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by John Coulthart at { feuilleton } blog

I see your thought process, but the answer, unfortunately, is no, not really. If a platform gets associated with sex work, even if it's only a fraction of the content, it gets targeted, and the sex workers get run off. There were actually quite a lot of sex workers on Patreon back in the day (I was friends with several), and then they got run out of the platform entirely as Patreon rebranded as the mainstream content creator website.

The more non-SWers that flood into OnlyFans, the quicker OnlyFans decides to boot all the SWers off and cater only to the SFW userbase. Because if they get rid of the SWers, they won't get targeted by anti-SWer legislation, but they'll still make their money.

If that makes sense?

Basically, content hosting companies really only give a shit as long as they keep making money, and if non-SW content is gonna make them more money and keep them from having to deal with legal issues around SW, they'll ditch SWers in a heartbeat.

When the vaccines were first approved, we did not know if the vaccines stopped transmission, so we were told to act as though they did not stop transmission for safety reasons. They didn’t test for it in the emergency phased trials. It was speculated the entire time that the vaccines likely reduced transmission... because that’s how vaccines work.

Now we have evidence that the mRNA vaccines, Pfizer and Moderna, do actually prevent transmission. Animal studies have shown decreases in transmission. In Israel, where a majority of the adult population is vaccinated (with Pfizer), they have seen a 75-89% reduction in asymptomatic infections, meaning that getting the vaccine significantly reduces your changes of being an asymptomatic spreader. Oxford also has evidence that their AstraZenica vaccine also reduces transmission. It may not be peer reviewed and replicated research, but for all intents and purposes, as of me writing this on March 31, 2021, we can confidently say that the vaccines do prevent some level of transmission.

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