San Francisco allowed government buildings to reopen their gyms but forced private fitness facilities to remain closed, according to KNTV-TV.
Daniele Rabkin, who owns Crossfit Golden Gate, said the hypocritical enforcement is “shocking” and “infuriating.”
She learned that city-owned gyms were open after texting several police officers, offering them her gym to work out.
They responded and said that the fitness center at the police station was already up and running.
“There are no repercussions, no ramifications? It’s shocking,” Rabkin said.
The city has proved that there was no reason to keep the gyms closed in the first place, said Dave Karraker, owner of MX3 Fitness.
“It just demonstrates that there seems to be some kind of a double standard between what city employees are allowed to do and what the residents of San Francisco are allowed to do,” he said.
“What the city has unwillingly done is created this great case study that says that working out indoors is actually safe. So at this point, we’re just demanding that they allow us to have the same workout privileges for the citizens of San Francisco that the employees of San Francisco have,” he explained.
The city, however, refused to apologize for its hypocritical enforcement.
When NBC Bay Area asked Mayor London Breed’s office for comment, a spokesperson refused to comment except to say that private gyms must remain closed until Breed lifts the city’s coronavirus restrictions.
This news comes days after House Speaker Nancy Pelosi was caught getting her hair done in a San Francisco hair salon that was closed due to COVID-19 restrictions.
“It was a slap in the face that she went in, you know, that she feels that she can just go and get her stuff done while no one else can go in, and I can’t work,” the salon owner, Erica Kious, said.
