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Another installment in the saga.

Maybe following up with an Indian, Korma please, but protect the naans...

I was down town today and a part of the car park had been cordoned off for a NHS testing centre. Lots of cones laid out, lots of signs etc, about a million people in hi viz wandering about and guess how many of the general public? 0, that's how many.
I'm in the south west, really really low case numbers so I wonder why there's a mobile testing centre? Hmm.

My company has lost about 50% of its turnover due to the lack of air travel - we make parts for aircraft. Last week Airbus announced publicly that in July it expected to ramp up production to 2019 levels (think its something like 15 aircraft a month). I'm really hoping that Boeing follow suit and then the airlines just put massive pressure on the Govt and they proceed with the ridiculously called 'Freedom Day' on 21 June! I'm so fed up with the flip flopping of reasons to keep restrictions in place - we have flattened the sombrero, not overwhelmed the NHS, reduced deaths, and got a large proportion of the population vaccinated! Surely enough to get back to normal and get rid of the sodding muzzle Rulz. Social distancing can stay if it means I don't have to have old fashioned businessmen kissing my cheeks like the Europeans rather than just shake my hand 😠

Much panicking in our local rag as apparently cases are up by 62% which is obviously jumped on by all the “restrictions must continue forever” brigade. What it means in reality is 57 positive (?) tests out of a population of 230k and absolutely none in my area of town and this has been the case for a good few weeks now. I’m bloody sick of it!

Brilliant post @LivinLaVidaLoki Totally agree.

Sky news reporting on 34 year old still in hospital with cropped photos trying to disguise that the man was morbidly obese. Why are the headlines hiding the real story and trying to frighten people whilst disguising the real reason they should be frightened?

Welsh death (single death in U.K. figures today) apparently from April 2020 but trying to find verification of that. I know there were a couple of very backdated deaths added to last weeks figures too.

@Worldgonecrazy Ive tipped into the obese category due to comfort consumption and am getting a bit worried about people like me being scapegoated though i agree they do need to tell the whole story. Ive lost 4 pounds in the last two weeks due to eating healthily because things slowly getting back to normal made me feel a bit happier. Im hoping they dont slam the brakes and reverse. Its bloody hypocritical though to use us "fatties" as Look how much fat people cost the NHS one minute and then gloss over it to suit the Covid narrative. I dont like being used.

I didnt mean you btw I meant the media.

And some of the comments underneath Lauras tweet confirm my suspicions.

twitter.com/BareReality/status/1401821330933178368?s=20

Apparently that chap was/is morbidly obese.

I’m fat as a pig after all this, but I’m well aware it’s a risk factor and morbidly obese people shouldn’t be preaching caution about reopening in my view.

[quote MercyBooth]@Worldgonecrazy Ive tipped into the obese category due to comfort consumption and am getting a bit worried about people like me being scapegoated though i agree they do need to tell the whole story. Ive lost 4 pounds in the last two weeks due to eating healthily because things slowly getting back to normal made me feel a bit happier. Im hoping they dont slam the brakes and reverse. Its bloody hypocritical though to use us "fatties" as Look how much fat people cost the NHS one minute and then gloss over it to suit the Covid narrative. I dont like being used.[/quote]
I'm in the same boat @MercyBooth.

I have put on the two and a half stone I lost through healthy eating, trying very hard to get back on track again. There are still no face to face classes where I used to do yoga and my health has deteriorated (may well be connected to the mental distress this has all caused) and the medication I am on causes weight gain 😔

Then we get blamed for being fat 😡

@WouldBeGood I agree. I hope @LivinLaVidaLoki gets to go to Greece and things go ahead.

@SirSamuelVimes

YY @Evenstar it really fucks me off.

I can sympathy with the lockdown weight. I’ve gone up about half a stone since last March and have heard myself say in my own head “oh sod it, just eat another line of chocolate because what else joy is there in life” It’s so cruel what they have done to everybody on every level, mentally, financially, physically and socially. I too am now trying to eat more healthily and trying to do it as an act of defiance against the restrictions. It’s the only way I can try to redirect my total anger and frustration.

I put my wetsuit on last week for the first time in about a year. It did zip up, but wetsuits don't lie...

I know what I need to do, but there's still not enough external motivation and busyness to keep me doing what I need to do to sort myself out.

I’m jot mad at obese people or blaming them. I am VERY mad at the food industry lobbying, and the political and societal factors which have enabled the long term negative effects of obesity to become normalised and acceptable, a health service which is there to fix the issues but does nothing to address the causes.

Now we have a virus which, like many others, is more serious in people with a high bmi and discussions about how we address the general ill health of the population are still not taking place on a national scale.

I did get annoyed at the article in the BBC with the patient in ITU with reported no underlying health condition lecturing everyone how we should take covid seriously when it is obvious he is obese and he wants the government to be cautious on the lifting of restrictions.

Isn't it public knowledge that a high BMI puts you are more risk of covid and needing treatment? My DH went from obese to low overweight at the beginning of the pandemic as it was being reported that it was a major factor. Unfortunately I have gone the other way but am trying now to remove the lockdown weight.

@Worldgonecrazy

I’m jot mad at obese people or blaming them. I am VERY mad at the food industry lobbying, and the political and societal factors which have enabled the long term negative effects of obesity to become normalised and acceptable, a health service which is there to fix the issues but does nothing to address the causes.

Now we have a virus which, like many others, is more serious in people with a high bmi and discussions about how we address the general ill health of the population are still not taking place on a national scale.

This. Public health has been poor, and getting poorer for decades. And it's not as if we don't know why. We eat too much of the wrong things and move too little. But everything is set up to make those things easier and a healthy lifestyle harder. Now that we know how amazing the government propaganda machine can be - and it has been extraordinarily successful at creating an epidemic of health anxiety - it is even more galling: imagine the billions thrown at appalling pseudo-science and amoral and utterly fallacious advertising campaigns, and all the rest of the lockdown paraphernalia instead being spent on preventative treatments and public health measures. Lives saved and quality of life improved. Ho hum.

@Worldgonecrazy i agree.

Re storage I live in a flat where it gets far too hot. Fresh food does not keep for long (not everything is meant for the fridge) which means i have to buy it more often. People used to complain homes are too cold. IMO they are too hot.

@Stuffin There is also the fact that he caught it back in January. When case figures and hospitalisations were high.

Who is responsible for a national strategy on obesity and smoking these days? It used to be Public Health England but I seem to remember that part of their remit wasn't going to be in the new public body.
Agreed that so much is known about behavioural science it's a shame more isn't used by the good guys rather than just the bad guys (food industry).

@MercyBooth

Re storage I live in a flat where it gets far too hot. Fresh food does not keep for long (not everything is meant for the fridge) which means i have to buy it more often. People used to complain homes are too cold. IMO they are too hot.

My flat at uni was constantly like an oven. I was on the first floor, goodness knows what it was like higher up the building.

I find that fresh ambient food like potatoes are a pain to keep fresh. They sprout very rapidly these days.
There's something to be said for a traditional larder with stone shelves!

Ooh One of my school friends lived in an old house with a larder. Fab.

@Taswama

Who is responsible for a national strategy on obesity and smoking these days? It used to be Public Health England but I seem to remember that part of their remit wasn't going to be in the new public body. Agreed that so much is known about behavioural science it's a shame more isn't used by the good guys rather than just the bad guys (food industry).

I think the social manipulation over the past 18 months has amply demonstrated that the skill is there, but not the political will.

The fact that malevolent manipulation is used but never benevolent, shows the absolute contempt the general populace are held in.

We have had good and benevolent manipulation before, the anti drunk driving advertising and anti smoking during the 80s demonstrated this. But now we are shepherded towards wanting to sit and watch dumbed down TV whilst eating deliveroo fast food.

Which all begs the question, why don’t the powers that be want an educated, fit and healthy population? It doesn’t make any sense at all.