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Join Date: Apr 2013
Location: Arizona
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07-17-20, 02:17 AM | |
Join Date: Jan 2003
Location: Denver, CO
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There's a husband and wife, in their early 40's, that believe the virus is a conspiracy and a scam. But then, they also believe the earth is flat and the moon landings were faked. Did I mention that he's a motivational speaker, fitness trainer, etc.?
With so many gyms closed or there are folks that just don't feel safe there, do you think there will be a rise in new fitness/workout DVDs? Or, because the technology is here, more streaming avenues? |
07-17-20, 05:24 AM | ||
Join Date: Nov 2003
Location: Boston, MA
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07-17-20, 05:38 AM | |
Join Date: Nov 2001
Location: Chicago, IL
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I'm one of the lucky ones. I was already working from home 3 days a week. Last week I returned to the office (I work at a university hospital) two days a week. I also worked out at home 6 days a week and the pandemic didn't interfere with that at all. The worst thing for me was 1) elective procedures stopped and I ran out of work almost every day in April and didn't have any work to distribute to my team. We used a lot of unscheduled PTO. And 2) I need my hair cut and colored every 4 weeks. I had to go 3 months and I didn't look like myself. My second appointment since the the pandemic is scheduled for tomorrow. And I should also add 3) we had to cancel our visit to my in-laws in New York because the protests had just started in Chicago and we were afraid the cat-sitter wouldn't be able to get into our neighborhood. And now we'll have to cancel our trip to California to see my Dad who moved into a retirement community this year. He is still pretty locked down, plus California is on Chicago's travel advisory. But as I said, I'm lucky. I can almost live my normal life, except in a mask.
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07-17-20, 06:24 PM | |
Join Date: Apr 2009
Location: Ohio
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The pandemic has thrust me into a pretty bad depression, honestly. I finished grad school in May, and a job I had lined up was cancelled due to the pandemic/funding cuts, so now I'm unemployed and mostly doing freelance work from home. Thankfully, my spouse is employed, but we're going to hit a bit financial crunch soon, and I'm scared. I've stopped going to my local yoga studio, even after it opened, because I do have some risk factors for the virus, and even if I got it and survived, our insurance deductible is high enough that it might still destroy us financially. We don't go anywhere, really (spouse is temporarily working from home), except for nature walks and stuff. We Zoom with friends and family or meet them outdoors at a distance. A lot of our friends are out of the area, so summertime is when we take vacations to visit them, and that has been SO HARD. I also like to work in coffeehouses, which I don't feel comfortable doing, even at the ones that are open/even with masks. I have a whole set of super cute masks to use for the rare occasions I have to shop in person, otherwise I order things online and get grocery curbside.
But I feel sooooo isolated, scared, sad, and unmotivated. Workouts help, as does staying connected with people online, but it's not the same. I even find myself declining some online social events because I'm too sad. If everyone who is currently either denying the importance of masks, denying the existence of the virus, or feeling young and immune would just hunker down for a month, we could get this under control. I also do not REMOTELY understand the politicization of it. It's in no way a political issue. It's a scientific/public health issue, and if we can't have empathy and protect each other, what kind of species are we?
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07-17-20, 06:40 PM | ||
Join Date: Apr 2009
Location: Ohio
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I love science and really wish more people believed it to be a good thing. I wonder if our thread here is mostly of one mind due to our shared interest in fitness and health in this community. We've researched biology and physiology and kineseology for fun, many folks are fitness instructors or at least have been doing fitness related activities for so long that it's second nature to believe in the power of knowledge about how our bodies work!
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07-17-20, 07:09 PM | |
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: MI
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I heard that a lady was feeling weak and had some symptoms of covid, her drs said she may die because she was getting worse. Her husband was told to have the drs do other tests on her because it may not be covid, come to find out she got legionnaires disease from wearing the masks.....
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