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The Face Mask Folly in Retrospect

It has been known for decades that face masks don’t work against respiratory virus epidemics. Why has much of the world nonetheless fallen for the face mask folly? Ten reasons.

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Viral Blip

Today I found out that I was a hair over undetectable. My viral load is 46 right now. Four weeks ago my viral load was 25 and prior to that my viral load was <20 copies. I have read that blips are not uncommon and that they usually occur when a person has been sick with another form of illness. That being said I haven’t been sick and I had a screening for all STD’s at the same time. I’m a little worried that my medication might not be working. I don’t really have a lot of base knowledge in this particular scenario. I have the habit of over-thinking something and I hope that I’m just making myself paranoid. How normal are blips?

That being said I am also a little worried because I don’t know how much of a risk I am to somebody as a bottom. Technically the Swiss study says that undetectable for the sake of being “non-infectious” is <40. I’m not sure six virons will really make too much of a difference, but I don’t know, can I make that assumption? I mean if my viral load is going up approximately 5 virons a week it’s eventually going to start increasing exponentially if unchecked right? How infectious is this going to make me? Ooops, here I go, over-thinking. 

I feel like my security blanket has been taken away from me, or at least it threatens to be. I’m frustrated and a little bit nervous. 

In other news the hot nurse that drew blood from me last Friday butchered my arm. Oh my goddess! Let me disclose that what happened was completely consensual and of no real fault to him for drawing my blood. 

I always get my blood drawn from my right arm because my right arm has the best veins and the experience is relatively painless and routine. This time, however, for whatever reason my veins on my right arm wouldn’t cooperate. I got stuck twice– once with a butterfly and once with a needle– and I just wouldn’t bleed. I suggested the left arm and it wasn’t much better. He said that this would probably hurt and I gave him the head nod to just get it done. So he had no mercy and to his credit he was eventually and painfully able to draw my blood. The lovely nurse who was witnessing had to leave the room because she almost fainted. 

My arm hurt like a mother fucker all day, almost to the point where I considered an arm sling to limit my movement. Then, oddly, for the next two days my arm was in great shape (except for the nasty ugly bruise that covered my arm two my elbow). Then on Sunday I started getting this sharp painful stabbing pains shoot from the ball of my shoulder all the way down the front of my arm into my wrist. It’s not a consistent pain, but certain movements and amounts of pressure will send out jets of flames. My new nurse (different from Hot Nurse and Sick Nurse) told me over the phone to apply heat and take pain relievers to help and if it wasn’t better in a week to get it checked out. A week! Are you kidding me? I hope this shit doesn’t go on for a week. It’s a good thing it’s my left arm, so I can still masturbate…

I don’t know. I’m in pain and I’m worried about my blip. Any advice? Also I’m looking for a link to the H052 Study as I think it’s called– the actual study from the Swiss that discloses their findings with undetectable viral load. 

Best,

Stopher