Gyms for me, but not for thee

[George K]

https://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/local/san-francisco/san-francisco-government-buildings-keep-gyms-open-crush-private-gym-owners/2357438/

As Glenn Reynolds comments, "It's good to be the nomenklatura."

For months, the city of San Francisco health order has prevented local gyms from opening its doors, but some city-owned gyms have been back open for months and are allowing city employees to use them, crushing private gym owners.

“It’s shocking, it’s infuriating,” said Daniele Rabkin from Crossfit Golden Gate.

She said she has done everything she can to keep her gym on Sutter Street alive.

“Even though they’re getting exposed, there are no repercussions, no ramifications? It’s shocking,” she said.

Rabkin even reached out to a couple police officers she knows in the neighborhood asking them if they needed a place to work out since their station gym was supposedly closed.

But a text exchange appeared to show they did have access to the SFPD Northern District Police Station on FIllmore Street -- and police said Thursday that safety and cleaning protocols, as well as occupancy limits, have been established in department gyms.

“It just demonstrates that there seems to be some kind of a double standard between what city employees are allowed to do and what the residents of San Francisco are allowed to do,” said Dave Karraker, owner of MX3 Fitness in the Castro.

[jon-nyc]

Nice.

[jon-nyc]

Our gyms are open btw.

[Mik]

Open here too. I won't go near one on a bet, but they're open.

[jon-nyc]

Yeah me too! Not until I’m immunized.

[Klaus]

Well. I'm sitting in a gym right now as I'm typing.

[Doctor Phibes]

I wouldn't go into a gym even without Covid.

Isn't exercise miserable enough already without having to go into one of these godawful places?

[jon-nyc]

You resemble that remark.

[Jolly]

I need to go, but haven't been back since the first of March.

[Mik]

I like going to the gym. It's a break in the day, and when you go there you are not distracted.