Glad to see that WaPo and the practitioners of Science™ are catching up to the rest of us that actually use our brains.
Men and women who worked out at least 30 minutes most days were about four times more likely to survive covid-19 than inactive people, according to an eye-opening study of exercise and coronavirus outcomes among almost 200,000 adults in Southern California.
The study found that exercise, in almost any amount, reduced people's risks for a severe coronavirus infection. Even people who worked out for as little as 11 minutes a week — yes, a week — experienced lower risks of hospitalization or death from covid than those who moved about less.
"It turns out exercise is even more powerful than we thought" at protecting people from severe covid, said Robert Sallis, a clinical professor at Kaiser Permanente Bernard J. Tyson School of Medicine in Los Angeles and senior author of the new study.
Wow!
Imagine that.
Really zero in on that last quote from the expert:
Good thing we didn't close down gyms and playgrounds and stuff for months and years!
Imagine if we would have closed all the health facilities and then locked people in their homes by threatening them with arrest if they peeked outside at the sunshine.
Imagine if we stoked fears for a year or two to get people so anxious and depressed that suicide, addiction, and obesity rates went through the freaking roof.
