Managing COVID severity.

This could be considered a spinoff of the obesity/COVID thread but somethings really been bugging me about the "authority's" approach to educating the public so I decided to do a little research on the topic of COVID mitigation and found the results interesting.

Damn near every source out there( WebMD, CDC, etc.) unanimously claims that there are certain underlying medical conditions that put people at increased risk of severe illness or fatality, namely:
Obesity
Diabetes
Heart conditions
Asthma
High Blood Pressure

Despite this fact, these same sources still won't come out and strongly mention that the improvement of these conditions would effectively be a:
- method to reduce symptoms
- method to eliminate/reduce the risk of fatality

Now I realize being 100% healthy can't prevent infection but if being that healthy can all but pretty much eliminate the risk of severe illness and fatality... why wouldn't they push that?
We've been locked down for about a year now which is plenty of time for most individuals to go from unhealthy to healthy. That's plenty of time to diet better, exercise more and establish healthier lifestyles.

Yet the entire focus is on distancing, masks and vaccines. This is huge missed opportunity to push healthy living. You've got a 100 year pandemic on your hands and the tools of TV and Social media to push this beneficial agenda that could save lives, reduce healthcare spending , drive up sales of fitness products, fitness apps, gym memberships etc. Why not? It's a 1 in a million shot to actually convince the laziest population in the world to move more and eat less but why not at least try?

end rant