The real pandemic we are too lazy to confront

March 25, 2022. Remember co-morbidities? Destructive, or what I would term "anti-social lifestyle," decisions -- drug use, lack of exercise, smoking, eating to excess -- are much more a problem and a cause of death than Covid has ever been. Read the accompanying article, with a key excerpt, below.

Stopping a Pandemic Deadlier Than Covid - WSJ.pdf

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In the first two years of the pandemic, Covid killed nearly 900,000 people in the U.S. In those same years, heart attacks and strokes killed more than 1.6 million. Globally, Covid killed more than 10 million people in the first two years of the pandemic; in the same two years, cardiovascular disease killed more than 35 million. The three leading drivers of heart attacks and strokes—accounting for around two-thirds of the global total—are tobacco use, hypertension and air pollution, and all three are preventable.