Great write up in WaPo (a truly awful news rag, but even a blind squirrel...)
88 percent of the deaths in the first year of the pandemic took place in countries where more that half the population was classified as overweight or obese.
Put another way, if you're skinny, there was no pandemic for you, and never was. Chances of severe complications/hospitalization drop WAY down for slender people.
Skinny people sure had to pay for it though. IMF estimating Covid is going to cost 22 trillion over 2020-2025. (at least $10 trillion already).
In hindsight (always 20/20), rather than shutting down the world, masks, and social distancing, it would have been much better to enact an enforceable order for anyone with a BMI over 25 to quarantine at home.
That's right: Actual "fat police". But I guess "body shaming" is out, "fat is beautiful" is in...#science, I guess.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world...global-report/ (behind the paywall)
https://www.worldobesityday.org/asse...2021-Atlas.pdf (the full study...and a good read that argues overwhelmingly that fat/obesity of a nation is a better predictor than age, wealth, reporting efficiency, etc.) ----THIS IS A REALLY GOOD READ