You're absolutely right that only athletes and extremely active people need 2500-3000 calories a day.  For most people, that's extreme overkill and will lead to obesity in no time.  I'm 6'1" and fairly active, and I average 1500-1600 calories a day.  If I ate 3000, I'd turn into a blimp. As for coronavirus, the media is blowing it way out of proportion.  They're now saying that 25-50% of people don't even have symptoms.  As for deaths, the flu that went around in 2017-2018 was much more deadly.  In that flu season, 45 million people got sick and 61 thousand died, and that was just in the US.  The coronavirus is nowhere near those numbers.  They're creating mass hysteria for no reason.  This is the same as any other virus.  The old and the sick are hit hardest, and obeasts have lots of underlying health conditions so naturally they're getting sicker than healthy people.  I'm in health care and every single person I've seen that's gotten extremely sick or died has either been really old or had some sort of health problem.  Healthy people are just miserable for a week or two, then they're fine.  Most of them actually compare it to a nasty flu or a really wussy pneumonia, and they don't even bother going in to get treated.  They just suck it up and get over it. Yearly deaths worldwide: Flu - 650,000 Covid - 150,000 (so far, and it has a long way to go to catch up to the flu)