It’s been over a year of relentless fear and government restrictions. To contain the health threat of a virus, the prevailing institutions in society have exacted a grave toll on the public’s physical, emotional, and mental health. The media has been a key generator of the crisis perception, with their one-sided stories of total fear converting the world into an insane asylum. Their part of the larger elite mission has been to force through a reality on to the public mind that the world is virus-plagued.
A year later, it is quite obvious people are not doing well. A good number of people are broken, especially physically and mentally. The public’s economic status is also grim, but this will not be discussed in this post. This piece will detail some of the quantifiable and observable stresses people have faced and continue to face as a result of “the crisis.” This is a processing post.
Massive Weight Changes
Sudden physical changes are one part of the toll. In March 2021, the American Psychological Association published survey results showing that 61% of Americans experienced unexpected weight changes over the course of last year. In that, 42% of all adults gained an average of 29 pounds and about half of all Millennials and Generation Z gained an average of 41 and 28 pounds respectively. Of the 42% of adults that gained weight, 10% said they put on more than 50 pounds. In Canada the trend was similar with less weight gain.
These results are horrifying. It suggests Americans collectively experienced extensive periods of sheer grief, terror, and worry in 2020. 50 million or more government-mandated job losses and either the real or perceived reality of tragedy and fear will do that.
In their report the APA stated that the weight gains come with “higher vulnerability to serious illness from the coronavirus,” and tragically it has recently been reported that significantly more young people are winding up in hospitals sick with the virus. In Michigan, for example, hospitalizations in March were up 633% for adults aged 30 – 39 and 800% for those aged 40 – 49 compared to a year earlier. A doctor in Maine also described that most of their hospital’s recent younger patients with severe complications from COVID-19 were obese. It is possible the health effects of the extreme weight gains are showing up in the higher numbers of younger afflicted coronavirus patients. In other words, outside of self-responsibility government is causing or furthering the crisis.
The deepening numbers of health-compromised people is unfortunately being used to support the “brutal virus” narrative. Instead of providing details such as obesity and “illness” symptoms, the media chooses rather to omit them to focus on the scare element. They are literally scaring people into sickness. Instead of the virus, it may be that it is the never-ending fear, uncertainty, loss of employment, loss of self-sufficiency, loss of mental and physical health, loss of purpose, or the accelerating decline of society itself that is actually causing younger people in general to now be more ill.
The APA also confirmed the weight gains are “likely to have persistent, serious mental and physical health consequences for years to come.” The situation is very serious and thousands or even millions of adults may just have had their lifespans visibly reduced. Prior research finds that the most severely obese lose 5 – 20 years of life. Following the collapse of the Soviet Union, male lifespans dropped six years due to overwhelming economic hardship, disease, alcoholism, and a reduction in living standards.
Age of Transition 