Won’t be able to access my mates home gym over at least the next six weeks.
He’s let me borrow some things but the majority is gonna have to get freighted up from Melbourne. I’m asking around but won’t be cheap. To be fair it is a bit under 400kg of stuff to be transported halfway across the state.
Putting the feelers out in the guinea pig community see if there’s any shifty cash in hand removalists who can do it for cheaper.
Making space at my place and not pissing of the neighbours will be another challenge
Didn’t even get a chance to get back into commercial gyms to flex on the plebs before going back into lockdown. COVID-19 has been a bother no doubt but at least I’m not out the job or anything and the gains have been mad good.
Different location. Couple of units around me in Bendigo. Mostly old ladies. Gonna have to deadlift outside. Maybe squat inside if my feet aren’t gonna punch through the floor
Doing strongman stuff on the streets is always fun. I once did one of Brian Alsruhe’s mindset challenges with a keg carry. As I was clinging on to dear life while carrying the keg down the streets, a neighbour rushed to my side, carrying a hand truck … yes, he thought I was literally that stupid!
I saw what the premier said, where you slept last night is where you will stay for 6 weeks. That’s fucking crazy. Based on the numbers I see, there aren’t even a whole lot of cases either. It just isn’t reasonable at all.
With the benefit of hindsight we can say our approach hasn’t been the best way. It’s been half a year of increasing and decreasing restrictions, attempting to balance suppression of the virus and keeping society going. A hard lock down early on probably would’ve done the job for Australia considering we were close with less strict measures. Whether people would’ve complied is another matter but far from 100% compliance would’ve been required.
These days we are going into some harsh lock downs with more cases than ever at least in my state and there’s a few worrying pockets popping up in other states. The idealist in me can empathise with saving as many lives as possible, not accepting any deaths. The realist in me knows that there’ll be many more lives and livelihoods lost indirectly to COVID and how it’s been managed: whether thru suicide when faced with harsh economic downturns or opportunity cost of fucking up a years worth of education for students and punching a big enough hole in the budget that future generations are gonna hurt for it e.g. less opportunity for government subsidised education and unemployment support.
It seems overly on the cautious side. In Ontario we have half the population of Australia, and according to my Bing search more than double the number of confirmed cases and more than 10x the deaths and we are going in the opposite direction, opening things up again. Also over here more than 80% of deaths were in nursing homes, that’s where serious measures were needed.
Drug and alcohol use and overdose are way up here. Maybe the drinking is not as bad now that more people are back to work, but until a few weeks ago the lineups at liquor stores were often 100+ people.
There is no sense in having a solution that causes more problems than the virus itself. I saw something earlier about the WHO now saying the death rate is 0.6%, it’s worse than the flu but hardly something worth destroying the economy over.
These comparisons are being brought up by the respective health bodies and at least in Australia I’ve little doubt which will be the greater toll. This data is available now but wasn’t in the beginning. For all anyone knew anything could’ve happened. Takes one stone cold politician to say y’all gonna die because it ain’t worth it.
Cleared out spare room to make space for equipment. Flipped the bed up so have decent amount of space including a 3x2m (bit less actually) space to actually lift in
