Today is my sons birthday- my husband thinks it’s ok to go out for a personal training session

[AndyVogel1]

He’s going to leave the family home
Go to this persons gym (he cannot tell me if he’s got any other paying/ non paying customers or if he has any kind of COVid certification saying he can run his business)

I don’t want him to go as I believe he’s putting mine and the children’s health at risk

I’ve suggested they make the session an outdoor one (he won’t)

What have we been on lockdown for 7 weeks for if he decides to do this ?

Am I going mad?

Is it so unreasonable to insta the either runs around the block or leaves it another 4 weeks?

Outdoors with appropriate spacing would be permissable from Wednesday in England.

Indoors is higher risk, and the rules for indoor activities are different.

Is it DS going on his birthday with DH's consent or is it DH going on DS's birthday?

Outdoors with appropriate spacing would be permissable from Wednesday in England.

Why? has the virus disappeared?

No

I suggested it be in a park and was told no

It will be in this gym owners gym-indoors

I was also told that the virus only lives for 5 minutes on surfaces anyway.

It’s Dh going

I'm not quite sure what the birthday has to do with it, but obviously going into somebody else's house to exercise in the UK atm is a stupid idea.

How old is your son?

It sounds as though this is the first session too - why now?

Addittionally it sounds as though there is a communication issue between the two of you. I'd bet this is simply the tip of an iceberg of problems, is it?

www.webmd.com/lung/how-long-covid-19-lives-on-surfaces

And this is so important it has to be done on his son's birthday? Is he usually as much of a dick as this?

It sounds more like a hook-up than a personal training session in the conventional sense :(

I think he’s a bit of a twat for going out on your son’s birthday. A gym is an enclosed space and close contact with the PT. It’s high risk.

The virus lives on surfaces for hours to days. With all the huffing and puffing that goes on in gyms, I would think the virus can travel a lot longer.

Not longer: Further than 2 m. Sorry listening to pmq

I’d also suspect a hook up.

I think they are saying this may be permissible from 4th July...

Is this a private gym where only 1 person uses it at a time and then they wipe/clean everything between people? If so, I would not be bothered because it’s following the COVID safety guidelines.

As for birthday, so what? It will take what, 2hrs at most? No one celebrates a birthday for every waking moment of the day.

It’s against the rules, which are there to keep us all safe as individuals can’t be trusted to make sensible decisions. As shown by your idiot DH. I would not be pleased about them doing this. People are dying, over 200 today I think. Why risk it? We are all missing out on things. That’s the way it is.

I think the rules allow it starting Wednesday in the U.K.? Businesses (other than restaurants, pubs, certain retails, etc) can open so long as following COVID safety guidelines?

It is confusing to read though so I could be wrong!

My first thought was affair

Outdoors with appropriate spacing would be permissable from Wednesday in England.

Why? has the virus disappeared?

No, it just got very, very small

The government believes that there is sufficient evidence that at 2m+ distance, in outdoor spaces is a very low risk of transmission, so it will be allowed for two individual members of two households to meet in outdoor spaces. A 1:1 with a PT is a similar risk to meeting a friend.
The more enclosed, the greater the risk.

Why Wednesday? There has to be a change at some point. It's no more significant than Tuesday or Thursday. It's a legally pedantic point that it's not permissible today so inside or outside, he shouldn't meet a PT 1:1 today.

It's all a moot point to OP as he's insisting on going to the gym which still isn't legal today or Wednesday. This is more unreasonable than if he was going to a lower risk environment of a park which she has suggested.