Contagion 2020

[Shuto Makino]

Sweat is an issue, but a cleaning regiment can mitigate that risk fairly easily. It's heavy breathing that's the difficulty; exercising in a mask isn't viable. And communal changing/showering is also very troublesome.

It's simplistic to compare it to pubs. There's also undoubtedly an economic aspect to pubs opening earlier than other places (and, to a degree, that's fair enough), but they're different things.

Also 'pubs are open so gyms should be open' implies that pubs being open is right. Imo they probably shouldn't be, but economic considerations have superseded health concerns. Two wrongs don't make a right, basically.