“The report links obesity with a series of health complications related to COVID-19. It found that increased bodyweight ‘is the second greatest predictor of hospitalization and a high risk of death for people suffering from COVID-19.’
“Only age ranks as a higher risk factor.
“The report also found that in countries with higher rates of obesity, the rates of COVID-19 tended to increase.”
Know any particular countries with those higher rates…? Hmm…? If you’re in the USA reading this, you’re in one. So get off your derriere and go exercise (but please wait until you finish this article).
We hear little about weight in public, however, because of the “woke” left’s disdain for “fat-shaming” as a sin far worse than public defecation, judging from conditions in liberal San Francisco.
That has resulted in a virtual revolution in female modeling in print and on television, with women ranging from the plump to the seriously obese appearing frequently, almost obsessively, in advertising.
That’s fine up to a point, but the point goes beyond diminishing returns when it begins to encourage an unhealthy, even dangerous, lifestyle.
Maybe it would have been better if you had a chubby friend worried about COVID, and instead of debating mask or no mask, or the shot versus ivermectin, you just said, “Let’s go for a run.”
One of the better initiatives of the Obama administration was when Michelle Obama tried to inspire healthy lunches in schools. She may have gone about it the wrong way, but the general idea was praiseworthy in a society where huge percentages of our youths are either sitting on those same derrieres playing computer games or glued to psychologically destructive social media, bags of Cheetos at ready.
What this has exacerbated is what we can only call our culture of maximum hypocrisy, especially from important political figures who use their positions to spout increasingly dubious medical advice, when they themselves are morbidly obese and living examples of exactly what not to do.
Talk about the culture of hypocrisy—what kind of message does Pritzker and others send to children about what their leaders should be as these politicians preach endlessly about health?
Okay, fat-shaming may be (again) a bit “mean-spirited.” But honesty is not. And lying and pretending something isn’t there is even more mean-spirited (to the public—and the individual ultimately) than fat-shaming.
Who do you think America’s youth should emulate—Pritzker or Pompeo?
And who do you think is least likely to get a severe case of COVID-19 in any of its variants, present or future?
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