Pog1983 t1_j16lqid wrote
Are we allowed to talk about this now? Phew. Finally.
mattjouff t1_j1730i6 wrote
No, we will close gyms, fill skate parks with sand, and send police after people going on a jog or walk. Plague rats!
SnooPuppers1978 t1_j18v7bv wrote
I remember outdoor sport parks being closed up. Crazy.
I don't understand how it's so easy to close up all fitness, health related activities, but they can't regulate food and health industry in general to promote healthy diet and activities.
Especially in US, regulate food industry to have cheaper healthy foods and reduce availability of unhealthy fast foods, etc.
mattjouff t1_j18w13d wrote
There was a lot we didn’t know back then but that we knew. We knew obesity and sedentary life styles were a huge risk factor and we took measures lock people into their homes with junk food and Netflix to medicate the ensuing depression.
kidirish t1_j183rr7 wrote
When we’re you not allowed to talk about this? The only time I saw people take issue with it is when it was presented as an alternative to getting the vaccine.
SnooPuppers1978 t1_j18veyg wrote
Why would it be presented as an alternative? It's not either this or that.
kidirish t1_j19rvg1 wrote
I agree. No one was prevented from talking about the fact that staying in shape was helpful against severe cases of Covid. But a lot of anti-vaccine people would bring it up in discussions of vaccines as an alternative, and that’s what people took issue with.
ViperBite550 t1_j1a26wi wrote
All of the instances i saw talked about being healthy and moving before there was even a vaccine available, and that was still being kicked back in peoples faces.
kidirish t1_j1a8hju wrote
Alright. Definitely not the experience I had, and I’m in a very blue state and hang out in very progressive spaces. What would someone even say to “it’s more healthy to be in good physical shape than not.”?
ViperBite550 t1_j1a99zk wrote
I’m in a nice mixed space. Suburbs in a mainly red state with blue cities, it was usually a “get outside and exercise because it gives you a better outlook” and the one person that sticks out is my friend’s overweight mother in law arguing saying that they suggest staying inside and not interacting with anyone, which for her condition probably should be the case. Her sons spouted of the same brain numb response and they don’t have her affliction.
kidirish t1_j1aikuw wrote
That doesn’t seem like someone speaking against being in good health is healthier than not. That’s advocating against unnecessary interactions with people outside your quarantine bubble. Those aren’t contradictory things. Being in shape will help against Covid, and you shouldn’t risk unnecessary exposure.
ViperBite550 t1_j1bdz9h wrote
Yes, but telling people to stay inside and not exercise, and there has been studies into the risk walking outside and its pretty minimal, so more about exercise i would say
kidirish t1_j1bk5cz wrote
Who told people to not exercise?
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