It's more fun to look at a person with type 2 diabetes, and blame them for their own poor life choices. "They don't do enough push-ups, or drink enough raw milk!🤡"

It's less fun to look at poor leadership causing the flu to rip through their military base, destroying vital cells in their pancreas.

The spike in new onset diabetes diagnoses during Covid pandemic caused people to take another look at if the new cases were:

1) just previously undiagnosed diabetes

Or

2) triggering of previous genetic susceptibility

Or

3) Newly created cases

And it caused researchers to relook at the flu

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC9894635/

@nshr @mekkaokereke and the auto industry making it easy to not get enough exercise, and sprawly sub/urban planning making it difficult to not drive. Friend of mine *is* a medical researcher, he approves a lot of my daily bicycle commute -- "keeps the big leg muscles good at burning sugar".

But that depends on having the option to have a daily bicycle commute. 12 mostly protected miles/day is easy, 40 "share the road" miles/day, not so much.