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    If restaurants are allowed to let customers go mask-less during certain times--while eating or seated--it should be fine for gyms to allow masks to be removed during sets or when there's no one within ten feet of you. Unfortunately for me, the gym I go to in Austin takes the mask thing VERY seriously. They are all-in on the concept and extremely eager to enforce it. Signs are posted throughout giving detailed instructions about how to properly wear a mask, and shames patrons who get by with bandanas, face sleeves, or disposable masks instead of properly fitted N95 types. And the staff will routinely walk around the place looking for noncompliance (lowering it during sets, letting your nose out, taking too long to drink water, etc) which is swiftly and publicly rectified. It sucks and it's not going to get better until the day after the election at the earliest.

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    The term Karen is anti-white.

    Try referring to an aggressive, uneducated, young black male as "a Tyrone", or create a bitchy, stereotypical name to describe Jewish people in prominent positions of government, the media or high finance. Let us know how that turns out for your livelihood.

    Fuck me. The media is cancer.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Mark Rippetoe View Post
    Training hard makes you breath hard, and requires a big valsalva. You figure it out.
    I've found a loophole. I've made a literal slit in my face scarf where my mouth should go. The mask is black, so it's hard to see the holes. I am able to breathe in thru my mouth, create a valsalva, close my mouth, suck in the mask, and effectively hide the hole during the set, and my airway is less impeded. When I'm finished with the set, I just adjust my mask so nobody can observe the holes. And I've made tiny holes where the nostrils are, which helps some. I figured it out

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    Quote Originally Posted by Joe Cavazos View Post
    If restaurants are allowed to let customers go mask-less during certain times--while eating or seated--it should be fine for gyms to allow masks to be removed during sets or when there's no one within ten feet of you. Unfortunately for me, the gym I go to in Austin takes the mask thing VERY seriously. They are all-in on the concept and extremely eager to enforce it. Signs are posted throughout giving detailed instructions about how to properly wear a mask, and shames patrons who get by with bandanas, face sleeves, or disposable masks instead of properly fitted N95 types. And the staff will routinely walk around the place looking for noncompliance (lowering it during sets, letting your nose out, taking too long to drink water, etc) which is swiftly and publicly rectified. It sucks and it's not going to get better until the day after the election at the earliest.

    Quote Originally Posted by eyezm View Post
    I've found a loophole. I've made a literal slit in my face scarf where my mouth should go. The mask is black, so it's hard to see the holes. I am able to breathe in thru my mouth, create a valsalva, close my mouth, suck in the mask, and effectively hide the hole during the set, and my airway is less impeded. When I'm finished with the set, I just adjust my mask so nobody can observe the holes. And I've made tiny holes where the nostrils are, which helps some. I figured it out
    Yay for you! You've found a way to comply! Without appearing to be nonconformists. This is so important in New America.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Joe Cavazos View Post
    If restaurants are allowed to let customers go mask-less during certain times--while eating or seated--it should be fine for gyms to allow masks to be removed during sets or when there's no one within ten feet of you.
    Quote Originally Posted by Mark Rippetoe View Post
    Yay for you! You've found a way to comply! Without appearing to be nonconformists. This is so important in New America.
    Joe: what a great point. I never thought of it like that.

    Rip: Sad, ain't it? We have to hide what we're doing to make weenies happy. In "New America", The Weak Shall Survive, at the expense of the Strong getting weaker. Blegh

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    You choose to make the weenies happy. I suppose it's the practical thing to do.

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    Yeah, very practical. If I wanna keep my boss' small business open, and thus keeping myself employed, I suppose it's a price I'm willing to pay

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    What you should do IF you are concerned about contagion, is to keep distance to people, not wear a mask. This should be to easy in a gym. Why would you stand in close vicinity to a stranger who is lifting heavy? Seems bizarre.

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    My gym is right in the heart of the socialist utopia of Connecticut, and NO ONE here wears a mask at my gym. Keep in mind, the number of leftists here rivals that of Portland, Austin, and the entire state of California. Yet even still, no one here wants to train wearing a mask. I say you ask the members who have threatened to report you to leave. Those are not the type of people you want to do business with anyway. It has been my experience that there are way more people out there looking for a place to squat without being forced to mask up; you'll replace these idiots in no time.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Matt Jackson View Post
    The term Karen is anti-white.

    Try referring to an aggressive, uneducated, young black male as "a Tyrone", or create a bitchy, stereotypical name to describe Jewish people in prominent positions of government, the media or high finance. Let us know how that turns out for your livelihood.

    Fuck me. The media is cancer.
    The anti-white slurs don’t bother me. I’d like to greet a fellow honkey with “sup, my cracka” but I imagine that wouldn’t go over well.

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