The Massholes

[Bran001]

Either create a new thread for all us medical PhD folks

I've never heard a physician or a PhD use that phrase. PhD's don't refer to themselves with the "medical" adjective. Physicians don't stoop to lump themselves in with the PhD's for the most part.

[SlickWilly007]

Different, yet very similar. Covid is the flu if someone poured gas on it. Doctors can't tell the difference without a test.

Look, who doesn't love STDking and I'm sure Troutman the Doc is a fine chap.

But to say that hospitals are NOT incentivized to report covid cases is incorrect. And when money is involved. Fuckery is involved.

Not to minimize the severity of the illness to compromised people. I'm sure its rough on a small portion of the population. Get on a stationary bike lose 50 pounds and take your vitamin C, D and Zinc.

Some people can't- severe Asthma sufferers are pretty screwed no matter what. Old people. Fucked. So I wear my mask everywhere and don't complain out of respect.

But make no mistake about it. Cases were inflated 1) For $$$ 2) To get a certain golf loving ego maniac out of office.

Titties and Ass. Tittles and Ass. Just wanted to throw in some real man talk.

Peace to all. I hope none of us get it. Even Ol Gary.

Oh here I very much beg to differ. Mass Media has much greater potential to cause damage than "stupid right wing liars" and "stupid left wing liars" do combined.

[Aimstraight]

Exactly.

Yes covid is a concern and should be taken seriously.

But it's not some biblical plague.

Use common sense and some precautions.

Oh here I very much beg to differ. Mass Media has much greater potential to cause damage than "stupid right wing liars" and "stupid left wing liars" do combined.

[Nrlmus]

And BTW, the media won't kill you, stupid right wing liars will:

Oh here I very much beg to differ. Mass Media has much greater potential to cause damage than "stupid right wing liars" and "stupid left wing liars" do combined.

[Aimstraight]

No he's not "just wrong".

Your post seems more like filtered opinions from the mainstream media than anything else.

Either create a new thread for all us medical PhD folks to have a scientific and fact based dialogue on the matter, or I'm me and we can chat about your vast research experience.

Let's get back to pussy.

You are just wrong. First, it isn't the flu. Second COVID deaths are counted the way all other deaths are tallied. Third, COVID is WAY more contagious than the flu. Fourth, COVID appears to have long term negative health impacts on the heart, lungs, brain, and other organs. THIS ISN'T like any flu you've ever experienced. The mortality rate seems to be between 1-3 percent. In mass, for some reason, it is closer to 5 percent. If you get it and become symptomatic, your chances of serious COVID illness increase. All you have to do is compare our stats to the rest of world to see this attitude you are expressing is the reason nearly a quarter million Americans are dead.

[STDKing]

Yes, Covid is real but the problem is that we're treating it as though it was Ebola and it isn't. It's bad ass flu but that's all it is. When some time ago a case of Ebola appeared in Braintree I was terrified. No, I'm not terrified of Covid although I know it can kill me. Cancer can kill me too though. I have a feeling my chances of dying of later is much higher than of former.

If you're doctor then you also should know that you get (or got) some encouragement for treating deaths as Covid-related and that comes from personal experience. When you get incentivized to treat deaths as Covid-related more people react to such intensives than not. After all it's your budget and your salary and your (personal!) job security that depend on that budget. I still remember a doctor basically bullying "my" patient into trying to switch him from a drug that "worked" to a drug that was "favored by her hospital". Financial incentives work more often than do moral values. Period. Welcome to capitalism.

On the other hand if we didn't treat it as if it was Ebola we probably wouldn't have gotten a vaccine so fast. I encourage everybody who's afraid of being vaccinated continue to be afraid so I can get vaccinated faster. lol

You are just wrong. First, it isn't the flu. Second COVID deaths are counted the way all other deaths are tallied. Third, COVID is WAY more contagious than the flu. Fourth, COVID appears to have long term negative health impacts on the heart, lungs, brain, and other organs. THIS ISN'T like any flu you've ever experienced. The mortality rate seems to be between 1-3 percent. In mass, for some reason, it is closer to 5 percent. If you get it and become symptomatic, your chances of serious COVID illness increase. All you have to do is compare our stats to the rest of world to see this attitude you are expressing is the reason nearly a quarter million Americans are dead.

[Nrlmus]

Sounds like you're afraid of life man!

Don't let the fearmongering get to you. Most of us take no precautions about covid and fuck random hoes and were fine dude.

Covid is just a bunch of media driven bullshit.

But like hey if your too afraid to get laid then LOL.

got a link bro?

I don't mean to start a debate, or to throw stones, or belittle anyone, but this is a good example of why the USA Is leading the work in infections and Covid-19 deaths. It isn't about gut feelings, it is about actual science that has proven that precautions like wearing a mask and social distancing actually work at preventing the spread of this very deadly disease. And in case you're wondering, yes, I am a doctor.

Yes, Covid is real but the problem is that we're treating it as though it was Ebola and it isn't. It's bad ass flu but that's all it is. When some time ago a case of Ebola appeared in Braintree I was terrified. No, I'm not terrified of Covid although I know it can kill me. Cancer can kill me too though. I have a feeling my chances of dying of later is much higher than of former.

If you're doctor then you also should know that you get (or got) some encouragement for treating deaths as Covid-related and that comes from personal experience. When you get incentivized to treat deaths as Covid-related more people react to such intensives than not. After all it's your budget and your salary and your (personal!) job security that depend on that budget. I still remember a doctor basically bullying "my" patient into trying to switch him from a drug that "worked" to a drug that was "favored by her hospital". Financial incentives work more often than do moral values. Period. Welcome to capitalism.

On the other hand if we didn't treat it as if it was Ebola we probably wouldn't have gotten a vaccine so fast. I encourage everybody who's afraid of being vaccinated continue to be afraid so I can get vaccinated faster. lol

[MarquisDeSulu]

Right now, 1 in 4 people are said to be carrying COVID in Worcester. I don't know about BOston, but post Christmas and NYD it is likely to surpass all levels, so short of a total lockdown, I wouldn't expect anything to improve the risk in the next 6 months.

I can only tell you now's a good time to hold onto your money, and splurge once you get protection. This is aerosol AIDs, no doubt, that if you're high risk or 1 in 5 that get the worst of the disease, it'll be yourself to bleam. But then a lot of diisbelivers are in the last moments of their lives telling hospital staff "this isn't the virus. Is it?

As Mel Brooks in character (History Of The World-French monarcyial kinig yells on the human chess board). "GANG BANG! Just wait until this virus gets the shot kicked out of it. Keep it in your pocket, if you can.

Thanks for the feedback, gents--I think you're quite right here. I've actually asked most providers in the past few months if they've been tested, and they claim to be negative, and so far I haven't caught it. But yeah, if a provider is *refusing* to get tested, as I said in the OP, then it ain't worth the risk. I appreciate everyone's perspectives (except for the COVID deniers LOL).

[RobbrKing]

Oh believe me, I know that COVID is 100% real. The threat is massive. Thanks for sharing your story--I guess I'm trying to figure out how risky it is for me to go for this, and for the sake of worst case scenario, I'll just assume she has it. If you don't mind me asking, how do you think your nanny transmitted it to you (e.g. was she maskless)?

I've read elsewhere that sex is actually fairly safe COVID-wise as long as masks are in play (I wouldn't have the provider wear one, but I'd certainly keep an N95 on). But I wanted to see what other folks' experience / expertise was.

Our Nanny came to work with a cough and we should have sent her home. She doesn't wear a mask at our house when she is working. By the time we sent her home and asked her to get tested she has already worked three 9 hour days at our house. My SO and I got symptoms two days later.

[BuggerOff69]

Right now, 1 in 4 people are said to be carrying COVID in Worcester. I don't know about BOston, but post Christmas and NYD it is likely to surpass all levels, so short of a total lockdown, I wouldn't expect anything to improve the risk in the next 6 months.

I can only tell you now's a good time to hold onto your money, and splurge once you get protection. This is aerosol AIDs, no doubt, that if you're high risk or 1 in 5 that get the worst of the disease, it'll be yourself to bleam. But then a lot of diisbelivers are in the last moments of their lives telling hospital staff "this isn't the virus. Is it?

As Mel Brooks in character (History Of The World-French monarcyial kinig yells on the human chess board). "GANG BANG! Just wait until this virus gets the shot kicked out of it. Keep it in your pocket, if you can.

However, if you have such low esteem issues (as do I) and you STILL want it enough to die for it, there's only a couple of Google hits on how to manage sex provider encounters and they ain't local. Since that may be too "fake news" for some of you to handle:

1 Apparently anal play and intercourse / rimming are a total no-go as the virus is known to travel in these parts.

2. It DOES NOT "appear" to be carried by sex fluids, afatct.

3. The safest position is one where you keep heads as far away from close proximity as possible-obviously not 6 ft. , unless you are j. O in a chair, but 69 position, doggie and variations on that sort of thing would be considered "safer".

4. Ventilatilate, ventilate, ventilate: don't let your provider smoke with you in a little room, don't go in a closet sized room for action, and I would bet sex in an open car (windows / sunroof / top down?) is safest.

A set of balls is a terrible thing to waste, if you're permanently wasted by fucking around. Who wants to die, lay down, goodbye?

[BuggerOff69]

Oh believe me, I know that COVID is 100% real. The threat is massive. Thanks for sharing your story--I guess I'm trying to figure out how risky it is for me to go for this, and for the sake of worst case scenario, I'll just assume she has it. If you don't mind me asking, how do you think your nanny transmitted it to you (e.g. was she maskless)?

I've read elsewhere that sex is actually fairly safe COVID-wise as long as masks are in play (I wouldn't have the provider wear one, but I'd certainly keep an N95 on). But I wanted to see what other folks' experience / expertise was.

Right now, 1 in 4 people are said to be carrying COVID in Worcester. I don't know about BOston, but post Christmas and NYD it is likely to surpass all levels, so short of a total lockdown, I wouldn't expect anything to improve the risk in the next 6 months.

I can only tell you now's a good time to hold onto your money, and splurge once you get protection. This is aerosol AIDs, no doubt, that if you're high risk or 1 in 5 that get the worst of the disease, it'll be yourself to bleam. But then a lot of diisbelivers are in the last moments of their lives telling hospital staff "this isn't the virus. Is it?

As Mel Brooks in character (History Of The World-French monarcyial kinig yells on the human chess board). "GANG BANG! Just wait until this virus gets the shot kicked out of it. Keep it in your pocket, if you can.

[STDKing]

Oh believe me, I know that COVID is 100% real. The threat is massive. Thanks for sharing your story--I guess I'm trying to figure out how risky it is for me to go for this, and for the sake of worst case scenario, I'll just assume she has it. If you don't mind me asking, how do you think your nanny transmitted it to you (e.g. was she maskless)?

I've read elsewhere that sex is actually fairly safe COVID-wise as long as masks are in play (I wouldn't have the provider wear one, but I'd certainly keep an N95 on). But I wanted to see what other folks' experience / expertise was.

Be cautious. Mortality rate in Mass is nearly 5 percent (much higher for some reason than other states). It is very real. We are about to see many more cases. Hard to say who gets unlucky and ends up real sick or dead (known existing health issues are a red flag but lots of people have odd immune and hidden health issues that will only come apparent when their body is fending off a virus). Also, our behavior impacts each other and the ladies who work these places (and the families too).

[NicosWave24]

Sounds like you're afraid of life man!

Don't let the fearmongering get to you. Most of us take no precautions about covid and fuck random hoes and were fine dude.

Covid is just a bunch of media driven bullshit.

But like hey if your too afraid to get laid then LOL.

got a link bro?

Why I'm wit this guy fuck the covid kick that link in here.

[MarquisDeSulu]

If you gut tells you don't do it, then don't! You won't have as much fun if it is in the back of your head that you could get COVID. I got COVID the week before Thanksgiving. Interestingly enough, I caught it from my nanny (My SO and kids all got sick too) and even though I saw my regular piece of ass that week two days before I got symptoms, she didn't get it! And we do DFK. I will say now that I had it and got over it, it is liberating. I went to BTT for the first time in four months because I don't worry about COVID anymore.

I will say this, it isn't 'fake' or a 'scam'. I was out of work for three weeks. Had to go to the hospital in an ambulance because I was having trouble breathing with low oxygen levels and almost had to be intubated. Probably the closest I have come to death so far.

Oh believe me, I know that COVID is 100% real. The threat is massive. Thanks for sharing your story--I guess I'm trying to figure out how risky it is for me to go for this, and for the sake of worst case scenario, I'll just assume she has it. If you don't mind me asking, how do you think your nanny transmitted it to you (e.g. was she maskless)?

I've read elsewhere that sex is actually fairly safe COVID-wise as long as masks are in play (I wouldn't have the provider wear one, but I'd certainly keep an N95 on). But I wanted to see what other folks' experience / expertise was.

[SreeDeep]

As someone working in a hospital, I can assure you that you're as wrong as one can be. Seeing people gasping for breath desperately is one of the worst things I have seen. It's like they are drowning without being in water. And this week in Boston, it's been worse than the peak in April. The reason you don't see 200+ deaths a day is because doctors have gotten better at managing the disease. They know when to give antivirals, when to give steroids, don't intubate as early etc.

Yes, if you contract it, most of you won't need hospitalization. It will just feel like a flu with additional fatigue for a couple of weeks. But for the few unfortunate ones that do (and trust me it's very unpredictable, you could be a perfectly healthy 30 yr old with no comorbidities), those 7-10 will be hell.

To monger or not is completely your choice, but when you say such things, for us who endanger our lives every day, it just feels disrespectful. When 9/11 happened, we all freaked out for years (and rightly so). At the moment, in this country it's one 9/11 a day and yet we don't act like we're under attack.

Sounds like you're afraid of life man!

Don't let the fearmongering get to you. Most of us take no precautions about covid and fuck random hoes and were fine dude.

Covid is just a bunch of media driven bullshit.

But like hey if your too afraid to get laid then LOL.

got a link bro?