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"Lose weight, get in shape" is good advice that would lower all cause mortality if it reliably resulted in such a change. The advice that we ought be perfect to avoid mortality doesn't take into account reality.

I agree with your statement in the small (yes, get fit, try to motivate friends and family to do the same), but it's not useful to moralize about what-if on a population level in my opinion, and it is tantamount to blaming the victims of the pandemic for bad outcomes. Especially before the vaccines, many young and healthy people died or experienced very bad outcomes, and it still happens, though the vaccines have helped a ton in this regard.

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Well, I obviously don’t mean to blame the victims here. Sorry if you or anyone took it that way. Obviously it’s tragic when anyone has a bad time or dies from this. To be more clear, my ire is directed at public health officials who would do a lot of good by simply encouraging more physical activity and for other political leaders who don’t use their power to advocate for infrastructure changes in the US that get people to be more physically mobile (more mass transit, and so on).