Current Affairs Coronavirus Thread - Serious stuff !!!

[Nymzee]

Serious question why is it ok to mock people for this?

Someone could be severely struggling with their mental health and find going the gym to be something that helps them greatly. Not only is it a place for exercise but it could also be a place where many people get most of their interactions with other humans. The gym is therapy for some people and has helped aid depression in myself as an example.

I do find it weird how the push to get pubs reopened is so incredibly huge but people wanting to return to the gym is seen as bizarre and unnecessary. It says a lot about our culture.

You can want gyms to re-open.

You can't want gyms to re-open because you feel hard done by as a "fit/healthy" person and don't really care on the effect cancelling lockdown has on others.

Quite a distinct and obvious difference.

 

[Catfish Blues]

Serious question why is it ok to mock people for this?

Someone could be severely struggling with their mental health and find going the gym to be something that helps them greatly. Not only is it a place for exercise but it could also be a place where many people get most of their interactions with other humans. The gym is therapy for some people and has helped aid depression in myself as an example.

I do find it weird how the push to get pubs reopened is so incredibly huge but people wanting to return to the gym is seen as bizarre and unnecessary. It says a lot about our culture.

If gyms can re-open in outdoor settings with social distancing then they should be allowed to crack on with it sooner, rather than later.

However, and I've not been in a gym since I was at school, so I'm no expert, I don't think that's desperately practical, though the park gyms that I see people using occassionally could probably be re-opened at much the same time that playgrounds do ( whenever that might be ).

 

[JimmyJeffers]

Fed up with walking aimlessly.

Try walking with a bit purpose?

 

[Catfish Blues]

Try walking with a bit purpose?

You called ?

 

[Disgruntledgoat]

Serious question why is it ok to mock people for this?

Someone could be severely struggling with their mental health and find going the gym to be something that helps them greatly. Not only is it a place for exercise but it could also be a place where many people get most of their interactions with other humans.

I do find it weird how the push to get pubs reopened is so incredibly huge but people wanting to return to the gym is seen as bizarre and unnecessary.

Its the same with both. Most people on here have, at one point or another, had a moan about the lack of pubs, hairdressers, gyms, swimming pools etc. but it's normally been good natured and self-deprecating because we know we are all going through a weird moment of history together and we are all missing something.

To go on a weird rant and just keep escalating it in the face of a little bit of needling is fairly amusing.

 

[Tea_drinker]

You can want gyms to re-open.

You can't want gyms to re-open because you feel hard done by as a "fit/healthy" person and don't really care on the effect cancelling lockdown has on others.

Quite a distinct and obvious difference.

The poster does the correct thing by himself and society by staying fit and healthy. This is unarguable.

The reaction to this virus has shone a light on the stupidity of the western approach to health. All that's been happening is a delay tactic (£200m spent on unused temporary hospitals ffs) and a potentially futile search for a cure which can then provide some capitalists with a huge payday.

If people followed a more preventive lifestyle and stayed healthy and fit we wouldn't be in this mess as badly as we are.

As sad as the 60,000 deaths are there are many I'm sure that could've been prevented by people having been taught a more positive approach and attitude to sickness prevention and building a positive mental health in the first place.

 

[LinekersLegs]

 

[BlueStevie35]

104 deaths announced by the NHS today, down 34 on yesterday and 106 on last Wednesday. Of that 88 were in English hospitals, down 41 on yesterday and 91 on last week, 74 of which were in the past 10 days and sending the 7 day rolling average down to 109. That rolling average will be down into double digits as early as tomorrow if not definitely by the weekend

 

[Disgruntledgoat]

The poster does the correct thing by himself and society by staying fit and healthy. This is unarguable.

The reaction to this virus has shone a light on the stupidity of the western approach to health. All that's been happening is a delay tactic (£200m spent on unused temporary hospitals ffs) and a potentially futile search for a cure which can then provide some capitalists with a huge payday.

If people followed a more preventive lifestyle and stayed healthy and fit we wouldn't be in this mess as badly as we are.

As sad as the 60,000 deaths are there are many I'm sure that could've been prevented by people having been taught a more positive approach and attitude to sickness prevention and building a positive mental health in the first place.

So if only we all went to the gym...

 

[Harryflashman]

Just buy some free weights for your box room you anus.

20kg kettlebell £100 plus up to £150/160

 

[Nymzee]

plenty of pavement licences, or safe cafe whatever it’s called now in the city nrin


20kg kettlebell £100 plus

Yes, now.

Early March when lockdown and gym closure was looming? I got a set for standard price.

 

[Disgruntledgoat]

You know what the best workout machine is?

The human body.

 

[Deleted member 48881]

Keir Starmer tells PM to take responsibility for his failures on schools

Keir Starmer tells PM to take responsibility for his failures on schools

Labour leader clashes with Boris Johnson over delayed reopening at heated PMQs

www.theguardian.com

 

[Prevenger17]

The poster does the correct thing by himself and society by staying fit and healthy. This is unarguable.

The reaction to this virus has shone a light on the stupidity of the western approach to health. All that's been happening is a delay tactic (£200m spent on unused temporary hospitals ffs) and a potentially futile search for a cure which can then provide some capitalists with a huge payday.

If people followed a more preventive lifestyle and stayed healthy and fit we wouldn't be in this mess as badly as we are.

As sad as the 60,000 deaths are there are many I'm sure that could've been prevented by people having been taught a more positive approach and attitude to sickness prevention and building a positive mental health in the first place.

Jesus christ. I'm putting you on ignore. No idea why I am reading your posts when you're clearly not bothering to read them yourself

 

[Harryflashman]

Yes, now.

Early March when lockdown and gym closure was looming? I got a set for standard price.

Well done .

I’ve got Kettlebell , free weights, resistance band and bike so I’m good but unfortunately others lack your foresight and planning .