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Re:California Covid-19 traffic report finds silver lining by meritt on Sunday April 19, 2020 @01:08AM (#22913672)
Really? Maybe my local experience is an outlier but I've seen significantly more people cooking meals at home and exercising. The number of daily runners in my neighborhood has easily increased 10x. Are gluttony and sedentary lifestyles not the major contributors for type-2 diabetes and heart disease?
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Re:California Covid-19 traffic report finds silver lining by dragonwriter on Sunday April 19, 2020 @02:24AM (#22913970)
> The number of daily runners in my neighborhood has easily increased 10x.

Those are probably largely people that probably did just as much activity somewhere other than their home neighborhood (physical-but-nonessential labor, gym, athletic hobbies that rely on now-closed businesses, etc.)

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Re:California Covid-19 traffic report finds silver lining by _bxg1 on Sunday April 19, 2020 @03:14AM (#22914155)
I went running the other day for the first time in over a year, just as a way of getting fresh air. And before that I'd already lost 8 pounds since quarantine started, just because I haven't been eating restaurant-portions.
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Re:California Covid-19 traffic report finds silver lining by toomuchtodo on Sunday April 19, 2020 @09:11AM (#22915656)
Congratulations! Keep it up!
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Re:California Covid-19 traffic report finds silver lining by dehrmann on Sunday April 19, 2020 @01:48AM (#22913846)
I've had a similar experience, though I have no idea if the runners I'm seeing makes up for less activity throughout the day, gyms being closed, etc. It's possible that the 4% of people who go to the gym regularly are now running outside, and everyone else is even less active.

Also, heart disease and type-2 diabetes are years in the making, and a month of moderate exercise and better eating won't make up for it overnight. Not to mention added stress.

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Re:California Covid-19 traffic report finds silver lining by arcticbull on Sunday April 19, 2020 @02:05AM (#22913904)
Takes 21 days to form a new habit, so there's every chance they'll continue!
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Re:California Covid-19 traffic report finds silver lining by watwut on Sunday April 19, 2020 @07:05AM (#22914972)
No, there is not. When the circumstances change, habits change too.

When people go back to work, they will have less time at their hands. They will have to adjust to commuting again, taking kids to/from school again, being somewhere at time again.

All of that will cut into their exercise time. All the people who are exercising out of boredom now will stop exercising out of being tired of doing lot of things again.

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Re:California Covid-19 traffic report finds silver lining by chrisweekly on Sunday April 19, 2020 @07:30AM (#22915111)
It's far from given that a return to pre-outbreak commuting patterns will be the norm.
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Re:California Covid-19 traffic report finds silver lining by lazyasciiart on Sunday April 19, 2020 @01:14AM (#22913711)
Has the number of runners increased more than the number of people going to gyms/sports leagues/swimming pools has dropped?
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Re:California Covid-19 traffic report finds silver lining by bobthepanda on Sunday April 19, 2020 @01:49AM (#22913849)
Also, are the people running new runners, or people who would otherwise be going to gyms?
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