Meanwhile morbidly obese 'healthy' teenagers are used to convince us that everyone is at risk of dying from Covid-19.

Wouldn't the government do better by the community in the long run by addressing the underlying co-morbidities which make an otherwise usually non-deadly virus deadly?

Instead we normalise the serious obesity problem.

Tim adds:

This is what Daniel Patrick Moynihan meant by "defining deviancy down". He was speaking about morality, but it is just as applicable here.