I was fully with you up until the final couple sentences. Anyone who's been in a gym knows it's not a sterile place. Again anecdotally people I have met specifi

I was fully with you up until the final couple sentences. Anyone who's been in a gym knows it's not a sterile place. Again anecdotally people I have met specifically from going to the gym would go while mildly sick 100%. Justified with some variation of "just power through". If you're healthy moderate exposure to pathogens can definitely boost your own immune system response. The impact of hosting those pathogens is one of the talking points COVID brought up that I think will be around for a long time.