"If both of you are healthy and feeling well, are practicing social distancing and have had no known exposure to anyone with COVID-19, touching, hugging, kissing, and sex are more likely to be safe." https://www.health.harvard.edu/blog/intimacy-sex-and-covid-19-2020041519550

The two key phrases here are "no known exposure" and "are more likely".

You can be exposed and not know it. And "are more likely" to be safe is means exactly that: "more likely". There are no guarantees.

So much of COVID-19 reminds me of living through the early days of HIV/AIDS in the U.S.

During the early months of a pandemic, there's just so much that we don't know. At the same time, history teaches us *some* lessens.

With the 1918 flu, people broke quarantine because they grew tired of staying home. Of course, some of those people died.

With the 1918 pandemic, people protested wearing masks. (Someone did a great thread about all the historical stuff they learned from while researching the no mask movement.)

Yes!! "Anti-mask league". That's the group I was thinking of.
https://amp.theguardian.com/world/2020/apr/29/coronavirus-pandemic-1918-protests-california?__twitter_impression=true

From the article: "Seemingly clear of danger, the city reopened, and a populace weary ... jumped back into the conviviality of life. Predictably, this led to a second wave of illness and death ... "
https://amp.theguardian.com/world/2020/apr/29/coronavirus-pandemic-1918-protests-california?__twitter_impression=true