The public health bureaucracy ignored the benefits of exercise during the pandemic, writes ZacharyFaria
It is possible that the study only shows correlation and not causation. It may be the case that exercise itself didn’t reduce the risk of COVID but that the people who exercised were already generally healthier. But even this was lost in our COVID response. There was little focus on obesity being a risk factor during the pandemic, even after the Centers for Disease Control and PreventionThere has been no reckoning with this fact.
Even as some politicians and bureaucrats continue to imposeon children in schools, there is no push among those same figures to bring the issue of obesity to the forefront of the public health discussion. Nor is there any admission that closing gyms, beaches, and parks was, in fact, a dumb and counterproductive idea.The public health bureaucracy somehow stumbled into the wrong answer on almost every question that was raised during the pandemic. This was no exception.
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