“I already covered such conditions with my phrase “or die of something else”.
By the way, that also includes motorcycle accidents,”
Motorcycle accidents didn’t make the list of high risk factors with the ChiCom Virus. Among those on the list are obesity, diabetes, etc.
But obesity is number one which explains why hospitals of ChiCom Virus patients have seen nearly 80% of sufferers fall into this category.
Yet no one in the CDC, NIH or anywhere in the US is telling people a healthy lifestyle is a big factor to combat the ChiCom Virus.
All we hear about is the “vaccine for all” mantra.
SMH
I agree with everything you say, and share your frustration.
But there are two separate points to be made here:
1. Old age and poor health (especially obesity) make covid19 FAR more serious and life-threatening. In fact, without those conditions and co-morbidities, Covid19 is about as inconsequential as the common cold.
Separate point:
2. The government and health providers have conspired to report Covid19 statistics in a manner inconsistent with standard practices. The result has been to report hospitalizations and deaths WITH Covid19 as if they were FROM Covid19.
Because of point 2, the extent of point 1 can’t be fairly evaluated.
So yes, obesity makes Covid19 worse. But ALSO, not all of the Covid19 deaths and hospitalizations supposedly complicated by obesity are even real Covid19 deaths and hospitalizations. In fact, the majority of obesity-related deaths and hospitalizations could have occurred with or without Covid19.
We just can’t know, due to the purposely screwed up reporting.
I truly believe that if this virus had gone completely undetected, and spread across the world without any countermeasures at all, that we would be exactly where we are, except better off:
1. Old people with Covid19 would not have been dumped in old-age homes where our most vulnerable people would be infected.
2. The economy would not have been shut down - so natural herd immunity would have been achieved much faster.
3. Trump would still be in the White House without the mass mail-in ballots.
4. These risky experimental “vaccines” would not have been forced on us by Big Government / Big Pharma.
In my 81 years of life, not a single doctor ever told me to exercise. OK they throw it in with bunch of other common good health habits, but never ever told me exercise is more important than any food, any vitamins, any food supplements, any prescription drugs, etc.
I was a basket of health problems in mid-50’s. High blood pressure, border line diabetic, panic attacks in closed shopping malls, fainting spells in mornings, hip joint pain, knee join pain, gall bladder attacks, chest pains after eating a good steak meal, on and on.
As soon as I became eligible for early retirement, I jumped on it with lifetime health insurance at same cost as employees. Joined a cheap private golf club in Washougal, WA named Orchard Hills golf and country club, and began playing 5 rounds of 9 holes every week. As my stamina improved, worked up to 5 rounds of 18 every week. That is roughly 30 miles of walking on a hilly golf course, pulling my golf cart. Not only I lost excess weight, my stamina and energy was better.
In 2 short years of golf, every one of my maladies disappeared! How does knee and hip joint get better by walking 30 miles every week? I dare not ask that to my doctor LOL.