Obesity is hard to hide. To mention that it describes 42% of adults should be a huge danger signal. However, it has been normalized. How? By degrees. At 3%, probably no big deal; 15% maybe some folks get concerned, then that gets accepted as normal. At what point do we say, hey this is NOT normal? At 50%, 75%, 95%?
Obesity is hard to hide. To mention that it describes 42% of adults should be a huge danger signal. However, it has been normalized. How? By degrees. At 3%, probably no big deal; 15% maybe some folks get concerned, then that gets accepted as normal. At what point do we say, hey this is NOT normal? At 50%, 75%, 95%?
By the way, I think the same process is at play with "died suddenly" and other adverse events. We are being conditioned to see them as the new normal. That is why there is no outcry of indignation.
(By the way, my last 4 posts on my Stack are memes about the return of masks and mandates. I acknowledge that it is "weak sauce" in terms of an outcry and also "preaching to the choir" here.)
How about the normalcy of the geriatric disaster in DC? McConnell is starting to make Biden and Feinstein look like they are aging gracefully.
And notice that as Mitch keeps stroking out in public, his handlers and "friends" express less and less alarm and concern. The new normal for the political class.
Yes, exactly, these are all examples of the "boiling frogs" apologue. The moral there being that unpleasant changes, introduced suddenly will face stiff resistance. However, those same changes, introduced gradually will face far less or even no resistance.
Obesity is hard to hide. To mention that it describes 42% of adults should be a huge danger signal. However, it has been normalized. How? By degrees. At 3%, probably no big deal; 15% maybe some folks get concerned, then that gets accepted as normal. At what point do we say, hey this is NOT normal? At 50%, 75%, 95%?
By the way, I think the same process is at play with "died suddenly" and other adverse events. We are being conditioned to see them as the new normal. That is why there is no outcry of indignation.
(By the way, my last 4 posts on my Stack are memes about the return of masks and mandates. I acknowledge that it is "weak sauce" in terms of an outcry and also "preaching to the choir" here.)
How about the normalcy of the geriatric disaster in DC? McConnell is starting to make Biden and Feinstein look like they are aging gracefully.
And notice that as Mitch keeps stroking out in public, his handlers and "friends" express less and less alarm and concern. The new normal for the political class.
Yes, exactly, these are all examples of the "boiling frogs" apologue. The moral there being that unpleasant changes, introduced suddenly will face stiff resistance. However, those same changes, introduced gradually will face far less or even no resistance.
As of this past January, the average age in the Senate is 63.9 years. In the House, it’s 57.5 years.
The median age in the United States is 38.8 years old, according to the U.S. Census Bureau.
Minus 14 years of life due to morbid obesity; minus another six years due to masking - these people aren’t going to be around long .