Current Affairs Coronavirus Thread - Serious stuff !!!

[Brisan123]

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[Aqui1a]

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[Nymzee]

You get though some people enjoy it ? To some people it’s a huge part of their physical and mental well being . I could have died a decade or so ago , suffered serious ptsd and associated ailments and at various stages thought I wouldn’t be here . I’m currently healthier than I’ve been since I boxed , probably not much in it and have various functions like lung etc of somebody much younger .

It’s not hyperbole to say the gym might have saved my life and I love the level of fitness it’s allowed me to maintain. Yeah I’m maintaining a level of fitness now but combined with an injury I’ve gone massively backwards already and given my age and the timescale being spoken off it’ll take me a significant time to get back to anywhere close to where I was .

I'm merely pointing out everything people do in a gym can be done outside of it.

 

[arminisgod]

Was in my local store, small shop, the other day, the only one on there.

Was wearing the gloves, and the shopkeeper proceeded to tell me that they were useless, that the virus can get through them and that you spread the disease quicker by using them. I'm venturing out later for my weekly shop and am now unsure should I, or not wear them.

He also had a pop at those who are wearing masks for similar reasons to the gloves.

Is the virus made from acid?

 

[Brisan123]

I'm merely pointing out everything people do in a gym can be done outside of it.

People drive to the gym ,spend an hour on a running machine and drive home
Just run to the gym and back

 

[Neiler]

You get though some people enjoy it ? To some people it’s a huge part of their physical and mental well being . I could have died a decade or so ago , suffered serious ptsd and associated ailments and at various stages thought I wouldn’t be here . I’m currently healthier than I’ve been since I boxed , probably not much in it and have various functions like lung etc of somebody much younger .

It’s not hyperbole to say the gym might have saved my life and I love the level of fitness it’s allowed me to maintain. Yeah I’m maintaining a level of fitness now but combined with an injury I’ve gone massively backwards already and given my age and the timescale being spoken off it’ll take me a significant time to get back to anywhere close to where I was .

Fair player to you mate, i really identified with your post, ive worked with a lot of people who have suffered from PTSD and the gym has been a huge lifesaver, i dont say that glibly i mean literally. It cant just be done when the weather gets better outside it has to become a ritual for psychological and physical homeostasis.

The basis for PTSD as im sure you know, is when you experience trauma, your bodies natural fight and flight responses become overly activated and gets way out of a controllable balance. Often when risk is perceived, real or unreal adrenaline is released into your body and a surge of energy is released into the body and the mind, its quite an unbearable experience when you dont have a handle on this. Its only equaled by the deep low of fatigue and depression once its gone. High, Highs and low lows.

What the gym does is activate something primal physiologicaly, when the flight response is activated and adrenaline surges, its important to work your body up to react match your internal physiological chemical release, in short the gym burns of the adrenaline and and regulates it as well as being an outlet for all the psychological experience of trauma that come with PTSD.

I really admire you for posting that experience and advise for people, i heard and seen it so often. PTSD is a horrible and very challenging condition, it doesn't get the recognition of significance it does.

Id be a regular gym goer and just for me i dont get the same holistic benefits out of it as working out as home or outside, mental health wise.

 

[RAFUH]

It really will be interesting how things work on the acute side. I sense there is a lot of making things up as we go. The wife just had a text from a former matron on the acute side asking if she's able to come and help. She's a lovely boss apparently, but in normal times, there are various exams a nurse has to do (and redo every few years) in order to work in that kind of environment. Relatively routine tasks like intubating a patient or fitting a canola. She hasn't done these things for about six years, and has none of the exams that she would ordinarily need.

It seems likely that the exam requirement might be waived, but the reality is they're there for a reason to ensure skills are up to date, and hers aren't, so either she'd be the equivalent of a glorified health care assistant, or she'd be doing things that she doesn't really feel safe doing, least of all in a very high pressure environment. You might argue that you cant lose your skills in six years, it'd be like riding a bike etc., but the exams have to be done every two years, which suggests to this layman that they're tricky enough to warrant repeated practice.

It's a case of needs must and all hands to the pump I suppose, but a difficult time for sure. It might pay to remember this though when we're led by the media who just want their usual pound of flesh or getting all agitated about targets. There's a lot going on that they can't be bothered to report on that are quite a bit more important. Hopefully people will remember that and not be silly sods when the weather is nice this weekend.

There will be a lot of this going on as patient numbers rise and nurse/physicians become infected. And I know you know this, but for those that don't - this is a huge reason for the lock downs. Have to protect these specialized workers or deaths will rise even more because you are going to get healthcare workers that are not trained in critical care/infectious disease at the front lines.

Hopefully places with a current lull are doing what they can to get nurses/physicians cross trained. I know my physicians (family docs) are studying the manual they received on managing ventilators.

 

[Harryflashman]

I'm merely pointing out everything people do in a gym can be done outside of it.

I mean you can of course but I’d suggest Building muscle is significantly more difficult , concentrating on various muscle groups for example. You can exercise and perform various basic cardio functions you could do press ups or dips say but it’s certainly a different experience.

I lack a lot of basic equipment that when fully fit I utilise on a daily basis , of course you can maintain a level of fitness but in my opinion it’s a completely different experience. If you feel differently that’s brilliant for you but everybody is different and finds their own way don’t they ?

 

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[Joey66]

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Under the current lockdown, we got a strong smell of soot from our CH open fire this am so I have my rods and brush from my younger days and I supervised My poor wife
on how to sweep our chimnley 3\4 of a bin bag of the black soot came down, more than the last sweep ever got .....
Using an old Dyson got the rest up gone straight on the garden border ....
That keeps you fit ..,...
Shower needed now.......

 

[Nymzee]

I mean you can of course but I’d suggest Building muscle is significantly more difficult , concentrating on various muscle groups for example. You can exercise and perform various basic cardio functions you could do press ups or dips say but it’s certainly a different experience.

I lack a lot of basic equipment that when fully fit I utilise on a daily basis , of course you can maintain a level of fitness but in my opinion it’s a completely different experience. If you feel differently that’s brilliant for you but everybody is different and finds their own way don’t they ?

The dude said without the gym he'll get fat.

I explained you don't need a gym to stop getting fat.

Why are you reading so much into my very simple comment.

 

[Wizard]

Was in my local store, small shop, the other day, the only one on there.

Was wearing the gloves, and the shopkeeper proceeded to tell me that they were useless, that the virus can get through them and that you spread the disease quicker by using them. I'm venturing out later for my weekly shop and am now unsure should I, or not wear them.

He also had a pop at those who are wearing masks for similar reasons to the gloves.

This article explains the situation regarding masks and gloves. The virus can't get through gloves but most people don't use them properly and so end up potentially having virus on the inside, outside of gloves and their hands if they have come into contact with it.

A Scientist Who’s Fought Ebola And Anthrax Explains When To Wear A Mask For Coronavirus Protection

This researcher helped develop biodefenses at the U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases. Here's what he wants you to know about wearing a mask as protection against COVID-19.

www.forbes.com

 

[Harryflashman]

Fair player to you mate, i really identified with your post, ive worked with a lot of people who have suffered from PTSD and the gym has been a huge lifesaver, i dont say that glibly i mean literally. It cant just be done when the weather gets better outside it has to become a ritual for psychological and physical homeostasis.

The basis for PTSD as im sure you know, is when you experience trauma, your bodies natural fight and flight responses become overly activated and get way out of a controllable balance. Often when risk is perceived, real or unreal adrenaline is released into your body and a surge of energy is release into the body and the mind, its quite an unbearable experience when you dont have a handle on this. Its only equaled by the deep low of fatigue and depression once its gone. High, Highs and low lows.

What the guy does is something primal, when the flight response is activated and adrenaline surges, its important to work your body up to react to your internal physiological chemical release, in short the gym the gym burns of the adrenaline and regulates it as well as being an outlet for all the psychological experience of trauma that come with PTSD.

I really admire you for posting that experience and advise for people, i heard and seen it so often. PTSD is a horrible and very challenging condition, it doesn't get the recognition of significance it does.

Id be a regular gym goer and just for me i dont get the same holistic benefits out of it as working out as home or outside, mental health wise.

That last paragraph is something i completely empathise with .

Funny enough I’d never really spoken about ptsd to anybody since I finished counselling years ago until it kind of leaked out in this forum . I lot of what you say are things I massively identify with and like I say more than even Everton and it’s attached social element it’s the gym I already miss but onwards and upwards I suppose .

Off topic from me and all that so apologies .

 

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[navidson]

684 deaths today

FFS!