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I like to go down there to work out on the machines. Nice big gym new equipment. I get in for free because of insurance.
This is Asheville NC. This Y was closed for six months. Just reopened last week.

You have to wear a mask. I put the mask on to get in the door. I went upstairs, to the elliptical machine, it is like a stationary bicycle. There is room for about 98 people in there, and there were 5 people in there. The place is empty.
I started in on that machine and my glasses fogged up. The mask makes my beard itch and I just can't breathe well. After five minutes, I took the mask off.
I rode the stationary for 15 minutes more. The desk clerk guy saw me and he said nothing. But a guy way on the left end, about 30 feet away, he was on a stationary bike, called the clerk over.
I saw him pointing at me.

Some people never get past what they were in Second Grade. "I am gonna tell teacher on you."
Desk clerk guy marched right up and told me I had to wear the mask. I told him I couldn't breathe with it on, and I would just leave. He said "No we don't want you to leave we need customers just try to breathe with the mask on."
I said no dice, I would leave.

Then the Tattletale guy started giving me a sermon about masks. This guy is a big guy, about my size.
I looked him right in the eye and said "Do you know that masks do not work to halt spread of Corona."

He continued with his lecture. I was ten feet away, I looked him in the eye and said "F**k You!" and I wasn't stuttering and I wasn't wearing a mask.

Tattletale Boy shut up, and I headed for the stairs. Desk clerk guy was following me and asking me to stay and try to work with the mask. I left.

Tens of millions died in China in four years. About the same rate of deaths in the Soviet Union. You now understand how that happened, and how it wasn't soldiers doing the killing.

The local Y received a $1,000 fine because a guy got off his treadmill and started wiping it off with alcohol before putting his mask back on to leave. Some "second grader" called the Oregon OSHA. One of the employees told me OSHA didn't even do a follow up to see what happened. They just gave the Y the fine.

You didn’t do like hotrod Lincoln?

Least shoot some lights out?

Shoulda pistol whipped him with a .45.

IIRC, YMCA has a specific policy against this now.

Gyms here been open since May and no masks required. In fact no masks required anywhere. Even see people in Costco with no masks and no one bothers them. Very low Covid rates.

North Carolina has a lib democrat Governor. A real Sister Boy. We were the last state in the country to allow gyms to re open.

Sounds like you left rather than getting kicked out? In any case, good for your for standing up against this rampant idiocy. Didn't someone post a great thread with a guy showing why the masks don't work a while back? I can't seem to locate it.

Be more worried about catching the ghey there.

It's not fun to stay at the YMCA after all?

You need one of these.

We have the same rule at our gym but people pretty much ignore it when they're on the cardio equipment. No one makes a big deal over it. And the guys who wear them down around their necks seem to all pull them up when they come close to other people.


Seems to work pretty well. Gyms are having a hard time staying open what with people staying away in droves. The people who work there sure don't want to antagonize the patrons.

This why I bought a treadmill, sit up machine, weights... no more stupid gyms.

Yes, to be accurate I was not kicked out. Had I put the mask back on I could have stayed.
Yes someone had a four minute video of a doctor testing out five different masks. He inhaled from a vape and exhaled, you could see his breath blowing out the top, sides and bottoms of all 5 masks. He proved that masks don't work.

Buy a farm and work it

Problem solved

Hey Simon here in Burlington we only have to wear the mask until we get on the machine. Then it comes off until we move. Challenge their policy.

Bad job, Simon. You probably got the dimocraps hopes up when you said, "Fughk you".

Shoulda asked if he was teachers brown noser in grade school.

It's closer for me to go to the county fairgrounds and climb stairs in the grandstands.

As a teen, I got in shape for hunting and winter sports by putting 25lbs in a backpack and running stairs at the high school stadium. It was free. I know people think that if you don't spend money you aren't doing anything of value anymore, but that certainly works.