I am glad to see people like him speak up about the elephant in the Covid strategy room: the lack of a national campaign to address the epidemic of obesity and its health complications in this country, which has made people more susceptible to Covid hospitalizations and deaths. All the effort they put into telling people to mask up, stay home, and become potato couches in front of their CNN "grim milestone" coverages, they could have spent also some time encouraging people to lose weight, they would have kept the gyms open and directed them to accomodate new social distancing rules, and they would have encouraged people to also exercise outside.
They could have had insurance companies giving incentives to overweight patients for each 10 or 20lbs pounds lost.
They could have made gym subscriptions tax deductibles, or even give people subsidies to attend gyms.
They could have had health activists doing outreach in food desert communities to encourage people to plant vegetables in their yards or even in pots, and also to start community food gardens that could feed the community.
They could have generated INTELLIGENT and RESPECTFUL national conversations about the risk of obesity especially as it relates to Covid, and encourage the communities that have the highest incidences of obesity to really tackle this issue instead of letting them complain about medical racism and health disparity. Of course there are minorities who experienced racism in the health system, but that does not explain rampant obesity of people digging their grave with their teeth.
THere is so much that could have been done that was not done because as a society, we are mired in politics, political correctness, and fear of offending people's sensitivities even in times of crisis.