A question for the Chinese peasantry on the boards...

Ouu ... You come so so close to having a clue once in a while .. How did you manage to miss this one?

It's the people Q .. . Right-wing American people..

Johnson can say 'lose weight' and get away with it because he's not addressing far-right "I'll give you my spoon when you pry it from my cold, dead hands" nutjobs..

It's been a recognized problem for some time and as Mojo noted.. When Michelle Obama tried to address childhood obesity the Right freaked totally the fuck out..

It's the people..



America’s obesity is threatening national security, according to this study

It’s well known at this point that just under 30 percent of Americans ages 17 to 24 ― the prime age to join the Army ― aren’t eligible to join.

But beyond that, almost a third of those who sit down with a recruiter to take the first steps are immediately disqualified.

Why? Because of their weight.

“Out of all the reasons that we have future soldiers disqualify, the largest – 31 percent ― is obesity,” Maj. Gen. Frank Muth, head of Army Recruiting Command, said Wednesday at AUSA’s annual meeting in Washington, D.C.

A freshly published study, “Unhealthy and Unprepared” concludes that America’s rising numbers of overweight youth are going to have real impacts on the military’s ability to maintain effectiveness.

“We’ve got to make sure that message gets out, because our concern is what happens when that percentage that qualify … potentially goes down?” Muth said. “Or if the obesity, if that starts to go up.”

Fiddler, it's fucking disgusting how you're giving news outlets and health officials a pass on this.

That's some hardcore Chinese peasant programming at work there.

How does it even work in your brain to think you're making an actual point to say "None of these news outlets or experts have been focusing on obesity because right wingers won't listen anyway."

It sure ain't shutting all you dumb programmed mother fuckers up about masks, is it?

Queshank

You grow your own straw? ..think of the savings you could realize. .

I don't recall anyone suggesting that the Left isn't overweight.. And until now I thought we were speaking of this as "a good rational for the government not telling people" .. but FFS if you want to include your portable goalposts then you need to know that experts and the media's been on about obesity, type 2 diabetes and high blood pressure for months.. .


We've gone from George Washington's ..
“There is nothing which can better deserve your patronage, than the promotion of science and literature. Knowledge is in every country the surest basis of public happiness.”

to Ronald McReagan's rejection ..


Your house is on fire Q .. and I don't give a fuck if your shoes are too tight.

Show me. I even asked in my posts above, show me one I've missed. Show me any focus on the primary problem causing complications besides being an octogenarian ... which is obesity. Because I've been looking for them ever since the end of March when I first texted my Type 1 diabetic sister in her mid 50s to be careful.

Tell me where the news has been on about obesity and type 2 diabetes as primary indicators of a problem with this disease.

There's nothing on CNN's page now.

Boris Johnson is literally the first public figure I've heard make a deal about it. And you saw how CNN spun that shit. I laid it out for you.

WTF are you babbling about moving goal posts.

I'm talking about a major issue affecting the *reason* people are dying to a disease ... a disease that most people aren't even noticing. And you started babbling about right wingers. YOU tried moving the goalposts my dude. I brought up left wingers being fat because what I'm talking about is ALL Americans. And you can't see past right wingers over the stupid leftism in your eyes. You asshats are all out there whining about masks when we're practically the most mask wearing country in the world.

MASKS ARE NOT THE PROBLEM. This is a distraction.



I know the fucking house is on fire.  I've literally been going on and on about it for 5 years.

You're the The left is the motherfuckers who lit it.

(Edited so you can help yourself rationalize how you're not part of the problem the way you always do Fiddler.)

Queshank

You just proved my point with this link Fiddler.

You just filled my search window with stories about minorities.  And stories where they bury a focus on obesity behind "comorbidities" that sound like medical conditions.

Headlines like this from Vox:  "Coronavirus is disproportionately taking black lives"

Headlines like "Why are blacks dying at higher rates from COVID 19" from the Brookings Institution.

You calling black people fat, Fiddler?


An article about air pollution ffs.

One article from a FUCKING FRENCH HEALTH OFFICIAL about a link between obesity and covid 19.

NBC News:  "Why New Orleans is becoming an epicenter."

New Orleans is full of fat people?  Is that what we're supposed to believe?

An article from the UK from March ... "Coronavirus: Severely obese warned they are among most "at risk" from infection."

Another article FROM THE FUCKING UK "Obese or overweight coronavirus patients in most need of critical care."

And one article from US News & Report about the link to obesity as the main comorbidity.

/slowclap

Thank you for proving my point about the abysmal approach US officials and our journalists have taken towards this crisis.  I could not have done it better myself.

(Did you bother to even read your own link before you responded?  I mean seriously.  I always say you're smart when we talk.  Maybe not so much?)

Queshank

Que has moved into Psychological Projection. Called out for making retarded, absolute statements, he doubles down. 

This comment demonstrates that he has no more self awareness than a dog licking its ass in public.