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No, I do this because it dramatically increases my safety without imposing much personal cost. It makes me mad that our response to an overdispersed airborne vi

No, I do this because it dramatically increases my safety without imposing much personal cost. It makes me mad that our response to an overdispersed airborne virus is so ineffective this many years later, but that just helps me move a little more weight. Altitude adaptation can happen passively, so it's technically better to train low and recover high. You want your training to be limited by your physiology, not by oxygen availability.

cinntaile 4y ago
I don't really see how it dramatically increases your safety when gyms haven't been shown to increase your risk to get covid in the first place. We are no longer at the start of the pandemic. We now have vaccines and the medical establishment has developed the tools and the experience to treat people so society goes back to "normal". I don't find that very surprising?
- MengerSponge 4y ago
  Got a citation for that "haven't been shown to increase your risk" statement? Or is it just an absence of evidence? Because America has had uncontrolled community spread since about March 2020. We had a glorious two months with vaccines and no meaningful variants last year, and in that time I didn't wear a mask. Since then, several variants with substantial immune escape have evolved. I'm not worried about dying, but that doesn't mean I'm going to start taking meaningless risks. I'm not going to start licking handrails in the subway. I'm going to wear my seatbelt. I'll dine indoors at restaurants, but again--I'm looking at my integrated risk.
  - Grazester 4y ago
    "...haven't been shown to increase your risk" If people readily got COVID at my gym something tells me at least 1/4 would be dead the way they pack themselves in there without masks. I am shocked to be honest. Even myself with an N95 mask that try to keep my distance would have probably caught it also.
    - MengerSponge 4y ago
      It really depends on the air flow in your gym. Mine has pretty low ceilings where the free weights are, but the cardio hall used to be a gymnasium/basketball court. Also, most people aren't isolating and taking home grocery delivery except for when they go, unmasked, to the gym. It would be hard to measure in the best of times, and our extremely high community spread levels make it pretty much impossible to quantify the risk posed by going to the gym specifically.

cinntaile 4y ago

I don't really see how it dramatically increases your safety when gyms haven't been shown to increase your risk to get covid in the first place. We are no longer at the start of the pandemic. We now have vaccines and the medical establishment has developed the tools and the experience to treat people so society goes back to "normal". I don't find that very surprising?

MengerSponge 4y ago
Got a citation for that "haven't been shown to increase your risk" statement? Or is it just an absence of evidence? Because America has had uncontrolled community spread since about March 2020. We had a glorious two months with vaccines and no meaningful variants last year, and in that time I didn't wear a mask. Since then, several variants with substantial immune escape have evolved. I'm not worried about dying, but that doesn't mean I'm going to start taking meaningless risks. I'm not going to start licking handrails in the subway. I'm going to wear my seatbelt. I'll dine indoors at restaurants, but again--I'm looking at my integrated risk.
- Grazester 4y ago
  "...haven't been shown to increase your risk" If people readily got COVID at my gym something tells me at least 1/4 would be dead the way they pack themselves in there without masks. I am shocked to be honest. Even myself with an N95 mask that try to keep my distance would have probably caught it also.
  - MengerSponge 4y ago
    It really depends on the air flow in your gym. Mine has pretty low ceilings where the free weights are, but the cardio hall used to be a gymnasium/basketball court. Also, most people aren't isolating and taking home grocery delivery except for when they go, unmasked, to the gym. It would be hard to measure in the best of times, and our extremely high community spread levels make it pretty much impossible to quantify the risk posed by going to the gym specifically.