Recently, a spokesman for the Select Committee of Democrats lambasted Republicans for trying to create a conspiratorial narrative about Covid and government officials’ role in suppressing the lab-leak theory, saying, “While the Majority continues its fishing expedition, Select Subcommittee Democrats will remain focused on forward-looking solutions that protect the American people’s health.”
That’s interesting because if they really are interested in “forward-looking solutions” to secure Americans’ health, I would think there would be a code red around an epidemic that kills more people than Covid every day: obesity. Yet here we are — crickets.
The Obesity Epidemic
For almost three years, media ratings skyrocketed as ticker tapes of death flashed on the lower third of every screen across the country. The world stopped for a virus with an approximately 1 percent overall mortality rate and as low as 0.003 percent depending on age and health.
Why are there no daily warnings recounting the number of people who die each day from heart disease (almost 2,000 daily), diabetes (about 1,000 per day), stroke, and other issues directly caused by crappy metabolic health? Why isn’t the CDC trying to scare the sh-t out of us when it comes to the devastating effects of poor health decisions? Why is there no public shaming for elevated resting insulin levels, BMI (body mass index), blood pressure, and triglycerides? Some of these may be imperfect measurements, but they’re a good gauge to judge the health of the general population.
In 2021, approximately 500,000 people died from
