theDirkDiggler

Some butter on that face. Actually reminds me of the middle Hanson kid back in the 90s...

There are isolated reports in the US of people getting reinfected. Not the long tail cases where someone just deals with the disease for weeks and months before apparently recovering and then getting sick again and still dealing with it. No, i mean positive test, recovery, negative test, sometimes even donating plasma afterwards, seemingly recovered for months and then boom reinfected recently. Again, isolated reports and i have no idea exactly how common it is, but if it does become a thing (also Spain conducted a very large antibody survey recently and discovered only around 5% nationwide currently had detectable antibodies compared to the 60%+ needed for herd immunity), you can kiss the idea of natural herd immunity good bye...

Never been in a raid when it happened and only once have been to a club that was raided to my knowledge. It was near Bloomington, IL, a medium sized club called Kappa Kabanna that occasionally had some wild stage shows (lesbian, food, syrup, lollipop insertion and sell the lollipop to PLs, borderline sex shows). Female customers were brought on stage and stripped of at least their tops. They even had a locked champagne room in addition to their regular VIP room. This was a few years before the recession. Anyway, i heard that one of the dancers had propositioned an undercover officer or something. Long story short, about a dozen girls were arrested and/or fired. The club was never the same again. No more wild stage shows, the selection of girls were smaller and not as good. Strange, a couple of the "dirty" girls were still there. After the recession, the club went even more downhill and i basically haven't been back. Oh, there was also Arnie's in Harvey, IL a few years ago, but i don't count that one because everyone knew that place was going to get raided eventually, and i wasn't there when it happened either. Then there are the two lingerie "modeling" shops in Rockford, that were basically brothels, that finally got shut down. I don't think it was a raid, but some law change or something and both were shut down at the same time; this was sometime in the last year. Never did go to either of them, but just throwing those two out there. I guess the closest thing to a raid right now is the police or some power that be shutting down almost all the Chicago are clubs for not social distancing or something. Again, strange how the two "dirtier" clubs are still open. I remember one of the bouncers at Club 390 in Chicago Heights, barking at a group of some PLs for sitting too closely, ignoring the do not sit signs on the alternating benches, saying that a different club had just been shut down at that moment, so they really needed to stay apart. I wonder which one it was...

Target, Walmart, if they can get into Costco or Amazon. All start around $15 an hour, not including hazard pay increases, with better benefits for Costco and Amazon. $15 an hour is a lot less than $50 an hour, but it's regular work and more dependable in these times...

@BabyDoc The last point of the virus mutating into a more contagious or infectious disease is largely from studies of the D614G genome mutation of the virus that is also more infective in attaching to and affecting more parts of the body via ACE2 receptors. This would actually make the virus more deadly or at least harmful in short and long term health effects on an individual level. The only reason the mutation appears less deadly or not more deadly is because more positive results are showing up (symptomatic infections) diluting the death rate. This would also make it appear more contagious, although the more people that get infected, the more likely the disease spreads (often silently) which doesn't necessarily mean more contagious. Also as more people die out, the more virulent genomes or variants of the virus also dissipate since the virus can only reproduce in people, while the less virulent genomes (causing less and milder symptoms or often no symptoms at all) move on in greater numbers, but more deadly variants will always be out there until the virus is eradicated...