Brain dead gym owner giving free memberships to people who don't get vaccinated.

[Maraya1969]

Link to tweet

And he killed someone while driving drunk; and also opened gym in violation of rules.

Link to tweet

[HUAJIAO]

1. There's an idiot in my townhouse complex who thinks

exercising outside, Vitamin D and Zink will protect him from COVID-19. True, these may help, but.....

I mean why not Quercetin and melatonin and and and and.....
he refuses to get a vaccine because nobody knows the truth about it.....

Uh huh ....

[PatSeg]

20. And you know, perhaps that might protect him

from COVID-19, but will that protect the people he comes in contact with? Just because you don't get extremely ill, doesn't mean you won't be a carrier. Asymptomatic people can still spread the disease, often to much more vulnerable people. And in turn, the more the virus spreads, the more mutant variants there will be.

Clearly this man does not understand how viruses spread or how dangerous this particular virus is. By all means, do whatever you can to be healthy, but this is also about the health of the people you come contact with.

[LymphocyteLover]

23. yes-- and the other problem is these kinds of folk tend to be anti-maskers and so more easily spread

the infection. They may be physically healthy, but they are sick in the head.

[PatSeg]

31. It is bizarre

in an age of unparalleled access to information, that ignorance is epidemic. I'd often thought if all people could obtain knowledge, the world would be a better place, but that does not take into account basic morality, compassion, and commonsense.

[Claire Oh Nette]

49. They did their research!

All the information in the world is useless if one can't discern fact from fiction. These people confuse watching a youtube video an dreading blogs with actual research. Put them in a library with a card catalog and watch them melt down. Real researchers? bring on the microfiche!!!

[PatSeg]

56. Oh yes, our education system

failed so many people in so many ways.

A number of years ago, I was talking with some neighbors and the subject drifted to politics. This one woman, who seemed fairly intelligent, said a few things I found dubious. When I questioned her assertions, she smiled and said she stayed informed. She was so proud of herself, but as the conversation continued, it became quite clear that by "informed" she meant she watched Fox News.

I came to realize that so many Fox News viewers take great pride in keeping abreast of current events and politics, something that they never cared that much about until they got hooked on Fox. The same people who once watched soap operas and game shows, now have graduated to what they consider "News", news that is designed to keep their attention the same way the soap operas and game shows did. Then the move to the Internet gave them something even more enticing, conspiracy theories!

[LymphocyteLover]

55. yes-- conservative propaganda is a hell of a drug

relatedly-- white supremacy is a hell of a drug

[PatSeg]

57. Yeah, the kind of "drug" that validates your preconceptions

Everyone likes being right!

[LymphocyteLover]

62. yeah

[HUAJIAO]

35. Absolutely.....

Even the vaccines, from what I understand through my own deep research, are not guaranteed to NOT spread the virus if one becomes infected....

I wear a mask primarily to protect myself, but in doing so I am glad I can also protect others..

[PatSeg]

37. Yes, that is my understanding as well

The vaccines protect people from getting seriously ill or hospitalized, but apparently they can still shed the virus. Being we are still learning more about COVID every day, it is best to take what ever precautions are available to us. Masks are the simplest and the most effective way to prevent the spread and to keep the virus from mutating.

[HUAJIAO]

46. Masks !! The Taiwanese, Hong Kongers, New Zealanders, etc knew this a year ago

Their lives are just about normal...

[PatSeg]

48. A lot of Asian people have been wearing masks for years

I noticed that when we moved to California 20 years ago. I didn't know at the time if it was to prevent the spread of disease or because of pollution, but it was a very common practice, especially among the elderly. So in that sense, they probably can adapt to all of this quite easily.

[Aristus]

40. Reminds me of the kooks (some of them right here on DU) who tell me,

during the semi-annual "I Don't Need A Flu Shot" anti-vaxx blitz, "I never get sick. I just wash my hands a lot. That will take care of it. You all should just follow my example by washing your hands, because, according to me, no one who has ever washed his hands has ever gotten sick!"

[Diamond_Dog]

2. Can we load up a space ship with these idiots

And send them to another planet?

[Xipe Totec]

3. Already been done

It's the Golgafrinchan Ark Fleet Ship B

We are it.

https://hitchhikers.fandom.com/wiki/Golgafrinchan_Ark_Fleet_Ship_B

The Golgafrincham Ark Fleet Ship B was a starship designed to relocate the (largely redundant) useless part of the population from the planet of Golgafrincham. The ship was led by the captain, with Number One and Number Two next in charge.

The Golgafrinchan Ark Fleet Ship B was a way of removing the basically useless citizens from the planet of Golgafrincham. A variety of stories were formed about the doom of the planet, such as blowing up, crashing into the sun or being eaten by a mutant star goat. The ship was filled with all the middlemen of Golgafrincham, such as the telephone sanitisers, account executives, hairdressers, tired TV producers, insurance salesmen, personnel officers, security guards, public relations executives, and management consultants.

Ark Fleet ships A and C were supposed to carry the people who ruled, thought, or actually did useful work.

The ship was programmed to crash onto its designated planet, Earth. The captain remembers that he was told a good reason for this, but had forgotten it, although the reason was later revealed to be because the Ark Ship B Golgafrinchans were a 'bunch of useless idiots'.

[Liberal In Texas]

7. Love Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy.

[Turbineguy]

26. Yeah. The people on that spaceship never understood.

But they did have a very clean Captain.

[lindysalsagal]

32. telephone sanitisers, account executives, hairdressers, tired TV producers, insurance salesmen, pers

telephone sanitisers, account executives, hairdressers, tired TV producers, insurance salesmen, personnel officers, security guards, public relations executives, and management consultants.

[Miguelito Loveless]

4. So, how does he prove a negative?

[LisaL]

9. I am assuming many vaccinated people won't ask for a membership in such a gym.

So presumably he will have a whole gym of un-vaccinated people exercising for free.

[Miguelito Loveless]

45. He is apparently not thinking this through...

Wait. Did I say thinking? What was I thinking?

[MissMillie]

10. That was my first question.

I hope he loses a lot of money when people lie to him about it.

[Claire Oh Nette]

50. Voluntary ignorance leading to voluntary bankruptcy.

I'd sign up for a free membership and never use it. Does he think vaccinated people will rush to pay for memberships? Does he think anti-vaxxers aren't going to use his facilities for free? How's he going to know I'm vaccinated if I don't show him my card? He'll never collect another membership fee again. Good luck surviving on juice and smoothie sales, there, fella.

Seems he's not very good at the whole business thing.

[Botany]

5. I am willing to bet all $234.22 I own they guy watches Fox News.

Get rid of good public education, get rid of the fairness doctrine, bring on quack science
and Russian misinformation, and maybe add in some Evangelical Christian pastors and
you get this dumb ass.

C-19 should be a medical, scientific, and public health problem not a political one.

[CurtEastPoint]

13. of course! "Patriot"

[Botany]

18. Is he the one in the O.P. with the backwards off colored American flag patch?

I think that flag has some kind of link to a right wing/racist group.

Funny he was in prison for killing somebody when he could have been in college learning
about viruses. Now Mr. 'roids is trying to tell us about virus and science? Please.

[CurtEastPoint]

19. Yes, the douche on the left.

[Botany]

21. The 'roids will get that guy PDQ

n/t

[AZLD4Candidate]

41. "Patriot" is a brand name. It's how Republicans convince themselves they help the country

when their ideology, thinking, actions, and attitudes have hurt it beyond measure.

But, when you've been on the losing side of every social movement since The Civil War, you need something.

1: Slavery - lost
2: Suffrage - lost
3: Child labor - lost
4: Unions - lost
5: Prohibition - lost
6: No rules Capitalism - lost
7: Abortion - lost, but won't admit it
8: Gay rights - lost
9: Native American rights - lost
10: Medicare/Medicaid - lost
11: Cold War - lost (they did nothing. The Soviet Union collapsed by itself)
12: Immigration Bans - lost (let's start with the Chinese Exclusion Act)
13: Civil Rights - lost
14: Women's right - lost
15: 18+ voting - lost
16: ACA - lost

All they have left is COVID19, guns, God, and fearmongering.

[marble falls]

6. And he can't spell 'Atlas'.

[dalton99a]

8. The Trump cultist was a speaker at CPAC last month

[Xavier Breath]

11. The owner is merely reinforcing the old axiom

It is better to look good than to feel good.

[lindysalsagal]

33. We are not worthy.

We need a "we are not worthy" emoji!

[George II]

12. Brilliant. If this winds up the way I suspect it will, his gym will be empty in 4-6 weeks.

[BlueStater]

14. The comments in that tweet are painful.

I continue to be astounded at how hopelessly stupid so many Americans are.

[redstatebluegirl]

15. We he looks like a guy who is killing himself slowly

with steroids. I bet money he uses them.

[oldsoftie]

16. Yeah, because proving you DIDNT get a shot is totally simple!

EVERYONE should take him up on it

[KarenS]

17. shocked that this isn't an Arizona story n/t

[róisín_dubh]

22. Close enough...

South Jersey is as weird a place as any. I say this somewhat tongue-in-cheek as a native of Central Jersey (which does exist).

Meatheads like that guy are a cancer.

[lindysalsagal]

34. I was expecting florida....

[NJCher]

24. as soon as I saw

"Brain dead gym owner" I knew it had to be this jerk from NJ.

on edit, after looking at picture with my glasses on: of course he's wearing a gator, the least effective almost useless "mask" there is.

[Aviation Pro]

25. He forgot to include the following in his list

1. Test
2. Gear
3. No fap
4. Gym Shark
5. 8 hours of sleep

[Ilsa]

27. And some will claim it's "cancel culture" to avoid his

superspreader business.

[Turbineguy]

28. He seems bent

on depopulating the planet of fellow idiots.

[Mr. Evil]

29. Ethyl Merman, from It's A Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World:

Referencing her son Sylvester; "Just like your father, a big, muscle-headed moron!"

[Evolve Dammit]

30. Super spreader gym. Couldn't pay me to go in there.

[jmowreader]

54. I would have thought...

...the right wing crap this man spews would have already turned you off from his establishment.

Let me guess...part of his classes involve holding a rifle straight out in front of you, like they make you do in basic training.

[Evolve Dammit]

59. We actually had a marine drill sergeant at the local gym that did "Boot Camp." He was good. Probab

ly an anti-masker today but haven't seen him in years. Always "enjoyed" his class. Glad I didn't have him as a drill sergeant though! And you are correct, I would not have entered the other guys establishment.

[jmowreader]

60. One tiny point

The Marines have "drill instructors," not drill sergeants. They are anal about this.

The Army has drill sergeants.

The Navy has Recruit Division Commanders, and the Air Force has Military Training Instructors.

The Coast Guard has Company Commanders.

All of them do the same things. They even wear the same hats.

[Evolve Dammit]

64. interesting. I never actually asked him his title. I stayed as inconspicuous as possible!

[alphafemale]

36. I can also guess this gym is probably lax in other issues of sanitation and hygiene

So no thanks.

Toxic masculinity?

So women can expect that sexual harassment is encouraged among the male clients.

[ancianita]

38. Your 'freeedom' is my freeedom!

[AZLD4Candidate]

39. Get the vaccine, then get the free membership. How can he prove you didn't

get it?

Best of both worlds. A vaccination against respiratory illness and a free membership to work to prevent heart illness.

[lindysalsagal]

42. He's got his summons. Looking forward to future news of his demise.

I read some of his twitter, and it might as well be a 14 year old stoner.
He's being honest about his toxic masculinity.
I only wonder what requires that much compensating. Insecure, much?

[cab67]

43. the densest boulder among my Facebook acquaintances from high school....

...owns a gym in the Pacific Northwest.

No amount of effort will convince him of just how selfish he's being.

And my non-high school Facebook friends include immunologists and epidemiologists. They've done their best as well.

[Farther]

44. roided

and voided.

[CaptainTruth]

47. I forwarded his info to OSHA.

[AwakeAtLast]

51. Darwin. n/t

[Tommymac]

52. Mass Murderers don't always use guns.

Just sayin'.

[Vinca]

53. Does he have a side business selling coffins? Seems like it.

[Dawson Leery]

58. The losers from high school as "adults".

[rockfordfile]

63. He supports Americans dying from covid19

This tells you everything about what he thinks about Americans. Remember we just had a right-wing terrorist hijack a caravan with vaccine.

He should take his un-American ass to Russia.

[maryellen99]

65. They think being young white and skinny will protect them from getting Covid nt