Do we still have to wear masks in gyms?

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Anonymous wrote:I'm fully vaccinated, and going back to the gym was the first thing I did. Masks need to be required there until more adults are vaccinated, period. We're not talking about outdoors, we're talking about people breathing heavily indoors, FFS.

I get that exercising indoors maskless really freaks many people out, but many of us have been doing it for nearly an entire year, with no whispers of covid at our gyms, or ourselves (including not being asymptomatic). You do you, but many of us are not worried.

And you know that, how? Do you honestly expect everyone is going to report their COVID cases to their gyms? Do you honestly trust the gyms to report these cases to all their clients? I sure don't. I'll trust the many scientists who have long considered working out at gyms, indoors, as high risk activities with respect to COVID over some random person on the internet, but hey, you do you.

I know that because I became a "gymrat" 6 years ago, when I lost over 50lbs. I've made friends with people, trainers, instructors, and staff. I've spent probably 7 hours a week unmasked at gyms since they reopened, and have never gotten covid (and no antibodies). I see the same people day after day, week after week, and they're also still healthy.

I get it, you probably haven't been to a gym in the past year and 2 months, and the mystery confuses you. But don't pretend to have an idea of what you're talking about with zero experience.

Honey, I’ll take the advice of public health experts over your anecdata any day. Because, yes, they do know more about these things than you do.

Yes sweetie pie, because experts have regularly hit the nail on the head with regard to covid. But if you want to make more excuses to not exercise and work on your physical and mental health, don't blame others for pointing out the repeated excuses -- as you sit at home knowing nothing about what you're talking about, blaming everyone but individual responsibility and sovereign choices when it comes to obesity.

I feel sorry for you, PP. It must be hard to be so miserable that you make up stories—which are completely false—about strangers on the internet to make yourself feel better.

lol wait what? You haven't even been to a maskless gym (probably any gym, period) and are claiming that the know about risk there - yet I'm the one making up stories? Pot, meet kettle.

Get thee to a gym. Get your vaccine. Take a zumba class without a mask. Have good, healthy, safe fun. Do it again and again and again.

No, see, this is where you’re making sh*t up to resolve your own cognitive dissonance. I am vaccinated. I went back to the gym as soon as I was fully vaccinated (which you’d know if you were paying attention to my earlier post you responded to). I have no interest in a maskless gym right now, not because I worry about getting sick myself, but because most adults in this country aren’t vaccinated and I don’t want to encourage *them* to go maskless in gyms. Also, I worked out hard, daily, at home for this entire pandemic because I can be flexible about my workouts—a habit I learned from 14+ years as a competitive athlete, and which stuck with me in the the 16 years since I stopped competing.

Last but not least, the risk level in gyms isn’t something *I* made up, it’s something that public health experts have agreed is one of the riskiest things to do, indoors, unmasked (chart here: https://www.texmed.org/TexasMedicineDetail.aspx?id=54216 ). I’ve had kids in childcare this past year, so I sure as hell wasn’t going to risk their caregivers’ health by going to the gym unmasked.

Your link is nearly a year old - gyms have been open a year. Got any other actual data that's current?

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These b !tches are crazy. Mask the eff up in the gym. You can still spread the COVID you selfish dogs

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Anonymous wrote:I'm fully vaccinated, and going back to the gym was the first thing I did. Masks need to be required there until more adults are vaccinated, period. We're not talking about outdoors, we're talking about people breathing heavily indoors, FFS.

I get that exercising indoors maskless really freaks many people out, but many of us have been doing it for nearly an entire year, with no whispers of covid at our gyms, or ourselves (including not being asymptomatic). You do you, but many of us are not worried.

And you know that, how? Do you honestly expect everyone is going to report their COVID cases to their gyms? Do you honestly trust the gyms to report these cases to all their clients? I sure don't. I'll trust the many scientists who have long considered working out at gyms, indoors, as high risk activities with respect to COVID over some random person on the internet, but hey, you do you.

I know that because I became a "gymrat" 6 years ago, when I lost over 50lbs. I've made friends with people, trainers, instructors, and staff. I've spent probably 7 hours a week unmasked at gyms since they reopened, and have never gotten covid (and no antibodies). I see the same people day after day, week after week, and they're also still healthy.

I get it, you probably haven't been to a gym in the past year and 2 months, and the mystery confuses you. But don't pretend to have an idea of what you're talking about with zero experience.

Honey, I’ll take the advice of public health experts over your anecdata any day. Because, yes, they do know more about these things than you do.

Yes sweetie pie, because experts have regularly hit the nail on the head with regard to covid. But if you want to make more excuses to not exercise and work on your physical and mental health, don't blame others for pointing out the repeated excuses -- as you sit at home knowing nothing about what you're talking about, blaming everyone but individual responsibility and sovereign choices when it comes to obesity.

I feel sorry for you, PP. It must be hard to be so miserable that you make up stories—which are completely false—about strangers on the internet to make yourself feel better.

lol wait what? You haven't even been to a maskless gym (probably any gym, period) and are claiming that the know about risk there - yet I'm the one making up stories? Pot, meet kettle.

Get thee to a gym. Get your vaccine. Take a zumba class without a mask. Have good, healthy, safe fun. Do it again and again and again.

No, see, this is where you’re making sh*t up to resolve your own cognitive dissonance. I am vaccinated. I went back to the gym as soon as I was fully vaccinated (which you’d know if you were paying attention to my earlier post you responded to). I have no interest in a maskless gym right now, not because I worry about getting sick myself, but because most adults in this country aren’t vaccinated and I don’t want to encourage *them* to go maskless in gyms. Also, I worked out hard, daily, at home for this entire pandemic because I can be flexible about my workouts—a habit I learned from 14+ years as a competitive athlete, and which stuck with me in the the 16 years since I stopped competing.

Last but not least, the risk level in gyms isn’t something *I* made up, it’s something that public health experts have agreed is one of the riskiest things to do, indoors, unmasked (chart here: https://www.texmed.org/TexasMedicineDetail.aspx?id=54216 ). I’ve had kids in childcare this past year, so I sure as hell wasn’t going to risk their caregivers’ health by going to the gym unmasked.

The link you posted contains no actual data about covid risk from gyms. Locally, gyms generally opened in June 2020. Your link is from July 2020. It is currently May 2021, a year later, and there have been very few outbreaks or even anecdotes from people getting covid at gyms. But do whatever you want, just don't claim that it's based on actual data or evidence.

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Anonymous wrote:No, not in Virginia while exercising.

I forgot - Virginia seems to think the pandemic no longer exists.

Gyms have been open in VA, and, maskless, FOR A YEAR. And covid spread has been negligible and rare in gyms. I get that this doesn't fit your tiny brain's narrative, but as someone who returned (maskless!) in June 2020, it's been impressively safe.

Why do you keep posting this BS. You have NO idea whether covid spread has been “negligible and rare” in gyms. The steroids are obviously affecting your brain.

I don't take steriods - I mostly go to the gym for cardio, as a 40 year old woman. And yes I do now covid has been negligible and rare at gyms - you'd know this too, if you actually went with any regularity and had friends you see regularly at the gym.

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Anonymous wrote:I'm fully vaccinated, and going back to the gym was the first thing I did. Masks need to be required there until more adults are vaccinated, period. We're not talking about outdoors, we're talking about people breathing heavily indoors, FFS.

I get that exercising indoors maskless really freaks many people out, but many of us have been doing it for nearly an entire year, with no whispers of covid at our gyms, or ourselves (including not being asymptomatic). You do you, but many of us are not worried.

And you know that, how? Do you honestly expect everyone is going to report their COVID cases to their gyms? Do you honestly trust the gyms to report these cases to all their clients? I sure don't. I'll trust the many scientists who have long considered working out at gyms, indoors, as high risk activities with respect to COVID over some random person on the internet, but hey, you do you.

I know that because I became a "gymrat" 6 years ago, when I lost over 50lbs. I've made friends with people, trainers, instructors, and staff. I've spent probably 7 hours a week unmasked at gyms since they reopened, and have never gotten covid (and no antibodies). I see the same people day after day, week after week, and they're also still healthy.

I get it, you probably haven't been to a gym in the past year and 2 months, and the mystery confuses you. But don't pretend to have an idea of what you're talking about with zero experience.

Honey, I’ll take the advice of public health experts over your anecdata any day. Because, yes, they do know more about these things than you do.

Yes sweetie pie, because experts have regularly hit the nail on the head with regard to covid. But if you want to make more excuses to not exercise and work on your physical and mental health, don't blame others for pointing out the repeated excuses -- as you sit at home knowing nothing about what you're talking about, blaming everyone but individual responsibility and sovereign choices when it comes to obesity.

I feel sorry for you, PP. It must be hard to be so miserable that you make up stories—which are completely false—about strangers on the internet to make yourself feel better.

lol wait what? You haven't even been to a maskless gym (probably any gym, period) and are claiming that the know about risk there - yet I'm the one making up stories? Pot, meet kettle.

Get thee to a gym. Get your vaccine. Take a zumba class without a mask. Have good, healthy, safe fun. Do it again and again and again.

No, see, this is where you’re making sh*t up to resolve your own cognitive dissonance. I am vaccinated. I went back to the gym as soon as I was fully vaccinated (which you’d know if you were paying attention to my earlier post you responded to). I have no interest in a maskless gym right now, not because I worry about getting sick myself, but because most adults in this country aren’t vaccinated and I don’t want to encourage *them* to go maskless in gyms. Also, I worked out hard, daily, at home for this entire pandemic because I can be flexible about my workouts—a habit I learned from 14+ years as a competitive athlete, and which stuck with me in the the 16 years since I stopped competing.

Last but not least, the risk level in gyms isn’t something *I* made up, it’s something that public health experts have agreed is one of the riskiest things to do, indoors, unmasked (chart here: https://www.texmed.org/TexasMedicineDetail.aspx?id=54216 ). I’ve had kids in childcare this past year, so I sure as hell wasn’t going to risk their caregivers’ health by going to the gym unmasked.

Your link is nearly a year old - gyms have been open a year. Got any other actual data that's current?

PP was arguing that she’s been going to the gym safely, unmasked, for the past year, i.e., when this link was published. Instead of owning the truth - that she took a risk and got lucky - she’s been making all kinds of mean-spirited assumptions about those of us who weren’t willing to take that risk back then. Her inability to just say, yeah, I got lucky, is striking.

As for now, there are definitely ways to open gyms safely, unmasked and unvaccinated, but it’s not clear that most gyms have taken those mitigation steps.

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Anonymous wrote:No, not in Virginia while exercising.

I forgot - Virginia seems to think the pandemic no longer exists.

Gyms have been open in VA, and, maskless, FOR A YEAR. And covid spread has been negligible and rare in gyms. I get that this doesn't fit your tiny brain's narrative, but as someone who returned (maskless!) in June 2020, it's been impressively safe.

Why do you keep posting this BS. You have NO idea whether covid spread has been “negligible and rare” in gyms. The steroids are obviously affecting your brain.

I don't take steriods - I mostly go to the gym for cardio, as a 40 year old woman. And yes I do now covid has been negligible and rare at gyms - you'd know this too, if you actually went with any regularity and had friends you see regularly at the gym.

God you’re stupid. You should submit your anecdotal data to the CDC for future guidelines on indoor workouts in a pandemic. Also, who the F goes to a gym to do cardio anytime, let alone during a pandemic.

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I always start my workout wearing mask but have to take it off half way. There is no way to get enough airflow. Plus last year in another country some middle schoolers were running wearing mask and died, so I was very cautious about getting enough air.

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Went to my large gym today. About 20 percent in masks.

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Anonymous wrote:Went to my large gym today. About 20 percent in masks.

Mine was the opposite. Only 20% without masks.

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Anonymous wrote:Went to my large gym today. About 20 percent in masks.

It would be helpful if you tell us where

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Anonymous wrote:Went to my large gym today. About 20 percent in masks.

It would be helpful if you tell us where

My NOVA gold’s also emailed people that fully vaccinated people can stop wearing masks and for the rest it is recommended to continue wearing them, but they did not say they require it. And of course no one will check who is vaccinated and who is not, so I guess masks will become a rarity pretty quickly.

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Are there any gyms in Bethesda right now that don’t require masks during cardio?

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Anonymous wrote:Are there any gyms in Bethesda right now that don’t require masks during cardio?

None that I know of. I believe it is a MoCo requirement.

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Anonymous wrote:I'm fully vaccinated, and going back to the gym was the first thing I did. Masks need to be required there until more adults are vaccinated, period. We're not talking about outdoors, we're talking about people breathing heavily indoors, FFS.

I get that exercising indoors maskless really freaks many people out, but many of us have been doing it for nearly an entire year, with no whispers of covid at our gyms, or ourselves (including not being asymptomatic). You do you, but many of us are not worried.

And you know that, how? Do you honestly expect everyone is going to report their COVID cases to their gyms? Do you honestly trust the gyms to report these cases to all their clients? I sure don't. I'll trust the many scientists who have long considered working out at gyms, indoors, as high risk activities with respect to COVID over some random person on the internet, but hey, you do you.

I know that because I became a "gymrat" 6 years ago, when I lost over 50lbs. I've made friends with people, trainers, instructors, and staff. I've spent probably 7 hours a week unmasked at gyms since they reopened, and have never gotten covid (and no antibodies). I see the same people day after day, week after week, and they're also still healthy.

I get it, you probably haven't been to a gym in the past year and 2 months, and the mystery confuses you. But don't pretend to have an idea of what you're talking about with zero experience.

Honey, I’ll take the advice of public health experts over your anecdata any day. Because, yes, they do know more about these things than you do.

Yes sweetie pie, because experts have regularly hit the nail on the head with regard to covid. But if you want to make more excuses to not exercise and work on your physical and mental health, don't blame others for pointing out the repeated excuses -- as you sit at home knowing nothing about what you're talking about, blaming everyone but individual responsibility and sovereign choices when it comes to obesity.

I feel sorry for you, PP. It must be hard to be so miserable that you make up stories—which are completely false—about strangers on the internet to make yourself feel better.

lol wait what? You haven't even been to a maskless gym (probably any gym, period) and are claiming that the know about risk there - yet I'm the one making up stories? Pot, meet kettle.

Get thee to a gym. Get your vaccine. Take a zumba class without a mask. Have good, healthy, safe fun. Do it again and again and again.

No, see, this is where you’re making sh*t up to resolve your own cognitive dissonance. I am vaccinated. I went back to the gym as soon as I was fully vaccinated (which you’d know if you were paying attention to my earlier post you responded to). I have no interest in a maskless gym right now, not because I worry about getting sick myself, but because most adults in this country aren’t vaccinated and I don’t want to encourage *them* to go maskless in gyms. Also, I worked out hard, daily, at home for this entire pandemic because I can be flexible about my workouts—a habit I learned from 14+ years as a competitive athlete, and which stuck with me in the the 16 years since I stopped competing.

Last but not least, the risk level in gyms isn’t something *I* made up, it’s something that public health experts have agreed is one of the riskiest things to do, indoors, unmasked (chart here: https://www.texmed.org/TexasMedicineDetail.aspx?id=54216 ). I’ve had kids in childcare this past year, so I sure as hell wasn’t going to risk their caregivers’ health by going to the gym unmasked.

Your link is nearly a year old - gyms have been open a year. Got any other actual data that's current?

PP was arguing that she’s been going to the gym safely, unmasked, for the past year, i.e., when this link was published. Instead of owning the truth - that she took a risk and got lucky - she’s been making all kinds of mean-spirited assumptions about those of us who weren’t willing to take that risk back then. Her inability to just say, yeah, I got lucky, is striking.

As for now, there are definitely ways to open gyms safely, unmasked and unvaccinated, but it’s not clear that most gyms have taken those mitigation steps.

Look I've been taking the same gym glasses for nearly a year, in person, without a mask. In rooms of 10-45 people. And general machine usage. I see the same people in those classes multiple times a week. I haven't gotten covid, and neither have they. And I know for certain that I didn't get it even asymptomatically in the 500 or so maskless hours I've spent at the gym in the past year.

I know doctors (even ones who work directly with covid patients) who've been to their gyms maskless. No covid. The 100-200 people I know who've been to the gym maskless (and covid free) are not all extraordinarily lucky - for whatever reason, covid just doesn't seem to be spreading at gyms. Yes I get that it makes no sense to you, but this isn't just my "luck" - its the experience of so, so, so many people. I know it, they know it, and that's the truth.

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Anonymous wrote:Went to my large gym today. About 20 percent in masks.

It would be helpful if you tell us where

My NOVA gold’s also emailed people that fully vaccinated people can stop wearing masks and for the rest it is recommended to continue wearing them, but they did not say they require it. And of course no one will check who is vaccinated and who is not, so I guess masks will become a rarity pretty quickly.

So, as expected, today when I arrived maybe 30% were wearing masks. By the time I left, when the gym got a little less busy, it was maybe 10-15%. I expect by the end of the week only the old man who always obsessively sprays and wipes everything will be wearing a mask.