If you are working out at the gym maskless... question

[Anonymous]

I don't wear a mask when I am actively exercising. I have started wearing a mask any other time I am in public around people. Generally at the gym, I am appropriately distanced so it's not an issue. I am fully vaccinated. I will do whatever is necessary to protect young children and others who cannot receive the vaccine. Because, I'm not a selfish asshole.

[Anonymous]

I do not mask at the gym. The gym is an optional thing. If you're worried about Covid, not vaccinated, high risk, or whatever, you don't have to go. You can make a home gym or find a gym that does require masks (I know some small ones that do). I wear a mask other places because they aren't optional. The grocery store? Maybe you can't afford the added costs of delivery or don't have someone who can shop for you. I don't mask outside ans never have (though I don't live in a highly populated area)

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I don't wear a mask when I am actively exercising. I have started wearing a mask any other time I am in public around people. Generally at the gym, I am appropriately distanced so it's not an issue. I am fully vaccinated. I will do whatever is necessary to protect young children and others who cannot receive the vaccine. Because, I'm not a selfish asshole.

If you have Covid, walking to the equipment and then removing your mask isn't going to magically make it so your Covid germs don't spread. That said, I appropriately distance at the gym and have before Covid bevause I just prefer it. But don't act like people who aren't masking from the entrance to the machines are assholes.

[Anonymous]

I was going to spin class maskless, because they offered classes where you had to prove your vax status. With the rise of the Delta variant, and knowing what we do now about vaccinated people both contracting and spreading the disease, spin class seems like an excellent vector for transmission, so I've stopped going entirely.

[Anonymous]

I do not mask at the gym. The gym is an optional thing. If you're worried about Covid, not vaccinated, high risk, or whatever, you don't have to go. You can make a home gym or find a gym that does require masks (I know some small ones that do). I wear a mask other places because they aren't optional. The grocery store? Maybe you can't afford the added costs of delivery or don't have someone who can shop for you. I don't mask outside ans never have (though I don't live in a highly populated area)

This kind of aligns with my thinking. I only go to the gym for a specific class and we have all provided our proof of vaccination and don't wear masks. Everywhere else, I don't know who is around and I'm used to wearing a mask constantly for work, so it feels like better safe than sorry. I am also happy not to have been sick with anything for the last year and a half so I'm happy to continue that trend.

That said, I am re-evaluating my comfort with the risk of attending this class every single time I go.

[Anonymous]

My rationale is that people going to the gym are likely to be healthy at the moment of going to the gym whereas at stores that might not necessarily be the case. Remember people go to CVS to pick up meds when they are sick. It’s not only COVID, want to avoid other bugs too.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I work out maskless and don’t wear a mask anywhere I don’t have to. At this point, that is pretty much Drs offices and hospital.

I don’t plan on wearing a mask again unless I’m mandated. I’m vaccinated. Covid is mostly spreading among unvaccinated. The vaccinated that do get a break through case are mild. I’m in my 30s with no risk factors

That mild, breakthrough case is contagious and could kill an unvaccinated child. Or an adult who, for medical reasons cannot receive a vaccine. I’m fully vaccinated. I’m masking again in public to protect young children. I do not wear a mask when I work out.

Are you also not letting kids ride in cars? Because that risk of life is higher than COVID for a kid. If you want to wear a mask, you should, but the risk to kids is extremely small and wearing a mask isn't moving it in any material way.

[Anonymous]

My gym is a small community gym that validates vaccination status prior to entry. Also, I am typically there as one of three folks I know very well (older and vaccinated). Therefore, I do not mask at the gym. I do mask at Safeway and other stores because I do not know the status of the people I encounter there. Also because it's the polite thing to do right now.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I work out maskless and don’t wear a mask anywhere I don’t have to. At this point, that is pretty much Drs offices and hospital.

I don’t plan on wearing a mask again unless I’m mandated. I’m vaccinated. Covid is mostly spreading among unvaccinated. The vaccinated that do get a break through case are mild. I’m in my 30s with no risk factors

That mild, breakthrough case is contagious and could kill an unvaccinated child. Or an adult who, for medical reasons cannot receive a vaccine. I’m fully vaccinated. I’m masking again in public to protect young children. I do not wear a mask when I work out.

Can you explain the rationale of working out maskless at a gym, but then wearing a mask at say, Safeway or Target?

DP, and one who is going maskless most of the time, but this is a mental question. If you buckle your seatbelt 80% of the time and leave it off 20% of the time does that mean its pointless? Certainly not if you get into a car accident during the 80%.

Exposing yourself in one setting in a considered way and throwing all caution out the window will give you different exposure levels to COVID and different levels of risk in passing it on.

I could easily see someone seeing the gym is an acceptable risk but upping mask compliance across the board BECAUSE the non-masking at the gym heightens their risk of catching it so they do what they can to ensure they don't spread it if they get it and are asymptomatic or something.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Fact: 99 percent of Covid cases are from the unvaccinated. I’m vaccinated and been working out massless for over a year now at the gym. Not wearing a mask unless required.

Cite your source. Do you know about the Cape Cod outbreak recently where 75% of the covid cases were from vaccinated adults?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I work out maskless and don’t wear a mask anywhere I don’t have to. At this point, that is pretty much Drs offices and hospital.

I don’t plan on wearing a mask again unless I’m mandated. I’m vaccinated. Covid is mostly spreading among unvaccinated. The vaccinated that do get a break through case are mild. I’m in my 30s with no risk factors

That mild, breakthrough case is contagious and could kill an unvaccinated child. Or an adult who, for medical reasons cannot receive a vaccine. I’m fully vaccinated. I’m masking again in public to protect young children. I do not wear a mask when I work out.

Can you explain the rationale of working out maskless at a gym, but then wearing a mask at say, Safeway or Target?

DP, and one who is going maskless most of the time, but this is a mental question. If you buckle your seatbelt 80% of the time and leave it off 20% of the time does that mean its pointless? Certainly not if you get into a car accident during the 80%.

Exposing yourself in one setting in a considered way and throwing all caution out the window will give you different exposure levels to COVID and different levels of risk in passing it on.

I could easily see someone seeing the gym is an acceptable risk but upping mask compliance across the board BECAUSE the non-masking at the gym heightens their risk of catching it so they do what they can to ensure they don't spread it if they get it and are asymptomatic or something.

I think you all need to reassess based on the changes in the past week. It has changed a LOT in just the past week. IMO, the CDC at this point needs to mandate mask wearing all across the country and everywhere. And I have rarely worn a mask all summer because I'm vaccinated.

[Anonymous]

I was masking at the gym but last week decided to stop going until my kids can get vaccinated.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I was masking at the gym but last week decided to stop going until my kids can get vaccinated.

Flu season is going to be very quiet for your family.

[Anonymous]

That mild, breakthrough case is contagious and could kill an unvaccinated child.

The odds of this are so miniscule it is a preposterous reason to mask.

You never wore a mask in past flu seasons, even though the flu could theoretically kill a child.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I work out maskless and don’t wear a mask anywhere I don’t have to. At this point, that is pretty much Drs offices and hospital.

I don’t plan on wearing a mask again unless I’m mandated. I’m vaccinated. Covid is mostly spreading among unvaccinated. The vaccinated that do get a break through case are mild. I’m in my 30s with no risk factors

That mild, breakthrough case is contagious and could kill an unvaccinated child. Or an adult who, for medical reasons cannot receive a vaccine. I’m fully vaccinated. I’m masking again in public to protect young children. I do not wear a mask when I work out.

Can you explain the rationale of working out maskless at a gym, but then wearing a mask at say, Safeway or Target?

About 300 kids have died from Covid. More have died from the flu. You are not saving anyone by wearing a mask while vaccinated.

Untrue, delta is a gamechanger, more contagious and more likely to make children sicker.