The Great COVID Cover UP

Remember two months ago when Covid19 was only a problem for the vulnerable, aka the aged? Public Service announcements showed an elderly, stooped, frail person protected by a big strong American man. Only old people like me ( age 79) were at risk of suffering serious complications. Nursing Homes became our national concern.

Right from the start, this Operation Old seemed overdone: seniors represent only 16% of the population!! Why did we shut down the economy for these few who are living on borrowed time anyway? Why didn’t we stay open, cover our faces, wash our hands, and keep our hands off other people’s bodies? Physical distancing is a 150 seat restaurant with 75 people eating at one time. Often a typical occupancy. Cinemas and performance spaces are usually not filled to capacity. Staggered work schedules for office workers was an obvious solution.

American Leaders, aka Public Servants, cover up their incompetence easily because the public is so obedient. Americans accepted the official explanation for 911 rather than expose the government’s failure to respond to intelligence. Then we fought two unwinnable and unnecessary wars straight into our nation’s decline. As we docilely comply with the shutdown, we are digging our economic graves. We all know that we are not “coming back stronger” since we were already in decline.

Unlike 911, the COVID Cover-Up began to unravel quickly once younger people began dying. Soon the vulnerable category expanded to a large group with underlying medical issues, like diabetes. But no one expected that just being fat was really bad too! Then French epidemiologists identified the obesity issue, followed by NYU Scientists reporting that the “largest US Study of COVID-19 finds obesity the single biggest ‘chronic factor’ in New York City’s hospitalization” www.zdnet.com And then the NewYorkTimes conceded: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/16/health/coronavirus-obesity-higher-risk.html.

Isn’t it time for health journalists, aka Wellness Bitches, to accept responsibility for our obesity epidemic? They told us for 50 years to eat more “healthy” to be healthy. Stuff yourselves with “good” food and save calories. Forget that overconsumption enlarges the stomach container. Then the inevitable binges really reward the economy. Maybe the next time someone inhales an entire pizza — see the 600 Pound Life TV show for the visuals — they might stop a bit sooner. Will they still guzzle the entire 6 Pack of Bud-lite? We have had decades of All you Can Eat Restaurants and Super-Size Me Sodas. And hotel breakfast buffets ( break- a- fast with 150 bites of every conceivable brunch food) and office meetings with unlimited snacks from the ubiquitous open kitchens plus birthday cakes for all ages and Halloween for adults! and every entrée plate with 50 bites, etc. Will all of this gluttony come back when we re-open?

Healthy is our favorite word yet 50% of us are obese and another 20% heading there. The CDC complicity is via a grading on the curve formula to foster “eat more to grow the economy.” The CDC classifies a 5’6” inch female at 185 pounds as only overweight! Clearly she is obese at 160 pounds. That’s why every TV commercial has more fat people than thin ones. Keep eating! Our bodies are BIG and Bulging. Hard to flatten “curves” that are mountains. We are trying, but we are mostly flattening the economy. Maybe forever.

Fifty years of nutrition and exercise and we are almost all fat. Hello Body Positivity and Vanity Sizing!! Watch a COVID press conference with Trump, Purdue BARR, and Pence. They are all obese!! Did the 25 Democratic candidates for President discuss our size and health care as they spoke at rallies attended by refrigerator-sized humans? Bill Maher had to trap Bernie Sanders to say the O word. But it’s all good. Everyone is good. “I’m good!” is America’s favorite ungrammatical expression besides “Eat Healthy. ” Are we good? Or are we a nation of people with “underlying medical conditions.”

We are shrinking the population and the economy. Now we need to shrink our own bodies. Bye-Bye Body Positivity. It’s now or never.