Sorry if your government cares more about your peers’ health than your entertainment values. Thoughts and prayers.
Obesity and heart disease have been killing far more people in the US than covid and yet Mcdonalds and Coke advertisements are everywhere inbetween television entertainment.
Also note obesity/heart disease are among the greatest risk factors of poor health outcomes for covid.
Why is there little to no mention of eating healthy and exercising in the government's health guidelines to combat this threat?
There are countless other examples of bureaucrats caring more about money and power than public health - while putting on the appearance of caring for public health. See also: the war on drugs.
If not, how much more deadly (be precise) would the flu need to be before we should ban group socialization?
Trying to figure out if you're thinking in terms of a logical metric based risk analysis, or just emotion and terror of death.
Seems like this ratio would vary greatly among such demographics.
Obese people are twice as likely to be hospitalized for covid.
When hospital beds are being overrun, someone elses life long decisions to disregard their own health does indeed affect other peoples health negatively.