Gyms Are Open? (Sort of)

    ENTRY 480  July 31 /2020


Gyms Are Finally Allowed To Open In Toronto, but...

Today is the day that gyms and fitness centres are supposed to begin the re-opening process. However, not all of them feel that they need to follow that protocol. The boxing gym I attend is one of them.

Apparently, Cabbagetown Boxing Club will not be re-opening. I am hearing that they are not ready and that it will be three to four months.

Three to four months? I am already down six months of training. Why are they not ready to open? I need to get back to proper training. I mean, walking and running and exercising are okay, but I am an athlete. I need to get back to my sport, properly. 

Other gyms are preparing to switch into Drive, but Cabbagetown isn't even in Neutral. They are still in Park.

This is okay for the time being since combat sports have not started up yet, but I still want to hit the heavy bag. It has been months since I have even seen one. 
Once sparring starts again, definitely, I need to jump back in. 
From the timeline I have calculated, I figure that sparing will be able to start sometime in October.

Until sparring starts, I will train at Bloor Fitness. I can hit the heavy bag upstairs. Hopefully, they will have that part open. I have heard nothing about not being able to have heavy bags available, except that they have to be further apart. That should be as easy as just removing some.
However, once sparring starts, I will need to go to a gym that offers it regularly. If Cabbagetown is open by then, I will go back to Cabbagetown, but they will have to be ready when I am ready. Otherwise, I will find someplace else. It certainly won't be the first time. 
I like Cabbagetown because I like the people there. Nobody is really an asshole. It is pleasant and fun. My only beef with them is that they won't let me compete, and of anyone there, I am the one who deserves to compete. I have broken my butt in half six days a week. If I do go back, there is going to be a change. 
Regardless of where I train, beginning in 2021, I will compete at least twice a year. I still don't want to do tournaments, just local club events. I train hard, and I have been boxing for a long time. What I am requesting is not in any way unreasonable. 

I am already ticked off over this whole "pandemic" crap with all the cry-babies and their bullshit, and it is getting worse. Now, Mayor John Tory is annoying me with his dictatorship bullshit, but that is a story for another entry.
Believe me, this is not a good time to agitate me.

I am done. Done. That's it.

That is my plan, and I am sticking to it. 
I am not waiting for anyone any more.



--Paul 'The Brick' Brec

Thank You For Helping Spread COVID-19

    SPECIAL ENTRY

Thank You For Helping Spread COVID-19

In this special edition of "Blue Corner", I have no report on boxing, because there is no boxing. This entry is about the reason why there is no boxing, and what our society has become as a whole.

I try to stay away from political topics. To me, politics and religion are taboo on the internet. However, this has been bothering me for a couple of months, and I really need to get it off my chest. 
Unfortunately, my views on the following topics are contrary to the opinion of the majority. That is the reason I have been hesitant to post this, but now is the time. 

Is the general population taking the COVID-19 pandemic too far? 

Yes. They are also handling the situation incorrectly. They have fallen slave to the news and politicians instead of thinking for themselves. Independent thought is a lost art since the take-over of the Snowflakes, Cry-babies, and Libtards.

Let me get one thing straight, I have a lot of friends who are Liberal. That is okay, but some Liberals are extreme, and those are Libtards. I used to be Liberal, right up until March 2020. This whole "pandemic" crap has been pushing me further to the Right over the past few months. I am having trouble understanding how so many intelligent people can not see through this situation as nothing more than an attempt at government control, and a money-grab.

It is. Nothing anyone who we used to be able to trust can say anything that makes sense any more. 

It seems that the majority of the population has just gone crazy paranoid over this thing just because the news is telling us to do so.


Let's first look at Theresa Tam. 
She comes out of hibernation, and suddenly she's a freaking genius. I didn't even know who this was until the "pandemic" started. Oh, yeah, the Know-It-All she is. She works for the government, people. She is just telling us what the government wants us to hear, which is a crock of crap. The governments want people to be afraid so they can keep their power. 
Listen, lady, go back into hibernation, because nobody is interested in your crap. 

Humans have been on this planet for about 200,000 years. Do you think we had vaccines 200,000 years ago? Of course not.  Humans built up an immunity to common viruses such as the cold and influenza by letting it run its course. That is what we have to do with COVID-19. Stop running from it and fight it. Let it run its course so we can build up an immunity to it. Some may die in the process, but that is par for the course. The world's an imperfect place. 
It is like a bully. If you run from him, he will keep coming back, but if you stand up to him, he will go away. The same is true for COVID-19 and any other virus.

COVID-19 is just a different strain of influenza. It has always been around, but it has just never infected humans, and it is only infecting less than 4% of the population. Usually, influenza infects about 20% of the population, so this is nothing. However, the governments are making a deal out of it because they can. "Normal" influenza isn't scary enough.

You are not going to get sick and die if you take care of yourself. If you take care of your body, your body will take care of you. There is no reason to go crazy and close everything, and this Stage One, Stage Two...whatever crap. That is just the government testing us to see how long a free society will tolerate socialism. The answer is "three months". Then there was a race riot, and somewhere in there the police became our enemy and Aunt Jemima became offensive. 

Oh, yes.  The work of the Snowflakes. Offended by life itself, and expecting everyone else to change to suit their needs.

It is all about money, people. Isn't it convenient that right after the federal government offered financial assistance to the lower levels of government, suddenly the premier decided that everything had to close because of the "pandemic", so the province needs money? Then, soon after, the municipalities did the same. Hmmm...

For months we have been puppets to governments and large corporations.

Going shopping was like walking through a mouse maze.

One-way aisles? 
Why?

What difference does it make which way you walk in the aisle?

If you get a slow-ass in front of you, you are still going to pass that person, What is the difference which direction you pass?

It doesn't make sense.

I personally don't follow those. I walk in whatever direction is convenient for me at the time.



This one, in particular, is pointless, because it shows traffic going in both directions.





...and the signs telling us to wash our hands? Really? I'm glad we have those posters because I don't think I would have washed my hands without them.

Oh, and don't board the bus at the front door, and don't sit behind the driver, because Heaven forbid the driver might get sick. 
Oh, and don't sit too close to another passenger

Although front-door boarding has resumed on buses, at least it has in Toronto, some buses still have the seat directly behind the driver sealed off. The TTC told me that it was to protect the driver from the virus.
Why?
There is a wall between the seat and the driver.  Do they really think the virus is going to work its way around the wall and onto the driver? That is the stupidest thing I have ever heard.

Here is another.
How about visiting a city, and not being able to go to the bathroom?

Back in March, I was in St. Catherines, and their bus terminal was already closed, and no toilet around.

Last week, I visited Hamilton and the same thing. Nobody had a working toilet. Not at the bus terminal, or the mall.

Why? What does closing toilets have to do with COVID-19? As long as they are kept clean, it isn't a problem. Washrooms should be kept clean at all times anyway, even when there is no "pandemic". 

Not having working toilets, is in itself, a health risk.












Now, let's look at this whole mask thing.

Let me put it bluntly. I absolutely refuse to put on any kind of face covering.
There are a few reasons for this, other than the obvious that I am refusing to play that game.
I am not really convinced that they work. 
If you can breathe through them, the virus can get through. Those things are not really made to block viruses. They are made to block dust particles.

Some people have medical issues that prevent them from wearing a face-covering. That's fine, but nobody is allowed to ask the reason due to the Privacy Act. So, just say, "I can't." That's it. There is nothing they can do.

Toronto made a by-law making it mandatory, but they can't enforce it because it is unconstitutional. I don't even know how they got away with creating the law in the first place.
Then, within a day, Hamilton did the same "...because Toronto did."
Hamilton is always copying Toronto. I don't know why. Toronto constantly sets the perfect examples of how to NOT do things. Hamilton doesn't really like Toronto, but of course, there goes Hamilton right up Toronto's ass as usual.

Why are masks mandatory when the government isn't supplying them?
To create artificial demand. You buy them and the government gets sales tax from it. The municipalities jump on board because they know that if Ottawa and the provinces are getting more money from HST, that means more money can be accessible to the cities. It is in the municipalities' best interests to make face-coverings mandatory. Even if a few don't comply, enough people will comply to make it worth the city's while.

If the government is so concerned about this being a health issue, and they really cared about us, why don't they distribute them for free? 
It is because the government won't make any money that way. 

It is all about governments and large businesses.

We were not allowed to have meetings and were therefore "forced" to use Zoom.

Look at Zoom. It is a multi-million dollar tech giant. They made $622 Million last year. Now they can charge more for advertising since there is an artificial demand for their base product. 

Governments want small businesses to fail. 
Large corporations can afford to give large "donations" to political parties, while small businesses can't. Who do you suppose the governments are supporting? 
Otherwise, why are they not helping small companies? They are helping everyone else.

Finally, how accurate are the numbers we are getting from the news. These days, if somebody dies, it is automatically from COVID-19. 
What about all those "COVID-19 deaths" in retirement homes? I mean, did anyone stop to think that maybe these people died because they were 100 years old?

It all comes back to the All-mighty Dollar.

Of course, the lazy Libtards want this to continue, so they can sit back doing F.A. and get paid for it.

I worked through this whole thing and didn't get so much as a "thank you", so forgive me if I don't feel sorry for you.

I hope I was able to shed some light on this and was able to get you to think. 

You can't trust the news and you definitely can't trust any politician.


--Paul 'The Brick' Brec