I'd rather make out with a COVID patient than sit on a toilet after someone with AIDS or a STD or herpes. So why can't we require proof of clearance for people who have had one of the above, before they enter a public place or use mass transit? Especially seeing as how some of those diseases ravage the LGBTQ community. Or we could just have the carriers wear some sort of prominent identification that lets everyone else safely socially distance from them.

We should so the same for people with allergies, so the normal people can live their lives as they wish and go back to randomly flinging peanut butter at strangers, without having to worry about triggering anaphylactic shock.

But seriously, I had a MRI on Tuesday, and then I went to my orthopedist to discuss the results. The radiologist apparently uploaded the results to some system and then my doctor accessed it, and it was on the computer monitor in the exam room when I went it. But then it timed out before the doctor got in to see me and he had to call in the person who knew computers to get it back. He explained that the timing out was because of HIPA, and mandated by the government, and when he contacted the agency in charge of that, was told that even in secured exam rooms (like, because of COVID bullshit, you are not allowed in the OFFICES. You call when you get to the building and then they take your temperature in the lobby and tell you to go up and go directly to a particular exam room. So there's no unsecured patients or visitors wandering around to see other people's MRI results), the computer has to time out, because drones could get the info. When the doctor pointed out that the exam rooms all have blinds and some don't even have windows, he was told the drones have devices powerful enough to scan through walls to read information off of computers, so the precautions are justified.

Because of utterly INSANE possibilities like this, there is a mandatory time limit on doctor's access to necessary diagnostic information. But we are expected to give random, untrained strangers our medical information to access public venues. We are supposed to let some bimbo with a PE associate's degree take out temperatures before using the gym, or present documentation about our medical treatment to security guards and ticket takers to get into stadiums or on planes. And it's COVID. If you're scared of COVID, you had better have a life threatening medical condition, or I have nothing but contempt for you. And honestly, it's getting to the point where I'm all "fuck your underlying potential comorbidity, I didn't give it to you, so YOU park YOUR ass in a bunker and let the rest of us live our lives."