Climbing gym and coronavirus

This just in from touchstone gyms (via email):  

Dear Touchstone Climbing members and guests,
 
We recognize that our gyms are as big a part of your lives as ours. We are climbers, yogis, and athletes, and we take our health seriously. As a community, we work together to send our projects, hit our PRs, and reach our goals. In this time of increased viral awareness we need to work together to maintain our healthy environment.
 
We ask that everyone follow the Center for Disease Control guidelines:
 

• Please don’t come to the gym if you are ill, for at least a week after becoming ill, and a minimum of 24 hours after fever and symptoms have gone away. (It’s okay to skip a workout once in a while!)
• When you cough or sneeze, always turn away from other people and be sure to cover your nose and mouth with a tissue or use the inside of your elbow. Throw the tissue in the trash after you use it.
• Wash your hands often with soap and hot water for at least 20 seconds. If soap and water are not available, use an alcohol-based hand rub.
• Avoid touching your eyes, nose and mouth. This is how germs spread!

 
We are asking our staff to clean more frequently, especially high-touch areas like door handles, railings, counters, and shared fitness equipment. We ask for your help, too, by continuing to wipe down shared equipment before and after use.
 
As climbers, we are used to considering our own tolerance for risk and taking personal responsibility for our choices. One of the best things we can do for our health is to stay active, and so it is our priority that we continue to offer you a place where you can achieve your fitness goals. That being said, no gym environment can ever be fully sanitized. We encourage you to respond to COVID-19 in a way that makes sense for you.
 
Thanks for helping us maintain our clean gym environment and healthy community.

Gumby the White wrote:

I'll finally be able to buy a house!!!!

Not at all some crusty old dude with hang in there and out of spite weather it out. 

beensandbagged wrote:

Not at all some crusty old dude with hang in there and out of spite weather it out. 

huh?

M Sprague wrote: I wonder if all our elderly die off will there be anybody left with a sense of history or anything else but how to run their phones. I am often really shocked at how so many young people are amazingly ignorant of basic history or civics. It might help keep Social Security solvent for a little longer though

So is the present occupant of the White House.

M Sprague wrote: I wonder if all our elderly die off will there be anybody left with a sense of history or anything else but how to run their phones. I am often really shocked at how so many young people are amazingly ignorant of basic history or civics. It might help keep Social Security solvent for a little longer though

I am amazed at the amount of "old people" who always say the same shit about younger generations....

Marc801 C wrote:

So is the present occupant of the White House.

Agree, and look what that gets us.

Glen Prior wrote: Maybe this isn't really a problem, but rather part of Mother Earths solution...

Yeah, right.  "Mother Earth's" solution that was created in a Chinese bio weapon lab.  And, I've noticed that China seems to have the problem under control now.  Hmmm...

Marc801 C wrote:

So is the present occupant of the White House.

You lost.  Get over it.

David Baltz wrote:

Yeah, right.  "Mother Earth's" solution that was created in a Chinese bio weapon lab.  And, I've noticed that China seems to have the problem under control now.  Hmmm...

GodBot alert

David Baltz wrote:

Yeah, right.  "Mother Earth's" solution that was created in a Chinese bio weapon lab.  And, I've noticed that China seems to have the problem under control now.  Hmmm...

Do you have any real evidence that warrants spewing that conspiracy theory? 

I guess we do have plenty of evidence of DF ignorant older people here in the MP forums, lol, and the worst trolls by far seem to be in their 50s and 60s

David Baltz wrote:

You lost.  Get over it.

No. The nation lost. 

So did #incompetentpresident, by over 3M votes.

M Sprague wrote:

Do you have any real evidence that warrants spewing that conspiracy theory? 

Slate had a good writeup - https://slate.com/technology/2020/02/coronavirus-bioweapon-conspiracy-theories.html

Let’s be clear: The government of China is not off the hook. Its response to COVID-19, and the quarantine of tens of millions of people, was an egregious and wasteful violation of human rights. Its current approaches to media and its arguable mistreatment of health care workers ought to be condemned. Like any major power, China has a litany of human rights violations it should answer for.
With so many actual bad deeds to choose from, we don’t need to make up a new conspiracy. If I had to guess, I’d say that the seeds of this conspiracy lie in the fact that we’re scared of COVID-19. It’s easier to say “this was an attack by China” than it is to admit that in the more than 15 years since SARS, we haven’t put enough work into global public health as we should have. And in the U.S., we’ve consistently defunded public health programs and failed to implement the labor laws and health care reform that would protect us from an outbreak like this one. As usual, it’s easier to create a bad guy than it is to admit that maybe we—the U.S., and the world—screwed the pooch when it comes to public health.

David Baltz wrote:

A well-sourced article you won't see mentioned on the Chinese News Network:

https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/sudden-militarization-wuhans-p4-lab-raises-new-questions-about-origin-deadly-covid-19

"Overall, we rate Zero Hedge an extreme right biased conspiracy website based on the promotion of false/misleading/debunked information that routinely denigrates the left."
https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/zero-hedge/

As we speak, FISA Warrants are being issued to spy on the Hillary campaign who is "colluding" with the ChiComs to influence the US election! [I'm smiling!]

The "Hillary campaign" was 4 years ago. 

Do you buy your bullshit by the pound or in 55 gal drums?

Maybe container loads. Zero Hedge, lol

Coronavirus transmission to humans is due to the practice of eating meat. Joining the ranks of HIV/AIDs, SARS, H1N1, Ebola, etc.

https://www.forksoverknives.com/recipes/

Marc801 C wrote:
"Overall, we rate Zero Hedge an extreme right biased conspiracy website based on the promotion of false/misleading/debunked information that routinely denigrates the left."
https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/zero-hedge/

The "Hillary campaign" was 4 years ago. 

Do you buy your bullshit by the pound or in 55 gal drums?

Confirmation bias.

You immediately go to a far-left "fact-check" site to confirm your ignorance.  What part of the following is "false/misleading/debunked information"?

Given that this outbreak was said to begin in late December when most bat species in the region are hibernating and the Chinese horseshoe bat’s habitat covers an enormous swath of the region containing scores of cities and hundreds of millions people to begin with, the fact that this Wuhan Strain of coronavirus, denoted as Covid-19, emerged in close proximity to the only BSL-4 virology lab in China, now notoriously located in Wuhan, which in turn was staffed with at least two Chinese scientists – Zhengli Shi and Xing-Yi Ge (both virologists who had previously worked at an American lab which already bio-engineered an incredibly virulent strain of bat coronavirus) – the accidental release of a bio-engineered virus meant for defensive immunotherapy research from Wuhan’s virology lab cannot be automatically discounted, especially when the Wuhan Strain’s unnatural genomic signals are considered.

And Joe 'dementia' Biden is just a placeholder for Hillary.  Her campaign is still in full swing.

David Baltz wrote:

Confirmation bias.

You immediately go to a far-left "fact-check" site to confirm your ignorance.  What part of the following is "false/misleading/debunked information"?And Joe 'dementia' Biden is just a placeholder for Hillary.  Her campaign is still in full swing.

Just gonna quote and save this one, so come November we can see who is right, and who is David Baltz.

David Baltz wrote:

Confirmation bias.

You immediately go to a far-left "fact-check" site to confirm your ignorance.  What part of the following is "false/misleading/debunked information"?And Joe 'dementia' Biden is just a placeholder for Hillary.  Her campaign is still in full swing.

Ok Boomer.