The results are starting to come in of the risks associated with poor outcomes of COVID-19, and one of the more surprising ones is that asthma is not a risk factor, while obesity is. Amerika has some of the highest rates of obesity in the world. This is not because Amerikans “lack willpower,” it’s because Amerika is a banana republic run by a sociopathic junta of billionaire oligarchs with a vast underclass of desperately poor people who do not have access to healthy, inexpensive food.
In the developing world, even the poorest people are able to access staple grains, fish, and vegetables. In Amerika, poor people live warehoused in terrible conditions, often in food deserts, and are forced to consume nutritionless, highly-processed food. As the ugly class system becomes more entrenched, generation after generation teaches their children to eat this garbage food by preference, resulting in explosive increase in rates of obesity.
A vicious combination of crumbling infrastructure, lack of access to healthcare, poor diet, rampant obesity, and a Dunning-Kruger culture of emotionally-driven kneejerk ignorance which mistrusts expert advice because it’s expert creates a perfect storm for COVID-19 infection in Amerika.