Do we still have to wear masks in gyms?

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And what, pray tell, would that existing evidence be? These "doctors" that PP knows? The "100 - 200 people" whose health history she's intimately familiar with?

The science suggests that doing cardio indoors and unmasked with other unmasked people is probably likely to lead to at least some transmission of an *airborne* virus, unless said cardio is occurring in an wind tunnel.

The fact that gyms have been open for almost a year without almost any major outbreaks (and none in this area as far as I know) that would force to close them again should be evidence enough.
I do believe that unmasked cardio can spread the virus, but it very much looks like that either the imposed distancing prevented it or, in my view more likely, people who chose to return to the gym were cautious enough in other parts of their lives and/or privileged enough to be able to work from home and thus they never contracted COVID and had nothing to spread in the gym.

Reality hasn't conformed to pp's fear and she has no "science" to back it up. I totally understand that returning to the gym, unmasked, is anxiety inducing for a lot of people. But tens of thousands (hundreds?) of us in VA alone have returned to working out maskless without any issue. There haven't been outbreaks, or whispers off the record from employees, staff, or customers. The evidence of covid spread just isn't there. Maybe it's the spacing enforcement, air ventilation changes, temp checks (as a partial deterrent), or just generally health conscious people... but if pp had ever returned to a gym, they'd see how many people have had healthy, safe experiences in a year. It isn't "luck." Skip it if you'd like, but pp has absolutely no idea what she's talking about.

For the umpteenth time, going back to the gym was the FIRST thing I did when I was fully vaccinated. And no, it wasn't reassuring, given how many people had their masks around their noses, weren't observing spacing guidelines, etc. - and that was just in the free weights section, where people aren't breathing as heavily as during cardio.

Your inability to read what PPs are saying, let alone correctly process it, is painful.

I work out in the weights area and breath heavily, it’s actually not safe to workout wearing a mask unless you are doing Tracy Anderson.

There are middle schoolers running with masks died last year. If you don’t welcome people who want to work out without a mask, just put that in the contract, waiver ect... there are plenty of gyms or private gyms that will take us.

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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.

Oh, I assure you, I am not the one with a tiny brain.

I assure you, yes, you are. But with regards to everything else, there's almost certainly nothing tiny about you.

Seriously, go to the gym. Take off your mask and get a good workout. It's been fine even pre-vaccination.

Let me guess - Q told you Covid is caused by 5G and not from infected people?
There isn’t an eye roll big enough for you. If you knew any long haulers you would not say such stupid things.

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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.

Oh, I assure you, I am not the one with a tiny brain.

I assure you, yes, you are. But with regards to everything else, there's almost certainly nothing tiny about you.

Seriously, go to the gym. Take off your mask and get a good workout. It's been fine even pre-vaccination.

Let me guess - Q told you Covid is caused by 5G and not from infected people?
There isn’t an eye roll big enough for you. If you knew any long haulers you would not say such stupid things.

As a biracial woman of immigrant parents who has never voted Republican in the 20+ years I've been voting, but has been to the gym safely unmasked for an entire year, thank you for proving that there are insane people on both sides of the aisle.

I live in NOVA. Heavily democrat territory, and you think most of the people returning to the gym were republicans? By all means skip the gym if that's what you feel is right for you, but your conspiracy theories are just as bad as the far right.

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And what, pray tell, would that existing evidence be? These "doctors" that PP knows? The "100 - 200 people" whose health history she's intimately familiar with?

The science suggests that doing cardio indoors and unmasked with other unmasked people is probably likely to lead to at least some transmission of an *airborne* virus, unless said cardio is occurring in an wind tunnel.

The fact that gyms have been open for almost a year without almost any major outbreaks (and none in this area as far as I know) that would force to close them again should be evidence enough.
I do believe that unmasked cardio can spread the virus, but it very much looks like that either the imposed distancing prevented it or, in my view more likely, people who chose to return to the gym were cautious enough in other parts of their lives and/or privileged enough to be able to work from home and thus they never contracted COVID and had nothing to spread in the gym.

Reality hasn't conformed to pp's fear and she has no "science" to back it up. I totally understand that returning to the gym, unmasked, is anxiety inducing for a lot of people. But tens of thousands (hundreds?) of us in VA alone have returned to working out maskless without any issue. There haven't been outbreaks, or whispers off the record from employees, staff, or customers. The evidence of covid spread just isn't there. Maybe it's the spacing enforcement, air ventilation changes, temp checks (as a partial deterrent), or just generally health conscious people... but if pp had ever returned to a gym, they'd see how many people have had healthy, safe experiences in a year. It isn't "luck." Skip it if you'd like, but pp has absolutely no idea what she's talking about.

For the umpteenth time, going back to the gym was the FIRST thing I did when I was fully vaccinated. And no, it wasn't reassuring, given how many people had their masks around their noses, weren't observing spacing guidelines, etc. - and that was just in the free weights section, where people aren't breathing as heavily as during cardio.

Your inability to read what PPs are saying, let alone correctly process it, is painful.

I work out in the weights area and breath heavily, it’s actually not safe to workout wearing a mask unless you are doing Tracy Anderson.

There are middle schoolers running with masks died last year. If you don’t welcome people who want to work out without a mask, just put that in the contract, waiver ect... there are plenty of gyms or private gyms that will take us.

Now you’re just blatantly spreading lies. Not safe to lift weights wearing a mask? BS.

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These people disgust me