Not to start drama™ but muscle gays (& straights while I’m at it) I say this as someone who loves the gym: going to the gym isn’t a necessity. You can run outside or workout at home if you need for your health. You don’t need an enclosed space with lots of people breathing heavy

I can’t deny it is harder to obtain muscle growth working out from home, but if your exercise is really about health, there are many ways to exercise. But if you currently choose to go you admit it isn’t really about “health”. There are only 2 reasons to go to the gym currently:

1) you desire the social comradery of exercising with others which isn’t a necessity. I’m sorry you feel lonely, but we all do. 2) you desire a specific physic which isn’t about health but about looking a specific way which isn’t a necessity. You can put that desire on hold.

You can try to convince yourself you need the gym for your health, but you not catching a disease nor spreading it is more important on the health list. You can still exercise without the gym. You’re just choosing not to.