Hello friends,
Now on day ?? of self isolation I wanted to share an interesting discussion I had yesterday.
A lovely lady I have been a regular of for going on 2 years has kindly kept in touch through texts here and there every week or so. No proposition to get together, just a friendly reach out 'how are you holding up?' text conversation.
For the trolls: Yes I fully realize she's doing this with me and many others in hopes to have a client base return when she decides to offer her services once again.
Yesterday's text started out the same as previous but this time she asked if I was busy and perhaps up for a phone chat. My joking reply was 'How much is this going to cost me?'
My phone rang immediately and with a bit of a laugh 'Fucker, I knew you would say something like that'.
It was great to hear her voice again. I could tell her self isolation efforts were wearing on her, as it's on all of us. Just like I have personally reached out to those I work with who are off work now, strictly to chat and catch up as friends, I sense our chat yesterday was much of the same concept.
After sharing isolation stories and thoughts about the world around us, she made a really interesting, slightly twisted observation.
"If so many of us are still going to get the virus even with all of this curve flattening, sometimes I wish I could just catch it, recover and move on with my life'.
Ok...
She then went on to explain that after watching I am Legend with Will Smith it struck her that those who do catch the virus and recover have some level of immunity, just like Will did in the movie. She went on to share she has read like we all have that it's too early too tell how good the immunity is but history has shown immunity to virus's is often quite effective (compared to the flu for example) and we hopefully will know more quite soon.
We both had heard Andrew Cuomo, governor of New York and the crisis going on there, mention multiple times that a possible part of the plan will be to allow those who have recovered from the virus back to work as they were now immune.
And then she said it...
"When you go back to seeing escorts, you're still going to be worried right? Unless you wait for a long time, many months or even a year or two. What if you could book an escort who has documentation proving she had the virus and was fully recovered, now immune to it?"
Twisted, I know.
We talked about her Incall location could still have previous client virus droplets on surfaces even if she fully wiped the place down. She suggested in this hypothetical scenario she would do outcalls only, full outfit change at home between each visit, full shower and such when entering clients locations, etc. Nothing will be perfect of course but reality is there are clients and SP's getting together now still and more will return for various reasons (good and bad) in the weeks/months to come over the summer.
Listening to her I could tell she had given this idea some considerable thought and it was a fun discussion to have. I asked her permission to share the story here on TERB which made her laugh a little 'some will get it, others will not, but sure go ahead' was her response.
She then absolutely assured me that she had no intention of seeking out the virus (Haha!) or getting back to work anytime soon. She confirmed to have more than enough savings to not work for the rest of the year if she chose, while burning through savings is painful like the rest of us, giving me guidance her best guess of when she might (optimistically) be available again would be August/September. Her plans right now is to enjoy the summer (she loves cycling to stay in shape) and can only hope clients will want to see her once again when she is comfortable coming back into the hobby life, most likely months after others (indy's and agencies) have already returned.
I assured her I would be one of those regular's once again, more so now than ever before.
I found this to be an interesting, slightly twisted of course, perspective on the experience we are all going through together right now. I came to realize that perhaps a new reality we all share in the coming months/years could be, in all industries for that matter, a common occurrence of confirming 'I had the virus and now immune' vs 'I haven't had the virus' - until a vaccine is not only found/created successfully but widely distributed.
Something to think about.
Take care everyone.
G.D.G.
Now on day ?? of self isolation I wanted to share an interesting discussion I had yesterday.
A lovely lady I have been a regular of for going on 2 years has kindly kept in touch through texts here and there every week or so. No proposition to get together, just a friendly reach out 'how are you holding up?' text conversation.
For the trolls: Yes I fully realize she's doing this with me and many others in hopes to have a client base return when she decides to offer her services once again.
Yesterday's text started out the same as previous but this time she asked if I was busy and perhaps up for a phone chat. My joking reply was 'How much is this going to cost me?'
My phone rang immediately and with a bit of a laugh 'Fucker, I knew you would say something like that'. It was great to hear her voice again. I could tell her self isolation efforts were wearing on her, as it's on all of us. Just like I have personally reached out to those I work with who are off work now, strictly to chat and catch up as friends, I sense our chat yesterday was much of the same concept.
After sharing isolation stories and thoughts about the world around us, she made a really interesting, slightly twisted observation.
"If so many of us are still going to get the virus even with all of this curve flattening, sometimes I wish I could just catch it, recover and move on with my life'.
Ok...
She then went on to explain that after watching I am Legend with Will Smith it struck her that those who do catch the virus and recover have some level of immunity, just like Will did in the movie. She went on to share she has read like we all have that it's too early too tell how good the immunity is but history has shown immunity to virus's is often quite effective (compared to the flu for example) and we hopefully will know more quite soon.
We both had heard Andrew Cuomo, governor of New York and the crisis going on there, mention multiple times that a possible part of the plan will be to allow those who have recovered from the virus back to work as they were now immune.
And then she said it...
"When you go back to seeing escorts, you're still going to be worried right? Unless you wait for a long time, many months or even a year or two. What if you could book an escort who has documentation proving she had the virus and was fully recovered, now immune to it?"
Twisted, I know.
We talked about her Incall location could still have previous client virus droplets on surfaces even if she fully wiped the place down. She suggested in this hypothetical scenario she would do outcalls only, full outfit change at home between each visit, full shower and such when entering clients locations, etc. Nothing will be perfect of course but reality is there are clients and SP's getting together now still and more will return for various reasons (good and bad) in the weeks/months to come over the summer.
Listening to her I could tell she had given this idea some considerable thought and it was a fun discussion to have. I asked her permission to share the story here on TERB which made her laugh a little 'some will get it, others will not, but sure go ahead' was her response.
She then absolutely assured me that she had no intention of seeking out the virus (Haha!) or getting back to work anytime soon. She confirmed to have more than enough savings to not work for the rest of the year if she chose, while burning through savings is painful like the rest of us, giving me guidance her best guess of when she might (optimistically) be available again would be August/September. Her plans right now is to enjoy the summer (she loves cycling to stay in shape) and can only hope clients will want to see her once again when she is comfortable coming back into the hobby life, most likely months after others (indy's and agencies) have already returned.
I assured her I would be one of those regular's once again, more so now than ever before.
I found this to be an interesting, slightly twisted of course, perspective on the experience we are all going through together right now. I came to realize that perhaps a new reality we all share in the coming months/years could be, in all industries for that matter, a common occurrence of confirming 'I had the virus and now immune' vs 'I haven't had the virus' - until a vaccine is not only found/created successfully but widely distributed.
Something to think about.
Take care everyone.
G.D.G.
