Here, the news has conspiciously shied away from mentioning the relationship between weight and covid complications. I think if they decided to be honest, and call it a "pandemic of the overewight" early on, you would have seen a lot of people using their time off to walk around the block. By ignoring the data, they increased fear, and probably increased people gaining weight by locking themselves in their homes all day.

> Here, the news has conspiciously shied away from mentioning the relationship between weight and covid complications.

You said you are in the US in another comment. I took 3 minutes to google some big US news sites. They all had multiple articles on the topic from spring 2020 until now. Your criticism is false. Some random examples:

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/23/health/coronavirus-patien...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2021/03/04/coronavirus-...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/coronavirus-obesity-ri...

https://www.foxnews.com/health/study-links-coronavirus-morta...

https://www.foxnews.com/health/obesity-increase-coronavirus-...

https://www.foxnews.com/health/is-americas-high-obesity-leve...

It's a fact that obese people are more likely to die from a covid infection. Whether or not it's hard to lose weight is irrelevant.