Unfortunately COVID is also a major cause of obesity (or at least increased weight and loss of physical fitness). First due to the lockdowns, and now the masks which make it harder to walk outdoors in the heat we have here, and much less appealing to even go outside. I find it very depressing to see all these masked, scared faces trying to scurry away from all these dangerous other people. Yes I wear mine all the time and keep my distance too but I just don't feel like going out anymore in this nightmare.

I limit it to a trip to the corner shop every couple of days just like during the lockdown, there's just no enjoyment in life anymore. Even a potential holiday no longer offers an escape from the misery of daily life, as COVID is everywhere.

I see in myself and the people I know it's also causing a lot of mental illness issues (usually hidden ones that surface due to all the extra stress of this 'new normal'), and all treatments for things that aren't COVID are at a minimum level around here.

We really need to find a real solution soon so we can pick up our lives again. I for one will never get used to this 'new normal' being normal at all and I definitely don't want to. For me life right now is not worth living and the only thing that keeps me going is the hope that it can return to the real normal and I can pick up the pieces of my life.

So to be honest, my obesity (and even the risk of dying from COVID itself) is the least of my worries right now.