COVID truthers: “People die of heart disease, cancer, and obesity every single day. No one is as concerned or makes as big of a deal about those conditions as COVID”.

Me a cardiorespiratory physical therapist and physiologist: “What planet are you living on?”
Do people not know much spending, research activity and healthcare utilization is dedicated to treating AND preventing those conditions every year? Those conditions are a major concern.
Prevention and management of chronic disease are top priorities for almost every single major scientific, medical and public health policy institution in the world. One of the reasons why COVID is so concerning is because those are major problems, especially in the USA.
Fortunately for us while those conditions are influenced by social and environmental factors they don’t happen to be highly infectious like Covid.
Obviously we have a lot of room for improvement but to make claims that people are not concerned about chronic disease is frankly delusional. It’s literally divergent to reality.
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