Anyone worried if Corona virus keeps spreading the gyms will shut down?

jswain34 said:
They 100% wont view gyms as essential. People dont need a gym to exercise or to live. Businesses outside of food, shelter, water, and medical services aren’t essential. Those 4 things can encompass a TON though. Food - grocery store. Shelter - moving companies, UHAUL, general contractors, roofers. Etc.
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Auto repair things too I’d imagine? If a doctor’s car breaks down, someone has to fix it, or no doctor at work.
 
Wife said she heard they are talking about opening the beaches here and pools. I’m not sure that’s a good idea for Florida.

We are on a trajectory to peak around the 23 of April for Covid 19. I’m also unsure where that date comes from.

Any validation would be welcome. We will not be going to either the beach or the pool if they do.

Ah. Floriduh.
 
Wife said she heard they are talking about opening the beaches here and pools. I’m not sure that’s a good idea for Florida.

We are on a trajectory to peak around the 23 of April for Covid 19. I’m also unsure where that date comes from.

Any validation would be welcome. We will not be going to either the beach or the pool if they do.

Ah. Floriduh.
 
My nephew is an exterminator and he was ruled essential. I heard Florida even deemed WWE essential so they can continue filming wrestling shows with no crowds in the Florida performance center. Florida government cited they were essential to Florida economically lol. Sounds more like a political excuse to me to deem them essential. WWE probably had good lobbyists there.
 
muscleupcrohn said:
Auto repair things too I’d imagine? If a doctor’s car breaks down, someone has to fix it, or no doctor at work.
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Yes. I suppose I would include that in the umbrella of medical services given ambulances, etc also need servicing.

A bit more of a stretch but its very similar to roofers/contractors under the umbrella of shelter.
 
jswain34 said:
They 100% wont view gyms as essential. People dont need a gym to exercise or to live. Businesses outside of food, shelter, water, and medical services aren’t essential. Those 4 things can encompass a TON though. Food - grocery store. Shelter - moving companies, UHAUL, general contractors, roofers. Etc.
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But I'm sure gym owners won't feel the same. They have a business to run and in most cases, haven't been getting any money from members coming in as memberships are frozen.

I get what you're saying, but gyms are part of the economy as well. Well, at least that's my case for them to open lol
 
jswain34 said:
They 100% wont view gyms as essential. People dont need a gym to exercise or to live. Businesses outside of food, shelter, water, and medical services aren’t essential. Those 4 things can encompass a TON though. Food - grocery store. Shelter - moving companies, UHAUL, general contractors, roofers. Etc.
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there’s a couple of things that they’ll consider (I’m in the uk but government will see things similarly).

1) is a business essential to people (I.e does it provide food, shelter, water, safety, education etc)

2) what does it contribute to the economy (ie how big a fiscal does the sector have), that will factor in employment and probably vary area to area (tourism for example). Retail is a decent example of this. Schools allow millions of parents to get back to work

3) how easy can that sector socially distance. Again retail can introduce measures to do social distancing fairly easily. Restaurants possibly. Pubs, clubs not so much.

Unfortunately gyms are unlikely to qualify well against any of those criteria. I think they’ll be amongst the last to be allowed to open for that reason.
 
Whisky said:
there’s a couple of things that they’ll consider (I’m in the uk but government will see things similarly).

1) is a business essential to people (I.e does it provide food, shelter, water, safety, education etc)

2) what does it contribute to the economy (ie how big a fiscal does the sector have), that will factor in employment and probably vary area to area (tourism for example). Retail is a decent example of this. Schools allow millions of parents to get back to work

3) how easy can that sector socially distance. Again retail can introduce measures to do social distancing fairly easily. Restaurants possibly. Pubs, clubs not so much.

Unfortunately gyms are unlikely to qualify well against any of those criteria. I think they’ll be amongst the last to be allowed to open for that reason.
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That makes sense. The problem I see are many gyms won't be able to survive.
 
BigGame84 said:
But I'm sure gym owners won't feel the same. They have a business to run and in most cases, haven't been getting any money from members coming in as memberships are frozen.

I get what you're saying, but gyms are part of the economy as well. Well, at least that's my case for them to open lol
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The problem is gyms are a prime place where it would be easily susceptible for virus spread with everyone touching the equipment and lack of social distancing.
 
I’ve resigned myself to the fact I will probably be working out alone at home with my adjustable dumbells and Nordicktrack Incline trainer through May at minimum.
 
Whitehouse guidelines for phased reopenings states gyms can actually open as long as they maintain social distancing recommendations
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JoePaul39 said:
Whitehouse guidelines for phased reopenings states gyms can actually open as long as they maintain social distancing recommendations
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Headline should read: Donald Pump wants to make America Swole Again but will the governor of your state comply?
 
US now has 22 million unemployed workers, but millions more may be impacted by the losses.
 
I'm thinking a possibility might be gyms reopening but limiting how many people can go in at a time. Which is better than nothing but has a chance of being a cluster.
 
I foresee a lot of gyms opening in May/June and you would have to signup online for an hour time slot to work out. So you basically would be booking an appointment to go to the gym. This seems ridiculous but I can unfortunately see something like this happening. It would limit how many people are inside the gym at a time.
 
Apparently my gym and town opens back up the 30th to regular hours and regular operations. We haven't had many cases at all.

they're actually taking the time to remodel the place
 
jswain34 said:
Yes. I suppose I would include that in the umbrella of medical services given ambulances, etc also need servicing.

A bit more of a stretch but its very similar to roofers/contractors under the umbrella of shelter.
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Makes sense. I know that engineers and architects are also considered essential here, likely under the same umbrella as contractors too.
 
Iwilleattuna said:
Apparently my gym and town opens back up the 30th to regular hours and regular operations. We haven't had many cases at all.

they're actually taking the time to remodel the place
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Are you in the US? If so I don't think a town or city can make that decision, I could be wrong but I'm pretty sure there's a higher power that would have to ok that from your state
 
Smont said:
Are you in the US? If so I don't think a town or city can make that decision, I could be wrong but I'm pretty sure there's a higher power that would have to ok that from your state
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The whole state would have to open, not just one town would be allowed
 
JoePaul39 said:
Totally agree about China. Trump called it right as the “Wuhan” and “China” virus probably born in a lab. It wouldn’t have been so catastrophic had they not kept it a secret so long and let so many people leave Wuhan prior to shutting down the city.

Out of curiosity how many young people were hospitalized for COVID at your hospital. Really do appreciate giving us the updates on the front lines of the battle!
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We continue to do very well in Maine, probably mostly because we are relatively rural. We have apparently had 130 hospitalizations across the state. I work at one of the smaller hospitals and we have still only had about 10-12 hospitalized, all 55 years old and above. All but 2 or 3 of them came in before or directly after we had stay at home orders that occurred just over two weeks ago. This makes me think that it’s making a difference!
 
Umm, so today I had a new admission who is a 70 y/o COVID positive woman who recently traveled here from NYC. She has another family member that is also positive- yet not sick enough to be admitted. She/they should have self quarantined for 14 days upon entering our state, yet I’m not aware of any of those details or if they followed that protocol.

I don’t want to say too much specific, but let’s just say she doesn’t speak any English and I will let you all guess where she is from originally. I can count the number of times I have seen people of this origin on 2 hands in this state my entire life.

Ironic, slightly awkward...kinda like WTF? I think so..

I still treated her like I would any other patient though..
 
Anyone have an update on if 24 hour fitness is going to stop charging our cards, or should we just put a freeze to our accounts?
 
Anyone have an update on if 24 hour fitness is going to stop charging our cards, or should we just put a freeze to our accounts?
 
puccah8808 said:
Anyone have an update on if 24 hour fitness is going to stop charging our cards, or should we just put a freeze to our accounts?
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Email from 24 Hour on April 1:

“Based on current public health projections, it appears our clubs may need to be closed for an extended period of time. As such, we will suspend all membership billings, including billings for any additional services and fees, effective April 16, if we are unable to reopen clubs by that time in your area. For the membership billings that were charged from March 17 through April 15, members will receive additional days of access equal to the number of days paid for while the clubs were closed in your area. That extension will apply at the end of the membership. If you have a pre-paid membership, your end date will be extended to cover the amount of time the clubs are closed in your area.”
 
muscleupcrohn said:
Email from 24 Hour on April 1:

“Based on current public health projections, it appears our clubs may need to be closed for an extended period of time. As such, we will suspend all membership billings, including billings for any additional services and fees, effective April 16, if we are unable to reopen clubs by that time in your area. For the membership billings that were charged from March 17 through April 15, members will receive additional days of access equal to the number of days paid for while the clubs were closed in your area. That extension will apply at the end of the membership. If you have a pre-paid membership, your end date will be extended to cover the amount of time the clubs are closed in your area.”
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Ugh! So irritating. They charged me for last month and this month yesterday. How is that effective April 16th? Did you freeze your account?
 
JoePaul39 said:
Our governor here in Ohio just said they will begin to phase open some businesses May 1. No specifics yet, but I am stoked!
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Oh no you mean we're not all going to die and it's the end of the world did it wipe out 4% of the population at least??
 
just saw that they are having to seriously recalculate the models now that they have that antibody test in action.. they are saying it is about 80x more communicable than they initially thought and that's just from the areas being tested using it. anyone else hearing this? they are finding a **** ton of antibodies apparently and are starting to think it more and more possible that the sh17 going around in December was covid
 
puccah8808 said:
Ugh! So irritating. They charged me for last month and this month yesterday. How is that effective April 16th? Did you freeze your account?
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They sent me an email on the 3rd that there was a payment problem with my account, so I just called that a win if they can’t collect lol.
 
I'm wondering how gyms might have to regulate allowing how many people are in at a given time. Not sure how this could work. Imagine taking your pre-workout on your way to the gym only finding when you get there you need to wait in a line to get in. WTF!
 
BigGame84 said:
I'm wondering how gyms might have to regulate allowing how many people are in at a given time. Not sure how this could work. Imagine taking your pre-workout on your way to the gym only finding when you get there you need to wait in a line to get in. WTF!
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maybe run laps around the block....
 
BigGame84 said:
I'm wondering how gyms might have to regulate allowing how many people are in at a given time. Not sure how this could work. Imagine taking your pre-workout on your way to the gym only finding when you get there you need to wait in a line to get in. WTF!
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Good question. I wonder if they' implement time limits if the demand and customer base far exceeds allowable capacity. If only a few people can be in a given area/gym at once, it's not fair if some a** sits there for four hours. I doubt anyone would want to implement or deal with an online system, but perhaps you'd have to "check in" online for an "appointment/window" you could workout in, and it'd have a given capacity allowed, and you could reserve a spot for an hour or two, or something like that. No idea if that's doable, or reasonable, just thinking out loud here. No idea what the timeframe will be here either. When gyms will open, what restrictions they will have when they open, etc.
 
muscleupcrohn said:
Good question. I wonder if they' implement time limits if the demand and customer base far exceeds allowable capacity. If only a few people can be in a given area/gym at once, it's not fair if some a** sits there for four hours. I doubt anyone would want to implement or deal with an online system, but perhaps you'd have to "check in" online for an "appointment/window" you could workout in, and it'd have a given capacity allowed, and you could reserve a spot for an hour or two, or something like that. No idea if that's doable, or reasonable, just thinking out loud here. No idea what the timeframe will be here either. When gyms will open, what restrictions they will have when they open, etc.
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indoor tennis is by appointment, you need to reserve court time. same principle I assume?
 
thebigt said:
indoor tennis is by appointment, you need to reserve court time. same principle I assume?
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Sounds about right. I'd imagine it may be a little harder to track at the gym, since I'd think tennis you'd be on one court, and it'd be easy to kick you out when your time/game is done/over, but in the gym, it may be harder to find someone after their time is up if they don't leave on their own. Maybe have one of those little things they give you when you're waiting for a table at a restaurant? And it'll beep and flash loud when your time is up, so someone knows and you don't try to stay too long?
 
muscleupcrohn said:
Sounds about right. I'd imagine it may be a little harder to track at the gym, since I'd think tennis you'd be on one court, and it'd be easy to kick you out when your time/game is done/over, but in the gym, it may be harder to find someone after their time is up if they don't leave on their own. Maybe have one of those little things they give you when you're waiting for a table at a restaurant? And it'll beep and flash loud when your time is up, so someone knows and you don't try to stay too long?
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reserve time by the hour, once hour is up everyone goes...next!!! that's the way it is with reserving tennis courts, they give you a reserved hour, if you are late tough tittie. kinda like a movie theater.
 
Yeah, I've been thinking about this and just don't know how this could work. How can you get people to leave by a certain time? And what will that time limit be? 1 hour? And even if you have just 25 people in a gym, how can you tell them to stay 6-feet away at all times? This whole thing has the makings of being ridiculous and a total cluster.
 
BigGame84 said:
Yeah, I've been thinking about this and just don't know how this could work. How can you get people to leave by a certain time? And what will that time limit be? 1 hour? And even if you have just 25 people in a gym, how can you tell them to stay 6-feet away at all times? This whole thing has the makings of being ridiculous and a total cluster.
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reserve the right to cancel membership if can't follow rules...always a few assclowns everyone else is happy to see go anyways, imo.
 
And you're also going to get people bitching that they can't get in at the only time they can make the gym (because it's booked) but yet still have to pay their monthly dues. These are all points that must be considered. I don't think this idea could work for a bunch of reasons.
 
muscleupcrohn said:
Good question. I wonder if they' implement time limits if the demand and customer base far exceeds allowable capacity. If only a few people can be in a given area/gym at once, it's not fair if some a** sits there for four hours. I doubt anyone would want to implement or deal with an online system, but perhaps you'd have to "check in" online for an "appointment/window" you could workout in, and it'd have a given capacity allowed, and you could reserve a spot for an hour or two, or something like that. No idea if that's doable, or reasonable, just thinking out loud here. No idea what the timeframe will be here either. When gyms will open, what restrictions they will have when they open, etc.
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Well I just don’t see how they are going to practice social distancing at La Fitness with the machines literally like 2 to 3 feet apart. I think the gyms are going to suffer when they open. Many folks will be afraid to go back due to fear of the virus and others only have a coupe hours window from like 5pm to 7pm after work to work out so many people won’t be able to work out because they won’t be able to let everyone in at prime time.
 
The solution here is to open gyms back to all members. Don't have bookings or a number of people that can only go in at a certain time. It's the gym owners responsibility to sanitize. It's the members responsibility to clean equipment after use and use proper hygiene. No guest passes should be allowed. This is really what it should be.
 
thebigt said:
reserve the right to cancel membership if can't follow rules...always a few assclowns everyone else is happy to see go anyways, imo.
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Ok but now if you're going to cancel memberships, you're losing money.

And geez, if I only got an hour and have to take a dump, I am losing precious time while being on the clock lol
 
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