It is not inextricably, but it sure isn't uncommon in this country for the two to go together. Again, your dear leader could have become a good example by and lost weight. Instead, he set a bad examples by still consuming fast food, not exercising, and reportedly ignoring all protocols. Then after becoming infect he made public displays of his ignoring quarantine.
We dodged a bullet with the current state of the virus. In the first year the Spanish flu it was a comparably mild virus. It made it's rep in the 2nd year. You covidiots are on your way to making sure we have a second year with our anti-vaxxer insanity.