"No, the BPM is actually really low, it was written using demi-semi-hemi-demi-semiquavers"
South Korea to ban music over 120bpm in gyms, in response to Covid spike
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Re: South Korea to ban music over 120bpm in gyms, in response to Covid spike
#12I was curious what the vaccination rate was in South Korea, and was surprised to see that their first-vaccination rate was below 30% just two weeks ago [1].
[1] https://newsinfo.inquirer.net/1451900/south-korea-vaccinatio...
Re: South Korea to ban music over 120bpm in gyms, in response to Covid spike
#13costco has removed relish from their hot dog condiment dispensers .. to fight covid I hear california is considering banning birthday cakes with more than 5 candles because the wind to blow them out can spread covid
Re: South Korea to ban music over 120bpm in gyms, in response to Covid spike
#14"Free Democracies" are passing the weirdest restrictions. It's mind boggling just how much power our governments are allowed to wield. I'm not even a libertarian and I think this is government overreach. So you're going to allow people to work out in gyms, but playing music that's too fast is somehow too dangerous to allow? Come on. If it was a real problem you'd just close the gyms again.
This is what we call "compromise"; when you've got a reasonable position on one side, a reasonable position on the other, and the solution is to meet in the middle and produce policy which is totally unreasonable and makes no one happy.
Re: South Korea to ban music over 120bpm in gyms, in response to Covid spike
#15"Free Democracies" are passing the weirdest restrictions. It's mind boggling just how much power our governments are allowed to wield. I'm not even a libertarian and I think this is government overreach. So you're going to allow people to work out in gyms, but playing music that's too fast is somehow too dangerous to allow? Come on. If it was a real problem you'd just close the gyms again.
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Re: South Korea to ban music over 120bpm in gyms, in response to Covid spike
#16"Free Democracies" are passing the weirdest restrictions. It's mind boggling just how much power our governments are allowed to wield. I'm not even a libertarian and I think this is government overreach. So you're going to allow people to work out in gyms, but playing music that's too fast is somehow too dangerous to allow? Come on. If it was a real problem you'd just close the gyms again.
Let’s keep in mind how crazy the average citizen is. Half are even crazier
Re: South Korea to ban music over 120bpm in gyms, in response to Covid spike
#17They are limiting pretty much all high-intensity exercise in an attempt to prevent the spread by way of heavy breathing. Sure, the headline sounds ridiculous to my American ears, but I wonder if there is a cultural-specific reason for the music. For example, perhaps synchronized dance is an extremely common exercise class in Korea.
I’ll offer a potential explanation - they may have had outbreaks specifically around high effort fitness spinning classes but they wish to keep the gyms open for older people and people with disabilities for whom it’s their only exercise. It’s cutting quite a line for sure but often there is a very specific context for rules like this - think about all those times when you’ve had to go “what happened for them to have…
It doesn't really matter what their justification might be, Threats of violence against people for listening to music is a trespass of basic human rights.
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#18South Korea has had 2044 deaths, out of 51.7 million people. That's a death rate surely under the usual "flu and pneumonia" rate.
I don't understand, I really don't. I anybody can explain, I'd very much appreciate.
Re: South Korea to ban music over 120bpm in gyms, in response to Covid spike
#19costco has removed relish from their hot dog condiment dispensers .. to fight covid I hear california is considering banning birthday cakes with more than 5 candles because the wind to blow them out can spread covid
Some of the covid cost cutting takes a fair bit of mental gymnastics to justify. But really it's just cost cutting.
Re: South Korea to ban music over 120bpm in gyms, in response to Covid spike
#20"Free Democracies" are passing the weirdest restrictions. It's mind boggling just how much power our governments are allowed to wield. I'm not even a libertarian and I think this is government overreach. So you're going to allow people to work out in gyms, but playing music that's too fast is somehow too dangerous to allow? Come on. If it was a real problem you'd just close the gyms again.
There's a tendency with people in authority to want to be seen as engaged and acting responsibly, so they "do something" such as take a half step towards the more extreme response, even if rationally the half-step does nothing.
Or such is my observation.