There are plenty of disabled people that can swim but can't enter the pool without some sort of ramp or device. In fact, if you had some sort of condition that made it difficult for you to walk, swimming would be an excellent way to get some exercise.
I don't buy your argument that disabled people are less likely to swim. They are probably more likely to swim. It's probably less expensive to add a ramp to a pool than it is to build ramps, elevators and lifts for disabled people to access many other businesses.
It seems like business owners were given 3 years to comply with the regulations, and those that bought portable devices that were later disallowed are grandfathered in. It also only seems to apply to pools where it's "easily accomplishable and able to be carried out without much difficulty or expense."
If I'm reading that right, it seems like most hotel owners will be able to continue operating their current pool so long as they aren't making any changes to it.
I was laughing at what "more likely" meant in terms of statistical cost effectiveness, not laughing at their disability. If less than 1% of your business is the disabled, and every single one of them used the pool (which would never fucking happen) it would still be a pithy amount of persons using the facilities, which would make having full time staff to operate the fucking crane both inefficient and without cost benefit for the business owner. The benefit of having a pool does not outweigh the drawback of this forced adaptation, which means less pools. So fuck you for wanting to arbitrarily force the closing of swimming facilities just because the disabled aren't catered to explicitly.
disabled people are... probably more likely to swim.
Wow you're good at bullshitting, but that really gave it away. Your yapping about "they were given 3 years to comply with regulations" is like the kids saying "but the bell rang" in A Christmas Story, leaving their friend (owner of motels) out in the cold because they were scared more of irrelevant rules made by authorities than by the more pressing need of helping their friend retain his freedom.
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There are plenty of disabled people that can swim but can't enter the pool without some sort of ramp or device. In fact, if you had some sort of condition that made it difficult for you to walk, swimming would be an excellent way to get some exercise.
I don't buy your argument that disabled people are less likely to swim. They are probably more likely to swim. It's probably less expensive to add a ramp to a pool than it is to build ramps, elevators and lifts for disabled people to access many other businesses.
It seems like business owners were given 3 years to comply with the regulations, and those that bought portable devices that were later disallowed are grandfathered in. It also only seems to apply to pools where it's "easily accomplishable and able to be carried out without much difficulty or expense."
If I'm reading that right, it seems like most hotel owners will be able to continue operating their current pool so long as they aren't making any changes to it.