When kettlebells are outlawed, only outlaws have kettlebells. Pandemic rules have provided a reminder that when a product has eager buyers and sellers, bans don't eliminate it -- they just drive it underground. Thus, the secret, sketchy, speakeasy gym.
Adrian Dennis/AFP via Getty ImagesMy friend Evelyn is an immigration lawyer, and she recently had a meeting at a foreign consulate in downtown San Francisco. . As she walked toward the building's metal detectors, the security guards told her she couldn't bring her backpack in, so she had to leave. She worried this would make her late, so she frantically began searching for a safe place to stash it.
Christina knew the gym was ignoring state orders. But, she says,"one of the few things that keeps me sane is going to the gym." She had tried to buy equipment for home, but she found it was either too expensive or impossible to obtain because everything was backordered. She's in her mid-thirties and fit and doesn't interact with high-risk populations, so she decided she was willing to take the risk and go back.
This a textbook example of a classic unintended consequence of prohibition, Miron says. When markets get pushed underground, quality control tends to go down. In the case of drugs, this means potentially finding rat poison in your weed. When it comes to gyms in the COVID-19 era, it means potentially creating fitness environments that are even more likely to spread the virus than if they were legal and regulated.
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