Agreed. I don't think most people who are those numbers are body builders or working out all day long....that's a small minority of them. My concern is that obviously what has been going on in recent years is not working. All the conversations and changes in the schools and yet the kids seem to be bigger than ever. I think it's more of a home issue. Unfortunately, the whole health thing is a societal issue and like it or not, it really does impact all of us. Just an example is the other night I was in the hospital with my daughter. It used to be that those with drug issues and/or mental health would go to our equivalent of a county hospital. Now there are so many of them that they are dealing with them at all hospitals. Ok that's fine, accept there were over 20 guards in there watching them and I watched while the medical staff's time was primarily taken up by all that. Never mind how many were coming in on ambulance with heart issues, my daughter going into DKA, and on and on. It wasn't because the others were a bigger medical issue at all. It's because they were loud, disruptive, trying to run, etc. My point is that when these things get out of hand then it impacts everyone else too.
I don't fat hate, I just tend to roll my eyes when obese people say they are healthy. Not everyone will be a size two, but let's not act like you can be obese and healthy. Let's also not act like we can be rail skinny and heathy.
Ethnically homogeneous. Almost seems like you keep pointing to places that has no black or brown people as your utopia. Coinkidink?
Two extra things, Most of those countries are not full blown socialist. Also social programs work waaaaaay better on a smaller populace.
nordical model is a mix of socialism and capitalism. It’s not full fledge socialism look at Venezuela if you want a proper view of that (people eating out of dumpsters for 1) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nordic_model Look at it like a tribe if you have a tribe of 10 people comprised of 2 hunters to kill food 2 elderly people, 1 child, 2 women 1 person that cannot care for their self and 1 to cultivate the land and farm things can go relative well. Increase everything by two things get harder by 100 things get very hard and so on and so forth. In smaller countries with ethnically homogeneous populations it works better. I really don’t need to prove that to you, as you proved that to me by constantly pointing to ethnically homogeneous places to make your point. I should add this is all my opinion given what I have researched. Feel free to clown my grammar as I’m trying to get better at it. I’m well on my way to a electrical engineering degree and I need all the help I can get.
One more In response to Americans frequently referring to his country as socialist, the prime minister of Denmark recently remarked in a lecture at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government, “I know that some people in the US associate the Nordic model with some sort of socialism. Therefore I would like to make one thing clear. Denmark is far from a socialist planned economy. Denmark is a market economy.” https://fee.org/articles/the-myth-of-scandinavian-socialism//amp I should add here, as far as healthcare goes I'm for some sort of socializing the catastrophic cases and trying to "free market" routine visits and etc .
We call it social democracy in Germany and have a population of 80 million plus. It’s working so far.
The point is that the political/economic culture is anti-regulation. Not that the population is bigger.
