Well, unless you're gay and spreading AIDS...
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I'm bisexual. Unprotected homosexual activity (including blowjobs) is very high risk for various viruses and bacteria. And I feel that the LGBT is way too cavalier these days about STIs. But it is a personal decision between you and your sexual partners.
With the coronavirus, you can be exposed just by going outside or people in your household going outside. Especially multi-generational households where young healthy people can infect the elderly and sick. This is a very different situation.
The challenge lies in society deciding how much risk we are willing to tolerate between now and a viable vaccine. Whenever that will be. There are a lot of people online who won't be happy with anything less than 0 cases and that is pretty crazy. Remember when it used to be "flatten the curve" so as to not overwhelm the hospital capacity? And now the 7-day rolling average of cases is down 81% in Ontario from April 18-24 and the 7-day rolling average of positivity rate is down 97% from April 5-11, deaths are down 97% from April 30-May 6 and people are still screaming that this isn't good enough, shut it down.
Society is expecting the young and healthy to sacrifice months, maybe years of the prime of their lives for the old and sick. This is sick. I'm being shamed by my own siblings for wanting to see my girlfriend (who doesn't live with me) who doesn't have symptoms because I might catch the virus asymptomatically and kill my dad with cancer. The amount of shame pushed onto our young people is unreal.
Doug Ford here in Ontario has been very cautious with re-opening and it's never good enough for a lot of people on the left. But gathering in large crowd for a black cocks matter protest is fine. The only thing I can fault Doug Ford on is that he failed to protect the residents in the nursing homes, a very vulnerable population. And this is a failing that we have seen in much of the world unfortunately.
Funny, but if you are exposed to Wuhan Flu or get a confirmed diagnosis you are quarantined. With HIV you aren't and people never were. Today laws requiring infected people to tell partners so that they can make informed decisions are being struck down. Some "personal decisions" matter more, right?
As for the vaccine we're all waiting on for Wuflu, how long have we been waiting for that HIV vaccine? 30 years or so? There has never been a successful vaccine against any corona virus and yet here we are seriously talking about tanking the economy, children's education, social lives, and more for years just in the hope that a vaccine will save us.
HIV is not a respiratory virus, it is a blood-borne virus, so it doesn't require quarantine. If HIV were airborne or respiratory-based, it would have been the worst pandemic of all-time in the 80s because it was way more deadly than the coronavirus. However HIV+ people in Canada are legally required to disclose their HIV+ status if they know they have it if they have penetrative sex without a condom.
Where is this happening? Because that is fucked up.
This is all a big question mark. We've never created a reliable safe vaccine for any coronavirus. So it is uncharted waters for humanity. And it is crazy that there are lots of people that want cases to go to 0 or wait for this vaccine before we open things up. And yes we haven't created a reliable safe vaccine for HIV though. However we have very effective treatments for HIV. Which is part of the reason why a lot of people in the LGBT community are lowering their guard and being reckless with their behaviour. In the gay community it's bareback this bareback that now.