If you're at risk of a bad time with Covid, get vaccinated. Simples.
>As for the sin of being fat that you find so unforgivable
Simple cause and effect. The study you linked said so - if you're obese, you're much more likely to go to the ICU with Covid. It is strange that all of the public messaging designed to "keep us safe" did not include any component to look after our bodies, which would have significant benefits when it comes to fighting disease.
Training - eh, maybe. I ditched my Garmin and Strava, and have never been happier with my cycling. Some people seem to like the Zwift thing though.
"Ease of communication" - I now consider that a downside. I don't want to be distracted by the possibility of getting a notification at any second, with information of any level of severity.
"Develop profitable businesses" - yes, there is a lot of money to be made selling people shiny things.
>And I could link up a dozen similar studies and reports that all say the same thing: the risks from vaccination are low, the risks from Covid are an order of magnitude greater.
Without absolute numbers, your "analysis" is meaningless. We're talking about seven deaths amongst teens.
>The study noted that about three-fourths of the teenagers in the study had other medical conditions, such as obesity
Not being fat is an excellent way to avoid having a bad time with Covid. Shame that the official advice caused many people to spend the last two years sitting on the couch, eating pizza.
It is undeniable that the vaccine kept the most vulnerable out of the ICU. It is also very true that healthy people under about 45 were at minimal risk from Covid.
Back to the idea that public servants are indeed servants to the public, and their entire purpose is to spend the public's money in a way that benefits the public.
1. Electronic devices have varying degrees of embodied energy and resource usage - it is incumbent on the end user to justify that usage
2. Electronic devices are designed as attention-sucking devices for selling advertising, and as such, have more negative uses than positive, which makes controlling them as an end user more difficult.
It's very true. The most efficient speed of a car is the point where the increasing engine + drivetrain gearing efficiency meets wind resistance, and is typically 10-15mph higher for ICE cars.
I do think that NHS staff did their very best to follow protocols (one of my parents went into great detail about all of the steps they had to go through in between seeing each patient). However, the idea that disposable plastic smocks and perspex screens will do much against an infectious airbourne respiratory virus is just silly on its face.
Really, given the sheer amount of people who caught Covid in hospitals, they should have shut the hospitals and let almost everything else remain open.
Her parents were probably just like the many "happy", middle-class families with kids I know - "it's so hard to be the only kid without a smartphone, and since the pandemic, it helps her keep in touch with her friends. And the school has an app now, and there are so many educational games!".
