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by hfjkdh790sn
1693 days ago
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> but it's basically blasphemy to talk about how fat and metabolically and cardiovascularly unhealthy large numbers of people in countries like the US are Not really that interesting. People don’t like to feel bad. Tell someone they have an unhealthy lifestyle and may die sooner (fat shaming), and they’ll feel bad. And if people feel bad, they won’t vote for you in the next election, or worse, they won’t buy your company’s product. |
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there is no use worrying about how blasphemous it is to point that out because its already working - “at risk people” (of obvious risk we shall not name) are sheltering in place as if it was March 2020 - at least in my part of the US
you can just talk to people online and tell there is a wide gulf of what reality is. there are people that have no idea that the worlds been opened up for most of the year and that gigantic hundred thousand+ music festivals are occurring
have you been to a big event? its all lean young people
it doesnt have to be said, its working on its own as people always had a choice to shelter without government instruction, government has helped lessened the consequence of that choice with subsidies
at this point there is only a marginal utility in public policy adjusting to say “yeah only fat people and diabetics and hypertensioned should or should have followed these lockdown procedures while the rest of society never needed to”. Theres no point now. There would have been some theoretically optimal way for the economy to not disrupt but thats a moot point now. No official is ever going to say “oh whoops”, there is just maybe going to be some obscure paper modeling an optimal mitigation measure that never was.