Is there a realistic danger that I might get infected with the coronavirus if I went to see a reputable escort in a city that has never been a hot spot? Obviously, a reputable professional wouldn’t see customers if she knew she was infected, but people don’t necessarily know. Hey, I could be infected too, although I find this unlikely. Have you heard of a single case of anyone getting the coronavirus from a reputable provider?
Given the long incubation period and the relative ease of respiratory transmission, I don’t think there’s any sure way most non-hermits could say who they got it from, despite hooha about “contact tracing”. If you’re somewhat concerned (I say “somewhat” because if you were very concerned you wouldn’t be considering this), you could do the mask thing, although that seems like it would be rather awkward in the circumstances of a date. Personally, I don’t think it’s really worthwhile for a healthy man below 50 like yourself to worry about contact with specific apparently-healthy individuals in an area of low case numbers, but that’s me.
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Contact tracing, if it’s done properly, works the other way around:
Someone tests positive, and then you work back through every person they contacted in the previous week and persuade all of those people to isolate themselves from human contact for two weeks except for taking a test seven days after contact. It’s not about working out who they got it from, it’s about trying to stop them passing it on.
Of course, this only works if the infection rate is low – if it’s too high, then basically everyone is a contact of someone who had it. It’s a system designed for when only one or two people in ten thousand have an infectious disease.
But if it’s really low, then contact tracing can keep it low, which means that isolation and lockdowns aren’t necessary and businesses can stay open without risking their customers’ health. Korea is managing to hold baseball games with full crowds without spreading the disease, because they can track down every single person who has it.