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Wear a mask while having sex, Canada's top doctor suggests

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Hi all, first post, just for laughs.

Or is it?

Wear a mask while having sex, Canada’s top doctor suggests

OTTAWA (Reuters) - Skip kissing and consider wearing a mask when having sex to protect yourself from catching the coronavirus, Canada’s chief medical officer said on Wednesday, adding that going solo remains the lowest risk sexual option in a pandemic.

Dr Theresa Tam said in a statement there is little chance of catching COVID-19 from semen or vaginal fluid, but sexual activity with new partners does increase the risk of contracting the virus, particularly if there is close contact like kissing.

“Like other activities during COVID-19 that involve physical closeness, there are some things you can do to minimize the risk of getting infected and spreading the virus,” she said.

Skip kissing, avoid face-to-face closeness, wear a mask that covers your mouth and nose, and monitor yourself and your partner for symptoms ahead of any sexual activity, Tam said.

“The lowest risk sexual activity during COVID-19 involves yourself alone,” she added.

Sexual health is an important part of overall health, Tam said, and by taking precautions, “Canadians can find ways to enjoy physical intimacy while safeguarding the progress we have all made containing COVID-19.”

Canada has reported 129,425 cases of COVID-19 and 9,132 deaths, as of Sept 1. New daily cases are far below peak volumes, but there has been a recent uptick, driven by more infections in certain western Canadian provinces.

Reporting by Julie Gordon in Ottawa; Editing by Steve Orlofsky

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Hi @spike!

Welcome to 5-filters. It’s good to have you here

PS nice avatar

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Hi @spike!

Wow - that’s a fine first post :slight_smile:. Very impactful!

The world has gone very strange when I seriously can’t tell the difference between Reuters and The Onion!

Pretty hilarious in a twisted way, though, and this advice:

Feels like generally useful life advice :wink:

Cheers
PP

#4

Or use “glory holes” :flushed:

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#5

Hahaha! Who could have guessed that a side-effect of covid was to make Canadians slightly kinkier?

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#6

Great start Spike! perhaps this is fitting, for those opting for the “safest option”, non-participatory or device-sex:
https://www.leunig.com.au/works/recent-cartoons/734-man-and-phone
This could explain something that’s been bothering me in Aldi’s for while, sitting alone in a cabinet. It’s a phone sanitiser.

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Douglas Adams right again: Lack of phone sanitizers will doom planet | Collateral Damage

As you doubtlessly remember, somewhere in the Hitchhiker’s Guide series Mr. Adams told the story of the The Golgafrinchans, a race of people who sent their Telephone Sanitizer population away. The Sanitizers were sent along with another third of the planet’s population who were also deemed useless to form a colony on a remote planet (Earth as it happens). Of course, the remaining Golgafrinchan population was then wiped out by a virulent disease contracted via unsanitary telephones.

Researchers have now confirmed Mr. A’s prophecy, finding that the phone is indeed a key spreader of germs. According to Charles Gerba, a microbiologist and clean water expert at the University of Arizona, it’s telephones and computer keyboards that are among the most germ laden spots in any home, not the usual suspects.

“Doorknobs are usually on the low side,” said Gerba, who has conducted dozens of surveys of bacteria and viruses in workplaces and homes. “I guess they are not moist. Never fear a doorknob.”

Words to live by: Never fear a doorknob.

[…]

Sadly, no security measures whatsoever are in place. We’re all gonna die.

Almost prophetic, except that they were so wrong to neglect the terrifying danger of doorknobs (at least when Russians are about).

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:joy:

The man was a genius! And yes, you’re absolutely right to highlight the incredibly deadly doorknob. Or “the assassin’s friend” as they say in Russia (probably)

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#9

Thanks for bringing up Douglas Adams.

Whenever I go on any form of social media i’m reminded of this quote -

’ Meanwhile, the poor Babel fish, by effectively removing all barriers to communication between different races and cultures, has caused more and bloodier wars than anything else in the history of creation’

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