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    Quote Originally Posted by Gardnr View Post
    ... I know many healthy/active people with hypertension.

    Don't whitewash the problem with sweeping "get healthy" statements.

    I guess we'll just sit back and watch more people die. Body bags all around!
    As someone pointed out, most adults have some comorbidity (half of adults, for example, have high blood pressure, by some accounts*), but here we go again casting blame right and left. It's the virus that's at fault here. Plenty of people in other countries, without our societal health problems, have died of this.

    *Medical News Today

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    I haven't seen anyone mention obesity as a leading factor.

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    Quote Originally Posted by bae View Post
    Does that make masks the new salad spinner? :-)
    Good one!

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    Quote Originally Posted by JaneV2.0 View Post
    but here we go again casting blame right and left. It's the virus that's at fault here.
    Exactly. But many don't choose that as the truth.

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    I'm not against anyone trying to be healthy, I just don't think it's ok to let people die just because they didn't choose to be healthy and some just because luck of the draw.
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    Quote Originally Posted by ApatheticNoMore View Post
    I'm not against anyone trying to be healthy, I just don't think it's ok to let people die just because they didn't choose to be healthy and some just because luck of the draw.
    Or--worse yet--they followed national health guidelines and became less healthy (Eat lots of carbohydrates! Eat less fat!) with diabetes and other inflammatory conditions.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Gardnr View Post
    good to know your healthcare experience is so much better and expansive than mine.

    I don't know a single asthmatic that ever smoked. I don't know of a single child asthmatic who smoked. I know many healthy/active people with hypertension.

    Don't whitewash the problem with sweeping "get healthy" statements.

    I guess we'll just sit back and watch more people die. Body bags all around!
    I know asthmatics who smoked tobacco, marijuana, and crack cocaine. This is the problem with anecdotes rather than facts.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Tradd View Post
    I haven't seen anyone mention obesity as a leading factor.
    Tradd here is an article which notes the CDC lists obesity as a covid-19 risk factor:

    https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/art...y-and-covid-19

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    Quote Originally Posted by bae View Post
    Does that make masks the new salad spinner? :-)
    Just make sure that the mask doesn't push your number of possessions over 200!

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    Quote Originally Posted by JaneV2.0 View Post
    Or--worse yet--they followed national health guidelines and became less healthy (Eat lots of carbohydrates! Eat less fat!) with diabetes and other inflammatory conditions.
    Yes, PSAs would need to reflect current best knowledge and practices not who lobbies Washington the most for product category placement in the food pyramid. Exercise and stop smoking would be less controversial.

    But judging by the reaction here asking people to do anything preventive to reduce their underlying risk factors is a horrible thing. There is always some anecdotal outlier whose condition is congenital and they use that to excuse anyone else from trying.

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