(Molly Bruns, Headline USA) Television host and political comentator Bill Maher blasted the media for disregarding the role of obesity in the lethality of COVID-19, The Daily Wire reported.
In an appearance on The Ben Shapiro Show, Maher said journalists and big players in the mainstream media have “blood on [their] hands” for downplaying or ignoring the dangers of obesity.
“Seventy-eight percent of the people who died or are hospitalized are obese. And that’s another one that’s not a popular opinion to talk about, but I feel like I have to because it’s such a salient fact in this,” Maher said.
“If you just said to somebody, ‘Okay, there’s an x factor in this … this x factor accounts for 78% who die or go to the hospital.’ Wouldn’t you be a curious? If you were a news organization, wouldn’t you be talking about that fact all the time?”
Maher continued on to argue that while COVID will become a “much more mild disease” and the problem of obesity will continue on because “we don’t talk about it.”
“I’m not fat shaming, I’m fat-splaining,” Maher said. “Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, absolutely, but science is not. Science is not, and those facts are unforgiving when you look at the number of people who die.”
“Anyone in the media who doesn’t talk about this because you’re so afraid of the reaction, you have blood on your hands because you are not doing these people a favor.”
Many on social media were in agreement with Maher:
The media and magazines promoted obesity as healthy cuz “feefees”
— Walrus (@Walrus81821) March 13, 2022
He’s absolutely right. A good friend of mine died from covid in December. He was only 22 years old. But he was also 485 pounds. Obesity is a major factor.
— Mark Graham Jr (@Superm8n2224) March 13, 2022
It spoke to the power of the processed sugar industry…….it really did.
Want to know what real power looks like? Watch a society do things detriemental to their own health……… that doesn’t even need to be asked of them.
— Scott …….just Scott for now (@Scareywrestrock) March 13, 2022
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