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Starting Monday, non-essential venues close at 20:00 on weekdays and do not operate on weekends. It’s basically a hybrid of the restriction levels, Phase Orange weekdays, Phase Red evenings and all weekend and holiday hours. I believe Lagoa qualifies as a restaurant.

I am a bit obsessed with a massage-with-benefits guy recently listed on Skokka in Goiânia, based on the ad and photos that smack of authenticity. I am not one to waste providers’ time if there is no prospect of imminent travel, in the same way that I do not hound Instagram models, but I would def reach out to this guy, if I were heading to São Paulo, for more data. I am usually as keen for an interior side-trip as travel to a shwhore location. I understand that Pirenópolis and Cidade de Goiás are two colonial/gold towns worth visiting. Goiânia does not even get a mention in DK Eyewitness Travel.

Actually, mass confusion ... the USA entry requirement does allow for a rapid antigen test, but good luck matching up the product used abroad with the ‘qualifying test’ criteria. There are already 69 antigen tests authorized. The US is also widely criticized by experts for allowing antigen test results, in general less sensitive compared to the NAAT category (nucleic acid amplification) that is delineated as one of the two options ... RT-PCR satisfies the NAAT option. Antigen tests at point of care are useful in congregate settings in order to quickly assess infection and recovery. Often a RT-PCR test is also used for confirmation, but results turnaround is longer. Apologies for earlier dismissing the rapid antigen category for USA specifically, but unless you are a master of test assays, the RT-PCR is the better choice, lest as well the CDC pulls the plug and disqualifies the (rapid) antigen option, in keeping with the global trend. Moreover, the CDC has removed the word ‘rapid’ from the antigen test taxonomy because some antigen tests may be done at point of care (ie, rapidly) and others are laboratory based with turnaround more consistent with RT-PCR. The CDC does not specify whether a point-of-care antigen test is inferior or disqualifiable relative to a lab-reviewed antigen test. Isn’t this fun?

12 weeks overhead for a week of practice. I would need muito cavity distraction to keep my mouth shut. Perhaps he could cover a locum here and there for Carioca dentists on vacation.

Too soon. It would mean he is hoarding preferentially, and there are 25 other states with ballot boxes. The fed courts may order equitable CoronaVac distribution. The public has thrown off most of its contrarian vaccine hesitancy. Funny what headlines of infected suffocating people drowning above the water table does. Whoever can facilitate a supply of desperately needed oxygen, for example in a state with ironically the highest atmospheric O2 globally, may see an upswing in popularity. If São Paulo structural pandemic mitigation is relaxed by two-thirds as folks get cocky, and with state border permeability, the net yield of a vaccine such as CoronaVac where the odds of infection relative to pre-vaxx baseline are reduced only to one-third, all in the context of escalating case reproduction numbers, might not be very pronounced. And the aggressive mutation strain that is evident in Amazonas, with a 1.6+ per/person reproduction ... 10-fold case numbers within 5 transmission cycles ... is bound to creep across all regions. Not a good time to be a politician there, let alone a brasileiro.

When searching for a test resource, make sure that you understand the distinction between a ‘rapid test’ and getting the format you require quickly/ “rapidly”/ conveniently. For example if the turnaround time for results is minutes (eg, rapid test) rather than hours or even days (eg, PCR) you likely have not met the testing format criteria for boarding back to USA. Anyhow, you will pay a fee. It is unlikely you would get what you need in a clinic for locals. You may need their public insurance plan or to have CoV symptoms. Following is a sample list of Rio labs and I also linked one of them here, the Sérgio Franco place. I think it just has the one location, in Leblon, but right at the Antero de Quental metro station. Oddly, Alta is at the same address. https://sergiofranco.com.br/testes-covid-19

If you do end up visiting LRD the country is offering free PCR tests to tourists that require them to return to their home nation. Hotels will coordinate the procedure. Up until about end of March for now. I imagine that if you are staying in a platform-based rental such as Airbnb you will have to use one of the local health units, but they are accommodating tourism testing needs. That said, the government is not ruling out an incoming travel ban if new case incidence continues to increase. These rumblings are suggestive of extension of the current curfew law as well. Vaccine purchase acquisition contracts portend a sufficient national supply but, as for all but innovative Israel trading prospective observational cohort efficacy data for Pfizer/BioNTech supply priority, the timing of dose administration suggests months out from now.

Today, Anvisa adjudicated the applications submitted for both the CoronaVac and Covishield vaccines, authorizing both products for emergency use. Regarding CoronaVac, studied there in a large scale research trial, there was a lot of political pressure to roll out something quickly as better than nothing ... it may offset 1 case of every 3 cases that would have otherwise occurred. Personally, I would favour AstraZeneca’s Covishield that will eventually transport in from Serum production facilities in India. I think that it will also be more likely to be diligently tweaked for efficacy wrt the growing array of coronavirus variants.

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There is some discussion occurring about adding more permissible afternoon hours on Saturdays along with imposing curfew earlier on Sunday morning. This would allow more of a window for stocking up of supplies for an extended Sunday stay-at-home order.

Golly gosh, that borders on mask-ochistic!

I, too, was going to suggest sponsoring the guy to Rio ... BUT you are then even more tied down if you don’t ‘click’. You would be probably in more of a host role. Given that element of concern already stated, your making a brief overnight visit early in the trip might lead to a spontaneous invitation for him to subsequently visit you, if he has the flex for leaving Goiânia on short notice. The slight possibility of getting rooked by him over his flight fare is also more likely averted. Though that is not the kind of risk that would trouble me. I realize from another thread that you are sauna-explorative. If he appeals to you and is both hot and brothel wingman-accredited, it could be worthwhile. Good luck. Also, bear in mind that missing out on São Paulo weeknights for Lagoa, etc might mean less lost opportunity, trading off Sampa time for Goian time, if a jaunt north is to occur during that visit portion.

You can get the Miss Vickie’s anywhere in Canada ... just about any flavour. Probably including hickory-smoked alfalfa brussels chanterelles pig’s feet. Retailers are just too dense to stock the regular reduced fat one. @RockHardNYC, you may need to squirrel away the new discovery in your jockstrap/thong/thing drawer.

It is hard to weigh in because the agenda distinction between regular hookups and sex trade is not clear. You may as well have asked: Hey fellow gay guys out there, should I bother to deviate from my plans to exclusively visit Montreal and Toronto during the CoV pandemic, as I met a hot guy online but he lives in Ottawa? The only possible answer: Follow your heart regarding goiânia to the ends of the earth; circle back to us about the guy’s 0-10 unicorn scale rating.

Canada’s basic equivalent, at least for the lipids content, is Miss Vickie’s Original Recipe ‘reduced fat’ (40% less). The improbability of finding it in most retail stores is more of a problem that not having updated its slightly misogynistic name. I buy as many bags as possible when I see them stocked, and then alert the supply manager. Hummus is my preferred dip for these chips. FullSizeRender.mov

Rio de Janeiro, the city with among the highest HIV rates in Latin America, has initiated teleconsultation procedures enabling online digital interactions that can yield delivery of up to a 4-month supply of PrEP (free obviously) and a few rapid-test home kits, all in one go. This may, indeed, have expanded to other areas; PrEP organizational systems tend to be nationally centralized there. If this program takes hold more permanently it may lead to more uptake for those with embarrassment-based hesitancy. (Just have to possibly explain to relatives at home what’s in the package ... a substantial portion of a year’s employment income worth of tablets) The idea of Montreal being this organized this quickly is laughable. “Sorry, we’re closed for PrEP services”, has been the position of community health centres. Otherwise, If you are fortunate, you may have found a primary care practitioner who is also willing to organize your regular lab work and PrEP prescriptions. Many gay men are on a wait list for a regular doctor. Sometimes, along with legalization of affordable trade, Brazil gets it right. [Correction: I think that Brazil rejected Gilead’s patent monopoly a few years ago, thus enabling generic versions. However, I do not know if Gilead’s Truvada is the only version utilized there. Since PrEP is free of charge, it is not very relevant at the consumer level. ]

IMO, the ‘ativo’ garotos de programa that identify as straight, even if they tolerate protected receptive anal, tend to be less informed about HIV pharmacological exposure prophylaxis and the risks of insertive anal without a condom. Moreover, unless things have changed since I last investigated, PrEP is issued to males without cost if they declare their risk-group status ... MSM, commercial sex work, etc. Some of the fellows would never suck up the sense of stigma regarding attendance at dispensing centres and the requirement of regular testing for HIV, kidney function, etc. Personally, I always assume that each of them has an STD that I don’t want transmitted. The more expensive Gilead’s Truvada is the sole product, generics not having yet made their way into Brazil uptake. It is estimated that about 30,000 of brasileiros consume it, slowly upticking to the goal of 50,000 by end of 2022 that was set end of 2017 when 5,000 was the target. Assuming, say, 5% of the adult male population age 16-65 have sex with males, only about one in 100 are likely taking PrEP. Even if those demographics are inaccurate by a considerable margin, the story is fairly clear.

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My experience of this particular replica’s original down my throat dates back to Rio, November 2016. Built, buff, seemingly on the branco side. Ironically, going for about 150 reais. Does this transitional object evoke memories of the actual for others? Perhaps draw on pharyngeal muscle memory.

As Anvisa meets this weekend to begin to decide the near-term fate of the vaccines CoronaVac and Covishield, the state of Amazonas is in crisis with an apparent very worrisome coronavirus variant that may be more infectious and may have mutations that ‘escape’ previous natural immunity as well as current vaccine candidates. As patients from Manaus are desperately transferred to other regions due to lack of ICU & oxygen capacity, with gravediggers on alert for an upswing of tasking, the new variant might be expected to spread nationally. I don’t know how up to speed the genetic sequencing is. Britain has shut down travel from South America, including Brazilian transit through Portugal. There seem to be actually two variants of concern out of Brazil. One might expect travellers/visitors that are In Brazil, or their flights, to be restricted from returning to their countries of origin in spite of negative PCR tests. If a variant in Brazil is truly a superbug, the rest of the world will want to fortify boundaries.

The CoV new case incidence for LRD has increased by about 50% over the second week of the revised curfew. As this trend will likely be interpreted as an indicator of alarming rates that would have otherwise occurred, I would not expect a relaxation of measures for some time to come.

Use the search function here and enter Bangu, or Boate Casa Grande, to find posts on it, assuming is the same venue.

I want to try to be fair and unbiased in my critique. As an afterthought, it may be that the infection rates among all study participants exceeded national general population background figures because the study cohort would have been followed systematically ... less missed diagnoses. The trial results generally suggest that individuals vaccinated with CoronaVac have reduced infection probability to about one-third relative to the case incidence norm. In contrast, Pfizer and Moderna reduce probability to between one-tenth and one-twentieth of non-vaccination. The 95% probability of CoronaVac efficacy (confidence interval bounds) is about 35% to 62%. The lower interval bounds of other approved vaccines is much higher than the upper bound for CoronaVac. The Butantan presenter indicated a theoretical projection, based on an ascertainment correction for the typical rate of undetected cases, that about 12% people of those vaccinated with CoronaVac would be expected in absolute terms to nevertheless acquire SARS-CoV-2. ——- And now I am off in the cold for a blood draw three days following my first dose of experimental vaccine (or placebo).

I forgot to also mention that the CoronaVac researchers removed 26% of the overall study sample to report the comprehensive analysis of 50% efficacy that they think Anvisa would be foolish to reject. Quelle horseshit. Why would they think nobody would notice. It is easy to track these inconsistencies as media releases roll out. Red flags all round.