Universities, concerts, conventions and festivals are closing around America amid the fear over the coronavirus, but what about America's strip clubs?
Adult entertainment venues in NYC are staying open but combating the possibility of their employees coming in contact with the Wuhan virus by taking some extreme precautions.
FlashDancers NYC, which has locations in Times Square and Tribeca, is conducting “thorough deep cleans twice a day between each shift,” a manager named Bob K., who declined to give his last name, tells The Post.
Strippers “are also wearing face masks,” says the FlashDancers manager, “but I think they were joking around.”
Vivid Cabaret in Midtown also has “hand sanitizer stations around the club” and is “taking precautions with dancers going in and out,” according to a manager named Luke, who declined to give his last name to The Post.
The lucrative lap-dance hustle, however, is about the same as usual, Vivid Cabaret’s manager adds, though the club is bracing for a change in foot traffic during the “busy season” for the 2020 NCAA Men’s Basketball Tournament.
Meanwhile stripclubs in Florida making headlines as well.
Déjà Vu Showgirls Tampa announced Friday it would be giving away 10,000 face masks to its customers throughout March. Déjà Vu Services, Inc., the company that operates the strip club and 200 other strip clubs and adult-themed stores, announced a similar giveaway at Little Darlings, a sister location in Las Vegas. There, the company said it would give away 50,000 bottles of hand sanitizer, which health officials have said is more effective in fighting the spread of a virus.
That's all well and good but a face mask isn't gonna protect you from the Wuhan disease when someone infected with the coronavirus just grinded their backside on your lap for 15 minutes.