The COVID-19 plague makes one of the usual means of dating -- bar-hopping -- much more dangerous than it used to be. Bars are super-spreader locations, which explains why states that did close businesses closed those in the first paragraph and have been slow to re-open them.
The sex drive is real and basic, and little so stupefies people as does the sex drive. It is so basic that evolution has dictated that animals will risk their lives to procreate. I think of the frogs that give mating calls even if those mating calls have a high likelihood of attracting a predator upon frogs. OK, so we humans are smarter than frogs, but it is safe to say that any failure of the sex drive is likely to put an end to a chain of spreading whatever genes one has, irrespective of whether those genes are desirable or otherwise. People can be enticed to do some of the most unpleasant choices in life
Basically after some mind-numbing drills and a suppression of thought, the soldier in his flashy uniform will attract the girls. At one time a system such as the Second German Reich (the Hohenzollern dynasty of Kaisers Wilhelm I and Wilhelm II) needed plenty of cannon fodder to blackmail neighbors with the threat of war and plenty of cheap labor to supply the troops with weapons and food. The lyrics are mindless and superficial, so I will spare you those.
War was sexy until it got soldiers killed in large numbers and left multitudes of cripples, widows, and orphans behind. Oh, Hans was so handsome in his German uniform -- we had you and he went off to Ypres, where he died for Deutschland and Kaiser... says his widow to her daughter Liesl.
COVID-19 is a good parallel to AIDS for scaring people. The medical profession got very fussy very fast about used "sharps" once people got needle pricks and AIDS from tainted needles, about blood transfusions, and skin grafts. But do the crude calculus of the sex drive, and human instinct is much like that of frogs who call for mates even if a hungry bat can swoop down on an amorous frog calling for a mate. If it does not make the call, then it never gets the mate. Then as now, bars were 'meat markets' for dating with a nearly-sure chance of getting a one-night stand. Say what you want, but fornicating is one way to get COVID-19 unless the contact allows people to keep from getting their faces close to each other should one or the other be infected.
People may find other ways to date in the meantime or hold off until the menace of COVID-19 is no more. It will not disappear 'like magic' as the Great Fool in the White House told us. Not since polio will a vaccine be more welcome, and whatever team develops such a safe and effective vaccine will have Nobel prizes of medicine awaiting them. In the meantime, sex is a risky activity. It may not be coitus; it may be the kissing.
The sex drive is real and basic, and little so stupefies people as does the sex drive. It is so basic that evolution has dictated that animals will risk their lives to procreate. I think of the frogs that give mating calls even if those mating calls have a high likelihood of attracting a predator upon frogs. OK, so we humans are smarter than frogs, but it is safe to say that any failure of the sex drive is likely to put an end to a chain of spreading whatever genes one has, irrespective of whether those genes are desirable or otherwise. People can be enticed to do some of the most unpleasant choices in life
Basically after some mind-numbing drills and a suppression of thought, the soldier in his flashy uniform will attract the girls. At one time a system such as the Second German Reich (the Hohenzollern dynasty of Kaisers Wilhelm I and Wilhelm II) needed plenty of cannon fodder to blackmail neighbors with the threat of war and plenty of cheap labor to supply the troops with weapons and food. The lyrics are mindless and superficial, so I will spare you those.
War was sexy until it got soldiers killed in large numbers and left multitudes of cripples, widows, and orphans behind. Oh, Hans was so handsome in his German uniform -- we had you and he went off to Ypres, where he died for Deutschland and Kaiser... says his widow to her daughter Liesl.
COVID-19 is a good parallel to AIDS for scaring people. The medical profession got very fussy very fast about used "sharps" once people got needle pricks and AIDS from tainted needles, about blood transfusions, and skin grafts. But do the crude calculus of the sex drive, and human instinct is much like that of frogs who call for mates even if a hungry bat can swoop down on an amorous frog calling for a mate. If it does not make the call, then it never gets the mate. Then as now, bars were 'meat markets' for dating with a nearly-sure chance of getting a one-night stand. Say what you want, but fornicating is one way to get COVID-19 unless the contact allows people to keep from getting their faces close to each other should one or the other be infected.
People may find other ways to date in the meantime or hold off until the menace of COVID-19 is no more. It will not disappear 'like magic' as the Great Fool in the White House told us. Not since polio will a vaccine be more welcome, and whatever team develops such a safe and effective vaccine will have Nobel prizes of medicine awaiting them. In the meantime, sex is a risky activity. It may not be coitus; it may be the kissing.
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.