Time for some Containment
Exponential growth is a wonderful thing when you’re talking about money. It’s terrifying when it’s the spread of a disease. It’s even more terrifying when we can see what happens in other countries where people don’t take the threat seriously. Add on to that the fact that there’s a lag between infection & symptoms and a longer one until hospitalization is necessary….there’s a very real scenario that there are already too many people infected & who will need hospitalization in our communities to be adequately treated by our healthcare system, they just don’t know it yet.
Pikachu put out a solid post about living 3rd last night. Part of that, to me, is recognizing our leadership potential in the community and being examples for those around us in how to handle this disease. We can’t ask people to practice social distancing and then voluntarily spend time with 15-20 guys working out in close proximity — it undermines our credibility. To that end, my goal is to lower the size of workouts and lessen the chance we accidentally spread this throughout our Pax; I figure a good way to do this is just add more workouts.
Nutcracker will now be 5x/week — Mon-Fri. My hope is other neighborhoods / shield locks / circles will follow and start working out in smaller groups to lessen the potential spread from one of us to another.
This morning we met at 12 Oaks Clubhouse. We will meet at Oakview going forward.
FNGs: Nope
Warm Up: YHC led with some tennis lines, and other standard WU stuff and a call out for popcorn Q’ing.
The Workout:
Slide Rule:
– suicides in the lot; stop at every parking median and increase 5x Merkins. Got to 25 before we ran out of time.
3rd Cousin:
– Tennis Court work with lunges and bear crawls
– Irkins / Dirkins / Dips
– WWII
Da Business:
Mosey over to the hill, where we Squatted at the bottom, Sprinted up, and Monkey Humperd at the top (pretty sure our buddy’s Ring doorbell got a great show this morning)
Pigpen:
5 minutes of abs followed by suicides on the tennis court
Mary: Pullups & Static V-Sit
Announcements: Be safe, be aware of the community around you. Kids who rely on schools for food; spouses who rely on work as a reprieve from their families; small businesses who don’t have margin to sit on the economic sideline for months at a time.
T-Claps (Recognition): Thanks for responding to the call guys. It means a lot
Prayer: Lot of concern for aging parents this morning. It’s going to be a tough month or two.
Final Note: (no one will read this, I know): This is a unique opportunity. Many of us are #HIM who are pulled in dozens of directions; some of us use that as an excuse to be less invested in our families than we could be. For the next month, our worlds are going to be very small — hopefully we can take time to pour into that center part of the Concentrica, the people who need us the most. It’s time to be a leader and truly live 3rd.
Slide out