After only two years, it seems that most people have all but forgotten the destruction that the Covid-19 lockdowns caused to all, especially small businesses. Ian Smith is the owner of Atilis Gym. During the lockdowns, Smith refused to close his doors and the found himself the target of multiple lawsuits and government organizations.
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Our business bank account, you know, had, I think, I think that morning it had $173,000 in it.
And they zeroed it out and they zeroed it out so much that a check bounced and we were actually like negative a couple thousand dollars.
And then they came after some accounts later.
And then they tried to do it to our personal stuff too.
And thankfully, you know, it never got that far.
We were able to block that much.
But yeah, it's a terrifying thing to realize that.
At the.
You know, the snap of a finger, these people were able to just access our business account and and completely destroy.
I mean, if it had not been for the, for the generosity of Americans all over, you know that would have been the end of it for us.
You know, any normal business would never be able to sustain that, especially a small business.
You know we're we're a gym that that bills about a thousand people a month at thirty dollars a month.
So for somebody to walk in and take two hundred thousand dollars in the middle of um, an ongoing legal battle, in the middle of an appeals process, just because they don't want you to be able to survive um, and because you've proven them wrong and you, you you've sort of made them look stupid publicly um, and we had so much momentum at the time.
You know the, the whole world was watching what we were doing and um, for the gov, the government's solution was, hey, you know what, maybe it wasn't, i'm sorry.
The government solution wasn't say you know what hey, maybe we should check out what these guys are doing.
You know we've been, we've been going back and forth for a couple months now.
You know, maybe we should, maybe we should go in there and take a look at their program, because people are there every day and people support them and nobody's getting sick.
You know, and it wasn't.
There wasn't even an option for a compromise.
Um, you know, we told them we were going to open.
We told them, you know ahead of time hey listen, we're going to open.
This is our safety plan.
Take a look at it, guys.
Um, but for them to have to do that when they disagree with you um, and when you're clearly in the right, is absolutely terrifying.
You know, we caused nobody any harm.
It's not as if people were walking out of the gym into the parking lot and face planning and, you know um sudden, sudden adult death syndrome or anything like that.
Um yeah, it's a terrifying thing.
And and you start to realize like wow, you know, we knew that these people necessarily didn't have our best interest in mind.
You know, going into this, we knew that.
You know, politicians can be selfish and they can be sort of self-serving and greedy.
Um, that shows how malicious and dangerous these people can be when you give them that type of authority and that type of power, because they'll go to any extent.
Governor Murphy was willing to go to almost any extent to make sure our gym was closed um, with absolutely no reason to do so other than he told us not to open it.
I thought it was funny that, while they were giving out krispy cream donuts to people to get vaccinated, you guys actually apparently give out memberships to people not to get vaccinated and to have a healthy lifestyle and to die and to exercise, take vitamin d zinc, etc.
Get sunlight.
I mean that that's you gotta.
You gotta feel stupid when you're a fat loser and you're telling the fit guy who's telling people, hey my, My path to getting out of being sick is being a healthy person.
To begin with, Your path is to shut people down from being healthy.
So, like I said, we weren't, we weren't charging members anyway.
Um, that was more of a joke, you know, like we were sitting there.
And, you know, we're in the gym 12, 16 hours a day, seven days a week at this point.
We basically live at the gym.
You know, we're there all hours of the day, all hours of the night for the most part.
And we're making sure that we're up on the news because we're fighting this political/slash legal battle.
And, you know, we're seeing these other businesses like and places like RetroFitness, right?
So this is a gym.
This is a gym that is its purpose in business is to make people healthier and happier.
And they were giving out free memberships to people who would get vaccinated.
And it was the absurdity of all of it.
You know, I can remember watching De Blasio eat french fries on television and try to like coerce people, or was it Cuomo, whichever, whichever idiot it was in New York City was eating french fries, trying to coerce people to get vaccinated, telling them that they could go get a free happy meal or whatever it was.
And we saw a Krispy Kreme one and we just put the tweet out there.
And the absolutely like ballistic with it.
They thought it was the most horrifying thing that anybody could ever do.
That how dare we give free memberships to unvaccinated people and not offer that same thing to vaccinated people.
And I think the humor was very much lost on them at the time when you had to show a vaccine passport to sit at some indoor dining or to go to a gym in the first place.
So there's this article from Fox Business that says that a gym owner who defied COVID-19 regulations calls probation sentence an absolute joke.
So two New Jersey gym owners who kept their business open despite COVID-19 lockdown orders from Democratic Governor Phil Murphy have been sentenced to one year of probation.
Being sentenced to probation for taking the doors off of our own building while criminals are being let go is an absolute joke.
And so you got probation for taking the doors off of your own gym.
So along the you know, the story, the whole, the whole saga is just a story of escalation.
You know, they started out with municipal citations and then, you know, we were just taking them and continuing on our business.
And we were, then we were, there was a health department shutdown and we just kind of like read it and we just like left it right there and just the gym opened anyway.
And then they came and locked our doors.
That was the next escalation.
And then we eventually got back inside.
We picked the locks.
Went back in.
For a little while, we were moving 40,000 pounds worth of equipment outside every day.
Machines, barbells, dumbbells, bait, plates, everything, benches, you name it.
The whole judge was outside in the parking lot.
And then we said, screw this, we're going back inside.
And that's when they started fining us that $15,000 a day fine.
They started taking our money.
And then another court order came down from this judge who said that they were to come and arrest us and they were to board our doors up.
So we said, no, I'm sorry, they were going to chain or they were changed the locks once again.
So the alternative to that was, you know, if there's no doors, you guys can't lock us out.
So we said, we're open 24 hours a day.
And we took the doors off and we drove them off to somebody's house.
And we were open for 40 days and 40 nights.
And they arrested us and all this good stuff.
And then we finally put the doors back on once we declared ourselves a political, we were a fundraising location for a senator who was running.
So they then left us alone.
But they hit us with contempt of court charges.
They charged us four times for criminal contempt of court for that period of time.
Each one carried up to 18 months in prison.
Like a $10,000 fine or something like that.
It's a felony offense.
And that was just a way to, that was just another way to sort of demoralize us.
You know, we're already fighting all these other legal battles.
And then now all of a sudden we're potentially jailed for four years.
So we just pled guilty.
We struck a deal and it's a joke.
It's like, all right, you're going to put me on probation?
Like, okay, I mean, go ahead, put me on probation.
I'm going to go back to work now and be a productive.
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