PC and the COVID: Why Did The "Experts" Not Advise People to Lose Weight?

The "expert" response to the COVID-19 pandemic was distorted in many ways by political correctness. The conservative press reported from fairly early on that COVID was less deadly than it was being portrayed by experts and the MSM, and noted that hospitalization and deaths seemed largely isolated to people who were old, or overweight, or had other comorbidities. Everything else aside: official agencies and the MSM never--through the entire pandemic--advised overweight people to lose weight. That is: they, in effect, preferred more deaths to "fat-shaming."

   Now, being overweight basically destroyed my mother's life. I've got no sympathy for those who ridicule people for it. It's none of your goddamn business if someone else is overweight. And I think that there's a lot of aesthetic criticism of fat people that disguises itself as concern for health. But that doesn't alter the fact that it is unhealthy. And it doesn't excuse the failure of experts and the MSM to inform people that one of the best things they could have done (and could still do) to protect themselves from COVID is to lose weight.