Obviously it’s not good for any martial art but you can still train and exercise by yourself. There’s nothing stopping you doing press ups, sit ups, squats, leg raises, burpees etc at home
A-yup. Time to take control of your own training.
Non-contact exercises can work in a group if enough distance is maintained between people and if there is enough ventilation. I suspect it ultimately is not possible to keep a mask on the entire time.
What this means is, training needs to be outdoors where there is a good breeze going and people need to keep extra distance, like ten-fifteen feet between classmates. Covid becomes aerosolized and remains in the air for a long time. As people keep breathing, they contribute to the concentration, if infected. Eventually the entire room can become saturated with virus, if ventilation is inadequate. I would be very concerned about training in a group inside an enclosed environment.
Imagine a group of people shrimping down the floor. If one person in that group is infected, he is putting Covid into the air. As people shrimp down the floor, they pass through the air that the infected person put out. And it grows throughout the training session, as participants breathe and pant and gasp, all the breathing patterns of heavy exercise.
Indoor training is simply a bad idea. Numbers are spiking higher than they have ever been. Covid is everywhere. This is for real and it should not be taken lightly.
Just as an aside, I’ve been unemployed since April, because of Covid. I just recently accepted an offer for full-time employment. During the interview process I made it clear that I take Covid very seriously and I need to know that the office is taking every reasonable step to keep the employees safe. And I was given assurances.
Last Monday was my first day. I found that they were acting as if there is no Covid. They were taking zero precautions. Nobody was wearing a mask, they were congregating in close proximity in groups, they were openly shaking hands, this was all indoors, it was amazing. We visited some external sites as part of the orientation, and it was the same everywhere.
I resigned the next day over the phone and never went back.
This stuff is serious, it is not worth gambling over.
