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by France_is_bacon 1801 days ago
Right, doc, I understand what you're saying. However, 90% of those underprivileged people probably would not make the changes you suggest, even if they had $20 million in the bank. They would still just sit on the couch all day, except it would be a much nicer couch. Most of them would react to you like they do to the Covid 19...."fake news" and curse at you. I'm not saying all would react that way, but my faith in humanity is low, low, low. So I think 90% would just sit on their asses anyways. I mean, 70% of the USA is overweight or obese. That covers more than just the poor. That's pretty much everywhere, across all social and income strata. The only subpopulation where I see that 90% of the people are in shape is at the gym. For some strange reason. Go figure.

My father, who is a physician, used to have a diet clinic as one of his ventures. Out of the thousands of people he saw, none, not one, person stayed with the program. Some did for a while. But then bam, fatso again.

It's really super sad. Back in the 1960s and 1970s and 1980s, everyone was thin. Everyone, except for a very, very few people who were horrifically fat to our eyes, although now they would be on the light side of overweight.

As the population started to get fatter and fatter, starting in the 1990's, I 100% knew, KNEW, back in the 1990s, that at some point in the future, things were going to change and fat women would insist that they are beautiful, and revile slender women. Which we see every day now. I mean, it's not guys, guys don't give a sh-t if you call them fat. You never read anything about men wanting to be called BBM or "curvy" or body acceptance or whatever the phrase of the day is. But women have it in their DNA that they want to be perceived as beautiful, in order to attract a mate, I guess.

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Connecting concerns about "fake news" to being underprivileged is extremely problematic and you should be ashamed for making it. The arrogance of making such a connection is astonishing.
Look at profession and education in this comparison of Fox News and MSNBC demographics:

https://pos.org/whos-watching-a-look-at-the-demographics-of-...

People should never be ashamed or accused of arrogance for pointing out objective truths.

Sorry you feel that way. I admit I am extremely cynical of humanity.

I don't necessarily only think this about the underprivileged. More like the uneducated and the credulous. This included all manner of Republicans. They put out confusing information, say that there's fake news. And the underprivileged don't know what to do. Despite almost every single person in the USA knowing for sure that all infectious disease and epidemiologist say to take the vaccine. Everyone knows this. Every single person, every single underprivileged person knows this after 1 1/2 years.

I understand that not everyone is as cynical as I am, so feel free to have your own view of how the world runs.