WaPo Drops Hilarious New Narrative: Exercise May Make COVID Vax More Effective

This is a public service announcement. A new COVID narrative has just hit the mainstream media airwaves. The Washington Post just published an article titled, “Regular exercise may improve the effectiveness of coronavirus vaccines.” The subheading explains, “Exercisers who were vaccinated were about 25 percent less likely to one hospitalized with COVID than sedentary people who receive the same vaccine, a new study found.” In other words, healthy people were less likely to be hospitalized with COVID than unhealthy people, but with a shameless plug for the vaccine.

I can barely believe I’m reading this, but it is a mainstream media publication, so maybe I shouldn’t be quite so surprised at their blatant manipulation and narrative spin. It starts out by saying,

“Regular exercise could amplify the benefits of your next coronavirus vaccination or booster, even if you schedule your shot weeks or months from now, according to a new study of the effects of regular physical activity and vaccines.”

I… I just can’t. These people are serious! Y’all, let’s use just a TINY bit of critical thinking here. Regular exercise improves your health generally, which subsequently affords you greater protection against severe illness and hospitalization from any number of illnesses, including COVID, regardless of having been vaccinated or boosted. Because maintaining a healthy lifestyle makes you healthier. Shocking.

I know it’s not politically correct to talk about, but COVID hit obese people WAY harder because they were less healthy to begin with, and that is likely due in large part to a lack of consistent exercise as part of a healthy lifestyle. Sedentary bodies are less healthy overall (regardless of body mass index) and therefore they are more likely to end up with severe illness or hospitalization. That is simply a fact.

WaPo cites a study “which involved almost 200,000 men and women in South Africa” and which they say found “coronavirus vaccination effectively prevented severe illness in most of them.” (Of course they had to make sure you knew that bit, because they wouldn’t want to accidentally make it seem like the vaccine wasn’t super effective.) They continues on to explain, “But it worked best in people who exercised regularly. They wound up about 25 percent less likely to be hospitalized with COVID than sedentary people, although everyone received the same vaccine.”

It’s like they’re trying to say, ‘Oh look! Healthy people turned out to be healthier and therefore at less risk of severe COVID illness or hospitalization! But we need to make it look really good for vaccines, so it MUST have been the vaccines protecting them! !hich means that being healthy clearly improves the efficacy of the vaccine!’ It couldn’t possibly be that healthier people are healthier, and therefore less likely to suffer severe COVID illness or hospitalization…

And guess what. If NO ONE had received the vaccine and the researchers calculated the rates of severe illness or hospitalization, the people who exercised regularly would have STILL been significantly less likely to be hospitalized, especially with COVID, than the sedentary people.

Note also the use of the word “with” instead of “from.” I am always wary of that word. A person hospitalized for a ruptured appendix, car crash, heart attack, burn, chainsaw accident, or literally ANYTHING else, and who happens to test positive for COVID, are technically hospitalized “with” COVID. So it stands to reason that sedentary people, who are necessarily less healthy overall, are more likely to be hospitalized for any number of health-related issues that may be entirely unrelated to COVID. And if they happen to test positive, then BAM! They’re a ‘hospitalized with COVID’ statistic.

I’m shocked at the audacity of the researchers and the Washington Post to try to manipulate the narrative and convince the public that exercise is somehow only beneficial in concert with the COVID vaccine. As though exercise all by itself isn’t what’s improving health and lessening the chances of severe illness or hospitalization in the average person. As though one has to have been vaccinated in order for regular exercise to be beneficial to your health. As though the only reason you should exercise regularly is to improve the efficacy of the COVID vaccine. That’s preposterous and, frankly, irresponsible of the researchers and the Washington Post.

But how else are they going to get the public to exercise when obesity glorification is part of the mainstream leftist narrative and agenda? They can’t tell you to exercise regularly to improve your health because it’s ‘bigotry’ against obese people to insinuate that obesity is unhealthy or that they need to improve their health. And they can’t tell you to exercise regularly to protect yourself against COVID because that would make people question why they would shut down all the gyms and leave all the fast food joints open at the height of the pandemic. So they found a way to try to convince people to exercise regularly, and that’s by telling them that it will make their COVID vax more effective. They really do think we’re this stupid.