They should place the blame where it lies. It lies squarely at the feet of all these hyper pro vax people and officials who refuse to alert people to the greatest cause of massive Covid spread. hospitalizations and death . Covid is simply a predator doing what predators do. We live in a world where every living thing has a predator stalking it. Even animals at the top of the food chain have predators. With humans, our main predators are primarily other humans and pathogens.
How do predators stalk? Just look at lions stalking antelopes. They pick the weak, the slow moving and the fatted. That is exactly what Covid is doing. In the US 94% of adults who died of Covid had some other discernable medical challenge. That is the CDC data. In the US 40% of the population is clinically obese. Two thirds of the population is overweight. That is a medical crisis of enormous proportions. The Government does nothing of substance to address it. When I meet up with old friends, they look at me being skinny and ask me if I am sick. It has become normal to be overweight and abnormal to look skinny like a runner.
If one looks at any good Covid world map like BBC. one will see the countries with the best outcomes were not highly vaccinated. The did the best because their population was not fat and sedentary like the places that did the worst. The country with the biggest Covid outbreak was India. What is not very publicized is that roughly only 5% of the Covid cases, hospitalizations and deaths in that outbreak were in South India. 95% was in North India. The reason being, a fatter and more sedentary population eating a less healthy diet in North India. The same is happening in the US.
There are many variables affecting covid spread; I will give three main ones: 1. Population health 2. Precautions taken such as social distancing 3. Vaccinations. If one does not address any of the three. one will most likely get covid . If one does only one, there is an average chance of getting covid. Addressing two of the issues gives one a fighting chance. Very few people are addressing all three. The vaccinated are letting their guard down and misguidedly feel the vaccine is such a magic bullet, they don't have to focus on their health.
In the overrun states, it's not just being unvaccinated that's causing the problem, it's a clear failure in the other two areas that's causing this fiasco. The vaccination rates in these states are all over 40% exactly where the highly vaccinated states were six weeks ago. Those states did not have this problem six weeks ago. I rest my case.
The vaccine is now failing. The highly vaccinated countries like Israel and Iceland are seeing out breaks. Israel who has done the best tracking on the planet, says six months later, the vaccine protection is down from 92% initially to now 39%. It simply means the effectiveness fell below 50% in five months or less. 50% is the magic number for vaccine full approval. In the typically long study any vaccine needs for full approval, falling below 50% in five months would cause it to be called a failure and disqualify it from full approval.
Israel is now giving a third shot and buying up as much vaccine as possible because they expect to have to give a fourth shot before year end. As runners we have an obligation to help those around us to eat better and abandon the sedentary lifestyle. It's a difficult obligation. I lost three friends in the last month, all very smart people, but still obese. One was vaccinated, One was not vaccinated. the third was my best friend from primary school who walked to and from school with me every day. I just cannot get a clear answer about his vaccination status. In total since this pandemic started. at least 12 people I personally know, died of Covid. Every one of them was overweight.