Yesterday I posted in response to another thread about the potential "hunger crisis' in NYC. I implied that it was going to take a long time before the people of that city were going to starve to death. This exemplifies my statement.
Out of the seven girls on this "Dance Team," one appears to be in the healthy weight range, six are overweight, and four are in various stages of the obese range. NYC is fat. There's no better way to say it.
Now, in Manhattan, that changes a bit, because the people there are rich as fuck, many of them are immigrants, and they walk a lot. There are still plenty of fat people who live in Manhattan, but I think it is less than the American average. The rest of NYC however, is full of fat people.
I think there is no better place to have a hunger crisis with the fewest negative health effects than NYC. Indeed, there will almost certainly be a few positive health benefits in such an event.
IME these ladies are significantly larger than the average NYer and fat people are quite rare there.
As you state, the walking alone keeps NYers fit, and there's actually a lot of low key fat and fashion shaming there.
A trucking strike would hit the city hard though. No one hoards or stockpiles (there's no room to do so). The city expects to be fully resupplied on a daily basis.
I guess it depends on where you go. If you stay in Manhattan you get a very different perception than the rest of NYC.
there's actually a lot of low key fat and fashion shaming there.
This has not been my experience when I went into other sections of the city. It seems to be tied to how much wealth there is in the neighborhoods. Since you mention "fashion shaming" this causes me to think you restricted yourself to only the "nice neighborhoods" of NYC and surrounding areas. Most of NYC is not the nice neighborhoods, though to be fair, it is a higher percentage than most urban areas due to it's proximity to Manhattan, and higher than it used to be just a couple decades ago.
I have lived in several large cities in America and the same type of selection process happens there as well. People get an idea of what a city is like without actually going into most of the city.
For sure, and I don't wish to deny whatever you saw or experienced.
Sometimes you move just a mile or even a few blocks and it's a different world. Even in a small town there's usually two sides of the tracks and it's not strange that two people could view it completely differently.
The movie Widows has a fun scene demonstrating this.
Yesterday I posted in response to another thread about the potential "hunger crisis' in NYC. I implied that it was going to take a long time before the people of that city were going to starve to death. This exemplifies my statement.
Out of the seven girls on this "Dance Team," one appears to be in the healthy weight range, six are overweight, and four are in various stages of the obese range. NYC is fat. There's no better way to say it.
Now, in Manhattan, that changes a bit, because the people there are rich as fuck, many of them are immigrants, and they walk a lot. There are still plenty of fat people who live in Manhattan, but I think it is less than the American average. The rest of NYC however, is full of fat people.
I think there is no better place to have a hunger crisis with the fewest negative health effects than NYC. Indeed, there will almost certainly be a few positive health benefits in such an event.
Prepping by putting a 2 year supply of food on your gut.
Some combination of a chipmunk and a bear preparing for winter.
The longest documented fast (no food at all, only water) was a Scottish man who fasted for over 1 year.
He was 400+ pounds when he started, and around 180 when he finished. Stayed lean the rest of his life.
So, it is possible for these fat pigs to go without, but most of them will panic and who knows what kind of mayhem will ensue in such a situation?
IME these ladies are significantly larger than the average NYer and fat people are quite rare there.
As you state, the walking alone keeps NYers fit, and there's actually a lot of low key fat and fashion shaming there.
A trucking strike would hit the city hard though. No one hoards or stockpiles (there's no room to do so). The city expects to be fully resupplied on a daily basis.
I guess it depends on where you go. If you stay in Manhattan you get a very different perception than the rest of NYC.
This has not been my experience when I went into other sections of the city. It seems to be tied to how much wealth there is in the neighborhoods. Since you mention "fashion shaming" this causes me to think you restricted yourself to only the "nice neighborhoods" of NYC and surrounding areas. Most of NYC is not the nice neighborhoods, though to be fair, it is a higher percentage than most urban areas due to it's proximity to Manhattan, and higher than it used to be just a couple decades ago.
I have lived in several large cities in America and the same type of selection process happens there as well. People get an idea of what a city is like without actually going into most of the city.
For sure, and I don't wish to deny whatever you saw or experienced.
Sometimes you move just a mile or even a few blocks and it's a different world. Even in a small town there's usually two sides of the tracks and it's not strange that two people could view it completely differently.
The movie Widows has a fun scene demonstrating this.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d6NXtzAyjds
Hopefully they do not come to our suburb towns.