The fast-growing club of San Diego corporations filing lawsuits against the county over COVID-19 restrictions has just added 25 new members.
Last week, 25 gyms filed a lawsuit against San Diego for the right to reopen. Under the housing order issued by the state and the purple tier restrictions that went with it, gyms are not allowed to operate indoors.
Gyms like the East Village Boxing Club, which market themselves as places for luxury workouts and wellness experiences – even have a chandelier hanging over the boxing ring.
“It’s really hard to sell luxury when you’re exercising in a parking lot,” Artem Sharoshkin, CEO of Boxing Club, told NBC 7.
In March, Sharoshkin, like many gym owners across the country, went silent for months.
“We were told in the beginning that we literally put people’s lives in danger,” Sharoshkin recalls.
But now, nine months after the pandemic, Sharoshkin is struggling to understand why his nearly $ 2 million facility should remain empty.
‘I can’t tell you a week where we didn’t think,’ Are we going to make it this month? Sharoshkin said.
Now the Boxing Club is one of 25 gyms the county is suing in a new lawsuit.
“Enough is enough,” said Charlotte Najar, one of the gyms’ attorneys, “you should fire and stop interfering with gym owners running their businesses.”
Najar said closing gyms while retailers remain open is not only arbitrary at this point, but is unfounded by the county’s own statistics.
“We’re saying no,” said Najar. ‘We are not going to leave gyms open. But are we going to allow the opening of liquor stores and tobacconists? “
Between June and December, the province reported more than 118,000 positive COVID-19 cases. After they were reported, provincial workers interviewed more than 68,000 people who had contracted the virus and tracked potential exposures in the community.
Gyms may be linked to 277 cases or 0.4% of the potential exposures. Compare that to retail, which was linked to more than 6,300 exposures, or 9.2%. Workplaces claimed the highest possible exposures, with more than 22,600 positive cases.
“Now that we have the clear evidence to support what we thought to start with, we need to reopen the gyms,” Sharoshkin said.
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