“it’s odd to live in an age where “becoming healthy is an act of civil disobedience” but i don’t make the facts, i just point them out.”

This has irritated me no end since this whole Covid debacle started. There was never ANY reliable information given with which to make an informed health decision on what to do, and there was certainly none of the old “rest, hydrate, eat chicken soup, take analgesics for pain” recommendations as there were as little as a year before if you got the flu or a bad cold. None.

I am no professional athlete, but since I was a kid, I always biked, ran, swam, played softball and basketball and continued the biking and running as an adult. And felt great afterward. I was sidelined for two years until I got my knee replaced (delayed for a year by - guess what - no elective surgeries because of Covid. I wasn’t getting my nose fixed. I wanted to be able to walk without pain). It was going to PT twice a week and listening to the therapists talk about their own exercise routines that got me back into exercising regularly. And I am inspired also by my niece, a physical therapist herself, who believes that exercise and movement is everything. So I’m all for exercise being (one of) my attempts at civil disobedience.