Not sure about your "directly caused" conclusion but Mehdi Hasan has less credibility than Sunny Hostin or Whoopi Goldberg, and even MSNBC was demoting him from a lowly Sunday night program before he quit the network. Anyway, here's RFK on some inconvenient measles and media truths. As an aside, when I was growing up there was no measles vaccine and as a child we were expected to catch the trifecta of childhood diseases ─ measles, mumps, and chicken pox. Which, in fact, we pretty much all did and yet somehow managed to survive. .
A conspiracy-filled rant by Robert F. Kennedy Jr. that the Covid-19 virus was engineered to spare Ashkenazi Jews and Chinese people. Who are we to judge?
Fwiw Freddie... of all things... I DO highly respect your opinion on these matters. Not sure if resistance exercise is what I do on the cheap-ass home gym machine... but I have for several years now done like 30 reps with a relatively light weight very rapidly. I catch my breath and then do it again. Mostly chest and shoulders. Like I said "cheap ass home gym machine." But in essence I am doing some of my cardio with weights. Just not a lot of weight... enough, but more important is the elevation of the heart rate. And I have actually bumped the weight up a little. I do that when I really want to get the ticker ticking.
Thanks. But you really should have a look at the book. You need to work intensely and focus on compound exercises to get the best bang for the buck. Rapid movement is actually not beneficial for the intended effect of adaptation, i.e., strength and growth. Also, my understanding is that you need to work your back also otherwise you will develop a shoulder imbalance. And don’t forget about legs! You can have a minimalist home “gym” with just a few pieces of fairly inexpensive equipment that take up little room. It won’t be world class, but it can get the job done for us weekend warriors.
I hate to say it, but never in my life have I done legwork. Lifting-wise that is. That said, I'm not in it to be quite as cut up as yourself or RFK... I'm more about heart health, looking slender in clothes, and doing enough so that when I slip on the ice and come down hard on some concrete... I don't break anything like so many do. Falls are dangerous.
When I first started working out as a teenager, I also didn’t work legs. It’s not a good look. You want to work your heart? Work your legs hard; they’re the largest muscle group in your body. Well, maybe not yours since you don’t work them.