Unlike the Swiss or Japanese, we British are not known for our health. After Malta, in fact, we’re the most obese nation in Europe. Fully 28% of us have a BMI greater than 30, which for a man of 5 foot 10, equates to a bodyweight of 96kg.
This should be a source of national embarrassment. And you’d assume the Government wouldn’t want to make it any worse. Which prompts the question, “What on earth did they expect lockdown would do?”
Back in March of 2020, we were told that we “must stay at home”. Only “one form of exercise a day” would be allowed under the new regime. Gyms and sports clubs were closed, and children’s play areas were cordoned off like crime scenes. (This was all in spite of emerging evidence that the chance of being infected outdoors was negligible.)
The full effects of lockdown on our waistlines are only now becoming apparent. And they they’re not pretty.
In a recent study, Feifei Bu and colleagues analysed data from the COVID-19 Social Study, a longitudinal survey of British adults that began on 21st March 2020. Note: the sample was not representative, so the researchers applied weights throughout their analysis.
During the initial phase of the study (up to the end of August), respondents were asked about their level of physical activity on a weekly basis. In particular, they were asked how much exercise they had done on “the last working day”. Results are shown in the chart below.
Although the series begin after the start of lockdown, the percentage of people reporting no physical activity increased substantially over the duration of the study – from around 23% to almost 40%. Oddly, the peak of inactivity was not reached until the late summer.
If the government’s messaging had not needlessly emphasised staying at home, it’s plausible this change could have been avoided. In a recent meta-analysis, the majority of studies reported “decreases in physical activity and increases in sedentary behaviours” during lockdown. (Hardly surprising, you might say. But it’s good to have hard data.)
So that’s calories out. What about calories in? Perhaps people compensated for lower levels of activity by eating less. It seems they didn’t.
In a study published back in July, researchers at the Institute for Fiscal Studies looked at the impact of lockdown on people’s eating habits. They combined several sources of data to estimate the change in total calories consumed inside the home versus outside the home.
Unsurprisingly, there was a drop fall in calories consumed outside the home: although takeaways went up; visits to cafes and restaurants plummeted. However, this was more than compensated for by a rise in calories consumed inside the home. Results are shown in the chart below.
Each line on the graph corresponds to a different assumption about the change in calories consumed outside the home. The lower dashed line indicates that, even if you assume a 100% drop in calories consumed outside the home, there was still a sizeable net increase in calories – on the order of 10% or more.
Evidence suggests that, during lockdown, we did less and ate more. It’s therefore hardly surprising that 40% of British adults gained weight, with the average gain being half a stone. So you can add ‘20 million people getting fatter’ to the costs side of the lockdown ledger.
What’s more, 2020 saw the largest annual rise in childhood obesity – of 4.5 percentage points – since records began.
All this brings to mind the first of Martin Kulldorff’s twelve forgotten principles of public health. Repeat after me: “Public health is about all health outcomes, not just a single disease.”
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Looking at people in my neighborhood, not at statistics or charts, I say hell yeah!
This is so true where I live – you know when I go into town I sometimes try and count how many people I walk past who are thin/skinny/slim or just a plain normal sort of size for their height – anyway, you know one day I struggled to count ten thin/skinny/normal size people by the time I got to the other end of the high street.
I mean don’t get me wrong – they’re probably all lovely people regardless of their weight issues but i have noticed people ballooning in size ever since the lockdown – not just the people I see walking along the high street but even friends, neighbours and relatives – all seemed to have put on the pounds over the last 18 months..
I think this photo was taken of a beach somewhere in Britain around the early 1970’s – count how many overweight people in the photo …
Not one of them wearing masks, bet they weren’t vaccinated either! No wonder we’re in this current mess! /s
Taken shortly before fat was made the devil and sugar was added to everything to make the removal of fat palatable?
…and before the computer/mobile phone invention I expect…
Fructose consumption changes the liver and bowel in ways that promote further weight gain!
If you are interested i think i can dig up the links.
I love an apple, not sure thats why everyone turned into lardy arses though
I’d be interested to see those links about fructose. It’s true that some fruits, such as mangos, contain a lot of sugar. It’s possible to overdo it with fruit…
The difference with eating a real apple and a real orange etc compared to fruit juice is that it has fibre in which helps slow it’s absorption. Drinking pure fruit juice (like you buy from the supermarket) has no to little fibre in it, and gets absorbed straight into the liver just like drinking a can of coke.
Fructose is fine – so long as you consume it the right way and not in liquid form.
That’s not completely true
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-021-03827-2
Fructose consumption is linked to the rising incidence of obesity and cancer, which are two of the leading causes of morbidity and mortality globally1,2. Dietary fructose metabolism begins at the epithelium of the small intestine, where fructose is transported by glucose transporter type 5 (GLUT5; encoded by SLC2A5) and phosphorylated by ketohexokinase to form fructose 1-phosphate, which accumulates to high levels in the cell3,4. Although this pathway has been implicated in obesity and tumour promotion, the exact mechanism that drives these pathologies in the intestine remains unclear. Here we show that dietary fructose improves the survival of intestinal cells and increases intestinal villus length in several mouse models. The increase in villus length expands the surface area of the gut and increases nutrient absorption and adiposity in mice that are fed a high-fat diet. In hypoxic intestinal cells, fructose 1-phosphate inhibits the M2 isoform of pyruvate kinase to promote cell survival5,6,7. Genetic ablation of ketohexokinase or stimulation of pyruvate kinase prevents villus elongation and abolishes the nutrient absorption and tumour growth that are induced by feeding mice with high-fructose corn syrup. The ability of fructose to promote cell survival through an allosteric metabolite thus provides additional insights into the excess adiposity generated by a Western diet, and a compelling explanation for the promotion of tumour growth by high-fructose corn syrup.
And I’d counter that with obesity and cancer are caused by what we stick in our gobs – usually too much of something and not enough exercise. We can’t blame good decent food for what is the main cause: eating too much and doing fuck all. The same as there’s good and bad fats, there’s good and bad sugars.
Eating too much of anything and leading a sedentary lifestyle is what causes obesity, cancer and heart disease in the main.
well my detailed reply got deleted
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-021-03827-2
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2019/10/191001132712.htm
Researchers at Joslin Diabetes Center have found that high levels of fructose in the diet inhibit the liver’s ability to properly metabolize fat. This effect is specific to fructose. Indeed, equally high levels of glucose in the diet actually improve the fat-burning function of the liver. This explains why high dietary fructose has more negative health impacts than glucose does, even though they have the same caloric content.
Bingo. I’m doing low carb, no sugars, and it’s amazing how fast the lard shifts off when you eat some.
me too, 3 years no sugar, amd 3 months ago started really low carb… you dont need carbs at all. Never felt better!
This is not true. Carbs are good. Fruit and vegetables are carbs. There’s two types of carbs – the shit donuts and breads, white rice etc – and then the good stuff that grows in the ground.
Must of been racist to, as I cannot see one enricher.
‘….for a man of 5 foot 10, equates to a bodyweight of 96kg.’ Blimey – keep to one set of units!
At 5 foot 10, a BMI of 30 corresponds to a bodyweight that is 1 pound shy of 15 stone, aka “Beware entering a lift with this person”. (These figures apply whether the person is male, female, or “doesn’t know”.)
Certainly did for my father. Rather than choosing to go on a diet and exercise, he seems to think that his jab will protect him from covid. It’s been made pretty clear to him that obese people are at risk regardless. But nevermind, the jib-jab is a miracle cure so he can eat all the crap he likes! He’s just off for his 3rd PCR test in less than a month – “just in case” with this new variant about
Given that the symptoms of OMIGOD don’t meet the criteria for getting PCR’d, why is he not following the science?
Because the real “science” counts for jack-shit Roger… the narrative science is “Über Alles”…
How is this possible? He who pays the piper calls the tune…
Gates just throws money around because he doesn’t know what else to do with it, and because it ‘looks good’ on the resume when you invest in research and science etc. Just another cog in the machine with more clout than most people in the world – but he is definitely far from the head of the snake.
Looking around my small city gives no indication about where all these obese people are. There are the occasional mother with adult daughter who are both grotesquely overweight like a pair of Michelin ladies that might skew the overall stats but should be excluded by use of medians and means.
As the local Junior school children walk past my home none stick out as ‘the fat kid’ as was common during my north Midlands 1960s upbringing where each class seemed to have one.
I’ve been told by academics and medics that obesity becomes a bigger problem further north so perhaps they all live in post industrial Cleethorps and Redcar wasting their Universal Credit on deep fried Mars bars and chips while watching celebrity loose women on telly.
In my view the Obesity Epidemic is just another stick with which to beat us alongside Climate Change, Racism in Football and, of course,the Worldwide Scourge of Covid Global Pandemic.
Interesting – in East Dulwich SE London where I live the populace is mainly an appropriate weight (despite there not being any gyms really in the area) however a short walk into relatively poorer BAME Peckham, the people are huge! I work in Victoria right by the station and I count about 60:40 in favour of the overweight (although the of/underweight is significantly boosted by the number of crackheads in the area)
Official figures (caveat lector) for mean adult BMI in Britain (figures further broken down by sex and age) between 1993 and 2019 are here:
http://healthsurvey.hscic.gov.uk/data-visualisation/data-visualisation/explore-the-trends/weight/adult/bmi.aspx
The mean increased from 25.8 in 1993 to 27.6 in 2019.
For a person of height 5 foot 3 (the average for women), this corresponds to a change from 10 stone 6 to 11 stone 2 (an increase of 10 pounds); for a person of height 5 foot 9 (the average for men), a change from 12 stone 7 to 13 stone 5 (an increase of 12 pounds).
I don’t know what biases there are in the figures or what the geographical distribution is, but a man of height 5 ft 9 who weighs 13 stone 5 is lard arsed.
A country where mean adult BMI is 27.6 has a problem.
Refined carbs / refined seed oils / sugar, fructose/glucose syrup. Survey any processed foods in any supermarket from the cheapest to the most expensive and you’ll find they’re in near everything.
Live in south of England there are a lot of obese people around all age groups and obesity goes alongside diabetes in a lot of cases and this (in my view) is not “just a stick to beat us with” but a real health problem that drains the NHS, people prefer to get a tablet/vax or whatever than take responsibility for their own health.
Whether it was planned or opportunistic, the architects of our current dystopia know full well all the harm their actions are creating. Obesity, untreated cancers, mental health problems, vaccine damage, economic ruin, the lot.
They know they cannot turn back because what awaits them if they do is an angry, abused mob. Hence the constant ratcheting up of the pressure.
Their escape route is to vaccinate the entire world, get everyone on a digital ID and implement global population management by variant.
We are in the fight of our lives.
Well-put. The consequences of the actions of Government, the “Health” Service and the legions of psych and other hangers-on were pretty clear to most people with a head facing the right way and containing a brain. That they were so ignored by these people suggests that they’re thick, uncaring, incompetent, working to some sort of plan, or something else; probably a combination of factors.
This is an affluent area (very affluent in parts), and it is definitely the case that other less well-off places nearby, one of which is jokingly known as the Mobility Scooter capital of East Anglia have far higher numbers of overweight people. However, the local Tory MP, who in the usual hypocritical manner, appeared last year on TV to blame the obese for getting Covid, would make Two-Ton Tessie O’Shea look like Twiggy in 1967. She obviously has a weight issue of some sort, and thus my sympathy, but in terms of appearance, utterances and behaviour is scarcely a role model.
The worst one was my GP (with a obviously beer tummy and no muscle tone) saying I was a bit overweight on the BMI measure (I did weight lifting at the time) just to get his box ticking money.
I think he saw me roll my eyes at this waste of his limited time.
Are GP Practices in receipt of Dept of Health bribes to promote anti-obesity programs in the same way as for prescribing Statins and the ordinary flu jabs?
They were, of course, famouslypaid couple the rate for the Covid jabs which again leads me to wonder why they are only ‘commissioned’ to boost the over 75s.
Any program that GPs promote they will get paid to promote.
As for their own weight, the fact that 20-25% of them are smackheads (on the pure stuff, none of that street mix cut with goodness knows what) will keep their average weight down.
I don’t know about you, but I fancy that burger. It looks handsome. But then they always look better in the pictures.
Of course, Government couldn’t give a brass farthing about our elf, evidenced by their unlawful closure of gyms while leaving fast food gaffs alone, not to mention the perverse effective closure of doctors surgeries and the cancellation/abandonment of cancer screenings, medical procedures, etc.
However, we are responsible for our own weight. We may not be able to screen ourselves or perform our own operations/medical procedures, but we can prevent ourselves and our children from becoming overweight/obese. If you actually obeyed the tyrants and limited your outdoor activity, firstly, more fool you, and secondly, there are multiple ways of exercising indoors.
The establishment won’t care about this story. They will pretend to care, when in fact this will be another excuse for the odious tyrants to lecture you further.
About every five years or so I allow the pretty pictures to persuade me that a Macdonalds breakfast cannot be as bad as I remembered.
I an always sadly disappointed.
I demur. Once a month or so I treat myself and my boy to a double sausage and egg muffin, and it never disappoints. The sausage/egg muffin is about the only thing on the menu that matches the picture/tastes as good as it looks.
However, if you want to cut back on the grease, Tesco sell the ‘sausage patties’ in their frozen section. 6 for about 2 squid. Grab some proper muffins, eggs, cheese slices, and you’re away.
A daily routine of physically going to work makes a big difference to your daily exercise. Going out for a daily walk at lunchtime or doing exercise inside doesn’t really compensate.
So I would say the answer to the question is definitely yes. And I wouldn’t be surprised if some of the symptoms of “long COVID” are just the effect of the drop in physical fitness for many people after 2 years of relative inactivity.
Yes I work from home now and my daily steps are right down. I do loads of sport so not an issue for me but others will have done very little.
The last sensible thing I read in the Telegraph was a refusal to accept obesity as a medical infliction worthy of victimhood status together with the sympathy and funding which goes with it.
Their solution to lardy-arseness
That seems one of the most likely explanations for a lot of so called long Covid, especially given that symptoms were reported from both groups in very close numbers.
The amount of walking in an average day, out and about, is definitely hard to replicate when stuck at home. The less you do, the less likely you are to feel like doing it. It’s a difficult chain to break.
WFH has aged me about 20 years, now in physio/mobility training to try and undo the damage. I had no idea in my 40s I’d lose it all so fast!
I ran the London Marathon in October, had my knee smashed up in a bad tackle in a football match a week later – 8 weeks on I have managed 4 gym sessions and 2 runs – yesterday I struggled to do more than 5km, I heard somewhere once you gain fitness about 3x slower than you lose it. Hard to tell what 2 years of inactivity would do. My FIL (52) has become a shell of a man through lockdowns etc, he spends 20 hours a day sitting, and he can’t now tie his shoelaces, it’s sad really
prolonged sitting is VERY bad for digestion and that’s just one of the problems.
Indeed. I keep banging on to people in their 20s, 30s and 40s to keep going because it’s very hard to get back up to a level once you lose it, and it gets harder. Your posture is affected, not just your fitness.
Use it, or lose it. As the old saying goes
I read somewhere yesterday of a TV snooker presenter telling viewers that one of the players (that game or another?) could be seen sleeping which indicated ‘long covid’ as he was known to have had Covid already.
These people just can’t stop themselves.
No, he was just a bit sleepy because snooker tournaments go on for hours.
The old legends used to spend half the match sleeping off their hangover!
Agree. There were things that were blindingly obvious back in March 2020. These were the first things that occurred to me when lockdown was announced. Eliminate incidental exercise from people’s lives and they will put on weight. Put them under stress and they will comfort eat. Close the doors on institutions so there are no checks and balances on what’s going on behind closed doors and you’ll have a lot more sexual/physical abuse.
“Appetite comes with eating” as Nevil Shute said in his 1930s autobio Slide Rule, presumably quoting some aphorism.
Faced with historic hypertension and resultant athlete’s heart I gave up breakfast so I could get 14-16 hours’ easy no-eating space per day and over 6 months I have dropped at least 4″ off my waist without completely eliminating processed carbs.
Main thing that led me to looking into interrupted periodic fasting was Dr Michael Mosley’s ‘the fast 800’ which I secured for all of £1.50 in a charity shop, having seen the last bit of one of his BBC presentations on same theme.
ymmv but I have to think that all the pushing of a “healthy breakfast”, oats etc is the exact opposite of what’s likely to be good. Example: I think it was in Weston Price’s 1930s book on dental caries in different populations that there appear the comparative photos of Scottish islands peoples whose staple was mainly oats vs- herring (again iirc). The teeth of the former were in a visibly dreadful state.
Another along similar lines which I’ve mentioned before is Cummins/Gerber: Eat Rich Live Long. It has its errors like anything else but is full of interest; if you have the electronic version do for example a word search on hip fracture, cancer, IGF-1, bread…
Who cares, for the same reason it’s no one’s business whether you’ve been “jabbed” it’s none of your business who’s fat or not, If it’s a matter of protecting the Nazi Health Service, then DON’T!
Yes I agree, but at the same time I also think it’s fair to point out the obvious health implications for covid. Allowing us to all believe we are at mortal risk because of the taboo of being fat in place of “body positivity” isn’t helpful. This is why the majority of the population is terrified they have a high chance of dying of wu flu – because the perceived risk actually only applies to the unhealthy.
Be careful how you conflate covid-obesity & climate justice because that’s exactly where it’s going. There’s a 1001 reasons why being over weight might kill you covid is nothing special, don’t engage with THEIR narrative.
Health is & should remain a private matter & none of the states business, they’ve more important things to do like protect our borders.
No doubt they will include pedometers in the CCP style Social Credit app to measure your footfall against the amount of carbohydrates you are contactlessly buying.
https://chinahandsmagazine.org/2019/11/01/your-toilet-knows-non-surveillance-uses-of-facial-recognition-in-china/
“The machine scans the user’s face for three seconds then dispenses an allotted number of squares of toilet paper, and for the next nine minutes, the user cannot access any more toilet paper.“
out demolition man’s demolition man!
“You have been fined 3 credits for breaking the verbal morality code”
Nice, monitoring our toilet dumps now.
Poor health of a nation is a lot more dangerous for the population than anything to do with borders.
It’s a bloody obvious outcome of the hysterical restrictions. Just as it is obvious that the whole shit show, including zombie masks, is damaging mental health.
Life cycle of the common Covid.
In my small old fashioned city with a stable residential population (the only large exchanges of people are within the university).
There still exist a few very large families resulting from multiple siblings even after WW2 so the youngsters all have myriad cousins and loads of Uncles (legitimate or otherwise) to call for backup. They live on the ‘troubled estates’ built in the 1930s still feuding with each other after all these years so in and out of A&E or the Police Station.
The younger generations tend to get into trouble at school, some appearing in Court for Affray and Assault as they fight outside the few local Nitespots over perceived sleights upon their girlfriends or manhood.
Some spend a while in Juvenile or HMP before settling down to become dodgy bookmakers/’antique dealers’ or backstreet 2nd hand car salesmen.
They spend their last years as respectable Publicans, still the Hard Men of the estates but enjoying a pint with the retired coppers who used to arrest them.
That is the stage that Omnicon Covid has now reached but it only took 2 years instead of 6 decades.
‘In my small old fashioned city with a stable……..’
Oooohh!!! I started getting all Christmassy
‘the researchers applied weights’
Isn’t that a bit unfair?
I believe “Build back better” is aiming for a kind of society found on the spaceship in the film “Wall-E”…..chubby people, floating in chairs with computer screens for all forms of communication and control. This futuristic world will enable us to think less, eat more and generally wait to be told what to do….however, on a positive note, there’s less illegal immigration in space.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J7GY1Xg6X20
I’m sorry, but I don’t want to be an emperor. That’s not my business. I don’t want to rule or conquer anyone. I should like to help everyone – if possible – Jew, Gentile – black man – white. We all want to help one another. Human beings are like that. We want to live by each other’s happiness – not by each other’s misery. We don’t want to hate and despise one another. In this world there is room for everyone. And the good earth is rich and can provide for everyone. The way of life can be free and beautiful, but we have lost the way.
Greed has poisoned men’s souls, has barricaded the world with hate, has goose-stepped us into misery and bloodshed. We have developed speed, but we have shut ourselves in. Machinery that gives abundance has left us in want. Our knowledge has made us cynical. Our cleverness, hard and unkind. We think too much and feel too little. More than machinery we need humanity. More than cleverness we need kindness and gentleness. Without these qualities, life will be violent and all will be lost…
The aeroplane and the radio have brought us closer together. The very nature of these inventions cries out for the goodness in men – cries out for universal brotherhood – for the unity of us all. Even now my voice is reaching millions throughout the world – millions of despairing men, women, and little children – victims of a system that makes men torture and imprison innocent people.
To those who can hear me, I say – do not despair. The misery that is now upon us is but the passing of greed – the bitterness of men who fear the way of human progress. The hate of men will pass, and dictators die, and the power they took from the people will return to the people. And so long as men die, liberty will never perish…
Soldiers! don’t give yourselves to brutes – men who despise you – enslave you – who regiment your lives – tell you what to do – what to think and what to feel! Who drill you – diet you – treat you like cattle, use you as cannon fodder. Don’t give yourselves to these unnatural men – machine men with machine minds and machine hearts! You are not machines! You are not cattle! You are men! You have the love of humanity in your hearts! You don’t hate! Only the unloved hate – the unloved and the unnatural! Soldiers! Don’t fight for slavery! Fight for liberty!
In the 17th Chapter of St Luke it is written: “the Kingdom of God is within man” – not one man nor a group of men, but in all men! In you! You, the people have the power – the power to create machines. The power to create happiness! You, the people, have the power to make this life free and beautiful, to make this life a wonderful adventure.
Then – in the name of democracy – let us use that power – let us all unite. Let us fight for a new world – a decent world that will give men a chance to work – that will give youth a future and old age a security. By the promise of these things, brutes have risen to power. But they lie! They do not fulfil that promise. They never will!
Dictators free themselves but they enslave the people! Now let us fight to fulfil that promise! Let us fight to free the world – to do away with national barriers – to do away with greed, with hate and intolerance. Let us fight for a world of reason, a world where science and progress will lead to all men’s happiness. Soldiers! in the name of democracy, let us all unite!
The Final Speech from The Great Dictator
The correct spelling is “6uild 6ack 6etter”.
This should be a source of national embarrassment. And you’d assume the Government wouldn’t want to make it any worse. Which prompts the question, “What on earth did they expect lockdown would do?”
It must be fairly obvious by now that debate and the statements of proven fact are having zero effect on the juggernaut of despotic government policy.
There is, I think, no concern amongst the governing classes about being held to account for anything they do. Civil servants and activists seem to be driving these incoherent policies, and they are completely untouchable by anything – except, perhaps, the courts and media (both of whom are firmly on their side).
The politicians, who are meant to be our primary connection with government, appear to be mindless salesmen – popping up to mouth a defence of some latest policy which completely contradicts the one they defended two weeks ago. And they are safe in their positions – the mindless mass of the people are so numbed and scared into submission by regulation piled on regulation that they would vote for decimation of the country if they were told it was a necessary counter to the spread of winter flu.
There is no coherent opposition to this process – any attempt to drive a new party forward is stymied by the media and remains still-born. Both major political parties, driven by the same activists, work hand in glove, and the insignificant Liberals want to differentiate themselves by becoming more rather than less woke.
When you do this sort of thing to a country it ends up with violence.
‘that they would vote for decimation of the country if they were told it was a necessary counter to the spread of winter flu’
They have already have
Jabs for everyone every three months
By my calculation that is 270 million jabs a year
In anticipation of the announcement I have included babies in the calculation (If they are lucky enough to survive beyond 28 days)
The profits for big pharma and the kick backs to politicians will be huge
Anyway I’m glad they have not cancelled Christmas as for the majority it will be their last
That burger bun is probably quite a healthy meal, once or twice a week. If you spend the rest of the week sitting on your arse eating pasta, bread and snacks, then you might start having problems.
Agree with everything but the first sentence.
As I state since well over a year now: every single policy, restriction, mandate, intervention, PI, NPI, withholding of PI had, has and will in reality have only 1 major effect: reducing the remaining and average life expectancy of the people.
If you think they don’t know that, are all accidental or a cockup, please PM me for some interesting investment ideas.
I’ve been paying a mobility coach for the last 2 months to try and undo the damage sitting in a chair working from home has done to my body over the last 2 years. Yes I should have prevented it, but I didn’t honestly have any idea I’d lose so much so quickly.
Also the stress and anxiety over your future being stolen away from you doesn’t lend itself to going out and exercising…
Your latter observation is pertinent. The destruction of my way of life, and my fears for the future of my grandchildren, have caused immense stress and anxiety. It affects my physical as well as mental health. And I can’t see an end to it.
I was hoping to catch up on my lack of travelling, retire to a sailboat and go round the world off grid somewhat in a few short years, that dream is completely in tatters. I’m also hoping the chest, neck and jaw pain is just a passing reaction to anxiety!
I was close to giving up last year it was really scary, things almost became normal again and they ripped it away this week. Still, I think my anger is what keeps me going now, my boots are staying on, they won’t win or if they do I’ll take one of the f’ers with me.
As much as we need to fight I would suggest taking a few days away from the screens/papers occasionally and spending some time outside, what I see on the TV and what is all around me are two completely different things, outside there is clearly no pandemic and the media has a vested interest in making it seem way worse than it might otherwise be.
“what I see on TV and what is all around me are two completely different things. . .”
That has always been the case* since my first few months in lockdown as an out and about key worker when it was obvious that the locked in population were being lied to and manipulated on a massive scale.
I am now largely housebound in a private little lockdown all of my own and so unable to enjoy the many and frequent encounters with strangers that confirmed my concerns outlined above.
* except I don’t watch telly, my principle source of state propaganda being BBC Radio 2 & 4.
It’s easy to fall into a vicious circle of decreasing willpower and decreasing imagination. If physical fitness were allowed to sink into the morass, the bottom could just fall out. It is sad to think that this is the state that many people are in already – the bottom could fall out at any time, and soon for most it will. They won’t know what’s hit them. They don’t know what’s hit them already.
Three months into lockdown I was on my daily run and met someone walking whom I hadn’t seen before. We chatted a bit and she said she was so pleased to get out of the house because she hadn’t been out for three months. She was twentysomething and as far as I know not disabled in any way and I thought well what on earth has been stopping you from going for a walk every day just as you are today?
One day somebody is going to calculate the effect that Google and Apple and Facebook have had on public physical and psychological health. (And we can add Netflix to make “FANG”.) All told the damage that has been inflicted by these totalitarian corporations probably exceeds the damage caused by World War 2 and they continue to advance.
“what I see on the TV and what is all around me are two completely different things”
The exact reason I can’t take this plandemic seriously from day 5 when in the 1st lockdown I was ordered back to work. Working without masks for months and ordering in people with close contact with covid cases. Protocols out of their heads: ‘if you feel nothing after 2 days just come to work’
Meanwhile the other part of my family who is doing WFH since the beginning are scared to death even being vaccinated…
Amazon Prime are screening six live Premier League games this evening
You thinking what I’m thinking? Yes you are don’t deny it
Kneeling wankers?
Can they tell when you switch off a program or do they still rely on viewing numbers as supplied by Jictar ( or somesuch name)?
I just hope one of the fallen doesn’t play for Liverpool! We had enough injuries last time we played Everton
Ooh, betting on which screen will have a heart attack first, slightly macabre, but I’m in!
Cruciate Knee Ligament injury for Van Dyke and a broken leg for Salah would do me just nicely
I have Amazon Prime but only use it for free delivery of stuff.
I did try to support my local independent retailers when they reopened but they were either so Covid safety mental or half arsed in getting me what I WANTED TO BUY that I gave up on them eventually.
It happened anyway, but fans this time, in 2 games.
It’s not generally too bad around here.
I do live on the estate recently determined to have the highest life expectancy in the whole country, with “someone born recently likely to live to 124” though.
That I will say was pre-coofmania however.
124?
So they will have 496 covid jabs during the course of their life
Get to 500 and they get a card from Queen Megan
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1214300/Moreton-Hall-The-town-live-26-years-longer.html
It was featured in loads of papers not just the DF, but it’s not paywalled
Love the way they claim lifespan differentials are ‘revealed’ when they have been known about for years.
It’s amazing that people who are more productive are also more healthy.
Truly shocking to no one who can think.
Did Lockdown Make Us Fat?
“Make” No
Encourage, YES!
I am lucky in that I do fasting days and lots of exercise including get out every day to look after animals, and it’s still hard to control weight.
Most of the people I know look a lot more “Michelin man” than they did 2 years ago, the worst possible thing for health.
Ask not what the lockdown can do for me but what I can do for the lockdown
(No, me neither)
Please check out the latest video from Unherd and Freddie Sayers interviewing Paul Kingsnorth….it’s rather enlightening and has changed my view of our “argument”.
Does this mean there will be more skin available for lamp shade production?
So about 10% of people do 3 or more hours of exercise on a working day? Really?
Sounds extreme to me. I think I’m an outlier, with very easy access to tennis courts and people to play with, and I probably average 3 hours a day during the working week, but I don’t know anyone else who does that much.
The number of private gyms that sprung up hereabouts in the years before Covid was quite remarkable, presumably they had enough clients to make it worth their while.
The figures are per week. There was just some awkward phrasing: “(R)espondents were asked about their level of physical activity on a weekly basis. In particular, they were asked how much exercise they had done on ‘the last working day’.“
I don’t think the peak of inactivity being reached until the summer is weird. During the start of lockdown 2020, people were enthusiastically doing Joe Wicks’ PE with their kids, taking online exercise classes and doing couch to 5k from their doorsteps. By the summer, we were sick of it all. Gyms had been shut for months so any casual gym habits were well and truly broken. That summer was incredibly hot so running outdoors was really unappealing, not to mention how bored we were with our neighbourhoods by then.
The pubs, however, had reopened, and in my area, as it took a few months for Deliveroo to expand properly, by the summer we didn’t even need to walk to the corner shop anymore. Facemasks also came in then, so people who were more cautious probably used that as yet more evidence of how unwise going outside to exercise was. There were stories about joggers breathing out clouds of infection, for instance, and my local rag was berating “covidiots” for going outside to enjoy the sun- lots of beach-shaming.
I certainly ballooned in weight then, and it wasn’t until Lockdown 2.0 that something in me snapped and I decided enough was enough, stopped complying with the utterly toxic environment I seemed to be living in, got off socila media (mine was showing me a lot of “body positivity” and “fat acceptance” shit), lost a third of my bodyweight, discarded the muzzle and started living. When we finally got back into the office it was clear that many of my colleagues hadn’t had that conversion and had continued their Netflix and Deliveroo habits.
Just go out and run every morning and never mind what any f***wit says on the internet, whether anyone tries to “shame” you, or what brands the Joneses are consuming.
haha well yes, I do that now!
Rugby Player Siobhan Cattigan’s Cause of Unexpected Death – US day News
26 years of age
Hugotalks.com has a video today with 7 fit young Americans collapsing on the sportsfield but it is still impossible to compare that to what was normal pre vaccine.
This shows the sheer extent to which the authorities are taking the piss when they talk about “public health”.
Exercise doesn’t cost anything. If it did, the politicians would be getting backhanders (and the “experts” would be getting research grants) from the companies that sold it – and they’d be promoting it until they were blue in the face. Or, to be more accurate, they’d be promoting the purchase of it.
What was the effect of lockdown – and of poor or non-existent public health advice regarding how to cope with it – on mortality rates? Don’t bother asking the ONS or for that matter the NHS.
Meanwhile Austrian chancellor Alexander Schallenberg says that from February 2022 unvaccinated people will be allowed out of the house only to go to work, to shop for food, or to “stretch their legs”.
You can see why the most enlightened and conscious elements in Austria are hoping for a general strike. It’s a case of “If you want to lock us up, don’t expect us to work for you.”
Without any exaggeration: your health would be better if you were in prison, where at least you are allowed an hour’s walk per day in the open air, than it would under house arrest when you are only allowed out of confinement to stretch your legs.
Another story which might be taken up is the reportedly crap food being given to detainees in the £200-per-night “quarantine hotels”, as well as their often having windows that don’t open. (The price rose 31% in August 2020, from £1750 to £2285, and the authorities are squeezing people for every last penny they can, insisting that 10 days of detention requires 11 nights.) Effect on health? Effect on mortality? Don’t ask Sajid Javid.
Refined sugar makes you fat .
Well, ‘calories in’ >> ‘calories out’ makes you fat.
Well what did people expect? Increased stress and constant fear porn leading to increased alcohol intake and comfort eating, not to mention parents bribing their locked down kids with chocolate, crisps and pop (to judge by what we were delivering at the peak of lockdown).
It definitely did me. Locked at home with no job, no money for support thanks to Sunak, the pool was closed so I couldn’t swim. I just ate lots and drank heavily to deal with the mental torture of the absurd situation this country put itself in
Internment didn’t do that, any more than the Chinese Virus caused internment.
We have to hold human beings accountable for their decisions, even and especially ourselves.
Mental wellbeing is fundamental to motivation for things like exercise. Many of us were very cruelly mentally tortured by Sunak and no matter how you dress it, that does (and did for me) affect motivation and wellbeing.
When all you can think about is how you’re going to survive on nothing with no end in sight to the torture, it’s pretty hard to be chirpy and nip out of for a jog.
No, internment didn’t make us fat, any more than the Chinese Virus caused internment.
In both cases, adult human beings were personally culpable for their choices and the consequences.
And mea culpa on that, I binged my way to obesity, and am still cycling and low-carbing my way back from it.
Sadly, I fear there will be no such easy, peaceful way to come back from the regime’s despotism.
Not so long ago a public health expert was being interviewed on BBC R4 about the final results from a longstanding campaign to get the public to reduce their intake of saturated/unsaturated fats (can’t remember which).
The expert enthused about how wildly successful the campaign had been and how the public had reduced their intake by X% over a decade.
The interviewer naturally asked how marked an effect this had on public health to be told
“None that we can detect but it was still a fantastically successful campaign”.
Ah, the good ol’ public sector ‘activity’ argument rather than useful results. They never learn.
There’s a TV programme widely pirated on youtube etc. Called ‘Alone‘ it’s some survivalist thing where contestants are dumped in an uninhabited “wilderness” where they must feed & shelter themselves without any modern aids, to see who can last longest wins.
Anyway my point, one chap (in the only episode I wasted time watching) hunted & gathered as much food as possible, but instead of eating it he hoarded it, so he could out last everyone else, in the process of course he lost weight & condition until he was nothing more than a disorientated skeleton & the producers had to step in & remove him.
Think on, move on, don’t engage or participate with the official covid narrative! There’s a billion different ways to die, don’t get involved in the blame game it’s what they want.
I certainly put on weight and drank far too much .. this would not have happened without the bollox . thankfully levelled out now ..
Everyone needs to watch tnis ..
https://www.bitchute.com/video/od03vT1BSvND/
And share .. it needs to go viral !!
In most studies, obesity is the main comorbidity and it’s a very accurate predictor of severity of covid-19 disease. This was known from the very start. Did the government:
A) Tell people to lose weight immediately and improve their diets to remove themselves from the at most risk category?
Or
B) Not tell people to lose weight and instead shut the gyms massively increasing obesity and all its attendant side effects and then set-up gene therapy injection squads in junk food outlet car parks?
Indeed – rather like my comments about why the government didn’t (like the vaccine rollout) instruct big pharma over here to produce loads of vitmain D and zinc supplement pills and sell them cheaply (at cost) to help our immune systems in winter, and especially those definicient by their general health or dark skin.
Not one peep from them on this. Got onto this and other health-related tips from watching YT videos from the respected NZ doctor Sam Bailey, who has been ‘cancelled’ by the Establishment there for publicly saying she would not take the jab.
I found that I put on a very small amount of weight during the lockdowns. Enough to notice on the scale, but not excessive.
BUT: when I actually caught COVID-19, I lost my appetite almost completely for a number of days. I lost almost a stone! I’m back down to my 2009 weight and I feel great. As far as I’m concerned catching COVID-19 was one of the best things that has happened to me in years…
People remarked I’d lost weight after I’d recovered from Covid. I lost my appetite and everything tasted weird so I barely ate anything for a week. Trouble is now I’ve got my sense of taste and smell back I’ve put it back on!
I’ve been attempting to keep fit and lose weight during lockdown by continuing running and doing more walks, but having to work from home it’s far, far, harder to stop snacking, especially as my wife cooks wonderful cakes and biscuits.
If you can, try having your ‘big’ evening meal either at lunchtime (then going for a good length brisk walk about an hour afterwards) or at least eating the big evening meal a minimum of 3hrs before going to bed.
I’ve found the former has helped keep my energy levels up in the afternoon and evening.
Apparently its also a good idea to have a really decent breakfast and reduce the size of the other meals, especially the evening one, because you ain’t gonna use much of the energy contained in it, and thus it is likely to turn to fat.
I found I’m less hungry in between meals as a result, and will mostly have a banana with a drink of water if not. I still have the occasional chocky bicky as a treat, though normally before going out for a walk so I burn off the sugar during the exercising.
I’ve been generally doing this since the start of the pandemic after getting some advice, and, alongside more exercise (mainly walking about an hour a day, with some swimming or cycling [warm/dry weather only] once a week or two), have lost some weight but gained a decent amount of fitness.
I’m also sure that being out in the fresh air and sun (when available!) helps my health.
“Did lockdown make us fat?”
Does Santa Claus have a white beard?
we were fat before but now even fatter
I must admit that burger in the photo at the top of the report does look rather apertising…that reminds me, its tea time (ham omlette).
This ?
Of course it did, it prevented people from taking exercise, an even more moronic policy than usual from the Branch Covidian doomsday cult.
Top fact –
In terms of all cause mortality those classed over weight on the BMI scale live the longest.
Obese and normal weight pretty much tie.
Do you have a report ot two to document this?
WHO cares its not Covid no i mean who actually cares
Seriously who other than professional athletes does 3hrs or more of exercise per day?
I’m fitter than at the start of the coof and I tend to do between 45-90 mins exercise, mainly brisk walking once/twice a day (weather and schedule dependent), with once a week or two of swimming (colder/wetter weather) or cycling (warmer/drier weather), plus a reasonably healthy diet.
Not that difficult. Too many people staying in, playing computer games, watching wall-to-wall TV and ordering in take-aways all the time. The fresh air and exposure to sunlight also does you a LOT of good.
If the government really gave a t**s about the health of the nation they would do something about the average of 500 people a week who die prematurely due to diabetes not to mention the number of limb amputations needed due to diabetes. It has been the biggest drain on the NHS for years yet the food companies still have their place at the table when policy is decided so no hope of anything changing.
If they had REALLY had our health in mind, they would’ve instructed us to exercise a LOT more, eat healthily (and incentivised us with tax breaks for producers of such foods to bring prices down) and, as regards COVID, made vitamin D and zinc supplement pills (in particular) widely available and cheap as chips, as they are the best to give a healthy immune system (especially in colder/less sunny months) to avoid getting sick or quickly and successfully fight off illness in general.
Instead they told us to stay indoors most of the time and watch TV.
Exactly, incentivise healthy food from tax raised by increasing it on non-foods full of sugar, soft drinks would be a good place to start including those loaded with artificial sweeteners. And while they are at it they could insist that a refundable deposit is paid on bottles (plastic or otherwise) cans etc and then the litter problem might reduce.
The ongoing COVID-19 nonsense here in the United States exists solely and exclusively because our governments have failed to use the correct treatment. They used so-called “vaccines” when Japan has just proven, in less than ONE MONTH, that Ivermectin can wipe out the disease. IVM was awarded the Nobel prize for medicine in 2015. One of the 3 most important drugs in human history: Aspirin, Penicillin, and Ivermectin. Get your Ivermectin today while you still can! https://ivmpharmacy.com
No. Decades of Big Food, Big Pharma, mind numbing TV and crap education ‘systems’ have turned most of us into consumer drones.
During LD1 my husband couldn’t play golf, I couldn’t play tennis. We each had 8-12 hours of our regular weekly exercise /socialising removed. Although we compensated as best we could this had a huge negative impact.
I’ve lost 14kg post lockdown. There was a social side to eating for me. I’ve altered my habits and am still going down a kg per month. I’ll be size 14 by the time I get to 65kg. The recommendations of 2000 calories is misplaced. Go for 1500 during the week to compensate for the 3000 you might eat at weekends should meeting humans for dinner be allowed.