[a fool in paradise]

50% of the world is “obese”

India is #2 for childhood obesity

https://www.downtoearth.org.in/news/health/india-has-the-second-higest-number-of-obese-children-in-the-world-58115

[Paul R.]

Yes, but that's an absolute number, not a percentage, so, India (and China too) get to the absolute number with huge populations.

It is also an irrelevant number since almost no kids get severely ill with COVID-19 regardless of being overweight or not -- a far cry from what happens if one is older. Once this obesity works its way with time into older populations in India and China, they'll have big problems with it just like we do. (That assumes no draconian crackdowns on diet.)

BTW, the article states "nearly 108 million children and more than 600 million adults had body mass index (BMI) above 30, which is the threshold for obesity.

Even if that number is up to 1 billion total, that's not 50% of the world is "obese".

[Paul R.]

BTW, I definitely DO think the lockdowns and closures are going to result in a lot more people getting on the track to obesity, and those habits are hard to break. We’ll see that negative expressed in a lot of future fatalities, for sure.