Boris, take Michelle Obama.
She has a proven track record of designing meals that nobody will eat.
Besides being in a nursing home or assisted living community, the biggest common denominator among Covid-19 dead is obesity and one or two additional underlying medical conditions, such as diabetes, hyper-tension, heart disease, or lung disease of some form.
Since diabetes, hyper-tension, and heart disease are also associated with Type 2 Diabetes, working on reducing a nations obesity is a worthy Covid-19 goal and a worthy goal in reducing type 2 diabetes, hyper-tension and heart disease.
Now having identified a variable that people can change, what should a (or several) politicians do to change that variable. Well they could start by leading through example.
And how should they do that? By changing exercise, stress, and diet. Are there things that the government can do to improve exercise, reduce stress, and help people eat more healthy? Yes.
Will people need encouragement as loosing weight is hard? Absolutely. If people loose weight from obese to just mildly overweight will there be huge improvements in public health and reduction in medical costs? Absolutely.
Good luck UK.
Keep wondering what they used to cure him. HCQ and cheeseburgers?
The virus is not the problem. It is the underlying health conditions caused by the diabetic process. 99% of those who get the virus don’t die; 99% of those who die, have underlying health conditions related to diabetes (metabolic disorders) — even if they are not diagnosed as diabetics but fall into the category of prediabetics — who may have all the symptoms and syndromes but the measure of high blood sugar, that makes them officially a “diabetic.” That includes the heart disease, high blood pressure, autoimmune inflammation, obesity, disabilities, etc.
That’s what needs to be treated and addressed because there will always be viruses, bacteria, fungus, allergens, pollution in its various forms — which is the major reason one’s first resort should just be the mask, and not the most expensive drug to cure only one specific virus — because then we have to shut down the world again for the next — at even more exorbitant costs.
The threat is not the virus or the mold or pollution, but the individual immune response to it — which varies from zero to death — greatly determined by one’s underlying health condition. Most of the people dying, are dying because they are in poor health in the first place and probably as much as all their lives, so one would expect that any additional load could be fatal. Not surprisingly they congregate at those end stages of life at the acute longterm care center, nursing homes, hospice, and even 55+ complexes of independent living preparatory to reaching end-stage condition.
Those are the people who have largely died — with the occasional sensational exception of the nurse who had no time to put on a mask and proceeded to give chest compressions (expelling air) on a patient who has already died — thus expelling the virus directly into her own respiratory tract. But such incidences, as media-worthy as they are, are still the notable exceptions that the media because of their lack of understanding anything but their own path to their 15 minutes of fame, overlook the particulars that the accompanying photo shows a person in at least prediabetic condition to begin with — since nurses are most likely to follow the CDC and WHO guidelines that predispose them to diabetes, ie., high carbohydrate, as frequent meals as possible, etc. — which of course, is the winning formula for obesity and diabetes.
Such a condition cannot persist forever without end — as they manifest more illnesses and breakdown until total organ failure (sepsis). That is characteristically how people die with Covid-19 — it is the final straw. So we really need to walk back to the beginning where we get this advice that predisposes us to all the diseases of the present day — which are metabolic disorders due to diet, exercise, lifestyle — and ask, why are we being encouraged to eat more carbohydrates, not to go outside and exercise, not to engage in healthful activities and mental health, but merely to remain in a vegetative existence for as long as possible?
Most people don’t have the billions to have their heads hooked up to a vat of chemicals and vaccines to live “forever” — but have to weigh the risks and the rewards of every day living, which includes working, playing, praying, and socializing — even though they cannot be guaranteed that nothing could go wrong as long as they are following the directives of the health czars. And for millions of years, life has been successful that way — and in fact, has achieved record population as we speak.
That’s the real epidemic — caused by the WHO and CDC, and all the well-meaning people who have no idea what they are talking about. There’s no science behind anything they say — just authoritarianism, ideology and self-righteous political correctness.
How about a war on bad british teeth and bad hair?
It isn’t just being “overweight”. It’s being lazy, atropied, 280 pounds of chewed bubblegum from sitting around all day getting no physical exercise, and eating rich high calorie foods.
Better to get into a habit of eating reasonably (not like a baby with no self control) and exercising on a regular habit.
Maybe Boris wants to imprison fat people until they are skinny? :ROLLEYES:
Forced dieting and workouts, snack snitching neighbors and government weigh monitoring.
What could go wrong?
It’s still a standing slur among UK Leftards to call Americans fat-now that they’ve seemingly caught up, I just have to laugh.
If I have to go on a diet, EVERYBODY has to go on a diet.