HomeMy WebLinkAboutSign and Mask MandateDear Mayor and City Council,
I would like to start off by thanking you for your service. I was in attendance last night and I'm sorry that you felt threaten, but we did as well. I have a few thoughts that I would
like you to consider. I think it would help if you understood where I as a business owners is coming from. First off we take offence when you imply that we don't care for our customers.
Let me explain. When Governor Little said we could reopen he gave us guidelines on what he would like us to do to make our gyms "safe" for our members. Everything he asked us to
do we already do. We have dealt with the flu every year for the 16 years we have been in business. So for you to tell us that we need to do something different than what has worked
for us for 16 years is us feeling like you aren't listening or asking us how we are dealing with this virus. We can all get to the same goal, but we won't all do it the same way. My
mom use to tell me to treat everyone different is to treat everyone the same. I'll try to put into words what I'm talking about. I have 4 children and I want what's best for all of
them. My end game is to have them with me forever, but to get them there I have to treat them different. That is how I would like you to see us as business owners. Not ever business
is the same. How people act in my business is different on how they act in LWskincare, or Wal-mart.
So what I would like to propose for Bodifi is that if a sign is required please let me make the sign on how I think the members need to act to be safe in my business. Once again we
are all after the same thing but the "mask" I wear looks different from the "mask" you may wear. Just because your "expert" says they are effective, my "expert" says that if I exercise,
take Vit A, C, and D and liquid zinc I am just as protected as if I wear a mask. So why is your "expert" right and mine is wrong. I put this mask on everyday before I leave the house
and I carry sanitizer as well. We can get to the same conclusion we are just doing it in different ways. I don't look at signs, and the one you are asking us to put up is not effective
and to long. My staff tells each member to sanitize their hands and make sure they clean off their equipment after they are done. We have provided towels (which we didn't before)
that they can carry around with them to make it easier for them to clean them off. Our sanitizer that we use to clean the equipment is hospital grade and has always been. I also have
a person on every shift that is there just to keep things sanitized and clean. In our business most people social distance on their own. I know I never work out within 6 feet of any
one. On the treadmills I am never talking to anyone or I would die ;).
I feel if you give the businesses the benefit of the doubt on how we run our business and what we are doing in our specific business to keep everyone safe you would see a much better
response. No one is even addressing the fact that the college students are getting the virus because they get more money if they give blood and they have the anti bodies in their plasma.
It even says it on their website. Could this be the spike? I know this because my college age child was invited to a "covid party". Its hard for me to believe that we have more
cases now with many more people wearing masks that weren't wearing them when this first started. Also it makes no sense to me why people that are not hospitalized are getting tested.
They recover but because we test them we have these spikes. My daughter-in-law tested positive and all she got was no taste or smell for a few days. It is impossible for us to know
how it will effect each person, but when you say there are 273 cases we assume that they are all really sick and in the hospital. That isn't the case. They have just tested positive
and now they can sell their blood for more money. I'm not trying to be insensitive, and maybe karma will catch up to me and I will be very sick if I ever catch it (which I don't believe
I will because I was around my daughter-in-law for days before she knew) But something in this life is going to kill me, none of us are getting out of this alive. So to have the end
game of no cases is not going to happen. We need to educated the public and not just wearing a mask, but teach them about other masks that can help them.
Thank you for taking the time to read this. I truly believe we want the same thing we just might want to get there a different way.
Tacy Ball
tacy@bodifi.com <mailto:tacy@bodifi.com>
208-351-6303