Climbing gym and coronavirus

Obviously it depends on your geographical location, age, and other risk factors, but I'm curious about what YOU think:

1. Do you think there is an elevated risk of getting inflected with coronavirus by going to the climbing gym?
2. If your answer to (1) is yes, would that discourage you from going to the climbing gym during the current outbreak?

For the record, I usually climb at Seattle Bouldering Project, which is 1 mile from Harborview Medical Center, where news is now reporting that two deaths from last week was linked to coronavirus.

Lysol is aid

Not a medical expert, but here are my thoughts:

Anywhere there are people congregated, there is elevated risk from people coughing, sneezing or touching contaminated objects. Unless you are avoiding these places (grocery stores, businesses, group events, etc.), I don't think you are at any more risk from a climbing gym. Don't touch your face, mouth or eyes while climbing and immediately wash your hands when you're done. Live your life.

You're more likely to die from a gumby dropping another gumby on you.  Behave accordingly.

don'tchuffonme wrote: You're more likely to die from a gumby dropping another gumby on you.  Behave accordingly.

gumbies cant scale 

(Runs into room excitedly, slips on banana peel, while skidding across room and straight out back door yells) "You're gonna diiiieee!!"

lol (or is that an inconsiderate answer?)

Guess you could boulder with that face mask on, bruh

Bouldering gym? - be careful about spray, and wash your hands after spotting.

People of MTN project, have no fear. Coronavirus is a virus derived of consuming too many Coronas. Upon consuming X amount of Coronas you should start to feel the fiesta. This "fiesta" feeling  is typically the onset to what we now have affecting the masses In droves- Coronavirus. Symptoms exhibited are typically headache, upset stomach, the shits and then death, only treatable by the hair of the Corona Dog.

Same risk as any other flu virus!!!

2020: The year that bouldering in gyms became the leading cause of climbing related deaths.

Daniel Roberts wrote:

gumbies cant scale 

The North Face, Patagonia and Friction Labs would disagree.  

Seems highly elevated.   Corona virus gets on holds, holds gets scrubbed, everyone breathes in corona-ladden chalk/sweat/deadskin-cell/fecal-flake dust.    That said our total inability to actually have any sort of structured response to this (vs say China)  means we're pretty much all going to get it anyway in very rapid order.        

You have nothing to fear.
Our Great Leader has informed us that this is a hoax and will miraculously disappear by April. 

Mike Arechiga wrote: Same risk as any other flu virus!!!

Not quite. According to the  published scientific data 2-3 times more contagious than seasonal influenza, roughly 10 times more fatal. For some age groups and folks with compromised immune systems fatality rates are over 10%. But, 80% have mild symptoms and sneeze at gloom and doom.

Lots of LULZ on this thread.

I have been peeing on my hands after I climb at the gym to make sure any virus's are dead.

Bring some pasta and spread macaronavirus around!

You know what goes with Coronavirus?

Lyme disease!

Matt N wrote: You have nothing to fear.
Our Great Leader has informed us that this is a hoax and will miraculously disappear by April. 

Doctors suspect he's infected with Moronovirus.

I was wondering how long it would be before the coronavirus got on MP.

Flu Vs COVID-19 https://www.livescience.com/new-coronavirus-compare-with-flu.html It is probably a good time to give up your smoking and vaping habit for a while. Personally, I don't think you want to be too flippant about the whole thing, especially if you are middle aged or older or smoke. Healthy younger people can get wiped out too, though that is less likely. The death rate seems to be about 10-20 time the flu, and even if it doesn't kill you outright it can cause real damage. Respiratory failure, septic shock, and/or multiple organ dysfunction/failure is kind of a drag.