Your Pool is the Safest Place to Play This Summer!

COVID-19: Your Pool is the Safest Place to Play This Summer!

More and more people are looking for relaxing and entertaining ways to enjoy their yards, with stay-at-home orders threatening to persist into the foreseeable future all over the country due to COVID-19. Installing a swimming pool is one ideal way to do that. After all, you don’t know if there will be big pool party gatherings to attend or even beaches open.

That’s why the safest place to play this summer is your own pool. Start planning now so you can enjoy it all season long.

A New Way of Getting Fit

Swimming in your own pool is the ultimate form of social distancing. It’s just your own family, it’s outdoors, and you don’t have to share equipment or be close to strangers like you would in a gym. According to the Health Protection Surveillance Centre, swimming is safe in pools with at least 1 ppm of chlorine, proven to be effective at killing the coronavirus. Also, coronavirus is an “enveloped virus,” which means it can be killed by chlorine even more easily and rapidly than “non-enveloped viruses.” Exercise reduces stress levels and boosts your immune system.

Coronavirus and the social distancing protocols it has spurred have left many people thinking about how their daily routines and lives will be forever changed. While people are urged to practice social distancing and stay at home as much as they can, medical professionals want them to get regular exercise in order to stay healthy.

The first thing people will want to do is get back into their routines, once everyone goes back to living normally outside their homes. This may involve going to the gym. But even with relaxed coronavirus restrictions, it’s highly likely the virus will still be spreading. You will need to take extra precautions for your own health and safety. One of the safest forms of exercise is thought to be swimming. Did you know that proper disinfection of pools and hot tubs is enough to remove the presence of the virus? That’s according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Even many public pools, such as within recreation centers, gyms and health clubs, are safer than going to gyms. Why? They use additional sanitizing systems that instantly oxidize and destroy pathogens on contact in less than a second. Thus, even public swimming pools are one of the safest communal places to get fit when a viral pandemic grips the nation.

It’s normal for people to get more and more stressed with so much confusion and anxiety surrounding the coronavirus pandemic. This is bad for your mental health plus it weakens your immune system, which makes you more susceptible to viruses. Lack of exercise, paired with heightened anxiety and social isolation, can bring about serious health problems.

So, get out there and get swimming!

Interested in putting in a pool at your home this year? Please contact Central Jersey Pools.