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Collected Item: “California Gym Builds Workout Pods”

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California Gym Builds Workout Pods

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News article and video

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This gym built see through pods to enable clients to workout in safety. They are showing social distancing, but what grabbed my attention was how similar these pods are to the glass prisons you see in science fiction movies. Check out Avengers, Skyfall, X-Men, or Star Trek. This is what a virus-infected world is coming to!

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workout, pods, gym, sciencefiction, futuristic, socialdistancing, longbeach, southbay, building

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https://people.com/health/gyms-tries-workout-pods-to-allow-clients-to-exercise-without-masksamid- pandemic/

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People.com

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2020-06-17
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