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manifestsilence | 5 years ago

So people who are fit enough to pass active duty basic training tend not to have symptoms. Solution: put everyone through basic training?

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sethammons|5 years ago

The same for people who want to be taller: get them into the NBA as data shows basketball players tend to be tall.

trhway|5 years ago

>Solution: put everyone through basic training?

i'm afraid the fatality rate caused by basic training, i.e. elderly and severe diabetes/hypertension/etc., may happen to be pretty close to the covid.

Btw, i think the aircraft carrier commander is an outstanding and exceptional guy - he put the lives of his sailors above his career.

nradov|5 years ago

I know you're joking, but putting everyone on a daily fitness regimen would likely save lives. (Obviously not something we can mandate.)

drusepth|5 years ago

A friend and I were having a tangentially related conversation about net-healthy processes that could theoretically be mandated during a pandemic and their effects on the populace at large.

Putting everyone on a daily fitness regimen would almost certainly save lives, even outside of our current pandemic. Likewise, if things got bad enough that grocery stores had to close and the national guard / army / gov were called in to deliver daily rations to households, I wonder what kind of effect that'd have on the country's obesity problem long-term, also.

Ignoring the completely dystopic dictatorship and near-apocalyptic context that'd be required for such a scenario, of course.