The WHO said that COVID complications can be reduced if people just simply exercised. [I News]

@Longpatrol Lmao. Are you hacking up a lung because you're sick now or because you smoke? I mean, I'm pretty sure the WHO is talking about exercising generally and just general changes could help. If you don't believe it does anything, I used to smoke and had to go to the emergency hospital for bronchitis. I quit and never got bronchitis again. I still get colds but wow it feels good not to get it so severely all because I want to smoke.

So yes exercise, even the lightest exercise such as walking, jumping rope for a few minutes, exercise youtube videos.. help the immune system.

@Longpatrol @SatanBurger Even during COVID-19 infection, activity is necessary. You have to walk around your room and do stretches. I am not saying lift and run miles but remaining in bed will increase the likelihood of forming blood clots. You have to push yourself a bit for few minutes every few hours.

I believe the only reason COVID-19 didn't kill me despite my heart condition is because I was active.

@Miram I'm glad you are doing okay so far despite a heart condition but you're right about being active. I've also seen what you eat whenever you post and I have a feeling that you cook too which is a plus for you. I could be wrong, I just know I've seen your beautiful cooking photos lol.

But even doing yoga can cause you to lose weight, like if I couldn't leave my house, I'd do something relaxing but challenging. Yoga really does take some work breathing and all that stretching. I personally got a Tabata DVD which is extreme exercise but it's extreme only for 20 minutes and then poof! I'm done. It's not that hard.

I'm just arguing that people don't "want" to be healthy partly because I don't think people believe in health. It seems stupid to say but I've ran into several people who didn't even know what vitamin A was lol. Our health IQs are really low, probably because of a lack of education around the topic and of course that runs in families and environment.

@SatanBurger You are not wrong. More people need to work out and ready themselves for the future. COVID-19 is possibly just the beginning of long war against future emerging viruses. And if we don't try to commit ourselves to winning this one, we might as well give up on the entirety of the future.

It is something we have to do together for our children. Change our lives and theirs.

@SatanBurger I agree health education is lacking in school at least. all I know is the whole apple a day and vitamin C thing. they should add it to the syllabus along with basic finance

@Miram I could be proven wrong of course but I'm of the view that humanity is prone to being suicidal through some weird act of evolution I don't understand yet.

I mean there's self preservation for sure, but I'd wonder if there's some other mechanisms in place for when a species gets too out of control like maybe something overrides the self preservation mechanism in favor for collective suicide or something.

That's my theory anyways.

I could be proven wrong and I hope I am, I think I heard China is growing more plant based over this virus and starting to eat better so maybe I'm wrong. Only years from now will tell.

@Longpatrol Well I once heard that Coca Cola gives millions to public schools because they place their products in the cafeterias so students drink more. There's also incentives for teachers to advertise it. So that's why we won't but even if we did, it would still be insidious with companies like Coca Cola mandating health training behind the scenes.

@SatanBurger [quote] could be proven wrong of course but I'm of the view that humanity is prone to being suicidal through some weird act of evolution I don't understand yet.

I mean there's self preservation for sure, but I'd wonder if there's some other mechanisms in place for when a species gets too out of control like maybe something overrides the self preservation mechanism in favor for collective suicide or something.
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I think what you're hinting at is relational autonomy. You'll find some writings about but until now there has been no clear-cut explanations describing how it can go against collective self-preservation. The observations have been made though in cults.

Add to that the fact it's controversial mainly because of its implications in reality. There is general over-emphasis in academia on individualistic autonomy. Lot to do with politics and economics preferences these days, eh even in medical sciences we need to shift to group dynamics.

I really think you should work on the topic, it's very interesting theory.

@Miram I found something close and wrote another post about it but it wasn't the main subject. Said a lot of interesting things though.

https://similarworlds.com/2449251-I-Am-Facinated-By-Human-Behavior/3658185-Is-Humanity-Suicidal-by-Edward-O-Wilson

@Miram Actually I think it could explain cults very well, if you think about it, cults program what's basically already dormant in people. It exploits psychology and insecurities. So I think in this way, cults override the conscious by instilling subconscious destructive behaviors that override self preservation to benefit the secret goals of a leader, in this way the cult member does help the group survive through self preservation if the cult member believes in a cause enough.

So it kind of fits with self preservation and evolution if one thinks about it, even if all members suicide themselves to death, the idea will live on forever. People who the ideology speaks to will forever pick up on it so the idea survives even if the people don't.