Wow, really? This is laughable, “why our medical experts have totally ignored telling Americans to get healthy is totally beyond you”, seriously? You’re joking, right? So what, you believe that this whole time “our medical experts” were conspiring against the American people and not promoting good health and fitness? Wake up brother, our “medical experts” have been advocating for healthy living, diet and exercise from the beginning, and if you believe that not to be true than I got nothing for you, and you should probably seek out a place to live that has a better health care system.
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It's not fair to say "medical experts have totally ignored telling Americans to get healthy". However, at a minimum, the advice given on how to "get healthy" has been an epic failure for decades. Look around, including among hospital staff. How's that advice working out? It's led to essentially no one believing that medical experts advice on healthy living has any real probability of working. This is a subject for a much longer conversation, but basically the advice sucks.
Yes, we should eat right and exercise, and avoid alcohol, tobacco, and get sleep. The medical profession has blown it so badly on the "eat right" front though, that trust is not warranted, and nobody really believes that more of the same advice is going to lead to solve the problems of chronic conditions (the COVID co-morbidities). Knowing that, why really bother seriously advocating anything but pharma interventions? Add to that the financial incentives of said interventions.
Best I can tell, the most destructive thing America has ever done, was to inflict our dietary guidelines on the rest of the world. The results of that advice make Stalin, Mao and Hitler look like pikers. As bad as COVID is, it's nothing to the epidemic of modern chronic diseases.
So here we are...with a marvelous medical system that is fantastic at bringing acutely ill people back from the brink of death. But also mostly incapable of keeping them from becoming horribly unhealthy in the first place. I don't blame our doctors, nurses, etc personally for that BTW. We are all human, it's very hard to realize and admit that much of what we were taught (from ridiculously expensive and prestigious schools) and accepted CAN'T be true. Much of it, in hindsight, looks laughable and absurd.
(a tiny sample: salt and fat are evil, saturated fat is the devil, eliminate all dietary cholesterol, red meat will kill you....but go ahead an load up on "healthy whole grains", fruit juice, replace all your fats with industrial seed oils, get most everyone on statins, and you must get at least 45% of calories from carbs, etc, etc).
Frustration with the medical profession is warranted. My MIL's only advice from the hospital when she got COVID last April was "stay home, take Tylenol, drink fluid", and come in when you have trouble breathing. Individual doctors aside, where is the public message about the importance of maintaining adequate vitamin D levels?
The best thing I ever did for my health was to reject what didn't make sense, which included vast swaths of the the advice of "medical experts", and I now basically eat as if Europeans never got to the new world. Yet from the medical experts, I've heard again and again and again and again how I should be dead, from untold maladies. None of which has even remotely stood up to scrutiny. It's really annoying to them that I keep not dying, and even thrive.
So, there's an ironic point in there about the importance of general health advice in dealing with COVID.
People are rightly frustrated that medical experts don't emphasize the importance of general health advice enough.
And doctors rightly realize that their general health advice isn't going to help much, and that mRNA injections are much more likely to provide benefit, and are a more effective use of their time against COVID.
And I contend that the whole discussion is largely irrelevant, because the general health advice largely sucks.
Come get your vaccine, and get a free donut.