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If We Truly Cared About Our Health
Temporary mass hysteria is no substitute for a consistent and coherent approach to living
Eighty-six percent of US citizens are overweight, thanks to atrocious diet and a near-total absence of exercise. Many other nations (Mexico, UK, Hungary, Australia, to name just a few) are now experiencing a similar situation.
As a result most people by middle-age suffer from a variety of chronic lifestyle-related ailments. The average forty-five-year-old in the USA is on four different medications, supplemented by a variety of over-the-counter drugs. Seventy percent of people hate their jobs. Most are stressed over various factors they feel to be beyond their control. Many feel alienated from their families. A huge number of people self-medicate with drugs, alcohol, tobacco, and spend their evenings gawping at mindless entertainment.
Seriously folks, is this any way to live?
Today everyone and their pet hamster is in the grip of a media-induced panic about COVID-19 and everyone is terrified of dying from what’s being pumped up as The Next Black Death. But aside from the fact that all the data very clearly tells us this isn’t at all the case, everyone must die eventually. Death is the price we pay for this astonishing gift of life. And from all currently available data, the coronavirus will actually kill only a small…
