Sounds like a great opportunity to throw the book at the actual offenders and not punish the entire industry.This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
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Originally posted by Thales of Miletus
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Pre-Covid, I had dreams of opening a gym one day and raking in that recurring revenue money, honey. Even now, I think there is a ton of opportunity but things are going to get ugly for a while. Uglier, even.This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
There was the one spin studio where a single class infected many of the patrons and since instructors from other gyms were attending it caused 4 or 5 studios to temporarily shut down. That was also a pre-launch class where they invited industry people only. Imagine had it been fully open and they did half a dozen classes that day.This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
Opportunity yes.This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
But the problem is (especially with the advent of social media "influencers") is every tom dick and jane thinks owning a gym would be sweet! So sugar daddy gives them some cash to open a dream gym.
However most of them have absolutely no business sense and do not try to differentiate from your gym whatsoever and open far too close to your location, therefore a chunk of your clientele want to try something new and move gyms, reducing your revenue. Some come back, some leave, its a constant game of cat and mouse trying to keep clients.
Then, due to low numbers in two gyms, both have a very short economic life.
And then covid happened - Kick in the fucking teeth.
Good news is, 3 gyms in our area have gone under... We managed to survive our 6 month shut down - its working well for now as we are quite busy, but another shut down won't be survivable.
I dont know about you guys but whenever Ive been in a restaurant lately theres been no one else dining - although Ive been to a lot of non chinese asian restaurants.
Even Asian restaurants are pretty empty. A lot has reduce seating by 50% and the max group of 6 removed a lot typical Chinese gatherings.This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
But my neighborhood Korean Fried Chicken joint, Starbucks, Pho joint and diner seems to hit 50% utilization at dinner time without issue. And a new dim sum joint seems to be 3-4 months away from opening so people are bullish that we will get over this.
And living vicariously thru my niece and nephew's Insta, looks like restaurants targeting 20 somethings are still doing fine.
Last edited by Xtrema; 11-02-2020 at 10:58 AM.
So, to confirm. You do not live your life as if we are locked down.This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
But you want everyone else to.
Originally posted by Thales of Miletus
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Originally posted by Toma
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Yes, spin studio = boutique fitness. Generally they are small, confined rooms with less open air which leads to higher chance of spread. Have any full size gyms had to shut down? Much easier to distance when you're not confined to a room full patrons huffing and puffing on stationary bikes.This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
I strongly suspect that with gyms, restaurants, churches, offices, etc., spread is largely determined by air volume, air flow, and air turnover. Each organization or place of business should probably be looked at on a case-by-case basis.
Having said that, I would expect hospitals to be the safest, as they have high ventilation rates (high turnover), based on the limited "research" I have done. This is one reason they seem to be always cold. Yet, two outbreaks at local hospitals. Of course, being that higher numbers of sick people go to them, it is inevitable that outbreaks will occur.
It's actually quite interesting how this is already changing home and office design, and I suspect ventilation is included.
Can we go back to windows that open in commercial buildings again?
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Originally posted by Thales of Miletus
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Originally posted by Toma
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Originally posted by SEANBANERJEE
I have gone above and beyond what I should rightfully have to do to protect my good name
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Opposite experience. Most places in Signal Hill seem to always be busy (Earls, Kinjo, etc). This past wednesday we went for wings and there was a 45 minute wait at the first place, and the second place was the busiest i've seen it in years.
Last edited by NoSup4U; 11-02-2020 at 11:22 AM.
Well what I guess I mean is we follow the rules when we are out. Masks, sanitizer, washing hands, distancing etc. Lots of people aren't. If the cases were up to 4k a day I definetly wont be going out however what I meant is JK doesnt seem its a big issue and I guess if the hospitals arent at capacity then we arent.
Everyone is focusing on the airborne aspect of spread, but ignoring the more preventable aspect - contact with contaminated surfaces and then not washing hands properly.
I mean yea, in a packed Ctrain, masks are a great tool in general (even without C19 fears) - but if you are touching everything and not properly washing your hands, might as well throw that mask away as you will get sick.
gyms, bars and restaurants are almost certainly top contributors. Probably churches, but the devout deserve it.
Anyway.
Gyms bars and restos have a number of problems that fit the data that we have on epidemiology in general. They bring together people doing risky things (de-masking, breathing heavy, close quarters, etc). They also bring together otherwise separated social networks. They connect multiple networks together. Spread is inherently limited to contact, so if we all keep to our normal activities, in theory spread is only rapid amongst those contacts. Bars/restuarants, gyms etc all short circuit those connections.
The other problem that they have is that they are completely optional. It really sucks for the service industry, but it's the pandemic's fault, not the policy-maker's fault that pandemics slam these industries.
If it get bad enough, my guess is we are in stage 2 and revert back to stage 1 on Dec 1st.This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
As a refresher:
https://open.alberta.ca/dataset/61f5...gy-2020-06.pdf
EDIT: in some way, we have already reverted to some stage 1 numbers with max gathering down to 15 again.
We have 2 months of numbers that doesn't remotely recommend moving to Stage 3 opening when we are debating school opening in early Sep.
Last edited by Xtrema; 11-02-2020 at 11:32 AM.
Some statistics and perspective - these are not apples to apples, but should lend perspective in terms of actual risk.
Chances of (in USA) of being struck (not killed) by lighting in your lifetime is about 0.03%.
Chances of you (today) being hospitalized in Ab. due to C19 is 0.004%
Also, we have 165 C19 patients right now in hospitals across AB (icu and non icu) - not 16,000.
Last edited by revelations; 11-02-2020 at 11:53 AM.
Your numbers are way off on lightning..This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
Chance of being struck in lifetime is 1/15,300 or 0.000065%
https://www.weather.gov/safety/lightning-odds
There are 140 in hospital as of friday (the last update of numbers). The 25 in ICU are included in that number.This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote