Make HEALTH part of the health discussion

{from my trainer}

I avoid polarizing/politicized conversions generally. There’s nothing more controversial than opinions regarding the pandemic, and public policy around it, and have been avoiding talking about my take - but I’ve honestly just hit a limit, and can’t understand how this isn’t part of the mainstream dialogue.

Gyms have been one of the LAST things to reopen in Alberta after lockdowns - AND with a slew of absurd and unnecessary limitations that are, in my understanding, more dangerous to health.

Anecdotally, people I know who have good metabolic health and have contracted the virus have had mild cold-like symptoms for a few days, and recovered. That’s it. It literally took them more time to get tracing calls to tell them they’ve been exposed to a confirmed case than it took them to get, and recover from the virus.

There are positive correlations with physical fitness and reductions in severe hospitalization. Gyms are statistically one of the lowest transference/outbreak sites. In other words, the more fit you are, the less likely you are to get fked up by COVID-19.

One study found 78.3% of severe hospitalizations were overweight or obese, IE, in poor metabolic health.

There’s MORE than enough science to validate this. How is it not part of our public health discussion? There’s more to our health than masks, sanitizers, and vaccines.

Yes, there are people at risk, and they should be protected, financially provided for, and vaccinated. But to put perfectly healthy populations indoors, isolating them from community, nature, access to exercise, and encouraging a sedentary lifestyle??

Where’s the logic here?

You’re damaging metabolic health, and decreasing sun exposure/vitamin D levels, which are the number one predictors for how well someone handles the illness.

This is saying nothing of mental health implications of cutting the most social creatures on the planet off from their community...

Keep gyms open.

Have fitness and metabolic health be a part of the public health discussion. Stop enforcing public policy that is making populations LESS healthy.

Vaccinate those at risk, and get everyone fit.

Thoughts?