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?

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:

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. 

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!

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.