Who's Next to Cough?

[wilberfan]

From a story in the L.A. Times, "Coronavirus Stories, Part 4":

My partner has been social distancing with his family in his home country, and being apart from him is making me realize how many things annoy me. I have finally been able to clear my thoughts because I don’t have to prepare myself for acting interested when he talks about film podcasts and the dumb conversations they have.

(This has to be one of us, right?)

I’ve been ordering more than my fair share of sex toys. I’m the Goldilocks of dildos. This one’s too big. Those are too small. And I still haven’t found one that’s just right.

Whatever it takes.  No judgement.

[wilberfan]

Former GOP presidential hopeful Herman Cain dies of COVID-19

Cain had been ill with the virus for several weeks. It’s not clear when or where he was infected, but he was hospitalized less than two weeks after attending Trump’s campaign rally in Tulsa, Oklahoma, on June 20. Cain had been co-chair of Black Voices for Trump.

A photo taken at the rally showed Cain, without a mask, sitting closely to other people who also were not wearing any face coverings. A statement on his Twitter account said he tested positive for COVID on June 29 and was hospitalized July 1 because his symptoms were serious.

Rep. Louie Gohmert, GOP mask skeptic who tested positive for virus, says he’ll take hydroxychloroquine

On Wednesday, Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-Tex.), a vocal critic of masks as a way to prevent the spread of the novel coronavirus, tested positive for the virus.

Hours later, he told Fox News host Sean Hannity he and his doctor already had agreed on a treatment: hydroxychloroquine, the antimalarial drug pushed by President Trump and his allies despite warnings from the Food and Drug Administration and medical experts that it isn’t effective as a coronavirus treatment and could carry significant health risks.

“My doctor and I are all in,” Gohmert said on Fox News on Wednesday evening, adding he would start taking the drug “in the next day or two.”