Some Covid-19 thoughts
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COVID undermined students’ well-being more than we thought
https://thehill.com/opinion/education/3536180-covid-undermined-student
s-well-being-more-than-we-thought/
CORRECTION: COVID undermined students' well-being more than YOU thought
You think it's bad now? Just wait another 6 to 12 years once we've collected all of the data from the couple of billion lab rats that our governments delivered to Pfizer on a silver platter.
And do remember that you have no ability to sue anyone when things go south.
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“No measures, no lockdown locally,” says Greece’s Health Minister
https://www.keeptalkinggreece.com/2022/06/29/no-measures-no-lockdown-l
ocally-greece-coronavirus/
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USA 62,661,000+
India 35,875,790
Brazil 22,558,695
https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/#countries
428,000 + Americans have died from COVID-19 since President Joe Biden took office and promised to "shut down the virus."
https://freebeacon.com/coronavirus/biden-covid-death-tracker/]
Now its
USA 89,527,000 +
India 43,513,117
Brazil 32,476,920
and
608,887 Americans have died from COVID-19 since President Joe Biden took office. He promised the American people he would "shut down the virus." (Fact check: He has not.)
Australia: 'Increasing pressure' nationally to return to masks amid worsening COVID wave
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-07-02/mask-mandate-national-cho-covid
-coronavirus-restrictions/100013842
COVID was twice as deadly in poorer countries
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-022-01767-z
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That number is the one thing I'll defend Joe* on.
All of those Covid deaths under Biden*'s watch are just as much bullshit as the ones under Trump's were.
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What Joe Biden Said About a 'Second Pandemic'
https://www.newsweek.com/joe-biden-second-pandemic-viral-video-coronav
irus-covid-disease-speech-1717927
Macron: No one knows how long the coronavirus will last
https://www.politico.eu/article/no-one-knows-how-long-coronavirus-will
-last-emmanuel-macron/amp/
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Yes, this does mention Covid-19, but points out Covid-19 was less a threat than obesity. There is no vaccine for obesity, by the way.
Opinion: This is now the No. 1 preventable cause of Alzheimer’s in America
Published: July 11, 2022 at 11:23 a.m. ET
By Brett Arends
https://www.marketwatch.com/story/this-is-now-the-no-1-preventable-cau
se-of-alzheimers-in-america-11657553007
Here is yet more bleak news about the obesity epidemic: Obesity isn’t just killing millions of people. It’s giving lots of them Alzheimer’s first.
“Obesity is now the top modifiable dementia risk factor in the U.S.,” reports the Journal of the American Medical Association in its latest bulletin. Obesity in midlife is now leading to more cases of dementia than any of the other usual suspects, including depression, smoking, diabetes, high blood pressure, physical inactivity, or low levels of education. About a third of dementia cases in America are now associated with some combination of these factors, with midlife obesity, physical inactivity and low education levels leading the way. According to the medical study, midlife obesity was a contributing factor to some 18% or just under 1 in 5 cases of dementia in America.
A decade ago obesity wasn’t even in the top three.
But why should we be surprised? Nearly half of all Americans are now clinically obese. The percentage has risen by a third in a generation, while the rate of severe obesity has more than doubled.
The comedian Bill Maher spoke out about the subject three years ago, and the main result was a “social media backlash”… against Bill Maher. Go here to watch a licensed therapist tell people that if they are trying to lose weight they are giving in to “fatphobia.”
In the years before I quit alcohol and cigarettes, statistically zero people ever told me not to give in to smokephobia or boozephobia. Not one.
Is it true that obesity kills 325,000 Americans a year?
Nope. That official figure is more than 20 years out of date.
Since then, based on data from the U.S. Census and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the number of adult Americans with obesity has risen by about 70% and the number with severe obesity by 140%.
So simple math says the death toll is now probably around 500,000 every year, which is more than the annual Covid deaths in 2020 and 2021.
Now compare the extraordinary and heroic national measures taken over the last two years to combat Covid with the mass passivity about obesity.
Obesity now kills more Americans than smoking, says the Cleveland Clinic.
On average it wipes about 15 years off your life, according to this medical study from 2021.
The annual cost to America is an estimated $173 billion.
News that obesity also helps cause dementia has further grim news on the economic front as well as the human one. Some 6 million Americans already have dementia and the numbers are rising steadily as more people age. Dementia is a vicious and cruel disease that is especially devastating to family members, but also imposes a severe burden on everyone around the victim.
The cost to the economy of dementia is nearing $300 billion a year, including the terrible toll the disease takes on families and carers.
You’d think we’d be tackling this for the thing it is: The No. 1 health crisis in America — worse than drugs and worse than Covid. You’d think we’d be tackling a food industry that pushes edible crack. You’d think we’d be teaching kids about better and simpler nutrition in schools. You’d think we would, at the very least, stop subsidizing unhealthy food through the SNAP program. You’d think we wouldn’t be trying to stop people talking about the subject honestly.
You’d think.
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
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Stop eating shit food all day long and get off your fat ass.
If you can't do either of those things, than tough titty. Nobody cares.
But at least Second is recognizing that it is a problem. All you hear from Millennial and Zoomer Leftists is that there's nothing wrong with being a fat piece of shit.
Not only that, but they will attack celebrities like Adelle and Rebel Wilson on Twitter who decided to work on themselves and get healthy.
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Quote:Take these two little factoid from the article:
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
Stop eating shit food all day long and get off your fat ass.
If you can't do either of those things, than tough titty. Nobody cares.
But at least Second is recognizing that it is a problem. All you hear from Millennial and Zoomer Leftists is that there's nothing wrong with being a fat piece of shit.
Not only that, but they will attack celebrities like Adelle and Rebel Wilson on Twitter who decided to work on themselves and get healthy.
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1. Obesity now kills more Americans than smoking, says the Cleveland Clinic.
https://newsroom.clevelandclinic.org/2017/04/22/cleveland-clinic-study
-finds-obesity-top-cause-preventable-life-years-lost/
2. On average it wipes about 15 years off your life, according to this medical study from 2021.
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s42399-021-00850-2
Until you are dead, you don't know that you lost 15 years, therefore you can claim you have done nothing wrong. What is the result? People get fat, die young, and never have to acknowledge they were wrong. The ignoramuses don't know while alive, can't know once dead. Nature will let you die with a high opinion, yet undeserved, about yourself. On the other hand, Science will tell you the blunt truth so that you can avoid an early death, but it will cost you your high opinion about yourself and how beautiful you are when fat.
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
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Hey... All I know is I've never seen a smoker of any age hate on somebody else for quitting smoking.
I mean literal hate.
The kids aren't alright.
The same Potbelly Vampire Goblins that tell them that fat is beautiful and gave us fat Victoria's Secret models and put the hot chicks on the sidelines are the same people who are running Disney and Netflix into the ground, are trying to convince your 2nd grade kids to get sex changes and are to thank for all the crime we've got today.
Glad there's at least one place you draw the line in the sand.
Maybe you start calling them out for their dumb bullshit and I might lean Democrat again one day.
Meanwhile, I'd advise you to stay off Twitter... They'll eat you alive now, ya no good dirty Fatphobe. 
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6ix, here are 3 predictions, and remember that hundreds of millions of Americans never heard the predictions or would say the predictions are FALSE, and therefore those Americans won't change what they do:
1. Obesity now kills more Americans than smoking, says the Cleveland Clinic.
https://newsroom.clevelandclinic.org/2017/04/22/cleveland-clinic-study
-finds-obesity-top-cause-preventable-life-years-lost/
2. On average obesity wipes about 15 years off your life, according to this medical study from 2021.
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s42399-021-00850-2
3. Between 160 million and 214 million people in the United States could be infected over the course of the epidemic, according to a projection that encompasses the range of the four scenarios. That could last months or even over a year, with infections concentrated in shorter periods, staggered across time in different communities, experts said. As many as 200,000 to 1.7 million people could die. 2.4 million to 21 million people in the United States could require hospitalization, potentially crushing the nation’s medical system, which has only about 925,000 staffed hospital beds. Fewer than a tenth of those are for people who are critically ill.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/13/us/coronavirus-deaths-estimate.html
Prediction: 200,000 to 1.7 million people could die
Actual: 1,015,070 die
Prediction: 2.4 million to 21 million people hospitalized
Actual: 4,906,251 hospitalized
https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/covid-data/covidview/index.h
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Those hundreds of millions of Americans who either never heard or disbelieve the predictions can feel good about not-knowing/not-caring by saying smoking/obesity/covid won't kill them, therefor why go to all the bother of knowing/caring? As a practical matter it is impossible for the dead to acknowledge what they didn't want to know while alive about why they suffered. What about getting the living to acknowledge how they caused their own suffering while they still suffer? Almost as impossible.
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
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