@stthomaschristian I'm in Arizona. Yeah, you know that state that fucked up and re-opened everything too early and then we surpassed the East Coast in COVID cases? Yeah, that one. I'm not in Phoenix, but Tucson, so it's only slightly less bad.
To paint a picture of my situation, I left a traditional CF box over a year ago. Instead, I work out at a small, locally-owned, weightlifting gym (for lack of a better descriptor). It's owned by one guy. He coaches his own boot camps, but for the most part, it's not a CF box. No affiliation and the membership I pay ($40) is as if I was paying for an LA Fitness type membership. I pay to use the space and the equipment. He has all the fixings of a CF box, so I can my own thing. I go there because the majority of the members are average people. There were no lifting bros.
When AZ first closed in April, I miraculously managed to order a box, 2 25# DBs, and a med ball. I thought, if anything, that can get me through gyms being closed. I don't have space at home to build a home gym (I live in an apartment), but I have a patio. I could make do with those things, my rope, and bodyweight stuff. And I did. But goddammit, if I didn't miss the barbell.
The owner of my little gym, however, decided not to close. After not being there for 2 weeks (I'm a consistent Monday-Friday person), he texted me. I'll admit that I made the decision to pop back in because I knew all the other members and if many of them weren't there, then with proper sanitation and distancing, I'd love to do some barbell work. What he failed to tell me was that he took advantage of the situation and offered memberships to people who had been essentially "locked out" of their gyms, i.e., LA Fitness, Chuze Fitness, Planet Fitness, YMCA. All the Bros who couldn't miss a day of shitty benching and bicep curls in the mirror. When I arrived, there was no space for me. I couldn't believe it. How dare he be so cavalier with the health and safety of his members. Things, of course, changed when AZ re-opened and all the Bros left. June was fabulous and, at times, I had the place to myself. AZ closed again for July and, once again, all the Bros came back.
So, while I would love to come back to my gym, I simply will not. I'm not immunocompromised. I'm not in a high-risk group. I just happen to care about my health and safety and the health and safety of others. Fortunately, I have
something at home to get me by, although it is much, much harder to work out in July versus April in AZ.