As the kids find strength growing up. Might. Work. On youtube. A Global Pandemic means the sex workers of the world are facing difficulties. Protecting both their health and income is a hard balance to strike. This is my only job that can earn enough money to support a family. Due to the lockdown i lost my in kind. Of thing at. The end here and there is no effective way to protect yourself from the coronavirus. What should we do here spray times from head to toe with disinfectant so its not profitable so. I just really have to wait until. Almost almost everything is open. And then i go because i want to call myself as well someone. You know i am not sure. Like few other professions their health and livelihood are on the line and the varying degrees of legality and within which they operate provide another layer of vulnerability many in the sex Work Community struggling to survive. Im chris cuomo and welcome to covey 19 special here under w. Potential if you give me a logical super spreaders thats what some german politicians called sex workers during the corona Virus Outbreak a label thats cost some pushback now that brothels and other stablish mines are reopening we look at how the pandemic has been impacting a business that is the very opposite. Sex always sells they say a supposedly crisis proof profession but its the very opposite. Social distancing so the Coronavirus Crisis has made life tough for those who make a living selling their bodies the virus threatens the very core of their business. Some of my guests have weakened immune systems because i specially if theyre a bit older when i might makes me think what if i want to infect them. Germanys brothels have to close for a while amid a lockdown thats recently started to ease but many of the countrys estimated 400000 sex workers live in a precarious Economic Situation anyway the lock down made their lives more difficult. In kind of a plaque they havent got any money aside from their work was banned from one day to the next its very difficult. To support center for prostitutes is doing what it can to help women get by but not all brothels have been allowed to reopen across germany yes. Their mom lets entry into britain are different if you use the proper disinfection materials what can go wrong the beauty salons are open the dentists are operating so. At this venue efforts are being made to make sure surfaces are clean but doctors say such measures wont keep customers or sex workers safe this is again a concept its this idea man is well needed considering how close the contacts are and how difficult it is to trace their customers i really doubt it will work is minus a. Meanwhile covert has rekindled a political debate about prostitution 16 members of the German Parliament launched a campaign to get it by and they say the countrys liberal laws have not protected women as they were intended to. Give us an its hard to 18 years on why no it has tried to they failed geminis the process i think we are talking country for european and worldwide trafficking of people for sexual and. Other politicians say all of ever does is push the problems into the shadows beyond the reach of laws on the coronavirus is proved. Right now we are seeing that many women who work anymore because of the context of being kept like animals exploited by their customers and thats what would happen if we try to outlaw prostitution. Its an old debate with new relevance because of the virus for now most of the women say theyre worried about staying in work and staying safe. For more lets bring in. Is the executive director of the coalition against trafficking and women welcome to the Program Countries are reopening their economies should sex workers also be allowed to get back to their jobs. Well this question is rather complicated because you are assuming that prostitution is work like any other which we dont agree on and also this is not about simply the women in prostitution that we are talking about were talking about a system of exploitation situation and prostitution in germany which as we all know is legal has contributed to a vast commercial Sexual Exploitation that includes countrywide. Brothels that make money from the trafficking and exploitation of the most Vulnerable Women from Eastern Europe and the global south so the question that we need to ask is. Brothels not reopen because we know that brothel owners and brothel managers are part of. A global multibillion dollar system. Of severe exploitation of human rights violation that do human eyes as women and contributes to severe physical psychological and other harm tena have coronavirus restrictions like closed borders have any impact on the trafficking of women and girls. Well the coronavirus has has really. Put a spotlight on what happens to the most vulnerable so i am in the United States we see the inequality economic racial and other inequalities that have been exacerbated by the corona virus it is exactly the same scenario for prostituted and sex trafficked women in germany where the borders are closed women are on the street. 5 and again you know if if prostitution were job like any other people would register. Germany estimates that up to between 20400000 women and a few men and trans women are in prostitution only 39 have registered with the government that says something to the German Government that says that the laws will not eliminate the stigma attached to prostitution and also they truly fail to examine who the human beings are who are being bought and sold by them and its also how are you going to. Exercise Safety Measures that that all of the Health Institutions have given us under the krona guidelines when it comes to exchange and bodily fluids and all of the of their sexual acts that are involved in prostitution it and i mean really impossible of the coalition against trafficking and women we have to leave it there thank you for speaking to us thank you. Next up are your questions about the Novel Coronavirus and our science correspondent staring williams as. What about people testing positive weeks or even months after a 1st positive p. C. R. Test what does this mean. Some people continue to test positive for the virus long after coming down with the disease and to be honest we still dont really know what that means the problem is that a p. C. R. Test only detects sorest whove to use genetic material its r. N. A. But it doesnt say anything about whether or not that d. N. A. Is coming from viable virus to find that out you have to culture a sample from the positive patient which is is laborious and time consuming because the sample is potentially infectious but where thats been done the indications are that the virus that p. C. R. Tests detect in long term positive patients that those viruses are not able to replicate so many experts now think that although some people play your early take longer to get the virus out of their systems that doesnt mean that theyre infectious for weeks on end. Is there a risk that a covert 19 vaccine could trigger an auto immune disorder like lupus. You know no matter what you answer on a question like this someone is going to end up screaming at you so im going to go with the World Health Organizations website on the issue of Adverse Reactions to vaccines which would include things like the development of an auto immune disorder after being vaccinated the w. H. O. Says that very rarely serious adverse effects to vaccines do occur but despite that there is no question. The benefits of vaccination very much outweigh the risks so could our theoretical kogut 19 vaccine theoretically trigger an auto immune disorder yes i guess so but the chance is likely to be very slight and the upside of acquiring even personally munity to cope at 19 through a vaccine would be huge assuming of course that the vaccine candid it has been properly tested. On june the 15th travel restrictions on germans leaving the country will be lifted is it also reopening its borders to international. In the course of its lockdown germany introduced bans for for most nonessential travel and some of them will continue through june 15th although cross border traffic routes have already been reopened and the checks are no longer really systematic the countrys interior ministry has stated that its now planning to also lift those bans on that date for travelers from other e. U. Member states as well as as from britain from iceland from norway from Mission China and from switzerland as long as lockdowns and travel bans have also eased in those countries German Health officials will be keeping a close eye on coronavirus related activity that was so so theres a chance those plans will change if things also change on the ground somewhere in europe its still a pretty fluid situation. And thats our show thanks for watching. Choosing the 1st wisely. You could have an effect on your entire career. What should people starting a new profession look out for. Which mistakes in pitfalls should they avoid. My 1st day at a new job tips for a path to success. Made in germany. On d w. Resisting racism in france. All been to say the air of immigrants is of the forefront of this movement. 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