A person running in Central Park on April 23. Photo: David Williams In 2017, I wrote a story titled The Wellness Epidemic. It was a tour of the various expensive, spiritually assertive, and scientifically questionable strategies that many people were engaging in to stave off the perceptions that “people are finding more and more that everyone they know is kind of sick,” as Elise Loehnen, the head of content at Goop, told me at the time.
It all felt of a piece with the endless handwashing and the awkward, three-steps-back stance everyone started taking when running into each other on the street: attempts to control a totally out-of-control situation.
As the hospitals filled up, and so many people began to die, the notion that superior health has anything to do with minimizing nightshade consumption, or toxic exposure from your toothpaste or deodorant or shower curtain, or taking Taryn Toomey’s class or ingesting astragalus — all the consumer-truther truths of wellness — seemed to not make much sense anymore. Or did it? The drastic inequities in who was and was not surviving this illness grew more and more stark.
Duh?
Wellness has been about access the second it got monetized.
Yes. Next question.
The brand of 'Wellness' has become one of luxury. And it annoys me.
Great piece. You should speak to chr1styharrison who believes wellness is the “sneaky, modern guise of diet culture that’s supposedly about “wellness” but is actually about performing a rarefied, perfectionistic, discriminatory idea of what health is supposed to look like.”
“Wellness” has always been a expensive Market creation. Our grand parents used to call it “ good health” and it was free!!
Is not having a shitty life a sign of privilege?
duh
People have been writing about this for years but ok.
Can't believe i read this whole article
lol, you just got here? You JUST arrived arrived this? I can’t.
Was there ever tho?
There's a big difference. Ask the many poor americans who stay quarantined at home in tiny spaces with several other family members while waiting for test results. Most don't even go. They have no insurance. coronavirus
Really
Yes.
In a pandemic yes. Also, not in a pandemic