The fast-growing San Diego Business Club, which filed lawsuits against COVID-19 County Restrictions, has just added 25 more members.
Last week, 25 gyms filed a lawsuit against San Diego for the right to reopen. According to the state’s stay-at-home order and the violet-level restrictions that enforced it, gyms are not allowed to operate indoors.
Gyms like the Boxing Club in the East Village, which are sold as places for luxury workouts and wellness experiences, there are even chandeliers hanging in the boxing ring.
“It’s very hard to sell luxury when you’re working in a parking lot,” Artem Sharoshkin, executive director of the Boxing Club, told NBC 7.
In March, like many gym owners across the county, Sharoshkin closed the months.
“At first, we were told we were literally endangering people’s lives,” Sharoshkin recalled.
But now, nine months into the pandemic, Sharoshkin is struggling to understand why his nearly two-million-dollar facility should remain empty.
“I can’t tell you a week we didn’t think, ‘Will we get over it this month?’ “Sharoshkin said.
Now, the Boxing Club is among the 25 gyms suing the county for a new lawsuit.
“That’s enough,” said one of the lawyers representing the gyms, Charlotte Najar, “you have to say goodbye and stop interfering so that the owners of the gyms can run their business.”
Najar said that right now, closing gyms and allowing retailers to stay open is not only arbitrary, but is unfounded by the county’s own metrics.
“We’re saying no,” Najar said. “We won’t allow gyms to open. But will we allow liquor and tobacco stores to open?”
Between June and December, the county reported more than 118,000 positive COVID-19 cases. Following his complaint, county workers interviewed more than 68,000 people who caught the virus and monitored possible community exposures.
Gyms are possibly related to 277 cases, or 0.4%, of potential exposures. Compare that to retail, which was related to more than 6,300 exhibits, 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 initially believed, we need to reopen gyms,” Sharoshkin said.
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