The other thing to keep in mind is that when my gym closed in March, they let everyone know that they COULD cancel membership, but would really appreciate if folks continued paying the “hold” pricing which was half price. I just emailed back and said to continue charging me full price- its only $30/month. I bet a lot of people would be fine continuing to pay full price or reduced price dues during the lockdown to ensure that their gym was still operational when lockdown was lifted.
Oh absolutely. I told the owner of my gym to keep charging me. I don’t want him to go belly up.
Since my girlfriend and I literally have no room at our place to install even bare bones stuff (squat rack, few bars, plates, etc.), I’m going to Tractor Supply tonight to buy a few 50lb bags of sand, cinder blocks, a wheelbarrow and rope. I figure taking these things to the park and carrying them for time/distance, pushing a heavy wheelbarrow, and other shit might have some hypertrophy/strength carryover? At the very least I’ll get some cool stares from the general public.
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Where I am, they can reopen. But we weren’t babies about wearing masks and social distancing. I think what most BJJ schools are doing is have members sign covid waivers.
Maybe pick a partner and thats your ONLY partner for the next 4 weeks? Must take 2 weeks off before switching rolling partners? IDK, figure out a way to really mitigate the chance of infection sprread. It just seems super sketchy and high risk… i think the owners have a greater responsibility than just liability.
I’m obviously missing a lot of the pieces, but if the owners are just having folks sign waivers without a bunch of other mitigation measures thats kind of shitty IMO.
New Jersey?
You can get a lot done with a park, some sandbags, and band or two.
New York
I got a big, gigantic confederate monument I could climb when gyms were closed. It wasn’t perfect, but it was better than nothing. It always kicked my ass no matter how many times I climbed it. I did get some good calf hypertrophy from it, which has always been a week point.
A 50 lb. sand bag up that rock? Now that would absolutely kick my ass. Coming back down with it would be the tricky part, though.
It shaved a bit off the corona-gut, but I needed the full gym to get in shape. 1 month away from fully in-shape I figure.
The thing is, Covid isn’t going away anytime soon. If BJJ schools open a month from now or a year from now, the risk will be basically the same, unless a vaccine is found in the meantime.
The people who will be most at risk, other than the students, are the students’ families. If you have a person at home who is in a high risk group then that is something to consider.
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My condolences…
Agreed. I just have a real hard time trusting people to be responsible on their own though (based on previous experience and solidified over the past 6 months). I just think there would be easy enough ways to mitigate risk eg. only rolling with a single partner.
If you or another member are going 2-3 days per week, are you going to be informing coworkers or other folks in close, sustained contact about your increased risk, and is that fair to them? Is the onus on you or them to then change jobs/habits/etc to avoid them or their family getting sick? There are a lot of things to consider as we try and figure out this new normal. Who shares the burden of risk in what situations, etc.
We could eliminate COVID among those who worry about it, if they would follow your guidance.
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Masks and social distancing are in effect at work.
And yet, in this very thread you have people crying about the perceived virtue signaling of people wearing masks while outside or in their cars. I typically take mine off, carefully, when I can. But there some people who know that touching, putting on, taking off their masks all the time can reduce the effectiveness of mask wearing. So, they just leave them on even while they’re walking between buildings in a downtown area or driving from place to place. I think sometimes people just forget they have it on as I did today traveling home from a store today.
I truly don’t get the virtue signaling argument. It never crossed my mind that anyone was virtue signaling by wearing or not wearing a mask until I read this thread.
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A nationwide mask mandate for the next 3 months at a minimum.
Let the mask wars begin!
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He would get sued so fast for that one.
I don’t know if those people are virtue signalling or not, but it’s pretty stupid and even mandatory in some places to wear a mask outside. I have even seen people wearing disposable gloves outside on top of a mask, I wonder if they sleep with a mask on.
Which is why surgical masks and N95s are only meant to be worn for a few hours at most, and why cloth masks are significantly less effective unless you walk around with several. Add sweat from the summer heat to it and your mask is next to useless right there.
I actually got it wrong. I’ve lost track of what threads discussed what where, but I believe it was in the original monster pandemic thread instead of this one. My apologies. I’m on my phone and recall they were spread out, but if I have sit down time later this evening I’ll try to look
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I saw a former Mayor swimming while wearing a cloth mask. Are you telling me that wasn’t effective?
If you woke up next to one of them, you’d appreciate her doing so.
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