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A tiny bit of cash goes a long way. It covers a broad range of service dynamics. Broken down at the get go: 2 bits to an attendant to acknowledge paltry pay and rote mind-numbing routine day after day; 2 bits to later situationally ask for assistance if needed for an unusual issue (eg, misplaced item) from an attendant you had overtly acknowledged as having been ‘seen’ according to the above, or for a touch of favouritism navigating that day’s spa outing; 2 bits for their contribution to your prerogative to transcend the restricting option of routinely mind-numbingly jacking off to porn at home thousands of clicks away; and for good measure, 2 bits as prophylaxis against the outrageous behavioural phenomenon of a gratuity overtly solicited because the concept and principle of equity may have simply slipped your mind when the little head took the reins. That’s a lot of coverage for the cost equivalency of a rubber.

… But unfortunately late to the party viz vaccination deployment. In contrast, ANVISA authorized Tecovirimat early Sept, very quickly based on FDA’s 2018 greenlight. The 2022 USA clinical trial’s protocol re: lag from illness onset to initial dose would be consistent with the window within which an individual’s infection morbidity commenced in August. Again, timing is everything, and this line of narrative is no more than speculative.

Hell no to the umpteenth no. Ducking out …

Same as the outbreak in our faces last year. Orthopox is the overarching label for the class of virus that includes Monkeypox and Smallpox (aka Variola). Tecovirimat is indicated for expanded orthopox applications, as was the intent of MVA-BN vaccine uptake many of us pursued last year, some older among us having then received broader sequential prophylaxis by virtue of generational product progression. The term Monkeypox is comparatively tone deaf when misappropriated for stigmatizing, and non-Simian classifications such as rodents are susceptible to infection and potential vectors of transmission. I don’t expect everybody to align with particular labelling. However, it might be easier for some infected folks anywhere to have shared, when pressed, the news of being ill with what the clinician termed as orthopox. As anywhere, in Brazil “variola dos macacos” is loaded, for anybody, let alone a married man in the public eye for whom getting backed into a corner is more plausible. Interestingly, Brazil to its credit launched early on a preparatory ‘be on safe side’ awareness campaign, paediatric targeted.

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No, incipiently misogynistically “Shirley, more than 10”.

Like I said, digressive. In one breath you emphasize the incumbent’s legitimacy, and that former presidents’ title prerogative rests on democracy and individual choice autonomy. In another breath the outcome has apparently undermined democracy and an absurd made up descriptor for national principles is pulled out of your hat based on an amateurish ungrounded psychodiagnostic formulation that itself is driven by myopic cherry-picking. Further to that, you erroneously assume that, for the readership here, sentiments about one particular person having stunk up a town hall dictate alliance with the comparator you pejoratively refer to. This is beyond convoluted, talking points all over the map. FullSizeRender.MOV

Who are you talking about, then? For somebody so rigidly and fervently insistent on the correct title privilege nomenclature, your weak and digressive attempt at shade on the incumbent would accurately employ the term of address President Alzheimer. No less absurd. However, consistency lapses may connote neurocognitive impairment and a GPS tag for dithering wandering may be in order.

It would, but capitulation on the way there is not the call. Surrender is not an option on the way down. Do what you can and hope that collectively enough tide turns against him. I’m not saying that passive acquiescence overrides the futility of engagement. But countering information fallacy has its limits. Such challenges can only be directed to a real person. He won’t concede to any correction. A widespread lack of critical thinking and an abundance of Dunning-Kruger affliction among him and his base militates against significant headway achievable by steadfastly putting your shoulder to the stone. “Mr USA” is not a real person but unfortunately runs things; DJT is the epitome that Mary Pipher described (and portended) years ago. It is a manifestation of deep societal pathology. I suggest reading Pipher’s astute related essay in Writing for the World. The diagnosis doesn’t guarantee a rendering of clear strategy but it is imperative to understand the dynamics at multiple conceptual levels. She insightfully personifies and caricaturizes history, crafting it within the structure of clinician-client exchange. A Trump could only have emerged from the ashes of a well-intentioned but failed therapeutic plan within her analogy. Mr USA wouldn’t stay in the room or commit; the current manifestation was always inevitable. At this level, no surprise should be registered. He represents reality and its malaise.

You cannot run an intervention and appeal to reason with somebody that lacks both internal and external locus of self-regulatory control, that refuses to be in the room. They need to hit bottom and that inevitably includes collateral damage towards and at that bottom. He wears a rubber ball suit with deployable parachutes. Only the chips will fall.

Sad news. Sepsis. Any otherwise healthy gay male with sudden onset acute illness admitted to a Brazil hospital last August should have been properly assessed and given the antiviral Tecovirimat for the Orthopox infection widely circulating among thousands of urban MSM there at the time. Cue the hyperventilating with accusations of rumour-mongering and specious short-sighted diagnostic formulation from afar. Put a paper bag on it. All I’m saying is that it would be unfortunate if such treatment would have had its place, presumptively or categorically, but the opportunity possibly missed because the trend was new and standard management practice not yet gaining full traction, not to mention the impediment of denialism and the counterproductive babbling of misguided “activists” regarding stigmatization when the clinical community was already fully engaged and deployed along with hypervigilant sensitivity. It would have been a first line differential applied by my Infectious Diseases clinical colleagues up in my neck of the woods. Obviously we are getting the tip of the iceberg, less than the full story known or unknown, and privacy is an important consideration. The central theme is loss and what’s done is done.

Foundations are as solid as bricks and mortar. Hitler lost to Hindenburg in 1932 and within a year had usurped the presidency based on populism and growing popularity of NAZI ideology. Didn’t storm any capital but federal votes occurred in follow-up iteration. Hindenburg handed over leadership the same year. 🍎 🍏 It’s what the majority wanted and steered, superficially democratic. Sound familiar? Sure, all justifiable, right? No reason at all to pull out a history lesson and turn a seeing eye.

So help him, God. 🙏🏼

“When you put the whole picture together, recycling is the right thing to do.” FullSizeRender.MOV

Why not let the man himself clarify the distinction?: “If I were president …”; “If I’m president …” And worry more about what that possibility means than about the title itself in or out of office. It’s not Bridgerton. It’s not Marie Antoinette on PBS. Though he would deftly settle the conflict between the American colonies and England within a day. And his “whack job” pussy-grabbable mistresses are spontaneously randomly selected at the local market. Notice the only content that didn’t get laughs was devoid of misogyny and racism.

If you run into me from behind the crash will be softened by the pulp&paper industry. The airbag effect is permanently deployed. Huggies. I’m a step ahead on the airbag reference, so don’t even.

Some delusional people think a limp-wristed bitch slap landed as a true burn. 😉

You’re too transparent to be ambiguous, and can be seen right through. 😏

The most alarming phenomenon at this juncture is the female support base’s pandemic of Stockholm syndrome, as if there’s no possible crossable line.

The downvote (essentially a stand-in for thumbs down) is a comparatively ambiguous emoticon. Similarly ambiguous is being laughed at, versus laughing with, or props for humour. The downvote may benefit more from elaboration as it can be interpreted as flat out censorship when often the more appropriate or accurate response is disagreement as opposed to full discord. In civilized debate, there may be some degree of commonality of view albeit within polarization. Take student debate competitions for example. You wouldn’t see eye-rolling, nose-holding, or negative head-swivelling among the opponents. The position platform assignment is random. Agree to disagree yields no points. Even for ideologically based positions the written downvote signal comes across too much as a hostile level of antipathy. Its value is not commensurate with an upvote (ie, like); it’s more negative than a zero sum product. And its background is red, symbolically connoting inflamed bloodlust. That level of meta communication is too emphatic and, on its own, leaves the discussion hanging and the opponent (for lack of a better term) second-guessing. Pretty much a poorly designed piece of crap. Trolls characteristically and lazily ambush with downvotes. Why would you want to appropriate a symbol that may miscategorize you? Cue the downvote.

Nailed it, all over this land, oh.

I had travellers diarrhea like clockwork my first half dozen or so visits, in spite of Dukoral prophylaxis as prescribed at the get go. I did find Imodium could help, particularly if stranded without facilities, but at times I preferred to let all the matter pass through the GI system. Sometimes broad spectrum Cipro. Hydration+++ and pure psyllium husk from Gujarati, but you can buy psyllium in Brazil bulk bin stores. I don’t take Metamucil. Had to adapt to what can realistically transpire sexually at those times. Never really felt virally ill. At all times when douching, only purified water. Even then, boiled cooled and stored for use. A bit of salt for PH balance. Adult full brief diapers have occasionally saved my skin when without toilet access. In subsequent years I seem to be mostly spared the ‘revenge’ and my Depends panties make it back home with me. The connection between precaution and prevention may be specious but precaution is not that inconvenient or labour-intensive.

Au contraire, that’s about all you can do, and do. You seem to want to consistently influence it a particular way and revel in it to boot, as if your identity is predicated on being contrarian, collective anonymity a type of shield within grenade-lobbing commentary. As if you alone reached the epitome of integrity preservation in sex trade contexts and you wish to underscore that you have obtained the optimal standard, emphasizing doing what works for you a flimsy coating of what actually seems to come across as contemptuous. We might consider the prerogative of our unique style as magnanimous when referenced, to the extent it has worth as a general principle depending on the source encouraging it, but for the undercurrent of disdain, Greek chorus style. Perhaps you already possess insight about this and have lock-stepped into crossfire between commentary directed to you and what, granted, is not so illegitimately retaliatory on your part. But the seemingly irreversible circulatory lacks true yield. Maybe I’m preaching to a sacrificial lamb bot diverting trollistic energies.

Riiiiight. Politely and respectfully, not depersonalized, was definitely the impression you gave (see below). Say now, why is it again we need to read over and over again how you do you? Do you want us to tip our hat, reference you, whenever we describe our own, perhaps contrasting, experiences and approaches? Would you scale back incessantly describing the antithesis behind your own interaction? (Rhetorical) FullSizeRender.MOV