COVID-19 2020

Starsky wrote:

Julian, wrote:
Also tested positive for COVID this weekend. Fairly mild symptoms so far.

Flags have been lowered in DC…

Hope you get better quick

Honestly, I feel like 90% better on day 3. Not sure if I just got a mild case or (more likely) the vaccines and booster work as intended but it was nowhere as bad as a standard flu, for me a non-smoker in my 30s. Had I not had two positive tests from different brands, I kinda would've thought it was a false positive.

Jason Isbell, has got the covid. cancelling shows.

So my friend (former college roommate, lives in NYC) mentioned in a hi how are you doing type of email that he had recently had COVID. His wife had also mentioned it publically on FB (that she had it.)

Is it rude for me to ask how he thinks he might have gotten it in a return email? Does it depend on the level of friendship?

Space wrote:
So my friend (former college roommate, lives in NYC) mentioned in a hi how are you doing type of email that he had recently had COVID. His wife had also mentioned it publically on FB (that she had it.)

Is it rude for me to ask how he thinks he might have gotten it in a return email? Does it depend on the level of friendship?

All in the execution. "Dude, that sucks! Any idea how you got it?" is probably fine. Asking pointed questions about their mask wearing, distancing in groups, or grilling them on their holiday itinerary is likely going to get taken another way.

Why would you care though?

Space wrote:
So my friend (former college roommate, lives in NYC) mentioned in a hi how are you doing type of email that he had recently had COVID. His wife had also mentioned it publically on FB (that she had it.)

Is it rude for me to ask how he thinks he might have gotten it in a return email? Does it depend on the level of friendship?

I would say if he emails you on the basis of, "hi, how are you" it would be perfectly acceptable to ask how he contracted covid. Weird question. And does it really matter how he contracted it? Maybe he doesn't know?

Is this the family you all had a great NYC trip with last year if I remember correctly.

Yeah, I mean at this point, nobody can really tell where they got it.

It’s everywhere


I read predictions that 40% of Americans will get it this wave

We have to be averaging at least 3 million daily right now

Yada wrote:

Space wrote:
So my friend (former college roommate, lives in NYC) mentioned in a hi how are you doing type of email that he had recently had COVID. His wife had also mentioned it publically on FB (that she had it.)

Is it rude for me to ask how he thinks he might have gotten it in a return email? Does it depend on the level of friendship?

I would say if he emails you on the basis of, "hi, how are you" it would be perfectly acceptable to ask how he contracted covid. Weird question. And does it really matter how he contracted it? Maybe he doesn't know?

Is this the family you all had a great NYC trip with last year if I remember correctly.

I would be asking more in a making conversation way, rather than actually caring where they got it from. They're a 50something married couple with no kids who probably take more risks than we do (e.g. riding the subway, going to the gym, indoor dining, more live entertainment than us), though I dont' judge them for it…we all have our levels of how we behave.

And if I talked about hanging with some friends in NYC the past year, yes, they were among the friends.

Here's how they got it:

riding the subway
going to the gym
indoor dining
live entertainment

Off-season wrote:
Here's how they got it:

riding the subway
going to the gym
indoor dining
live entertainment

Close socializing for more than a few minutes

Justin wrote:

Off-season wrote:
Here's how they got it:

riding the subway
going to the gym
indoor dining
live entertainment

Close socializing for more than a few minutes

Going to breweries and grocery stores

I should say "socializing closely". Read as the verb, "close" sounds like a demand.

so glory holes are still safe then?

Space wrote:

Yada wrote:

Space wrote:
So my friend (former college roommate, lives in NYC) mentioned in a hi how are you doing type of email that he had recently had COVID. His wife had also mentioned it publically on FB (that she had it.)

Is it rude for me to ask how he thinks he might have gotten it in a return email? Does it depend on the level of friendship?

I would say if he emails you on the basis of, "hi, how are you" it would be perfectly acceptable to ask how he contracted covid. Weird question. And does it really matter how he contracted it? Maybe he doesn't know?

Is this the family you all had a great NYC trip with last year if I remember correctly.

I would be asking more in a making conversation way, rather than actually caring where they got it from. They're a 50something married couple with no kids who probably take more risks than we do (e.g. riding the subway, going to the gym, indoor dining, more live entertainment than us), though I dont' judge them for it…we all have our levels of how we behave.

And if I talked about hanging with some friends in NYC the past year, yes, they were among the friends.

If I remember the vacation recap approporiately, they were giant pains in the ass from your POV.

Yada wrote:

Space wrote:

Yada wrote:

Space wrote:
So my friend (former college roommate, lives in NYC) mentioned in a hi how are you doing type of email that he had recently had COVID. His wife had also mentioned it publically on FB (that she had it.)

Is it rude for me to ask how he thinks he might have gotten it in a return email? Does it depend on the level of friendship?

I would say if he emails you on the basis of, "hi, how are you" it would be perfectly acceptable to ask how he contracted covid. Weird question. And does it really matter how he contracted it? Maybe he doesn't know?

Is this the family you all had a great NYC trip with last year if I remember correctly.

I would be asking more in a making conversation way, rather than actually caring where they got it from. They're a 50something married couple with no kids who probably take more risks than we do (e.g. riding the subway, going to the gym, indoor dining, more live entertainment than us), though I dont' judge them for it…we all have our levels of how we behave.

And if I talked about hanging with some friends in NYC the past year, yes, they were among the friends.

If I remember the vacation recap approporiately, they were giant pains in the ass from your POV.

oh wait, different Nyc trip. Those were actually international friends that were temporarily staying in nyc. and we were thr more "careless" family

Side-web wrote:
so glory holes are still safe then?

if you practice safe sex (condom), then you should be fine!  you might be safe without a rubber, as transmission of sexual fluids isn't a known vector of infection, however low levels of the virus have been detected in recovering patient's semen - unclear if there were sufficient cells to cause infection, but why risk it?

sweetcell wrote:

Side-web wrote:
so glory holes are still safe then?

if you practice safe sex (condom), then you should be fine!  you might be safe without a rubber, as transmission of sexual fluids isn't a known vector of infection, however low levels of the virus have been detected in recovering patient's semen - unclear if there were sufficient cells to cause infection, but why risk it?

"What if she's a squirter and it happens during cunnilingus or analingus?" - Relaxer, probably

Julian, wrote: - Relaxer, probably

definitely

sweetcell wrote:

Side-web wrote:
so glory holes are still safe then?

if you practice safe sex (condom), then you should be fine!  you might be safe without a rubber, as transmission of sexual fluids isn't a known vector of infection, however low levels of the virus have been detected in recovering patient's semen - unclear if there were sufficient cells to cause infection, but why risk it?

seems you made some assumptions of which side of the hole I would be on ;p

Side-web wrote:

sweetcell wrote:

Side-web wrote:
so glory holes are still safe then?

if you practice safe sex (condom), then you should be fine!  you might be safe without a rubber, as transmission of sexual fluids isn't a known vector of infection, however low levels of the virus have been detected in recovering patient's semen - unclear if there were sufficient cells to cause infection, but why risk it?

seems you made some assumptions of which side of the hole I would be on ;p

an alternate interpretation is that i assumed that not infecting whoever is on the other side was a concern of yours along with not getting infected yourself… in this light, the above holds.  my actual assumption is that everyone walk away un-rona'ed. 

but if you're the one being serviced, and you don't give an eff about the other person then, yeah, whatever i guess…