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To not go to fitness class when coach has sick kid and has spent hours cleaning it up...

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denhaag · 20/01/2025 16:02

Would you go to a class if you knew the coach was nursing a sick (vomit) child at home?
I don't know if I'm being OTT or whether (since I don't have to go) I should just miss it.

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Starlight1984 · 20/01/2025 16:45

How do you ever know what goes on behind closed doors? Every person you work with / interact with could be dealing with an ill child or relative?

Assuming the coach won't be up close and personal then it's highly unlikely you're going to catch anything isn't it?

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denhaag · 20/01/2025 16:38

Rozbos · 20/01/2025 16:36

I wouldn't go, why take the chance? I'd go for a run instead too.

Come with me? 😁

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denhaag · 20/01/2025 16:37

Livelaughlurgy · 20/01/2025 16:34

For all you know everyone in the class has a vomiting child though? I would only skip if I had something important coming up and it was super super inconvenient if I got sick and I was being extra cautious.

I know, that's why it's messing with my head a bit.
If me or my kid gets a sick bug we deal with it. It's horrible, but we'll be OK.

I had to 'hide' a facebook friend who gleefully posted whenever someone in her house was ill. One of her children was in my son's class. The anticipation of maybe catching it was horrible.

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Dotto · 20/01/2025 16:36

Nope. Too much of a chance of viral particle transfer for me, in the scenario of apparatus touching.

heyhopotato · 20/01/2025 16:36

No absolutely not.

People are far too blase about this sort of thing.

I still can't believe how many people had that flu/virus thing at Christmas and were literally complaining about how bad it was while they were spreading it to other people without caring. As a species we have learned nothing.

I was reading reviews of a gym near me lately, half of them were complaining about the equipment and changing rooms not being clean and they'd contracted ringworm. Gyms are nasty.

Rozbos · 20/01/2025 16:36

I wouldn't go, why take the chance? I'd go for a run instead too.

paranoiaofpufflings · 20/01/2025 16:34

I wouldn't go if as you describe you will be handling the same gym equipment. The sickness/vomiting bug doing the rounds is awful and I just wouldn't want to risk wiping myself out for a week for the sake of a class. Take yourself running instead.

Livelaughlurgy · 20/01/2025 16:34

For all you know everyone in the class has a vomiting child though? I would only skip if I had something important coming up and it was super super inconvenient if I got sick and I was being extra cautious.

Evilspiritgin · 20/01/2025 16:31

Theweekjr · 20/01/2025 16:25

I went to work today
my dd was up half the night being sick
I didn’t tell my colleagues. Why would I?
And if you had been one of my colleagues, and I’d told you this - would you have refused to come In?

No I wouldn’t refuse to go into work but I wouldn’t go anywhere near you

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denhaag · 20/01/2025 16:31

sleetysnowflakes · 20/01/2025 16:29

If the instructor is cleaning up today (assuming she washes her hands) and catches it, she is likely to incubate for 24-48hrs then start shedding virus ahead of coming down with it herself… so maybe it’s the class in 3 days time you need to cancel

Or they both caught it at the same time only she hasn't gone down with it yet......

Bugs keep us on our toes.

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Theweekjr · 20/01/2025 16:30

You don’t want to go
so don’t
All the best with your run?!

sleetysnowflakes · 20/01/2025 16:29

If the instructor is cleaning up today (assuming she washes her hands) and catches it, she is likely to incubate for 24-48hrs then start shedding virus ahead of coming down with it herself… so maybe it’s the class in 3 days time you need to cancel

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denhaag · 20/01/2025 16:29

Theweekjr · 20/01/2025 16:25

I went to work today
my dd was up half the night being sick
I didn’t tell my colleagues. Why would I?
And if you had been one of my colleagues, and I’d told you this - would you have refused to come In?

Of course not, because work is very different to an optional fitness class.
I'd probably try and avoid close contact though.

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pimplebum · 20/01/2025 16:28

I use rubber gloves when cleaning vomit and wash my hands after touching a sick child and u disinfect the touch points the rest of us don’t get it

I also go for a wee before I leave the house and wash my hand again then

If you have reason to believe the instructor has lower hygiene standards don’t go

you could always wash your hands before eating so as not to pass on bugs

corvidconvo · 20/01/2025 16:26

I'd just go for a walk or something instead and skip the chance to catch a bug. But then again, I haven't vomited in probably 30 years or more, and I'd like to keep that streak going for as long as possible...

Theweekjr · 20/01/2025 16:25

I went to work today
my dd was up half the night being sick
I didn’t tell my colleagues. Why would I?
And if you had been one of my colleagues, and I’d told you this - would you have refused to come In?

TwoHoots74 · 20/01/2025 16:24

I probably wouldn't tbh. Aren't vomiting bugs airborne? I say that as someone currently in bed with norovirus.

Theweekjr · 20/01/2025 16:24

denhaag · 20/01/2025 16:22

Not at all. You seem determined to think me wondering about not going to a class where I might catch a bug means I don't enjoy exercise.

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its either that logic

or

You have a serious health anxiety that blinds you to sense

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denhaag · 20/01/2025 16:23

Undisclosedlocation · 20/01/2025 16:22

Honestly I think you are being very OTT unless you/someone close to you is extremely vulnerable.

That's what I'm wondering, hence why I'm asking.

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denhaag · 20/01/2025 16:22

Theweekjr · 20/01/2025 16:21

Sounds like a threat! 😆

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Not at all. You seem determined to think me wondering about not going to a class where I might catch a bug means I don't enjoy exercise.

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Undisclosedlocation · 20/01/2025 16:22

Honestly I think you are being very OTT unless you/someone close to you is extremely vulnerable.

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denhaag · 20/01/2025 16:21

I know the risk is small, but it's not one I need to take and you know when something's got into your head...it becomes A Thing.

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Theweekjr · 20/01/2025 16:21

denhaag · 20/01/2025 16:19

No. I'm wondering whether to bin off a class which might put me at risk of getting a bug, and do something else instead.
Would you like me to show you my Strava activities for the past week?

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Sounds like a threat! 😆

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denhaag · 20/01/2025 16:20

soupfiend · 20/01/2025 16:18

How do you think you're going to catch something from an instructor running the class?

Handling weights etc that the coach has touched.

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denhaag · 20/01/2025 16:19

Theweekjr · 20/01/2025 16:16

You not being one of them on the basis of this thread!

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No. I'm wondering whether to bin off a class which might put me at risk of getting a bug, and do something else instead.
Would you like me to show you my Strava activities for the past week?

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