Current Affairs Coronavirus Thread - Serious stuff !!!

[LinekersLegs]

 

[barneygumble]

Despite me giggling at some gym bunnies earlier in the year, I struggle see them being the same risk as a pub.

I think that the likelihood is people have more control of their actions in a gym, but it's one of the safest places to be because everyone is conscious about COVID.

If you have a few beers, and you're in a bar, you're far more likely to mix, aren't you?

But Restaurant-Bars will be fine to stay open. Very strange scenario.

 

[PhilM]

Despite me giggling at some gym bunnies earlier in the year, I struggle see them being the same risk as a pub.

Without even vaguely being a scientist, I asked my friend at the LSTM about this. Their point was blunt: more exertion = more co2 and the virus dumped out.

It's like with singing where you're going to forcibly excrete more air (and water droplets with virus) out of your lungs and probably over further distances.

Or that was their thinking behind it.

 

[grandjoeblue]

No issue????

No major increase in cases, before September thats true anyway. Schools nd Universities opened then cases exploded.

 

[davek]

Despite me giggling at some gym bunnies earlier in the year, I struggle see them being the same risk as a pub.

It'd be a covid19 festival in those places. The number of surfaces people would touch...not to mention the exertion and resultant circulation of whatever comes out of mouths.

But then again, I take your point given that restaurants are remaining open. Why not betting offices and gyms too?

The criteria for what stay open and shuts is unfathomable.

Here's a thought:

SHUT THE 'KIN LOT DOWN.

 

[Big_nev]

Announcing potential Tier 3 lockdowns whilst we let millions of kids mingle in corridors 5 days a week is some Galaxy brain level thinking. Closing Gyms but allowing Mcdonalds to stay open in the name of public health...

The whole thing is one massive shambles being handled in the most ridiculous fashion. It's a very real and nasty illness that needs managing but the amount of weird contradictions in the rules almost certainly makes me feel this whole thing has been used to crash in the exact same way Brexit was. Not for one second suggesting this is some government ploy but rather people are taking advantage of this situation to line their pockets.

 

[ForeverBlue92]

Farce that they'd close Gyms, I know so many people whos life is the Gym, either PT or genuinely fitness fanatics. Seems like the strangest place to close, you go in, you sanitise after every set, and i'm yet to meet anyone in the Gym as of yet, who's had COVID.

My missus is never out of the gym and she says its very hygienic.

I feel for the mma gyms as a lot of the training can not be done via social distancing - I haven't trained since February and doubt I will anytime soon.

 

[Big_nev]

Without even vaguely being a scientist, I asked my friend at the LSTM about this. Their point was blunt: more exertion = more co2 and the virus dumped out.

It's like with singing where you're going to forcibly excrete more air (and water droplets with virus) out of your lungs and probably over further distances.

Or that was their thinking behind it.

If that's the case why are kids in schools still doing physical education?

 

[roydo]

Without even vaguely being a scientist, I asked my friend at the LSTM about this. their point was blunt: more exertion = more co2 and the virus dumped out.

It's like with singing where you're going to forcibly excrete more air (and water droplets with virus) out of your lungs and probably over further distances.

Or that was their thinking behind it.

I totally accept that. But from what I have seen, the measures gyms have put in place to mitigate the increase in, well, heavy breathing, hasnt manifested in a noticeable cause of infection.

If there is actual data, then fair enough. Just havnt seen any. (that said, havnt seen much about pubs neither; its down to idiot behaviour bottom line.)

 

[Nymzee]

No major increase in cases, before September thats true anyway. Schools nd Universities opened then cases exploded.

Too simplistic to look at it. Need to think about testing availability etc. as well in those periods.

 

[Deleted member 48881]

Anything more than a couple of weeks and you’ll see a massive rise in house parties.

This ain’t gonna end well.

yup, happens all over the world

 

[Jebus_lives]

My missus is never out of the gym and she says its very hygienic.

I feel for the mma gyms as a lot of the training can not be done via social distancing - I haven't trained since February and doubt I will anytime soon.

Grapple the missus?

 

[PhilM]

If that's the case why are kids in schools still doing physical education?

It's a legal requirement to provide children with physical education, I suspect. That and the evidence behind child transmission is grainy at best.

My children haven't been allowed to sing in music lessons or in halls for similar reasons. Does the evidence back this up? I'm not sure, but that's the reasoning.

 

[COYBL25]

It's a legal requirement to provide children with physical education, I suspect. That and the evidence behind child transmission is grainy at best.

Plus Sport is a GCSE and A Level option too.

 

[grandjoeblue]

Too simplistic to look at it. Need to think about testing availability etc. as well in those periods.

Hospitalisations have been rising massively since September. They should have kept Universities as online only until January and possibly done the same with schools. With schools they could have split the classes in half and do 2.5 days in person and 2.5 online which would have reduced transmission massively.