COVInsanity: King County Public Health advocates use of shower curtain ‘glory holes’ for safer sex

Authoritarian government officials have used the COVID-19 pandemic as a way to increase their control over the populace. Part of that includes removing as much personal engagement as possible. Simple gestures like handshakes are anathema in most of America now, and hugging is out of the question. But the most personal physical experience we can have with another person—sex—has been largely danced around until recently.

Leave it to Seattle-based King County Public Health Department to “go there.” On their Instagram page, a recently resurfaced post recommended the use of “glory holes” for sex. They even encouraged a “proper” method of doing it by cutting a hole in a shower curtain.

As Seattle journalist Brandi Kruse noted on Twitter, they even mentioned Lowe’s Home Improvement as a good place to buy the improvised sexual safety device.

?Just heard @dorimonson talk about this. Back in October @KCPubHealth posted a video on its official Insta advocating for people to try “glory holes” as a safer way to have sex during #COVID-19, suggesting a shower curtain from @Lowe’s would do the trick: https://t.co/38ZyT2ckAU pic.twitter.com/6waWRVBszH

— Brandi Kruse (@BrandiKruse) December 7, 2020

Despite a flood of information and studies demonstrating both the amplified effects of COVID-19 (where’s the flu?) as well as the inefficacy of coronavirus safety measures (see the Danish study), many lawmakers are pushing more draconian measures to prolong lockdowns and accentuate coronavirus terror. In California, Governor Gavin Newsom has gone so far as to set a lockdown threshold that was impossible to avoid.

As society becomes more polarized and paralyzed by multiple major events happening at once, we need personal connections to help us cope. But in Seattle, their solution is a trip to Lowe’s for sexual assistance.