I am in my mid 50’s, eat healthy and work out regularly.  I have not been inflicted with an Influenza  Virus in over 20 years! I believe I have a very strong immune system.

Myself, I'm more of a risk taker.

Over reaction always works well in these situations.  So far the chances of you dying from CV are about the same as the common flu.  You are more likely dying driving to her incall, than dying from CV.  Please go ahead, and cancel any appointments you have.  Makes it easier for me to book an appointment, and maybe get a decent rate as well.  

- Wash your hands
- Don't touch anything and everything in public places
- Don't touch your mouth, nose, and eyes without washing them with soap and water'
- Avoid places where you have to be around a lot of people
- Avoid being around people that are sneezing or coughing

In reality, the Kung Flu is just an acute cold. More people have died from the flu this season than the total number of people that have been infected with the Kung Flu. Yes, it is scary because it's highly contagious. However, with basic treatment, an infected person will be fine.  

must decide where are own level of risk tolerance falls.   You know what you're comfortable with more than anyone else.  So far, only 60 people have had the virus in the US, and NO ONE has died.  Consequently, for me, the low mortality rate, and the fact that I live in the country with the highest standards for medical care in the world, doesn't have me too concerned, and I see a lot more Asian providers than I do other ethnicities.  I'm not slowing down because I don't see the risk of exposure being that great, and if I WAS exposed, since everyone to date in the US has been successfully treated, i.e., no deaths to date, plus, I'm very healthy, so I'm confident that I will recover.  

to Dos Equis just to be safe.

Selling newspapers! The CV is real, but not as really bad as you hear from media. AND, there is an extra motive from the main stream media (Fake News!!!) to try yet another exaggerated claim to help the  
Demo-Rats gain power. Yes, I’m on the Trump Train.

It is about 20 times more lethal, in fact.  

so are you saying if we all go vegan the flu will stop spreading, or do I have to stop kissing my livestock?

Seriously, living in NYC, with packed commuter trains where you can practically smell the people youre riding with because youre all packed together like sardines...and people who dont even cover up when they sneeze...and all the dirty handrails,poles, etc.
id say theres a much higher chance to catch CV just going out in public than from the Asian providers i see.

The truth is, to coin a phrase; we simply "do not know, what we do not know."  In the meantime, we must do all of the same things we always do, to protect ourselves from, whatever.

you said it:

If you're avoiding getting laid because you're afraid of the scary beer virus, are you really even living at that point? Like what're you trying to do, live forever? You're 50, you've got maybe 10 more good years, do you really want to spend those years not living your life on your terms and not cowering in fear? Because, hell, if that's the case, you're already dead.

I think it's Scary Serial Killer Virus:  
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juan_Corona

It was just a precaution I was considering.  Once the dust settles I am all in!  No pun intended!

"38% of Americans wouldn't buy Corona "under any circumstances" because of the outbreak,"....those people should follow this post.

I won't buy Corona under any circumstances because it's really crappy beer.

Fake news ... fact checked by HuffPo of all places.

LOL you crack me up.

Is not what you say.

Well of the 90,000 reported cases, 50,000 have already recovered.  So there is quite a bit of data out there on the after effects.  Not long term, of course, but one would think the most severe damage would be immediate.

Interesting question. Below is what we have faced in this century.

and it's gonna spread thru the air. It's all punishment from god.  

And it was only a matter of time before it reached the east coast. Six total in the US and yes I know they were older and had immune issues before they contracted it.  

You need to see how well the damage heals. However, from what I've heard the damage to the lungs is not as bad as it was with SARS.

to know its difficult for me to post something serious without a little joke in there somewhere.  Lol

Including the one I mentioned. Even those who get it and survive will be going thru hell for the duration. Better for peeps to take this seriously IMO.  

coming up in April, two weeks spread over various cities, and I have to say I'm a little apprehensive.  

Et tu Brute?

Huffpo questioned it, so? Its a poll, you can question any poll and draw your own conclusion. Did I offend you cause you like Corona Beer?
Just wondering why you couldn't have fun with this? Seems like you're wound a little too tight, lighten up.

killed 1000 out of 20,000 cases in the US.  That's a 5% death rate.  Corona is nowhere near that . . . . yet.  If god wants a bunch of us to die from this, then he's off to a slow start.  As far as who cares, I will make you a proposition . . . . if you die from this, then I won't care, and if I die, then you won't care.  Then nobody else matters.  Is it a Deal?

I like Corona.

Better make it an extended tour. You'll have to spend the first 14 days in quarantine after being sealed in a long metal tube with 300 other people for 12 hours.  After successfully leaving quarantine, you can come out and get sneezed on while riding the subway or walking down the street.
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(Kind of like a rescued seal being released from rehab and getting eaten by a shark.)

Posted By: louisepearl

Re: Perhaps a good time for a US tour? (eom)  
Maybe

Posted By: JIMBOY

Re: Perhaps a good time for a US tour? (eom)  
 

Is there some breaking news of which I'm unaware? So, if there aren't any quarantine restrictions, the risk level on a flight from Prague to the US would be no higher (and perhaps lower) than other intl flights. Also, by your mention of subway it seems you're assuming NYC is the only (or preferred) destination city. That's not necessarily the case but even in Manhattan there are plenty of ways to get around w/o using the subway. And it could also be argued that residents of Prague, with its relative proximity to the coronavirus hotspots in Northern Italy, are at higher risk of exposure than they would be in the US. As a business decision, if she truly is seeing a precipitous drop in the number of clients, a tour in the US might be the way to go. Obviously it's her decision but just making the point that virus quarantine fears, at least with the current info available, shouldn't be a major deterrent.

so you can try out her "Virgin experience."   (But only to see if its as good as you remember yours.)   LOL

We cant even buy face masks here, there all sold out  

Yes you fucking idiots, STOP wearing those insipid facemasks that don't do a thing to protect you.  

Everyone makes a big deal out of the masks -- on both sides -- but the same applies to gloves and pretty much any other action people are taking. If you don' t have a clue you will still be clueless.

If I can help add a quality lady to the pool of available (US) talent, I'll be a happy camper.

I was raising the possibility of a self-imposed quarantine to put potential dates at ease. It seems that incubation of CV until symptoms appear is around 10-14 days.  THEN, I pointed out that in any major metro area (NY, Boston, DC, Chicago, SF - all have subways), with lots of people out and about (cf., photos taken in China or Italy with ZERO people on the streets), you can take all sorts of precautions and then get exposed from an infected driver or a snotty tissue left behind in the back of an Uber ... or an elevator button at the hotel.
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In any event, I wish her well, good luck ... and a safe trip if she is so inclined.

the ladies, only the random people I don't know that I will be around in the public places like the airports.

I  have decided to suspend the hobby at least for the time being.  If I had to pick a good place to acquire COVID-19/Coronavirus it would be this hobby.  We're talking about seriously intimate relations, most often with people we don't really know anything about.  Many of these providers are Korean, a high risk group.  Most, regardless of ethnicity, travel around the country being intimate with a large variety of strangers about whom they know very little.  It's the nature of the business.  And since the virus is as much as 20 times deadlier than ordinary flu I think it might be a good time for me to take break.  

Since when are Koreans a "high risk" group? Or even Chinese for that fucking matter? Did you consider all black people "high risk" when we had the last boogieman scare in this country, Ebola, which truly was a death sentence if you caught it?

We are at much higher risk for CV by going to a nursing home to visit grandma than we are going to an incall to fuck a Kgirl.  

The last official word out of the US gov is that they think the mortality rate is between 0.1 - 1%, not the 2 or 3% the WHO claims.

I think you might have a low threshold for seeing racism that might not be there.  Korea is a region.  I'll leave it to the anthropologists to say whether Koreans are a separate race.  Korean, Japan and Italy are all regions experiencing a flare in cases and those countries have visa waiver travel rights to the USA so COULD be a vector to bring the disease in.  
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As for probabilities, there are 330 million people in the USA.  Less than 200 are known to have the disease.  Unless you know their addresses, it would be hard to get the disease even if you sought it out.

The WHO numbers are strictly based on the math. Number of people died divided by the number of people with corona. If 3 people die out of 100 who have it, you have a 3% mortality rate.

Silly. COVID-19 is not an ethnic disease nor is it spread all over South Korea. It's rather localized with isolated geographical distribution.

Strictly speaking that would be the case fatality rate. Mortality is generally measured against some more general population (all people, all males, all females between 20 and 40....).

If we are going to compare it to other flus need to measure it the same way.

But only if they had been in Korea in the last 14 days, The same can be said for Italians and Iranians, but you didn't see him commenting about Italians or Iranians, Do you have ANY idea how many Koreans, or people of Korean descent are in this country? I just looked it up and there are 1.8 MILLION here in the US, how many of them do you suppose are hookers?

And when they start comparing the fatality rate FAIRLY, I am betting that the Corona virus is going to end up being a LOT less than 20 more fatal than the flu.  

"you didn't see him commenting about Italians or Iranians"
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I did see "regardless of ethnicity" That would, in fact, include Italians and Iranians. I also saw "I  have decided to suspend the hobby" Which also includes foregoing Italians and Iranians..
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I know racism is a bit of your hobby horse.  But other than mentioning K-girls because of their special cachet (e.g. their own forum here) he clearly is swearing off ALL escorts.

The virus is almost designed to kill off most of the old fuckers who are posting here. The youth will suffer minimal symptoms. The spread will occur globally. It’s not suggested as seasonal, so hiding away only saves the health services industry from having more sick people seeking service for symptoms that appear to be virus related.  

To take a break.  It looks like it is a biological agent that was engineered from Cornavirus, Mirs, Sars and hiv.  They are burning bodies in China so the animals don't spread the virus from the dead bodies.

You're just fear mongering.

As you get older, your immune system weakens. You should at least get a flu shot every year. Even if the shot isn't exactly the same flu that comes out in the given year, it still helps.

Back in 1968, when I was just in 3rd grade elementary school, Hong Kong Flu hit my family in NJ, or so it was thought, given the written records my mother kept from back then.  I only remember being sick as a dog, the 104 + fever that meant the dreaded rubbing alcohol rubs, and ice baths, missing a week of school (not all that bad considering the great TV reruns, and game shows), and the Dr. pissing off my parents by refusing to prescribe antibiotics.  Back then, we just had to tough it out, and let our immune systems fight off illnesses without the help of drugs, or flu vaccines.  Then again, given all the crap that was going on 1968...Vietnam War at it's peak with the Tet offensive, racial tensions that caused Rodney King/LA style riots in numerous cities across the USA, the assassination of MLK, and RFK, and the US space program recovering from the tragic fire that killed the astronauts that were going to lead the first Apollo mission, getting sick, and getting better a week later was life/business as usual.   As for today's clown show...all I can say is that I hope all is well with you, Steph.  Cool here.

There are two reasons to get a flu shot for this that I can think of ... the first is that getting another kind of flu becomes an detection burden on the health system ... should you be tested, should you be isolated, etc.  The second reason is called co-morbidity ... catching one strain of flu doesn't make you immune to another strain.  So coming down with two different strains of flu, either at the same time or in rapid succession can really weaken you and may, effects combined, result in a worse outcome.

Doctors would agree. What Lester says is definitely the case.

China seems to have it under control, not a lot of new cases.  Probably because they can enforce draconian isolation laws.  The rest of the world seems to be seeing exponential spread, including the US and Europe.   At this point it is probably no longer possible to prevent the general spread.  
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And before the usual idiots spout that it's all Orange Man's fault, note that ALL of the rest of the world is experiencing the same sort of spread.   This really has nothing to do with differing western political systems, left or right.

I'm less concerned about coming down with the "flu" than the other potential consequences, such as:

I think you get grilled only if you are an early victim of this flu.  Once it gets beyond a certain spread, they won't have the resources to track everyone you've encountered.  I think that tipping point is probably just days or weeks away.  After that its too late to care.

Bunch of pussies. If you drink like me you'll know the alcohol kills all germs!

The ONLY thing you are right about is that it's HER decision and your fear mongering isn't helpful at all.

Projections are showing our hospitals being overwhelmed by late-April to mid-May if the doubling rate/R0 is anywhere from 2-4%. This will run back and forth across the world for the next 2-3 years unless it miraculously stops or weather halts it’s progress. Even if it has a 1% mortality rate among those infected, that’s at least 3x more infectious than the flu and 10x more lethal, and we’re going to be living with it until a vaccine can be developed and tested and then mass produced, so that’s why we’re looking at 2-3 years of this running around if it doesn’t get contained better than it has been in 1st world countries. That’s also not including any further mutations.

Other variants of the coronavirus are seasonal, so we can expect a slow down as the summer warms up.

gave an interview this morning from inside a quarantine.   The interviewer asked what he symptoms were, and she said she had a slight fever (less than 100 degress) for three hours, then back to normal, but she still must sit out the 14 day quarantine.  Once again, the people for whom this virus is dangerous are those who are elderly and have underlying medical issues that many have compromised their immune systems.  

Swine flu never approached anywhere near a 10% mortality rate, it never even got near a 1% mortality rate. Where the fuck are you getting these numbers?

There's a lot of inconsistent data out there and many variables that haven't (yet) been figured out. For example, why do several Asian countries that are close to China, with lots of back-and-forth travel, have low levels of infection, serious complications, and death? Look at the data for Hong Kong, Singapore, Taiwan, Malaysia, and Thailand. The virus was becoming a problem at least as far back as Dec, long before travel restrictions were put in place, yet none of these close neighbors have the same level of problem as does Italy. I haven't yet heard a good explanation for the disparity and that's a huge issue for any proposed model or algorithm. Projections based on the Italy scenario are bound to be quite apocalyptic while projections based on the Taiwan/Singapore scenarios will look much more benign and manageable. The other problem is that there's no shortage of "experts" basking in their 15 minutes of fame and encouraged by media outlets that love a compelling "doom and gloom" storyline. The link below was posted earlier in this thread but it's worth showing again and it also contains the data to which I referred for this post.

and they said swine flu had about 1900 deaths out of 20,000 cases in the US.  When I went to school, which admittedly was a LONG time ago, that would be "near 10%."   Was I misinformed by  Fox News?   It was a regular news reporter, not one of their opinion shows.  

but there were MILIONS and MILLIONS of Swine flu cases.  

to yesterday's report on the FNC website, so I will allow that either 1) I misunderstood, or 2) they got it wrong.  Either way, you have your retraction.  

Just think about how many different guys that escort comes in contact with.. if I were a client I’d stop seeing escorts. But then again we will lose you guys business so..

Alcohol lowers your immune system and puts you at higher risk for anything.  Alcohol just coats everything it's like a sedative.

With as of today... which will go up.. 8 usa states declare emergency and The number of confirmed coronavirus cases in the U.S. now stands at 511.  
Including a state senator.  

that I misunderstood what I was hearing.  I was writing a review at the time, so I was not concentrating 100% on what I was hearing from the television.  It could be my mistake, not theirs.  

I'm drinking Collidal silver,been for years ,and just ordered 5 bottles MMS(miracle mineral supplement)

I've been drinking it for years as well and I have NEVER gotten the flu as an adult.

It can turn you skin a different color, permanently.

So what proof is ur tequila? CDC suggest 60% (120 proof) and when did Bacardi stop selling 151 rum?

Just pump wine into every household! Even if it doesn't cure or prevent the virus, no one will care. La Dolce Vita in action!

In solidarity with our Italian brothers and sisters!

Got to keep it tongue in cheek, and be a little bit of a smart ass I guess! It kills me that most of the ladies are left wing, it takes capitalism for them to have any clients! I am much more liberal from a social stand point..... but economy, national security, and minimizing gov’t intrusion come first. I constantly tell my fellow “right leaning” capitalist friends that you CAN’T LEGISLATE MORALITY!!!!

Everyone seems to be pretending.  This is over until they perfect a vaccine.  There is no longer any safe sex.

ah, good plan...SMH

So we are on the general board on TER. I"ve met some of you f"ers and you seem to be like me. That is, you drink too much, we spend too much on getting laid, and we all have 5 other malfunctions. I hare to be the one to blow this off but I got a,distinct feeling that when I eventually end up in a wooden box, it's not going to be because I caught a CV from a provider trying to get my swag on. Up to each individual their risk level,but given our chosen hobby, seems odd to pause what you love because your worried about the risk. Just one morons opinion so take it with a grain of salt (and Don 1942).

The first is that some of these providers are so busy providing that they only come into contact with 6 guys a day. Otherwise they go home and recharge. They probably have much less daily human contact than the rest of us do.

Don't think
Just keep doing what you do.  
Most people go for that

As far as the nature of my business, hygiene and handwashing are in my MISSION STATEMENT. I play safe. The only thing safer is if I tied you up and said naughty things to you.

I barely leave the house, thats gotta lower my risk of catching it at least a little :p

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Is tying someone up and SAYING naughty things to them big where you are?  Here, they want to tie you up and DO naughty things to you.  Do you also offer DOING naughty things as an upsell?   Just curious.  

Just saw that one method they are considering for sick patients is to take inject blood plasma from recovered patients.  Apparently this is an old method that has been known to work with other diseases.  

with no other known health complications? He's in the hospital in really bad condition. The elderly are always at a greater risk. It doesn't mean someone younger won't get a bad case of it.

I sent you an email last year.  Hope all is well with you!

For someone in this biz, you have quite the warped sense of other ladies and I guess yourself as well.  

Using common sense, I like it.

Look at the number of infections near the equator (+/- 20 degrees)..... yes, typically less densely populated, but I believe warmer temps have a big influence.

As you note, the population is less dense. Also, there is less time cooped up indoors in warm climates (the social distancing thing) to sneeze or cough on someone in or who is about the enter the same space.  
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Also, I think that almost everyone reading TER has noticed that they tend to have a runny nose for no apparent reason in the cold weather, even when they don't have a cold or the flu. A runny nose is the NORMAL, HEALTHY response to breathing cold, dry air, e.g.,  
http://www.verywellhealth.com/runny-nose-in-cold-weather-83155
http://www.everydayhealth.com/healthy-living/why-does-your-nose-run-when-its-cold.aspx
"Our noses warm and humidify — add moisture to — the air we breathe as it travels down into the lungs. So when you inhale cold, dry air, the moist tissue inside the nose automatically increases fluid production to do its job of protecting sensitive lung tissue. But when there's too much fluid, the excess tends to drip out, creating a runny nose."
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In colder climates, non-symptomatic but infected people go out in the cold, dry weather, start to drip and wipe their nose with a hand or glove ... and then spread their germs to everything they touch.  The mucus traps infectious particles coming IN from the air we're breathing in, but it also traps some infectious particles being exhaled from the infected lungs ... even if the person feels pretty good and has no major symptoms. Infection spreads rapidly. People in warm, equatorial zones are not spreading germs due to a runny nose.

is child's play.  The thicker the envelope you take out of your breast pocket, the more pleased they are.  (This is from MANY years of personal experience.)  Lol