I haven't followed this regularly but hard to believe no one has posted about getting covid in the hobby.
I imagine people wouldn't want to talk much about it for reputational reasons...but still, given the debate you'd think there would be some... unless there is less risk in the hobby than it appears

There are still less than 1% of the US population with confirmed cases.    Yes there are estimates that actual cases are many fold higher.  But if they aren't confirmed then the sick person isn't going to be claiming to have it.  So the confirmed cases number is the one to use for identifying anyone who is known to have gotten the disease from an escort or client.
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Of course I would announce it loud and far.  Same if I contracted and STD.  

We worry about going to the grocery store, with a mask and staying 6 feet apart.  

like it was HIV or something

With all the asymptotic people running around and if you came down with it X days after you saw her how would you know  you got it from her?

In the general population you have a lot of potential sources of infection -- all the other people you might cross paths with -- but the probability of getting infected is relatively smaller if you have distance, a mask and not in an encloses space or long period of time. In a session the probability of the other person being infectious is much, much smaller than that of crossing paths with someone in public but IF one of you is infected you both soon will be.

This means that you are a LOT more likely to be exposed to COVID, but that you are also a lot LESS likely to die from it. Something that I have been saying all along of course.

I'd love to be able to say that I had it, and got over it. And then I would most likely be immune and not be shedding the virus. I'm compliant with whatever orders are in effect. But, I believe we will have "herd immunity" before there is a good vaccine. I'm in Arizona, and I don't think effective contact tracing would ever work, here. People just don't trust the government that much.

And how many here have actually got tested? My guess is that some here may have it and don't know it.
NBA had 302 players tested and 16 tested positive for covid, so...

Oh wait a second, even after decades of research and BILLIONS of dollars spent on those two diseases we STILL don't have a cure or a vaccine for either one. Well in the case of AIDS we don't have a vaccine that isn't almost as deadly as the virus itself.

I said nothing about the consequences of an infection. I only talked about the likelihood of coming into some level of contact with someone that is infected.  If we want to talk about probability of infections then seeing a provider is going to have a higher probability than going out in public (based on the data for my location).  I just didn't feel like going down that path since it was a very low chance (a bit over half a percenct - 0.007%). The equivalent probability of getting infected from a buying groceries would have to be over 10% from just walking past someone which seems a bit high to me.

i got tested for C19 last week - Negative!  .... now when a guy tells an escort " I got tested"  you have to ask "for what?"  LOL  

I hobby in San Mateo, and , in the old days, it was always a challenge to schedule the same day.  I would go thru 3 or 4 providers from the same org,  asking for a early meeting, 10 or 11 or 12, and they were often booked.  Finally the org allowed pre-booking for good customers, and scheduling is not as much of an issue now.    I would ask the girls their availability and if they had another appointment, and they were always busy.  10 or 12  hours a day, 6 or 7  days a week.  just a few breaks.   There are 2 or 3 gals in the same apartment, and they were always cautious to not meet in the hallway.    They would take a week or two vacation every month or two.  All the providers were consistently good or great, and the PO was great in scheduling, so I am assuming that they had a lot of business.  These apartments cost $4,000 to $5,000 a month, so they need to cover that cost

Remember the adage that when you have sex with someone then you are having sex with everyone that she had sex with and so on. I would give your estimate credence in this case.

But I will freely concede that any good AAMP girl can easily see 40-50 clients, especially in a 7 day work week.  

that its risky, or are you actually seeing Kgirls during Covid.   I saw over 40 individual Kgirls from  February through May.  With the new hygiene protocols they are using, I never felt I had much risk.  I heard no reports or even rumors that any girls at the orgs I patronized had tested positive.  I was tested three times during those months and once at the end of April for the antibodies, in case I had it and was asymptomatic, and all came back negative.  I did take care to avoid "hot-spot" areas in LA, and stayed mostly in OC where the infection rates were running much lower than in LA.   I'm 61 and in the so-called "high-risk" group, but they way they were doing things, I felt it was worth the risk.  

When I used to visit agencies two girls told me a bit about their business.  I always booked two hours so there was normally 20-25 minutes of time at the end to chat.  These two pretty ladies both said almost the same thing (different agencies).  They only get 1-2 breaks a day and normally work 8-10 hours.  It wasn't uncommon for them to see several guys per day for six days straight.  One of them laughed and said that's why she jokingly hated that I could have sex for 60-70 minutes straight.  She was tired.  She joked about it, but I knew she was serious.  

Melody calls those “candy boys” (her term for frequent mongers) who have high sexual endurance “Good boyfriend. Bad customer.”

is just for the opportunity to take a swipe at GaG?   He's living in your head, rent-free.  Doesn't make you look too good to chase him around the boards like this on posts that aren't even his just for a chance to personally attack him.  Makes you look small and petty, but Hey, that's who you are, right?

According to the CDC your math does need recalculating regardless of whether or not you agree with my conclusion about the fatality rate.

Yes, my beef is with CDC on this. I don't buy the 10x number and provided the reasons why.

Is that the data is hardly complete, reliable, or in many cases anything we can actually believe. When our own CDC makes the claim that the underlying data we have been relying on is off by a full decimal point how can any intelligent person really make the leap of faith that ANYTHING we are being told has any degree of accuracy to it.  

Yes, we agree that there are still more questions than answers and whatever numbers we have are not comprehensive.

Of coming here in defense of your butt-buddy GG and whining about me speaking up for the ad hominem attack on GaG????  Quite the hypocrite aren't you?  Thanks for taking the bait, though.  I thought I would snare someone else, but you're just as dumb, so you'll do.

I'm sorry, but where in the hell do apartments go for $5,000 a month??!!!!  That's enough to pay two mortgages.

I doubt any logically guy could blame it on a swer... Knowing that plenty are asymptomatic, for all we know, he could have given it to us.

Tested and nope. I was sure I had it in January - same symptoms. Test came back negative, and like others wish I did have it. Then again, tests aren't all that reliable either.

I've never had the classic symptoms but was concerned back in early April and talked with my doctor. He was very much against me getting tested I did not appear to be a good case (and testing was highly limited then). I still have wondered if perhaps I was one of the mostly asymptomatic people so got the serology test a week ago just to see if I might have antibodies. Nope.

but then I found out that in my area at least you don't get the results back for about a week, so what's really the point if you aren't already sick? By the time the test results even come back a negative test is worthless.

The lab I use for STD tests provides over night results. They recently added a COVID-19 test for an additional $35 and the results are included in the overnight results.  In addition, I can get another COVID-19 test every two days for another $35.  
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What?  Oh, yeah... all negative, thank you.  
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San Mateo is on the San Francisco Peninsula, between San Jose and San Francisco.  Probably the most expensive real estate in the world.  Cheap apartments are $3,000, high end ones can go to $6,000 and up.  A 3 br, 1 bath house goes for $1 million to $3 million.   The organization is very well managed, and they do a lot of volume.  And a lot of cash. Typical pricing is good.  $220 to $240 an hour.   And demand is high. Lots of tech guys around.

I havent gotten it hobbling, because i stopped hobbling when the girls dropped gfe service with no advance warning...
Im sure some still gave top notch service, but i wasn't lucky enough to find one of them. Right now, the options aren't to my tastes, and definitely not to be met with a turned cheek upon attempting to kiss. Since all this shit is still going on....im just sitting on the sidelines.