Okay, I thought about it a little bit. In terms of manufactured hysteria, Covid is the clear winner. I'll grant you that.
In terms of actual health consequences, up to death, the obesity epidemic is MUCH worse than Covid. Obesity is a contributing factor leading to deaths from diabetes, cancer, heart disease, strokes, and yes, Covid. Since obesity degrades the immune system, there probably aren't many causes of natural death that aren't magnified by obesity.
In another discussion group I was making the same point you were about obesity, and the provaxx crowd admitted that what really mattered to them was not death statistics but whether the disease is contagious.
This is bizarre since colds and the flu are contagious.
We are dealing with true irrational fear-mongering by the mass media and the politicians.
In short we are talking about brainwashing.
Good talking points, EXCEPT OBESITY & HERAT DISEASE are not remotely contagious. People fear anything contagious which they can acquire without their fault.
President Trump (read my tag line) lost for one reason much more than any other reason in 2020. He said “covid is just another flu, and will disappear with warm weather”. If only Trump had said “I feel your pain”, he would have won in a landslide.
On the other hand Biden had locked himself in the basement. People construed that as Biden taking covid more seriously. Millions of people, right or wrong, switched to Biden, because covid scared them more than leftwing ideology of Biden.
I voted enthusiastically for our Florida governor in last election. And I will again vote for him in the next election. I hope and pray DeSantis does not repeat Trump’s political mistake regarding covid.