We're all getting those "You boomers ..." comments., and have been off and on for a long time. I tried to understand the Millennial point of view in my post from a couple of years ago "You Baby Boomers ..." It's on my Popular Posts list. Millennials have some legitimate complaints about how things have gone in this country, but nobody needs the spiteful, resentful, hate-filled spam that just doesn't seem to die.

Our PBS station airs 30 minutes of Sit and Be Fit every morning at 5:30 am. Obviously, I don’t exercise at that time so I record it and do it every day at a more congenial time. It focuses on slow, gentle movements which help with flexibility, balance, and strength. It has just become part of my morning routine.

I hadn't thought much about exercising until you mentioned it this morning. Perhaps I'll give it a try. Being in a lockdown situation here at the ALF, and not being permitted to congregate with my fellow residents is starting to take its toll. While writing my blog keeps me from getting bored, it's doing nothing for my health. Quarantined in a 20x12 foot room is not conducive to a good place to work out. I'll have to devise some way of exercising using what I have here. Which isn't much.

Loved your title, "Not About the Virus"! It gave me a chuckle. I've discovered the hard way that too much news could be as bad for me as the virus. Why do most talking heads have to sound so dog gone jumped up, like they're mainlining caffeine all day? Well, they probably are mainlining caffeine all day, and then, the worse they make everything sound, the more they'll scare us into staying tuned in. Or so they might think. The Black Plague back in the Middle Ages was probably more terrible than the Corona, but at least people didn't have to hear about it every minute of the day. And we don't have to hear about the Corona virus all day, either! Yay, Halleleuia!

So exercise, I still dance some and walk a lot. And garden. Oh, and painting a large, or even medium canvas is really a lot of exercise, on your feet, to-ing and fro-ing, arms working. And every form of exercise is good, and especially good for my outlook.

Just got back from town..........was surprised at all the produce and food available. Are people going to eat toilet paper, or what???? Not really, I don't think. Going to town makes me nervous........all those invisible germs, should I do my hands now? What about the steering wheel, the door handle, god, did I touch my face? Yikes.

Okay, now let's all exercise, or turn on some great music and dance, and if Ronni says chair exercises work, let's youtube chair exercises. Gotta keep that immune system happy!

Wife and I are parents of "Boomers" ... and we plan on stayin' around as long as possible.
Our 70th comes up in November and we do plan on bein' around for #75.
So as nonagenarians at 95 and 91 we offer the "complainer(s)" our aged "middle finger" as we just might outlive him or her!

Emiel aka Emiliano aka Ole Guy

I’ve been getting those comments, some with much longer content I don’t even bother to read after the familiar first line or two, but many times identical to those seen on other blogs. I’m inclined to think they come from a bot(s) with words specifically designed to inflame others in an effort to create generational dissent.

Much to be said for the benefits of exercising I would agree. I think of family friend who lived to be 103. In their earlier years she and her husband measured the distance walking around the perimeter of the small rectangular covered concrete patio outside their mobile home. When it rained, or they were no longer able to walk their favored paths through the desert, they walked a known predetermined distance on their patio. She continued to do this after his death, then after she had a slight stroke and used a walker. Eventually, with increasing balance problems therapy was unable to correct, she did adapt to chair exercises which were clearly beneficial as you describe.

Leigh...

Psylocybin is a Schedule One drug in the United States, illegal for personal use, and for medical research without governmental permission. There are no legal "practitioners" so you will not find anyone listed online.

I loathe exercise, always have. And the prize for that is that I'm so deconditioned (without COPD or other related diagnoses) I have practically no stamina, and it ain't getting better. I tried walking for 10 minutes every day a couple of years ago, every single day for maybe 35 days, and couldn't seem to get myself to walk *slower* and, in addition to hating it, while I gained the ability to walk longer without stopping to catch my breath, I also gave myself sciatica. NOT amused. I'd love to know your exercise routine, Ronni!

I was shocked by the ugly comment on Saturday and did not realize that was a common occurrence on many sites. So thanks for educating me, readers. There I was crafting a snarky remark about going to join your friends at the Florida beaches (great minds think alike, Ronni) when I saw you had removed the comment. Good riddance!
As for exercise, I took a short walk last week and immediately reinvited my plantar fasciatis into my right food which had been behaving for over a year. So this week I took to floor exercises from my yoga class and managed to strain my back muscles. I'm thinking that exercise is too dangerous for me. Back to swinging my feet in front of the TV.....

Yes, I downloaded Zoom yesterday. Aren't we old ones clever?

Thank you for continuing to write. I’m far behind in reading anything that isn’t required (for work) reading. I chuckled last night (3.23) when Judy Woodruff on PBS suggested we had more time, I guess bec many are at home and not commuting, to read. With a home office since 1981’s start of my biz, I seem now to have far less time.

I was in OR for 4 days btw awful travel to get to and from. I kept a commitment to speak at a conference. We physically [preferred by WHO to “social” bc we need each other] distanced badly tho we elbowed v hugged. That plus planes and airports and exhaustion and returning to massive client mishegoss has done me in.

How are all of you readers keeping COVID19 learning & implications are a distance?

Oh and it’s yutes who seem to think if you’re on a beach you can be safe unless you’re a NYer headed for previously not locked down FL who are doing damage. Feh on them.

At a distance in hopes of TP returning I wish you all well.
Joan, in DC, where we distance despite the new directive to maybe loosen this up