News Round-Up
4 May 2024
by Toby Young
...a long-standing critic of the anti-smoking lobby, is cock-a-hoop about this finding. An illustration of the link between obesity and COVID-19 in the Daily Express A couple of opinion polls...
...million on anti-obesity schemes in 2018-19, but just £89 million on tackling infectious diseases. We can watch our own waistlines, thanks very much, but dealing with a pandemic requires a...
...an exceptionally ageist one. If you are under 65 and without any major pre-existing conditions (such as obesity, heart disease, diabetes, cancer, etc.), your chances of dying from Covid-19 are...
...different diseases, with Type 2 being associated with obesity, which we already know is one of the strongest risk factors for a poor outcome from covid. I’m not aware of...
...We “Locked Down”?‘ – Lockdown Sceptics contributor Omar Khan’s latest Medium post ‘Coronavirus lockdowns are worsening child obesity due to kids spending an extra FIVE HOURS per day in front...
...rate of obesity is 50% higher. The Journal points out that a better metric is the number of new hospital admissions for COVID-19, as well as the weekly death toll....
...in which large groups of feral youths pass the time by lobbing bottles at police officers. Oh no, wait. They’re already like that ‘Britain’s childhood obesity crisis made worse by...
...contempt by zealots ‘Boris Johnson’s absurd nanny state crusade‘ – Christoher Snowdon in the Spectator warns of a raft of new anti-obesity measures the Government is intending to introduce on...
...could not compensate for national factors like obesity and age profiles in determining rates of COVOID-19 mortality, the lockdown ideology is even harder to maintain. Andrews could of course blame...
...Given UK obesity levels, I wonder how many guests were rejected for elevated temperatures because they’d just been made to walk a mile for the first time in how long?...
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