you can catch it as easily from a friend that does not pay attention... for instance, I was running a busy restaurant and we took all precautions and no one got sick in the 3 months we were open but ultimately while we followed all the guidelines, we had no control on what the staff did outside of work. I tend to see low volume, more " high end" ladies so I'd like to think it reduces the odds but clearly it is a gamble. My take is.. if you have conditions that may puts you at odds of getting really sick with covid.. don't take a chance.

Covid hysteria and never stopped hobbying.  Since the big power-grab by our elite masters in mid-February, I have had about 120 sessions, 46 of them with new providers I was seeing for the first time, and the rest of the 120 were repeat visits. I have a pretty strong network of hobby brothers and to date, not a single one has caught Covid, nor any provider that I have seen this year. There are a few providers I know on the GD board that have said they caught it, but these are in other states.  

 
I have gone to work everyday.  We do a temp check at the door of the office, and remove our masks once inside. No one at my office has had it.  One worker had a child that had it, so I made him wear a mask for two weeks until his  child was tested and cleared.  I also don't wear a mask anyplace I go in public unless its required for admittance somewhere.

 
I have been to a few events in recent months that those paralyzed with fear would call "super-spreaders", and still haven't caught it.  I'm a military veteran who has been in combat in several parts of the world, and I refuse to be intimidated by a virus.  The recent hypocritical disregard by our political elites of the restrictions they have mandated for us common folks has proven my instincts correct about ignoring the manufactured hysteria surrounding Covid since the beginning.  I can only imagine how foolish I would feel if I had bought into this fearmongering through all of these months like many others have.

Glad that you're OK and that you're co-workers are OK too.  But I wonder if your opinion might be different by February or March.  Hospitals are being overwhelmed, medical staff are at the limit of endurance, and we're fast  running out of critical care beds.  So, if you get a heart attack or are in a car accident next spring, there just might not be a place at the inn for you.  Infectious disease experts and epidemiologists  are predicting that the next few months will be like nothing we've ever experienced. If you wear a mask in public you protect yourself and more important you protect others who may be more vulnerable, and you do one little part to slow down this awful disease.  I don't understand, and I will never understand why putting a piece of fabric over your face is such a big deal to some people.    Is this hysteria?  

me neither  
it's like non-believers tell believers on the internet.  
They say, nature, truth or whateverness is don't care about your wishes, feelings or believes, it just is.  
Same thing with the virus. The virus don't care what people, including politicians make of it or use it for.  
Humans make everything complicated and put names to stuff.

Refreshing to hear your story and glad you are still able to have fun and while doing so, supporting wonderful ladies.

anyone else to not drink the Kool-Aid, but so far, the "Predictors" have had relatively few successes.  If you're okay with Big Brother's speculation keeping you down, that's your choice.  I'm NOT okay with it.  Since you seem to acknowledge in your observation about fewer hospital beds that anyone can drop dead of a heart attack or get hit by a bus on any given day, that's all the more reason to live life to the fullest, in my opinion.    

 
 I have two words for you, my friend  . . . . . . Carpe Diem!!!    

The reason we are in this fucked up situation is because of attitudes like yours.  Every person for themselves.  If we had leadership and people following the fucking rules, restaurants would be open, the economy would be more open and things would be semi-normal.  Because 20% of the population doesn't give a fuck, 300,000 people are dead and we are all screwed until the summer at the earliest.  Thanks.  Carpe Diem.  

The year of "Pick a team, bitch!"

natural selection, where the strong survive and the weak perish.  This is nature's way of ensuring good genetics in future generations so that the SPECIES survives.  Humankind does not benefit in the least from shitty genetics being passed along to children and grandchildren.  Our advanced medical technology messes with this natural order of things to the detriment of the population as a whole.  Covid just levels the playing field a little to take out the weak.  If we had let it run its course, like the Spanish flu of 1917, the  survivors and their descendants would be better equipped to have their own immune systems fight off something like this again in the future.  

 
If you think you are screwed until the summer, then you're buying into the hysteria and fear-mongering.  Covid did not increase the death  rate in 2020.  The 300,000 that died from Covid merely REPLACED those that would have died from something else.  There was no net increase in the overall death rate during Covid.  In addition, since 90+ percent of those who died had pre-existing medical conditions which exacerbated the effects of Covid, only a small number of people who died did so only because of Covid.  Most death certificates during 2020 for people that had Covid also list additional illnesses.   For cause of death, they would read "congestive heart failure and Covid, or Diabetes and Covid.  Only 10% listed ONLY Covid as the cause of the death, which was less than the annual death rate from the regular flu.  This means, in a technical sense, that 90% of the people who died, died WITH Covid.  Only 10% died FROM Covid.  This is what I mean by buying into the hysteria.  If you do your research rather than listen to the talking points of politicians, you would have come to a different conclusion.  The low-information segment of the public are the ones that are freaked out by Covid.    

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