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Flywheel itself has assured regulars via email that they use commercial-grade cleaning products and have taken extra precautions to sanitize studios. Plus, we just dont really high five any more, she said.

In some cases, business has been above average, like at the popular Brooklyn bookstore and events space, Books Are Magic. I will say that in this fuzzy in-between time where people are staying home, but not in their houses, the bookstore is crazy busy, Emma Straub, the stores co-owner, said. It has been busier than usual every day for the last week and people are stocking up.

It feels a little bit like the grocery store and were selling all the chickpeas and the anchovies so people can stay home and make their Alison Roman recipes when theyre in quarantine, she added.

Its the larger events that have taken a hit. Usually, she said, between 20 to 50 people dont show up to big ticketed events, but she estimates an additional 20 or 30 people have called ahead and said, listen, I want a refund or whatever, please send my book to me because Im not feeling well. Books Are Magic had to cancel one event, but only because the guests, two childrens book authors, had been planning to fly into the city and decided not to travel.

With group gatherings now clearly under suspicion, if not outright avoided (what, I ask you again, constitutes a large gathering?), one-on-one appointments might be the next question mark.

Carrie Lindsey, an aesthetician based in Fort Greene, still hasnt seen mass cancellations. Shes reassured clients of her own CDC-recommended health practices, like biking or driving to work instead of taking public transportation. Since in recent months, Lindsey has become well known for her face sculpting massage, which involves massaging inside the clients mouth (while wearing surgical gloves, of course), she is wondering whether she should be bracing for a hit. But so far, cancellations have been limited to two in the last four days. One was on April 26, the sculptural facial lifting treatment, Lindsey said. And then I had a client who had reached out from Italy that booked in the summer and they canceled.

Before it becomes necessary to stop booking appointments, Lindsey continues to clean all of her implements with ultraviolet lights and pays extra attention to doorknobs and other high-traffic areas in her offices with straight alcohol.

As for the mouth-focused facial massage, she said [Yakov Gershkovich], the guy who trained me, [taught me that] once the gloves go on, its like youre a doctor going into surgery. I dont touch anything once my gloves are on except for going straight into the mouth. If they touch anything, its contamination. The gloves have to come off and I have to glove up again.

As for what news will impel her to postpone her appointments, Lindsey said shed follow the CDC and New York state of emergency guidelines. Plus, just in case, she has a friend whos a scientist in France and Ive emailed with him. And Im like, Will you tell me when?

I appreciate these reassurances of sanitation and best CDC-recommended practices from local businesses. Theyre facing potentially huge losses already, even before potentially stricter measures go into effect, and Im anxious over to what extent I should treat business as usual. But now that the novel coronavirus has been declared a pandemic and more and more health experts are suggesting that more stringent precautions be put into place in the U.S., I wish my local pilates studio didnt have to be the arbiter of that information.

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