Elites Normalized Obesity Even During COVID

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🗓️ 7 January 2022

⏱️ 42 minutes

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On this episode of The Federalist Radio Hour, Federalist Western Correspondent Tristan Justice joins Culture Editor Emily Jashinsky to discuss how elites and the corporate media normalized obesity during the COVID-19 pandemic, even though the virus disproportionately affects overweight populations.

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0:00.0	We're back with another edition of the Federalist Radio Hour.
0:19.8	I'm Emily Gisinski, culture editor here at the Federalist.
0:22.3	As always, you can email the show at radio at the Federalist.com.
0:25.6	Follow us on Twitter at FDRLST.
0:27.6	Make sure to subscribe wherever you download your podcasts as well.
0:30.3	Today, I'm joined once again by my colleague Tristan Justice,
0:33.3	who is Western correspondent at the Federalist.
0:35.6	Tristan, welcome back.
0:37.2	Thank you, Robin.
0:38.4	Yet Tristan has been actually really, really following the biggest taboo,
0:44.5	I think, in all of the pandemic, which is increasingly becoming less taboo,
0:49.5	thanks to elite sort of deciding to change their minds.
0:53.0	And that is obesity.
0:54.9	And it's not even just the biggest taboo in our conversation,
0:58.5	our ongoing conversation and policies about the pandemic.
1:01.2	It's actually one of the biggest taboos before the pandemic.
1:04.9	And in general, it's one of the most important things affecting our politics,
1:10.0	believe it or not.
1:11.0	And it's one of the least discussed things in our politics, I guess,
1:15.0	aside from Michelle Obama, Tristan, there has been a sort of shift in recent days.
1:21.7	And that's one of the reasons that I wanted to talk to you
1:24.2	also because it's the new year.
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