Maybe they’ve looked around and asked, why bother anymore?
They’ve no doubt seen what’s increasingly obvious in American society: “morbidly obese” is the new “just a little bit fat”.... and don’t you DARE try to shame the land whales.
In case you haven’t noticed, fat ugly women (but not similar men, for some reason) are one of the latest oh-so-hip trends in those things which the tribe of media propagandists call “commercials”.
The same surely applies to the latest TV shows and movies too, but I wouldn’t know about that. Unfortunately commercials are not totally capable of being avoided.
Yeah, hard to run a problem-solving business when the afflicted believe when others tell them that fat is beautiful.
Yet being overweight - which 0ver 70% of America is est. to be, and over 40% obese - is estimated to result in approx. 280,000 premature deaths each year. Yet rather than seen a response proportional to that of Covid, the response to the latter resulted in more obesity, and the primary reason for the vast number of Covid-assigned deaths is that of the overall poor condition of Americans. “For deaths with conditions or causes in addition to COVID-19, on average, there were 4.0 additional conditions or causes per death. (Weekly Updates by Select Demographic and Geographic Characteristics) Primarily those related to obesity, a preventable condition, and 42% of American are obese and 73% are overweight.
Research shows that people with obesity were more than twice as likely to end up in the hospital and nearly 50 percent more likely to die of COVID-19, with more than 77 percent of 17,000 hospitalized COVID-19 patients in the United States having excess weight or obesity.
Also, one study found that 88 percent of deaths due to COVID-19 in the first year of the pandemic were in countries where more than half of the population is classified as overweight. In countries where more than 50% of the population was overweight, the COVID-19 death rate was more than 100 per 100,000. And, “two new, large studies from England and Mexico further detail obesity as being a risk factor for poor COVID-19–related outcomes, including death, with a UK study showing the highest hospitalization rate being among young adults.Moreover, some 42% of U.S. adults reported packing on undesired weight since the start of the pandemic.
Which is just one of the negative effects of a "stay sheltered" shutdown response, even of parks, forests and seashores early on,