Reply to Montgomery- 5 more days and masks off.

Forum Index » Metropolitan DC Local Politics

Reply to "Montgomery- 5 more days and masks off."

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Can we focus on the real reason folks have had Covid result in hospitalizations and death?
Obesity.

But nobody wants to talk about it lest we offend.  Just Google obesity and Covid and understand that your little cloth mask and the mandate to wear it is a big nothing compared to the harm of obesity.  Yet masks we debate for hours - obesity nobody mentions. [/quote]

Not really. The main reason is age. There are a lot of geriatrics that are in denial about their mortality. Old people die. It’s sad, sort of, but not worth shutting businesses or schools down over.

Obesity is number two, but a pretty distant second.

Your point is well-taken, though. If people were actually worried about reducing non-elderly deaths, COVID would be low on their priority list. Obesity. Car accidents. Proper social safety nets that prevent people from falling into poverty.  Mental health support to reduce alcohol and drug addiction.  But masking, quarantines, closures and capacity restrictions? Not so much.[/quote]

Options

	Disable HTML in this message
	Disable BB Code in this message
	Disable smilies in this message

Review message

Search Recent Topics Hottest Topics