15/02/2022
A must read. Fear equals stress equals a weakened immune system equals susceptibility to all kinds of illnesses. Eat better, exercise, find a way to manage stress, forge social connections, find things that give you joyā¦this is the key to health.
With each passing day we feel vindicated.
This program has done its best to call for calm during the pandemic.
Last year we urged our political leaders to stop ignoring the hidden consequences of lockdowns.
In a bid to keep us safe - people were suffering in other ways.
And weāve been giving you a regular dose of perspective.
We know COVID-19 is serious.
But it doesnāt warrant the fear campaign weāve been seeingā¦
Today - we have further proofā¦
This isnāt opinion.
Itās certified data from the Australian Bureau of Statistics.
If you miss it - donāt worry - we have put this up on 2GB.com
And before we start- I just want to be clear.
Every death is tragic.
I donāt mean any disrespect.
But we also know - death is part of life.
So let me tell you whatās happened over the last two years.
From March 2020ā¦ until the end of January 2022ā¦
273,901 Australians died.
0.9% had coronavirus.
Thatās 2,639 COVID related deaths.
In that same period- about 100,000 Australians died of cancer.
30,000 died from heart disease.
Another 30,000 with Alzheimerās and Dementia.
And 10,000 from Diabetes.
Coronavirus deaths represented less than 1% of fatalities.
These are the latest numbers.
Released yesterday by the Australian Bureau of Statisticsā¦
The median age of those who died with coronavirus was 81 for men.
86 for women.
Bothā¦ are above our national life expectancy.
Again- let me be clear.
Iām not playing down the situation.
Or ignoring the grief of families.
But these records expose the overblown scare campaign weāve witnessed.
Of our 2,639 coronavirus deaths between March 2020 and last monthā¦
92% had other underlying health issues.
An average of roughly 3 diseases or conditions per person.
These ranged from pneumonia to kidney infectionā¦
Right up to the biggest risk factor - heart health.
35% of those people had a chronic heart issue.
Another 20 percent had Diabetes.
But in 92% of our Covid deaths to January 31ā¦ each patient had roughly 3 other underlying health conditions.
In other wordsā¦ it wasnāt just Covid that claimed their livesā¦
And deaths not involving Covid... make up more than 99% of the statistics..
One of the arguments we made last year involved a missed opportunity around the āhealth adviceā.
Why werenāt we telling people to āget healthyā,..
Why werenāt we warning peopleā¦. That one of the biggest risk factors - is carrying too much weightā¦
Were we worried about fat shaming ?
Because every day we were being told about the āhealth adviceā...
But the biggest health advice should have been - the healthier you areā¦ the greater your chance of surviving Covid.
There is now compelling international data that supports this.
A new study in medical magazine The Lancet shows by far the biggest risk factor of COVID-19ā¦ is obesity.
Largely because, an obese patient has poor lung capacity- making it harder for them to receive ventilation.
The US has nearly the heaviest Body Mass Index in the world.
They now have nearly a million coronavirus deaths - 920,000.
16 of their States have adult obese rates of more than 35 percent.
Those Statesā¦ are all in the top 20 places for COVID deaths anywhere.
The Lancet study says if Americaās obesity levels were on par with healthier nationsā¦ the death toll would be far lower.
Almost 20 percent of deaths could have been avoided.
That equates toā¦ to almost 200,000 lives.
What a missed opportunity.
We were hell bent on telling people to āstay homeā...
When we should have been encouraging people to get outdoors and get healthyā¦
And now the consequences are there for all to see.
Thankfully, we gave airtime to several experts who gave this common sense adviceā¦
If youāre overweight or smoking - youāre putting yourself in greater danger..
And youāre more likely to be in the 1% of Australians who died with coronavirus.
Thatās rightā¦. 1%.
If you need any further evidence that itās time to āget on with our livesā.. you just heard itā¦.
Keeping yourself locked up in your homeā¦. And being afraid of getting outdoors and being activeā¦. Is a health hazard !
