Dating pool just got samller

Anyone working in healthcare or childcare/education is a big nope now to me due to common sense and self-preservation.

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Anonymous

Aug 30, 2020 at 2:59pm

Healthcare workers always have a huge pool of potential suitors to choose from, even if they are unattractive and/or have a shitty personality. It's a benefit of working in an essential field and earning a decent wage with benefits.
Maybe you should stick to dating your fellow fast-food workers?

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Dum Dum

Aug 30, 2020 at 4:54pm

This pandemic isn’t going to last forever. Try having some compassion. I worked with kids for over a decade and barely ever got sick. Clean up your diet, get exercise and keep a positive attitude and you’ll be fine.

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Thanks!

Aug 30, 2020 at 5:23pm

Glad you removed yourself. You sound a little uptight. I’ll pass.

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Lucky you to have waters to swim in

Aug 30, 2020 at 5:31pm

My "dating pool" is a mirage in a desert.

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You're not wrong

Aug 31, 2020 at 3:40am

The first case of reinfection with severe symptoms was just confirmed in North America. Different strain, same virus.
My partner is in emergency services. Many co-workers are burned out and high-risk. Same will go for other health professionals soon enough. And children are highly effective, mostly asymptomatic carriers.
Yours is a sound decision, statistically. Not very human, but quite practical.
That being said...
If you're there for someone when they're neck-deep in sh*t, it may be the best decision you'll ever make. Assuming you pick the right partner or friend. Certainly worked out for me so far.
On the other hand, a number of people took a pass when I was in a bad way.
Some of them were "friends" (and those are air-quotes). Others are blood family. They all ceased to exist in my universe. They could catch fire and I wouldn't even turn to look.
None of them know this yet. I'll save the revelation for when it will be most impactful. Seems more fitting.
If a relationship is going to be just business, nothing personal, I can roll that way, too.

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I can do worse

Aug 31, 2020 at 8:17pm

How about mid 40s, never had a girlfriend and would still be a virgin if not for one awful encounter more than 20 years ago??? Ding! Ding! I have beaten your health care or education worker hands down...not even close!!
Better yet I don't give the virus a second thought and have had a deathwish kind of thing going for many years.
Will you marry me?

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OP

Sep 10, 2020 at 3:38am

After being celibate for 6 months I just want someone to snuggle with over the winter that isn't going to make me worry about getting infected every time I see them.
Sheesh, people -
Is that so hard to understand?

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