Gyms seeing widespread cancellation of memberships from unvaccinated users

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  1. How many over 18’s are unvaccinated?

    And how many gyms are there in Ireland.

    The headline makes it appear that there’s a huge amount of the great unwashed cancelling gym membership.

  2. I cancelled my gym membership because i havent been to the gym from 2 months. Can’t seem to have the time now with last month of college and working full time.
    I’m vaccinated too.

    How accurate is this headline?

  3. Fantastic. They’ve started checking passes in my gym but don’t seem super strict on it. Hopefully they lock it down. I can guarantee the unvaxxed are also the ones that fail to spray and wipe down after themselves. How do I know that – it’s just common sense that it would go with the mé fein attitude.

  4. This will be enforced by the corporate gyms like the Ben dunne and flyfits. The local privately owned gym won’t be checking this.

  5. What’s the situation with gyms these days anyway? are changing rooms open? are the gym areas themselves at full capacity?

  6. Sounds like bollix tbh. I’d say they gyms have cancellation fees and these people are trying to get out of their contract

    > Mr Dunne said one gym in particular had more than 100 members demanding the cancellation or suspension of their membership

    This part in particular sounds fake, or at least not related to vaccines

  7. Ive seen these gym bros complaining on Instagram. It’s absolutely glorious. They are worthless pieces of garbage

  8. My husband owns a gym and the problem is, the government are making this seem like it’s Mandatory but it’s actually only a recommendation, the criminal justice act which this comes under only refers to places where liquor is sold or consumed.
    Gyms are then saying they “have” to, and then refusing to cancel membership or saying they will freeze it, when they can’t do that. They have no legal ground. The government is once again making business owners the enforcers and the scape goats and people are going along with it.

  9. My gym (small, independent, weightlifting classes only) now requires a vaccine scan, the exact same people are at the training sessions I go to so it doesn’t seem to have affected us.

  10. I know of a few lads not vaccinated in my gym & overheard a few others proudly stating they wouldnt be seen in the gym from wednesday onwards. I don’t personally care but i did find it amusing considering that i’m 90% sure a good few of those lads are on steroids 😀 So they’ll happily inject test bought off the massive eastern european lad in the gym but those vaccines man….ye can’t trust them. Who knows whats in them…..

  11. I don’t agree with giving gym staff grief but I absolutely agree with them wanting to cancel or suspend their membership. Why should they pay when they can’t use the facilities.

  12. Some of these willingly take steroids but refuse to get a vaccine that will benefit them. Reminds me of the neanderthals outside that New Jersey gym doing push-ups.

  13. Vaccinated but cancelled my membership because its a joke. Wasnt in my contract when I signed up, and its not even law so screw supporting businesses that discriminate. Home workouts are fine anyways, but friend goes to gym which has stated they won’t be enforcing certs so will support them in the new year instead

  14. So it appears that a lot of people weren’t vaccinated and now they can’t do shit without getting the vacc.

    Fuck ’em.

  15. An unvaccinated gym goer is probably healthier and better protected against covid than a double vaxxed non gym goer

  16. It’s shocking how many gym bros and PTs are anti vax but preach about health and training but don’t follow science. It’s mental. Joe Rogan isn’t a source of medical info.

  17. Was actually shocked to see how empty my gym is in the mornings now. Made me very concerned to know so many people had been going and probably weren’t vaccinated.

  18. Also could be people who don’t want to be checked by an app issued by the government to go to a gym. Don’t have to pay membership fees to not go to the pub.

  19. I almost had to cancel too. I have a valid covid cert, but my friends had to fake theirs, wasn’t gonna go while they were excluded.

  20. >However, the 370-member association is predicting a decline of up to 40 per cent next month.

    6.5% are unvaccinated in this country , and somehow that accounts for up 40% of gym memberships. Who are they fooling with this prediction! There’s no gym bunnies at the large 10k protests either!

  21. It’s mad that only 6% of the population is unvaxxed yet the gyms are suddenly..”quiet”.

  22. I would 100% cancel my membership if I found out my gym was letting voluntarily unvaccinated people in. So dangerous. Not just because they’re unvaccinated, but because the people skipping the vaccines on principle are skipping most of the other safety protocols too.

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