Coronavirus - what's next for LP in the forthcoming weeks?

[nilis]

(Or should I say, months?)

Will there be a shortage of scenes?
A little of bit (a lot) of rationing?

What can we expect?

[error01x]

Its a big ? now

[Caristico]

https://www.radio.cz/en/section/breaking/czech-government-declares-state-of-emergency-in-response-to-coronavirus-epidemic

[Giorgio Grandi]

Cz is doing what any country with a bit of comment sense should do: take care of his own residents avoid to have new spreaders coming from abroad, this is the reason why the restriction has been set up.
In the ban there is almost all europe, china, usa and many others.
We can still "import" people from several country, we will see in the next days.

Czech has several positive people, but except a couple of them, the positive are people that got it in italy or usa in the past week, in quarantine since they arrived back. Looking at how the situation has been handled in Italy, I believe here we are taking precaution instead than remedy, and this is the base for success in this fight imho.

It is hard to say what will be the situation in 1 week from now, all Europe is in this fight, the main issue if that there is no any European coordination and any country is just alone. A total European lack of care for anything but money, it is a disturbing situation thinking about how it could have been basically easy to contain with a common politic and a common action to monitor the travelers from china and so at the beginning.

We do not have any government limitation so far regarding working activity (and in CZ production of porn is equal to any other working activity), so most of producers are working as usual, just according to the limitations. It will be possible to get tested about Covid from beginning of next week in some state clinics, Im probably going to add a test on covid to our basic testing, but it is still not clear how it would work, we are investigating this just now.

I personally have about 2 months of updates, probably even a bit more.

[BlueShadow]

https://www.radio.cz/en/section/breaking/czech-government-declares-state-of-emergency-in-response-to-coronavirus-epidemic

Still not enough.
Let's see if Europe will wake up.
But judging from what France did yesterday...(only the school and univeristy closed and all the rest...who fucking care, like if nothing is happening), I think they don't have understood well...
Going step by step is useless, if in the end you have to inevitably make more drastic decisions.


PS
USA has closed the NBA and certainly is not something that you can do easily, it means lost of a lot of money. Closed all fly from and to Europe... Only 1 week before they said that Coronavirus was only an influence, nothing to worry about...

[BlueShadow]

It will be possible to get tested about Covid from beginning of next week in some state clinics, Im probably going to add a test on covid to our basic testing, but it is still not clear how it would work, we are investigating this just now.

That's the point.
If they start, and when they start, doing more tests will inevitably discover more cases.
The fact that they don't know it doesn't mean that the virus isn't present and spreading.


Like in Hungary. Impossible there are only 13 cases.
(ANSA) - BUDAPEST, MARCH 11 - The Orban government has proclaimed a state of emergency in Hungary because of the coronavirus. The number of confirmed cases has risen to 13 of which 8 are Iranian students, but the number of tests is very low: only 531. There is only one hospital in Budapest with the ability to carry out tests on the virus. And there is a serious shortage of masks and disinfectants.

[BlueShadow]

Oh, and I'm glad to see that at least there are some directors / producers aware of this and shows a minimum of common sense.
Not like "someone" who takes selfies and talks about "panic" underestimating a potential health risk that affects everyone.
Don't panic, but don't underestimate either...

[Giorgio Grandi]

Let me clear what it is probably not well understood

They are testing people with symptoms and people that have been in contact with positive people.

Regarding the "state clinics" starting testing from monday, it is regarding people that do not have symptoms and/or people that do not have symptoms and have not been in contact with positive people or have no been abroad recently.
Basically anyone that feel good and just wants/need a confirmation on paper

[BlueShadow]

All people who have been in contact with positives should be self-quarantined. Like Juventus players, Real Madrid...

Imagine if one of the model result positive (I hope not) What will happen? A tragedy. Nothing to laugh.
UEFA stopped the competion only after the cases of positive players. (this means that the cases will grow up inevitably, virus already spread in 1 week without controls)
NBA stopped only when 1 player was positive.
Formula1 the same.
Same will be for porn industry. It will stop only at the first positive case, and in the meantime this case will also infected others.
There will be little to laugh at, and maybe people will complain about action had to be taken before. Always the same story.
It's not a matter of allarmism, but precaution.

[BlueShadow]

"Peak by the end of March". Fabrizio Pregliasco, virologist of the University of Milan, interviewed by AdnKronos says so. It is difficult to make certain predictions about the coronavirus infection, "but the projections and scenarios are important for better planning interventions". Based on the trend in China and the Italian data, "we can estimate a scenario with a peak at the end of March and the end of the problem in Italy between May and June".

Fabrizio Pregliasco has been monitoring the trend of the flu season in the country for years. His picture is less optimistic than that anticipated these days by the press, which would set the peak at 16-17 March and exit the tunnel by the end of April.

"In the case of Covid-19 - warns Pregliasco - it is a new virus, but the Chinese experience and what is happening in the former red areas can tell us a lot".

Among the elements that can influence this scenario, according to Pregliasco, "there is the unknown factor represented by the rest of Europe and Great Britain. We see lack of coordination and uneven actions that can ruin what is being done in Italy ".

Then, the parallelism between the central and southern Italy and Europe: "It is difficult to evaluate the problem when it still seems distant, even physically. A bit like what happened in the Center-South when there was the red zone: you don't think the problem is yours. The images of full stadiums or the lack of interventions show that nothing has been learned from the Chinese and Italian experience ".

[Giorgio Grandi]

All people who have been in contact with positives should be self-quarantined. Like Juventus players, Real Madrid...

Imagine if one of the model result positive (I hope not) What will happen? A tragedy. Nothing to laugh.
UEFA stopped the competion only after the cases of positive players. (this means that the cases will grow up inevitably, virus already spread in 1 week without controls)
NBA stopped only when 1 player was positive.
Formula1 the same.
Same will be for porn industry. It will stop only at the first positive case, and in the meantime this case will also infected others.
There will be little to laugh at, and maybe people will complain about action had to be taken before. Always the same story.
It's not a matter of allarmism, but precaution.

Take precautions do not mean to stop working, otherwise all working activity would be stopped by government decision.
Basically its not up to as take any decision about stop working activities, its a government directive.
For instance, in italy, most of factories and offices are working as usual, just taking precautions.
Siad that: knowing actors and their lifestyle, it is more save to continue performing taking precautions that go around to do escort and prostitution.

[Giorgio Grandi]

"Peak by the end of March". Fabrizio Pregliasco, virologist of the University of Milan, interviewed by AdnKronos says so. It is difficult to make certain predictions about the coronavirus infection, "but the projections and scenarios are important for better planning interventions". Based on the trend in China and the Italian data, "we can estimate a scenario with a peak at the end of March and the end of the problem in Italy between May and June".

Fabrizio Pregliasco has been monitoring the trend of the flu season in the country for years. His picture is less optimistic than that anticipated these days by the press, which would set the peak at 16-17 March and exit the tunnel by the end of April.

"In the case of Covid-19 - warns Pregliasco - it is a new virus, but the Chinese experience and what is happening in the former red areas can tell us a lot".

Among the elements that can influence this scenario, according to Pregliasco, "there is the unknown factor represented by the rest of Europe and Great Britain. We see lack of coordination and uneven actions that can ruin what is being done in Italy ".

Then, the parallelism between the central and southern Italy and Europe: "It is difficult to evaluate the problem when it still seems distant, even physically. A bit like what happened in the Center-South when there was the red zone: you don't think the problem is yours. The images of full stadiums or the lack of interventions show that nothing has been learned from the Chinese and Italian experience ".

Look, Im italian I know the situation in italy very well. They did not want to lock down when someone asked it, government considers it "racist" and "discriminating". Please do not comment about it, I know it is insane. They are dumb. They did not try to prevent, just to contain.

Last news, 5 minutes ago, from sunday at 24:00 no one goes out or in. Cz will be totally locked

[grey00owl]

"Peak by the end of March". Fabrizio Pregliasco, virologist of the University of Milan, interviewed by AdnKronos says so. It is difficult to make certain predictions about the coronavirus infection, "but the projections and scenarios are important for better planning interventions". Based on the trend in China and the Italian data, "we can estimate a scenario with a peak at the end of March and the end of the problem in Italy between May and June".

Fabrizio Pregliasco has been monitoring the trend of the flu season in the country for years. His picture is less optimistic than that anticipated these days by the press, which would set the peak at 16-17 March and exit the tunnel by the end of April.

"In the case of Covid-19 - warns Pregliasco - it is a new virus, but the Chinese experience and what is happening in the former red areas can tell us a lot".

Among the elements that can influence this scenario, according to Pregliasco, "there is the unknown factor represented by the rest of Europe and Great Britain. We see lack of coordination and uneven actions that can ruin what is being done in Italy ".

Then, the parallelism between the central and southern Italy and Europe: "It is difficult to evaluate the problem when it still seems distant, even physically. A bit like what happened in the Center-South when there was the red zone: you don't think the problem is yours. The images of full stadiums or the lack of interventions show that nothing has been learned from the Chinese and Italian experience ".

Look, Im italian I know the situation in italy very well. They did not want to lock down when someone asked it, government considers it "racist" and "discriminating". Please do not comment about it, I know it is insane. They are dumb. They did not try to prevent, just to contain.

Last news, 5 minutes ago, from sunday at 24:00 no one goes out or in. Cz will be totally locked

Thank you, Giorgio, for your explanations and for keeping the users informed. Can tou, please, give some informations about Zoe Sparx (it seems that she, differently than Vanessa Vega, could not shoot) and Lydia Black? Thanks.

[Giorgio Grandi]

"Peak by the end of March". Fabrizio Pregliasco, virologist of the University of Milan, interviewed by AdnKronos says so. It is difficult to make certain predictions about the coronavirus infection, "but the projections and scenarios are important for better planning interventions". Based on the trend in China and the Italian data, "we can estimate a scenario with a peak at the end of March and the end of the problem in Italy between May and June".

Fabrizio Pregliasco has been monitoring the trend of the flu season in the country for years. His picture is less optimistic than that anticipated these days by the press, which would set the peak at 16-17 March and exit the tunnel by the end of April.

"In the case of Covid-19 - warns Pregliasco - it is a new virus, but the Chinese experience and what is happening in the former red areas can tell us a lot".

Among the elements that can influence this scenario, according to Pregliasco, "there is the unknown factor represented by the rest of Europe and Great Britain. We see lack of coordination and uneven actions that can ruin what is being done in Italy ".

Then, the parallelism between the central and southern Italy and Europe: "It is difficult to evaluate the problem when it still seems distant, even physically. A bit like what happened in the Center-South when there was the red zone: you don't think the problem is yours. The images of full stadiums or the lack of interventions show that nothing has been learned from the Chinese and Italian experience ".

Look, Im italian I know the situation in italy very well. They did not want to lock down when someone asked it, government considers it "racist" and "discriminating". Please do not comment about it, I know it is insane. They are dumb. They did not try to prevent, just to contain.

Last news, 5 minutes ago, from sunday at 24:00 no one goes out or in. Cz will be totally locked

Thank you, Giorgio, for your explanations and for keeping the users informed. Can tou, please, give some informations about Zoe Sparx (it seems that she, differently than Vanessa Vega, could not shoot) and Lydia Black? Thanks.

Zoe shoot 1 scene only, I think will be released already tonight.
Lydia: she stuck here. to came back in USA she would need to spend 2 weeks in UK before to get on the plane and so far situation in UK is not better that rest of europe (in fact to allow UK people to came back in USA is a nonsense, UK gov. told clearly they are going to let people to die

[grey00owl]

Thanks again! Did Lydia shoot new scenes?

[BlueShadow]

"Peak by the end of March". Fabrizio Pregliasco, virologist of the University of Milan, interviewed by AdnKronos says so. It is difficult to make certain predictions about the coronavirus infection, "but the projections and scenarios are important for better planning interventions". Based on the trend in China and the Italian data, "we can estimate a scenario with a peak at the end of March and the end of the problem in Italy between May and June".

Fabrizio Pregliasco has been monitoring the trend of the flu season in the country for years. His picture is less optimistic than that anticipated these days by the press, which would set the peak at 16-17 March and exit the tunnel by the end of April.

"In the case of Covid-19 - warns Pregliasco - it is a new virus, but the Chinese experience and what is happening in the former red areas can tell us a lot".

Among the elements that can influence this scenario, according to Pregliasco, "there is the unknown factor represented by the rest of Europe and Great Britain. We see lack of coordination and uneven actions that can ruin what is being done in Italy ".

Then, the parallelism between the central and southern Italy and Europe: "It is difficult to evaluate the problem when it still seems distant, even physically. A bit like what happened in the Center-South when there was the red zone: you don't think the problem is yours. The images of full stadiums or the lack of interventions show that nothing has been learned from the Chinese and Italian experience ".

Look, Im italian I know the situation in italy very well. They did not want to lock down when someone asked it, government considers it "racist" and "discriminating". Please do not comment about it, I know it is insane. They are dumb. They did not try to prevent, just to contain.

Last news, 5 minutes ago, from sunday at 24:00 no one goes out or in. Cz will be totally locked

I know Giorgio.
Was just to give another point to support the fact that what you said (It is hard to say what will be the situation in 1 week from now, all Europe is in this fight, the main issue if that there is no any European coordination and any country is just alone. A total European lack of care for anything but money, it is a disturbing situation thinking about how it could have been basically easy to contain with a common politic and a common action to monitor the travelers from china and so at the beginning.) is not out of reality. Like ,maybe, someone can think...

[BlueShadow]

Maybe USA gov believe that those who come from Great Britain are immune.


I leave this here: ''There are those who think that the fools in the world are in a minority. Unfortunately, along with the fools, there are also incorrigible optimists.''

[YumYum74]

So if I understood correctly, the Czech Republic is to be closed for everyone? Not just the 16 or so 'risk countries'?

[BlueShadow]

The main problem can be the asymptomatic. 'cause no symptoms, no test... but in the meantime you spread the virus.

[Giorgio Grandi]

So if I understood correctly, the Czech Republic is to be closed for everyone? Not just the 16 or so 'risk countries'?

for what I understand (we, here in office), yes

[BlueShadow]

So if I understood correctly, the Czech Republic is to be closed for everyone? Not just the 16 or so 'risk countries'?

Seems yes. But Istill can't find the news right now, the last was what you say:
The Czech government said people coming from 15 countries, including the UK, Italy, Germany, Spain, and France, would not be allowed to enter the country for at least 30 days. It also barred citizens from traveling to the countries.

The 15 countries listed by the Czech government are:

United Kingdom
Italy
Spain
Norway
Holland
Belgium
Denmark
France
Austria
Germany
China
South Korea
Iran
Switzerland
Sweden

Areas where large numbers of people gather, like gyms, libraries, and swimming pools, will also be closed for at least 30 days. Bars and restaurants will have restricted hours.

[BlueShadow]

Take precautions do not mean to stop working, otherwise all working activity would be stopped by government decision.
Basically its not up to as take any decision about stop working activities, its a government directive.
For instance, in italy, most of factories and offices are working as usual, just taking precautions.
Siad that: knowing actors and their lifestyle, it is more save to continue performing taking precautions that go around to do escort and prostitution.[/quote]

In fact (as you maybe know) there are tension and strike about this.

[Giorgio Grandi]

So if I understood correctly, the Czech Republic is to be closed for everyone? Not just the 16 or so 'risk countries'?

Seems yes. But Istill can't find the news right now, the last was what you say:
The Czech government said people coming from 15 countries, including the UK, Italy, Germany, Spain, and France, would not be allowed to enter the country for at least 30 days. It also barred citizens from traveling to the countries.

The 15 countries listed by the Czech government are:

United Kingdom
Italy
Spain
Norway
Holland
Belgium
Denmark
France
Austria
Germany
China
South Korea
Iran
Switzerland
Sweden

Areas where large numbers of people gather, like gyms, libraries, and swimming pools, will also be closed for at least 30 days. Bars and restaurants will have restricted hours.

It has been update this morning.

[Giorgio Grandi]

For reference: https://www.idnes.cz/zpravy/domaci/vlad ... domaci_kop
(use google translator, transaction is pretty good)

[YumYum74]

It’s unprecedented, but it has to be done. On every scale. I have a slight cold at the moment and so can no longer visit my elderly mother who has a terminal disease. It sucks balls but I won’t risk it.

[BlueShadow]

https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-news/porn-coronavirus-covid19-962923/

Note: this article is from 6 march.

[avanfurwet]

Zoe shoot 1 scene only, I think will be released already tonight.
Lydia: she stuck here. to came back in USA she would need to spend 2 weeks in UK before to get on the plane and so far situation in UK is not better that rest of europe (in fact to allow UK people to came back in USA is a nonsense, UK gov. told clearly they are going to let people to die

Pretty sure UK Govt just said that unfortunately some people will die. Which is true, in every country.

IMO the Govt was trying to encourage people to wake up and act responsibly.

Of course the reaction of people is to panic-buy toilet rolls and to steal hand sanitiser from hospitals.

[Oscar Batty]

I am currently in Thailand, I have just contacted the Czech embassy here because my country is on the ban list. They e-mailed me stating that I will be able to re-enter Czech Republic because I am an EU citizen and have a temp residence permit in Czechia. I guess Czech citizens and resident permit holders will still be allowed in.
Stay safe guys!

[nilis]

Cz is doing what any country with a bit of comment sense should do: take care of his own residents avoid to have new spreaders coming from abroad, this is the reason why the restriction has been set up.
In the ban there is almost all europe, china, usa and many others.
We can still "import" people from several country, we will see in the next days.

Czech has several positive people, but except a couple of them, the positive are people that got it in italy or usa in the past week, in quarantine since they arrived back. Looking at how the situation has been handled in Italy, I believe here we are taking precaution instead than remedy, and this is the base for success in this fight imho.

It is hard to say what will be the situation in 1 week from now, all Europe is in this fight, the main issue if that there is no any European coordination and any country is just alone. A total European lack of care for anything but money, it is a disturbing situation thinking about how it could have been basically easy to contain with a common politic and a common action to monitor the travelers from china and so at the beginning.

We do not have any government limitation so far regarding working activity (and in CZ production of porn is equal to any other working activity), so most of producers are working as usual, just according to the limitations. It will be possible to get tested about Covid from beginning of next week in some state clinics, Im probably going to add a test on covid to our basic testing, but it is still not clear how it would work, we are investigating this just now.

I personally have about 2 months of updates, probably even a bit more.

Good info.
Thanks for sharing.

[BlueShadow]

I am currently in Thailand, I have just contacted the Czech embassy here because my country is on the ban list. They e-mailed me stating that I will be able to re-enter Czech Republic because I am an EU citizen and have a temp residence permit in Czechia. I guess Czech citizens and resident permit holders will still be allowed in.
Stay safe guys!

Yep!
Returning to your residence is a right of everybody, and it's permitted.
Same in Italy. You can travel to return to your residence place.

[geralt_]

Even if production stops, safety comes first. There is hundreds of scenes on this site viewers can enjoy meanwhile.
Safety of the peformers and staff is no. 1, new scenes is no. 2

[BlueShadow]

[jackthetreacleeater]

It's a good opportunity for LP to use some more local talent while Czechland is in lockdown. They can bring back some Czech girls that are sem-retired or willing to shoot once more. There's loads of Czech girls I'd like to see back again, many only an agent's phone call away.

[marcimilan]

Vera Delight.
Booom

[Holditstrong587]

It's strange that Italy are saying it will be gone by end of April. This may be the case if everyone isolates and then they cut themselves off from the rest of the world and don't let anyone into the country?

Here in England I've heard that Covid-19 will return each winter as it moves from the northern hemisphere to the south. Of course over time immunity should build up and maybe a vaccine will be available in 2021.

Also read reports that Covid-19 may be in the UK until Spring 2021! I'm assuming this is a worst case scenario. The source also said that it would go by end of June and return in November.

UK don't seem to be going with the majority of other countries. My feeling is that there should have been tighter measures early on when flights were coming in from China (have to isolate for 14 days if they want to enter UK) and the same with other countries like Italy - amazing that people up until a couple of days (at least) were returning without any checks!!

Giorgio also mentioned about tighter measures to stop the virus leaving China but a part of me feels that this was impossible to do. It'd probably have slowed the spread but would have still occurred. I read reports that people could have been passing on the virus as early as November as one of the strains of the virus, you don't have any symptoms for five days and the first five days is when an individual is at their most contagious.

Better finish by saying, hopefully this doesn't stop british talent from shooting hot scenes with Legal Porno.

Stay healthy all.

[Wotan29]

Glad to see some reasonable posts here.

A very vivid and interesting article with graphic corona simulations how different measures (or none!) work:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics ... d0pm_pop_b

To be honest: I´m expecting, Europe will suffer much more than Asia. Although they could (should!) have learned from China, European countries started first measures too late and now act only step by step (each country different!). Bad decision!

[Wotan29]

And to those, who panic if Model A or Model B shot a scene while her stay in Prague:
Seriously? That´s one of the most important things for you right now? People are crazy...

[avanfurwet]

And to those, who panic if Model A or Model B shot a scene while her stay in Prague:
Seriously? That´s one of the most important things for you right now? People are crazy...

^ Agree.

[Giorgio Grandi]

Research on a small village in Italy shows 50% of infected have no symptoms, and wont have symptoms at all.
said that, there is an article today on a very serious newspaper that bring to the conclusion in Milan the infected people with symptoms are at least the double, because who has symptoms and is able to make it alone at home, do not get tested.

--

Europe did what does better: been slow in everything, but everyone got to the same point more or less (go out from home only for work and buy food)
The more the people will follow it, the faster we will came back to a new normality.

Europe wont be be anymore the same, covid19 showed how Europe do not exist, its just a bunch of states that stay together for money and political reason (most of political reason are even very dumb) and money situation is insane.

Simple example, during Covid crisis:

Christine Lagarde told "spread is not a problem of europe"
Stock market falls totally

The day after Ursula von der Leyen told "money for everyone"
Stock market Raise.

To be clear: Christine Lagarde and Ursula von der Leyen are both paid from European Citizens

Christine Lagarde - President of the European Central Bank
Ursula von der Leyen - President of the European Commission

On the top of this, Ursula von der Leyen (very close to german gov., heart of the idea of free movement in europe and reception of immigrants ) told Austria and CZ did wrong about to close borders as it limits the freedom of movement in europe (this is the base of united europe) and 3 days after german closed the borders as well.

Mishmash of bureaucrats

Back to Porn,
like any other industry, we need to learn how to coexist with Covid19, until we will be able to add test on Covid19 to our STD testing or until a vaccine will be available.
this mean a lot of trouble, not only to avoid infection, but to handle talents as borders will be closed for some times and no one know when they will be again open and with what conditions.

[avanfurwet]

As an ex-citizen of the EU, I'm surprised that there seems to be little public show of EU-level leadership on this pandemic, even just for a show of unity.

Pretty sure that there would have been a different public show under Tusk and Juncker.

Instead we just see individual nation-states closing their borders and following different policies and practices.

It's all a big mess.