Gyms are in a difficult position because they have contracts with customers to provide services. I would love to keep going but am coming to the difficult decision that I need to work out at home or outside for the greater good. How do you want to look back and remember your actions at this time?

I can understand why it’s tough for small gyms to close up shop because who knows when you’ll reopen and it might be the end of your business. That is a very tough pill to swallow, especially when life seems to be proceeding as normal except for the school closures. It’s going to be government mandated within a week or to, so it’s just delaying the inevitable. Hearing that people are going to the gym at this point as if it doesn’t matter and it’s fine is alarming. Please read up on the science of flattening the curve. Some of us have been watching this crisis build slowly so we have a pretty solid and scary sense for where it’s leading. I have plenty of very smart friends who just aren’t plugged in to what is going on and only yesterday started saying to themselves, hmm, maybe I should telework. The message about why you need to stay home if you can is out there now and it’s insanely irresponsible and reckless to ignore it. Please read up on why everyone needs to do their best to just stay home right now. Exponential growth is a beast because it seems like there’s not a problem until all of a sudden there is a very big problem. Do what you can to flatten the curve. Please.

Anonymous wrote:Flatten the curve. That means don’t go anywhere with other people unless necessary. Even with amazing hygiene practices, you defeat the community efforts of social distancing if you choose to go to the gym or workout studio. Stay home. This isn’t a drill and it sucks, but everyone has to do their part if we want to keep the situation under control. If you convince yourself it’s ok when you do it because you wipe stuff down, you are the weak link. Please reconsider and read up on why flattening the curve through aggressive social distancing is so important and not something you can shrug off simply because you are young and healthy.

Everyone is still going to the grocery store, Target, Walmart, Costco, the pet store in droves. Fast food places are busy. People are pumping gas and going inside to pay.

With the kids out of school and more and more people teleworking there are going to be more people out at the stores during the week. Once you've been inside a crowded Walmart or Costco you begin to realize that you are around A LOT of people. Add in a family member or two who might work retail/food service/health care or some other service industry....

My own concern is that there are now man more asymptomatic healthy people out spreading this around. There are no longer non busy hours for the more vulnerable people to go out and get what they need. It used to be that my 84 year old mother could go to the store during the middle of a week day when there were fewer shoppers around. Now, the stores are always busy.

Anonymous wrote:I'm a fitness instructor at several gyms. I know some of my students have been travelling internationally, some that go to that Georgetown church, some that are medical staff. I know people won't stay away from the gym, so I am subbing all my classes for the next two weeks. I don't want to be the one that spreads it to the 5000 people at my FT job or my parents or grandparents whom I see every week.

^For those people insisting on still going to the gym, this post is all you need to know. Sure, you might wipe down the machine first, wash your hands, but don't think that's foolproof for you to go in and out of the entire facility with zero risk. PP, thanks for avoiding the gym this week but shouldn't the gym(s) just close? Have you told the management(s)? Seems very irresponsible for them to keep operating as they become hotspots for coronavirus.

Flatten the curve, people, and if this rallying cry means nothing to you, please look it up.

Sooo... anyway, man were the trails packed today! I went for a long run and my normally lightly traveled bike trail was rocking with people.

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Anonymous wrote:I’m at the gym now, and it’s actually pretty packed. I agree we’re all picking and choosing. I’m not ordering crap from Amazon putting tons of people at risk, going through drive thrus, or other things that for some reason, people write off as “less.”

huh? ordering from amazon and drive-thrus are low risk. going to a packed gym is high risk and selfish. when we get locked down, it will be your fault.

You're a moron. Where do you think your packages come from? People working in enclosed factories, touching and packing your things, with other people around, breathing indoors, working long ours, in quarters with tons of other people. That doesn't include the shipment/delivery process. And you think people at the gym are selfish? All to deliver your random Amazon sh!t? Are you really that stupid?

You're a moron. The PP said "low risk". This is absolutely correct. The risk of catching a virus from a package delivered to your house is indeed very low risk. Especially compared to the risk of going to the gym.

If you're prepared to go for months without touching anything that someone else in the supply chain has touched, good for you, but most likely you're going to have to go to the store at some point and touch a package of food that someone else has touched.

Ah, so you don't care about the people who are working in those factories and warehouses to get your sh!t, and them going home to families? As long as you get your sh!t, and people stay home from gyms, you're not selfish. Screw all the people working in stuffy closed environments to get you your sh!t, you're so selfless!

If you think those people are going to stop working and the food distribution chain is going to shut down, then you might as well kill yourself now and spare yourself the anguish of starving to death. Yet even China can keep the food distribution going.

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Anonymous wrote:I’m at the gym now, and it’s actually pretty packed. I agree we’re all picking and choosing. I’m not ordering crap from Amazon putting tons of people at risk, going through drive thrus, or other things that for some reason, people write off as “less.”

huh? ordering from amazon and drive-thrus are low risk. going to a packed gym is high risk and selfish. when we get locked down, it will be your fault.

You're a moron. Where do you think your packages come from? People working in enclosed factories, touching and packing your things, with other people around, breathing indoors, working long ours, in quarters with tons of other people. That doesn't include the shipment/delivery process. And you think people at the gym are selfish? All to deliver your random Amazon sh!t? Are you really that stupid?

You're a moron. The PP said "low risk". This is absolutely correct. The risk of catching a virus from a package delivered to your house is indeed very low risk. Especially compared to the risk of going to the gym.

If you're prepared to go for months without touching anything that someone else in the supply chain has touched, good for you, but most likely you're going to have to go to the store at some point and touch a package of food that someone else has touched.

This is the most stupid post I've seen about all of this. This country is doomed in so many ways.

Tell me how long you're going to last without going to the store and touching something that someone else has delivered, or touching a package that someone else has delivered to your house.

I went to an outdoor track. There were there walking, running, etc and a handful of teens on the turf area, but it was not crowded at all. This was a good alternative for me.

I'm a fitness instructor at several gyms. I know some of my students have been travelling internationally, some that go to that Georgetown church, some that are medical staff. I know people won't stay away from the gym, so I am subbing all my classes for the next two weeks. I don't want to be the one that spreads it to the 5000 people at my FT job or my parents or grandparents whom I see every week.

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Anonymous wrote:I’m at the gym now, and it’s actually pretty packed. I agree we’re all picking and choosing. I’m not ordering crap from Amazon putting tons of people at risk, going through drive thrus, or other things that for some reason, people write off as “less.”

huh? ordering from amazon and drive-thrus are low risk. going to a packed gym is high risk and selfish. when we get locked down, it will be your fault.

You're a moron. Where do you think your packages come from? People working in enclosed factories, touching and packing your things, with other people around, breathing indoors, working long ours, in quarters with tons of other people. That doesn't include the shipment/delivery process. And you think people at the gym are selfish? All to deliver your random Amazon sh!t? Are you really that stupid?

You're a moron. The PP said "low risk". This is absolutely correct. The risk of catching a virus from a package delivered to your house is indeed very low risk. Especially compared to the risk of going to the gym.

If you're prepared to go for months without touching anything that someone else in the supply chain has touched, good for you, but most likely you're going to have to go to the store at some point and touch a package of food that someone else has touched.

Ah, so you don't care about the people who are working in those factories and warehouses to get your sh!t, and them going home to families? As long as you get your sh!t, and people stay home from gyms, you're not selfish. Screw all the people working in stuffy closed environments to get you your sh!t, you're so selfless!

You honestly can’t tell the difference? Ok dumbass. Enjoy the govt-mandated closures now.

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Anonymous wrote:I’m at the gym now, and it’s actually pretty packed. I agree we’re all picking and choosing. I’m not ordering crap from Amazon putting tons of people at risk, going through drive thrus, or other things that for some reason, people write off as “less.”

huh? ordering from amazon and drive-thrus are low risk. going to a packed gym is high risk and selfish. when we get locked down, it will be your fault.

You're a moron. Where do you think your packages come from? People working in enclosed factories, touching and packing your things, with other people around, breathing indoors, working long ours, in quarters with tons of other people. That doesn't include the shipment/delivery process. And you think people at the gym are selfish? All to deliver your random Amazon sh!t? Are you really that stupid?

You're a moron. The PP said "low risk". This is absolutely correct. The risk of catching a virus from a package delivered to your house is indeed very low risk. Especially compared to the risk of going to the gym.

If you're prepared to go for months without touching anything that someone else in the supply chain has touched, good for you, but most likely you're going to have to go to the store at some point and touch a package of food that someone else has touched.

Ah, so you don't care about the people who are working in those factories and warehouses to get your sh!t, and them going home to families? As long as you get your sh!t, and people stay home from gyms, you're not selfish. Screw all the people working in stuffy closed environments to get you your sh!t, you're so selfless!

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Anonymous wrote:I’m at the gym now, and it’s actually pretty packed. I agree we’re all picking and choosing. I’m not ordering crap from Amazon putting tons of people at risk, going through drive thrus, or other things that for some reason, people write off as “less.”

huh? ordering from amazon and drive-thrus are low risk. going to a packed gym is high risk and selfish. when we get locked down, it will be your fault.

You're a moron. Where do you think your packages come from? People working in enclosed factories, touching and packing your things, with other people around, breathing indoors, working long ours, in quarters with tons of other people. That doesn't include the shipment/delivery process. And you think people at the gym are selfish? All to deliver your random Amazon sh!t? Are you really that stupid?

You're a moron. The PP said "low risk". This is absolutely correct. The risk of catching a virus from a package delivered to your house is indeed very low risk. Especially compared to the risk of going to the gym.

If you're prepared to go for months without touching anything that someone else in the supply chain has touched, good for you, but most likely you're going to have to go to the store at some point and touch a package of food that someone else has touched.

This is the most stupid post I've seen about all of this. This country is doomed in so many ways.

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Anonymous wrote:Why are people shaming the OP? Is this not the diet and fitness forum?

Misery loves company. If you're not rocking back and forth clutching your purell and toilet paper after not leaving home for 2 days, how dare you go out and do anything that makes you feel happy and healthy?

NP here. God you're an ass.

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Anonymous wrote:I’m at the gym now, and it’s actually pretty packed. I agree we’re all picking and choosing. I’m not ordering crap from Amazon putting tons of people at risk, going through drive thrus, or other things that for some reason, people write off as “less.”

huh? ordering from amazon and drive-thrus are low risk. going to a packed gym is high risk and selfish. when we get locked down, it will be your fault.

You're a moron. Where do you think your packages come from? People working in enclosed factories, touching and packing your things, with other people around, breathing indoors, working long ours, in quarters with tons of other people. That doesn't include the shipment/delivery process. And you think people at the gym are selfish? All to deliver your random Amazon sh!t? Are you really that stupid?

You're a moron. The PP said "low risk". This is absolutely correct. The risk of catching a virus from a package delivered to your house is indeed very low risk. Especially compared to the risk of going to the gym.

If you're prepared to go for months without touching anything that someone else in the supply chain has touched, good for you, but most likely you're going to have to go to the store at some point and touch a package of food that someone else has touched.

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Anonymous wrote:I’m at the gym now, and it’s actually pretty packed. I agree we’re all picking and choosing. I’m not ordering crap from Amazon putting tons of people at risk, going through drive thrus, or other things that for some reason, people write off as “less.”

huh? ordering from amazon and drive-thrus are low risk. going to a packed gym is high risk and selfish. when we get locked down, it will be your fault.

You're a moron. Where do you think your packages come from? People working in enclosed factories, touching and packing your things, with other people around, breathing indoors, working long ours, in quarters with tons of other people. That doesn't include the shipment/delivery process. And you think people at the gym are selfish? All to deliver your random Amazon sh!t? Are you really that stupid?