I am sometimes in awe of the fact that there are people eating this way their whole lives who don’t have severe health problems.

Because it’s not only the airplane and airport, but think of what they stock in every CVS, every convenience store, all the fast-food chains. Those products still exist because people consume them. How do all the convenience store candy and chips and crackers and cookies aisles get cleared out and re-stocked. Millions must be eating it.

The flu or covid is small potatoes (even our metaphors are stuffed with carbs) — how is anyone still alive at all?