Were 575K COVID hospitalizations preventable simply through diet and exercise? TWO THIRDS of people hospitalized for COVID were obese or had diabetes, high blood pressure or heart failure, study finds

Americans with four conditions – obesity, diabetes mellitus, high blood pressure and heart failure – account for two-thirds of all COVID-19 hospitalizations in the US, a new study estimates.

Notably, the study does not distinguish between type 1 and type 2 diabetes among hospitalized COVID+19 patients. While type 2 diabetes typically develops later in and is thought to be predominantly driven by lifestyle factors, type 1 is an autoimmune disease with significant genetic risk factors, and is less likely to be preventable.

The study suggests up that up to two thirds of 906,849 hospitalizations for COVID-19 – or about 575,000 of them – were attributable to the four conditions, and could have been prevented if those patients had not already been in poor health.

In a more measured estimation, the Tufts researchers write that a 10 percent reduction in rates of the four conditions could lead to an 11 percent reduction in COVID-19 hospitalizations.

The virus was overwhelmingly survivable by healthy people.

We utterly destroyed the economy, civil liberties, a generation of children, and normal human interactions to curb a virus that was mostly harmless to young, healthy people.

The 15 days to slow the spread should have been a mandatory diet and exercise.

Banning high fructose corn syrup and sugary beverages would have been more effective than lockdowns.

But nope, the government shut down the gyms, told you not to go out and exercise, arrested you for jogging, but kept the fast food and liquor stores open.

They absolutely fucked the dog on this one.  They fucked it to death and refuse to walk anything back less they admit they were wrong.