O/T. The Government's handling of Covid

[ramAnag]

I disagree rA. The resources to treat couch potato and lifestyle issues such as obesity, type 2 diabetes, heart problems, liver failure, lung cancer, addiction therapies must dwarf the resources need for sporting injuries.

The former are largely "rest of life" treatments, whereas I don't think the same is true of sports related issues by and large.

But the key here is the offset effect of sports participation etc on NHS costs - improved cardiovascular conditions stemming from an active lifestyle will reduce the need to treat heart failure etc and reduce obesity related considerations. A good trade off I reckon

You, and Ram, may well be correct, GP. Difficult to know for sure without doing research which, even in the current circumstances, I haven’t got the inclination to do.

Maybe not quite as cut and dried as active (= good...less of a demand) v indolent (= bad...more of a demand) might suggest though.

P.S. Have you seen Kenny Burns or even John Barnes recently?