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DarcyLady

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Re: Coronavirus affecting bookings
« Reply #60 on: 07 March 2020, 05:05:14 pm »
I did actually turn down a client yesterday because he'd flown in from Asia. I was a bit worried, and decided against it. Can't decide if i was being stupid and overly-cautious or not... :FF

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« Reply #61 on: 08 March 2020, 09:27:15 am »
I know a lot of businesses are issuing staff with thermometers and told they must take their temperature before coming into work, if its raised to stay at home.  Is this something anyone would consider doing to a client on arrival?

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« Reply #62 on: 08 March 2020, 12:28:15 pm »
I know a lot of businesses are issuing staff with thermometers and told they must take their temperature before coming into work, if its raised to stay at home.  Is this something anyone would consider doing to a client on arrival?

People are contagious while being asymptomatic, so measuring temperature will only catch people at the later stage when they start to show symptoms.

I am thinking about how I can protect myself while escorting? Are any others taking precautions?

I stopped working mid-February. The way I assessed the risk was:

a) Keep on working and make some money.
If you get infected, you possibly will pass the virus to the people you live with and meet.
It can have an effect on your health such as: not being able to work for a month, having lung problems for the rest of your life, not finding a hospital bed when you develop pneumonia, or dead.
We don't know enough about the virus to be able to fully assess the health risk.
The money will be gone anyway and possibly your health and those you live with.

b) Stop working, prepare for the financial ruin but keep your health and a functioning pair of lungs.
I don't think that utility providers will hound people for unpaid bills during the outbreak.
My bet is that the peak of this wave here will be April-May-June and hopefully a bit more stable situation from July.
But I don't see anything coming back to normal until there is a vaccine, so probably summer next year.
I don't think I'll work as a sex worker this year, personally.
Most of the people will struggle during the economic depression but my bet is that you have a better chance of surviving with a functioning pair of lungs.

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« Reply #63 on: 08 March 2020, 12:37:35 pm »
5 out of 6 clients in the last week have not washed their hands before leaving my place after very intimate contact with me. I can only conclude there is little evidence of a panic going on in my little town.  ::)


Same, upon entering my flat I had to remind some of my clients to wash their hands. I’m in London and after a few conversations with some of them, most don’t seem too worried about it at the moment, but know it’ll get worse...

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« Reply #64 on: 08 March 2020, 01:59:49 pm »
I stopped working mid-February. The way I assessed the risk was:

I wish I could afford that, unfortunately financial ruin is not an option for me. ???

I live and work in central London and to be honest I fear more being run over by a double decker than death by corvid. I believe extreme capitalism creates mass hysteria as a need to feed its (monster) self and we all just buy into it. Capitalism continuously creates excuses for people run to the stores to buy stuff, and now we're running out of toilet paper and dried food in tesco. When the SEARS virus broke years ago the hysteria wasn;t half as bad, and that's because we didn't had social media.

Seriously people... there's been 2 deaths of corona virus so far in the uk, 2 DEATHS! and they were folks in their mid 80's. Can we stop the apocalyptic thinking for now?
« Last Edit: 08 March 2020, 03:20:16 pm by Ana30 »
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« Reply #65 on: 08 March 2020, 04:03:03 pm »
It’s all well and good saying oh it’s the media making it look worse etc, it’s just the same as the flu blah blah, how does anyone really know this? There’s a really good article that I found comparing the two, don’t know if we can posts links to articles? I’ll post it below and if it’s not allowed please remove. It’s spreading rapidly and for older people it’s very worrying, the majority of people that have died have been over 60. My partner is older and I just can’t be risking it as of now. I would never forgive myself.
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« Reply #66 on: 08 March 2020, 04:12:59 pm »
I thought I’d give some information on masks because people are so misinformed about them. I brought mine a week ago, I’ll start wearing them out and about once there are any confirmed cases in my area.

I did loads of research on all the types of masks. The masks you see surgeons wear on the have next to no protection for airborne virus. They are for splattered blood etc. The mask you need for airborne virus is the N95 Mask with minimum protection FF2 and FF3 is the most protective. There are registered companies on eBay etc still selling them, but they are going fast and I’d advice people to get their masks now so they aren’t in a panic if/when it’s all over their town.

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« Reply #67 on: 08 March 2020, 04:56:51 pm »
People are contagious while being asymptomatic, so measuring temperature will only catch people at the later stage when they start to show symptoms.

I stopped working mid-February. The way I assessed the risk was:

a) Keep on working and make some money.
If you get infected, you possibly will pass the virus to the people you live with and meet.
It can have an effect on your health such as: not being able to work for a month, having lung problems for the rest of your life, not finding a hospital bed when you develop pneumonia, or dead.
We don't know enough about the virus to be able to fully assess the health risk.
The money will be gone anyway and possibly your health and those you live with.

b) Stop working, prepare for the financial ruin but keep your health and a functioning pair of lungs.
I don't think that utility providers will hound people for unpaid bills during the outbreak.
My bet is that the peak of this wave here will be April-May-June and hopefully a bit more stable situation from July.
But I don't see anything coming back to normal until there is a vaccine, so probably summer next year.
I don't think I'll work as a sex worker this year, personally.
Most of the people will struggle during the economic depression but my bet is that you have a better chance of surviving with a functioning pair of lungs.

Hate to tell you but energy providers WILL hound you for unpaid bills, same as council tax. I am having issues now with SSE. Its business as usual for them.

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« Reply #68 on: 09 March 2020, 03:44:51 pm »
5 out of 6 clients in the last week have not washed their hands before leaving my place after very intimate contact with me. I can only conclude there is little evidence of a panic going on in my little town.  ::)

I dont understand how they can be so vile but have had them try & do this with me.

What I now do is to insist they wash their hands at the end of the session & if they protest, I just get my sanitiser out & spritz them. I have a large spray bottle, that should last a couple of months.  I also make them use it at the start of the booking.

I'm now considering refusing RO & OWO because one guy last week admitted to having a dry cough a couple of weeks ago. Then after he climaxed he coughed all over the bed  :FF He also said he was booked to go to Italy next week & was hesitant to cancel his holiday  ::) He's now in my high risk avoid group folder in my phone.

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« Reply #69 on: 09 March 2020, 04:52:58 pm »
Honestly, it's all scaremongering in the press!

We should all be washing our hands properly and regularly anyway regardless!

The markets will righten themselves in time, when they plummet they always rise again, often higher,  this summer will be an excellent time to invest, there  will be loads of cheap funds about.

There are no more cases of coronavirus about than any other flu bug that goes around and those with low or suppressed immunity are most at risk, but mostly also know how to keep themselves safe.

Apply the same good hygiene standards you should always be doing and chances are you will be fine!
This will go away in the same way bird flu, SARs and so on will and in the meantime, the government will be burying bad news in it!

I haven't been any quieter than usual, though I am pretty low volume these days - I sometimes think the dips and falls in business have no rhyme or reason anyway!


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« Reply #70 on: 09 March 2020, 07:05:10 pm »
Honestly, it's all scaremongering in the press!

We should all be washing our hands properly and regularly anyway regardless!

The markets will righten themselves in time, when they plummet they always rise again, often higher,  this summer will be an excellent time to invest, there  will be loads of cheap funds about.

There are no more cases of coronavirus about than any other flu bug that goes around and those with low or suppressed immunity are most at risk, but mostly also know how to keep themselves safe.

Apply the same good hygiene standards you should always be doing and chances are you will be fine!
This will go away in the same way bird flu, SARs and so on will and in the meantime, the government will be burying bad news in it!

I haven't been any quieter than usual, though I am pretty low volume these days - I sometimes think the dips and falls in business have no rhyme or reason anyway!
Please read my post above. This is simply not true and becoming very annoying that people are just passing it off as scaremongering  ::)

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Re: Coronavirus affecting bookings
« Reply #71 on: 09 March 2020, 07:19:11 pm »
Please read my post above. This is simply not true and becoming very annoying that people are just passing it off as scaremongering  ::)

With the best will in the world MU, you are an anonymous internet poster on a sex work forum and your post carries no more or less weight than anybody else's. It is however completely off topic and belongs on a general discussion forum, and as I've said already more than once, this thread is going to stay on topic.

I do agree that WB's post is flippant if nothing else, though - it's easy and entirely appropriate to dismiss the hysterical shite in the gutter press as the dross that it is, but to suggest that no sex workers are going to experience problems in the event that people's movements (and therefore the movement of goods and services) are restricted is not helpful at all. We've had a few borderline smug posts recently from people who can't get their heads around the idea that not everybody is fortunate enough to have a rainy day fund to fall back on if they're not earning for whatever reason.

As a fit, healthy, solvent adult without dependents in any vulnerable groups I'm not personally concerned about either picking up a bug nor having a few quiet weeks, but plenty of people are not in the same position and depend on their bookings to feed themselves and their families - they need money coming in regularly. If schools are closed (for example) many won't be able to work at all, and I doubt they're thinking much about which cheap funds they ought to invest in in a few months' time.

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Re: Coronavirus affecting bookings
« Reply #72 on: 09 March 2020, 07:40:14 pm »
Some people here are quite close to vulnerable group members, also there could be assumptions, stigma, finger pointing.

I am worried from a range of different perspectives, both sex work and non-sex work related. It's not simple.

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« Reply #73 on: 09 March 2020, 09:45:55 pm »
My only concern is that as a rather long in the tooth s.w ( and personal preference ) my clients tend to be mature with a large proportion of over 60 ... I am worried of unwittingly passing the virus to vulnerable guys and am seriously considering taking time off despite the financial implication and feeling perfectly fine .
That or starting reversing my  screening to  " Sorry I don't meet men over the age of ..." instead of " sorry I don't meet men under the age of ...  ;D

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« Reply #74 on: 09 March 2020, 10:20:36 pm »
With the best will in the world MU, you are an anonymous internet poster on a sex work forum and your post carries no more or less weight than anybody else's. It is however completely off topic and belongs on a general discussion forum, and as I've said already more than once, this thread is going to stay on topic.

I do agree that WB's post is flippant if nothing else, though - it's easy and entirely appropriate to dismiss the hysterical shite in the gutter press as the dross that it is, but to suggest that no sex workers are going to experience problems in the event that people's movements (and therefore the movement of goods and services) are restricted is not helpful at all. We've had a few borderline smug posts recently from people who can't get their heads around the idea that not everybody is fortunate enough to have a rainy day fund to fall back on if they're not earning for whatever reason.

As a fit, healthy, solvent adult without dependents in any vulnerable groups I'm not personally concerned about either picking up a bug nor having a few quiet weeks, but plenty of people are not in the same position and depend on their bookings to feed themselves and their families - they need money coming in regularly. If schools are closed (for example) many won't be able to work at all, and I doubt they're thinking much about which cheap funds they ought to invest in in a few months' time.
Yeah I just wish people would understand how much it is affect the over 60s :( They are the ones dying from serious complications. Just because a younger generally fit person will probably be okay and recover fine, it doesn’t mean people should be so flippant :(