This peer reviewed article was published last week:
COVID-19 and Fast Foods Consumption: a Review
This is the abstract in its eentirety:
While all groups are affected by the COVID-19 pandemic, the aged people as well as those with underlying chronic medical conditions are at the greatest risk. The higher adherence to refined carbohydrate diets, sweats, and saturated fats contributes to the prevalence of obesity and type 2 diabetes; these disorders increase the risk for severe COVID-19 morbidity and mortality. Fast food consumption activates the intrinsic immune system and impairs adaptive immunity, leading to chronic inflammation and impaired host defence against viruses. Furthermore, inflammatory responses caused by COVID-19 may have long-term costs in survived individuals, leading to chronic disorders such as dementia and neurodegenerative disease through neuroinflammatory mechanisms that are related to an unhealthy diet. Therefore, now more than ever, wider access to healthy foods should be a main concern and individuals should be aware of healthy eating habits to reduce COVID-19 complications.
We figured out very quickly that there was a strong relationship between obesity and COVID-19 mortality.
We were told that gyms were super-spreader events, except that data from New York, Colorado, and Norway showed they are not.
So what did the experts do?
They shut down the gyms, told us not to go outside for a run or bike ride, banned buying seeds for home vegetable gardens, but made sure fast food restaurants stayed open and fast food workers were protected essential employees.
No wonder so many people got the “quarantine 15” or the “COVID-19 (lbs).”
The experts radically increased the mortality rates for people under 65.
The mass murder of elderly in nursing homes through policy I’ve covered before and is a different topic, albeit similar in that “experts” killed more people than they saved. Same for the shutting down of schools leading to more teen suicides than teen COVID-19 deaths.
What should have happened is that fast food restaurants should have been shut down. Everyone should have gotten a stimulous check from the government for a gym membership, there should have been a national weight loss mandate.
We learned that we can’t really control the spread of a highly communicable novel virus with lockdowns. The 20 million Indians who died of smallpox could attest to that.
What the experts could have done was not do everything to increase our likelihood of dying from the virus.
The problem is gyms don’t have the corporate financial influence of fast food mega corporations and telling people to take personal responsibility doesn’t get politicians much support.
Everything single fucking thing the experts did re the coronavirus response increased the likelihood of death.
At a very minimum, these people should never be listened to again.
If I think about it too much I get the impulse to buy a welder and a DC9.
>>welder and a DC9
Welder and a D9? Or more accurately a welder and a Komatsu D355A?
Or am I showing myself to be a complete ignoramus as to the reference?
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Oh, I dunno. An *AIRBORNE* killdozer might be quite A THING.
Lesson One: Experts can be wrong. They are human, have biases, fears, and are just as ignorant as you or I about a whole host of things.
Lesson Two: As soon as a medical expert takes a political position in government at any level, their primary role becomes government, not medicine.
Final lesson: The decision makers will choose to listen to the people who reinforce their already made decisions. If the Governor/Mayor wants to close gyms to stop spreading the disease, they will listen to the medical expert that agrees with it.
Just yesterday, I had some back and forth with an assembly rep about upcoming COVID restrictions. In their communication that made it clear that my opinion did not carry the same weight as the medical experts. My response “How do you know I am not a medical expert?” has gone ignored.
That same point has been brought up over and over by us common folks then hushed up by the powers that be.
Initially we saw families out as a group at the park, you couldn’t find a bicycle in stock anywhere, and the outdoor games and toys section of the stores were empty. Then they started locking people down to their houses and making going outside and being free as onerous as possible.
One problem is that medicine is treated as a science, rather than an unusually well paying trade, like plumbing. Yes, there are a few people who practice medical research, but the overwhelming minority are just practicing the craft they learned in trade school, day in day out. (BTW, the same goes for lawyers, only more so.)
And even in medical research, it’s only barely science, somewhat more so than economics I suppose. The key issue is that the scientific method — experiments and falsifiability — don’t really apply in medical research. The sort of paper you’re talking about here and the other examples all illustrate this point.
What the experts could have done was not do everything to increase our likelihood of dying from the virus.
More correctly (at least in my mind): What the experts could have done was not do everything to increase our likelihood of dying from everything other than the virus while doing nothing to decrease our likelihood of dying from the virus.
“every single thing the experts did re coronavirus increased the likelihood of death.”
You’re saying that as if it wasn’t the entire plan all along.
Also, Qarantine15 was a thing? I actually lost 5 pounds during quarantine.
…walking to the post office twice a week or more to ship merchandise…