I wonder if this fact will dampen the Fat Acceptance movement any?

And I might add to the obesity piece, which is something very near to the hearts of your readers here — healthy lifestyles are so important in reducing your risk for severe disease. Right now, among those people who we see having severe disease under age 55, obesity is the number one risk factor for [COVID-19].

Probably not, but one can hope.

Mask wearing is by far the most successful anti-COVID intervention in a closed environment (Navy ship). Avoiding common areas and social distance are moderately effective, everything else (handwashing, hand sanitizing, cleaning) is statistically indistinguishable from nothing. https://t.co/235uyhNGnC

— Quantian (@quantian1) June 9, 2020

Here in Florida, mark-wearing rate observed in public is about 30%.

We’re quite fucked, yeah?

The government says there’s no inflation — except for the things people are actually buying.

Inflation numbers have been bogus for a few decades, for various reasons — especially for those who make under 50K a year.