What is Strenuous? What is Safe?

I scanned the Ministry of Health's advisory and the infographic and rolled eyes big-time. Excuse me, this information came out rather late for many of us. And also, why did they even bother?! Aren't we responsible for our own health?! Nobody forced us to be vaccinated. We're encouraged to, and if we do, we'll manage our own health just fine. No? This just makes me annoyed. Our Ministry of Health has to do this to baby Singapore residents. And may I generalize to pan many of these nitwits as Singaporeans. 

This advisory comes hot on the heels of this incident of cardiac arrest of a 16-year-old schoolboy. Subsequent news of what he did and what he took weren't exactly helpful beyond telling the worrywarts and kaypoh aunties to nag others more. Nobody would nag me anyway. They wouldn't dare. I make it very clear that I don't care for their opinions. I also make it very clear whose opinions I do care about. 

This advisory might be suitable for the teenagers in school, perhaps the under 17s. But it's definitely not suitable for young adults or those 18-year-olds with part-time jobs. The advisory has made assumptions......... It's...... rather tone-deaf and high-handed. Just look at the squares — Cycling and my favorite- Housework. You tried scrubbing the floor the way we use sliders to wake the core muscles? 🙄 How do we define what's strenuous and what's not? To list it by activities isn't helpful. It's rather dumb. Can we look at calories burnt and heart rate instead? There should be recommended guidelines of how high to push one's heart rate. Or not. 

I bristled at all the 'Examples of strenuous physical activities to avoid'. Swimming? Seriously? Blanket suggestion of no swimming? How many of us swim like fiends in the pool on any given day? Swimming isn't HIIT or conducive to weight loss if you aren't competing against time or doing sprints. You can float around and flail around for an hour and not even have your heart rate raised by five beats. So as far as advisories go, I'm ignoring it. I already did. My second dose of Pfizer was taken way before all the news and further advisories. 

Anyway. I've already swam, run, did a few good classes of krav maga and HIIT. What's strenuous to some people, might not be so to others. There isn't a true gauge of what one should or shouldn't do. In this case, common sense and listening to one's body should prevail.