No we don't. The fact that some people want to push some sort of fat acceptance agenda doesn't mean we encourage and celebrate it as a society. And if you do want to eat pizza around me I doubt you'll accidentally cough a slice into my mouth.
My previous company actually gave you a discount on health insurance if your markers for metabolic syndrome were within certain acceptance criteria (BMI, BP, cholesterol markers, etc.)
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If anything, we are a society obsessed with diet and looking thin and attractive.
And uses overweight images as a fear motivator from the stigmatization trying to balance it with not isolating them and make their situation worse.
And you should be. The amount of obscenely fat people in the US is too damn high.
Not only that, it is the very same government that so many want us to trust that created the food pyramid that has led to an obesity/health crisis, a set of dietary guidelines directly influenced/lobbied for by the very entities that would most profit from such implementation across society. I wonder who's benefiting from the current government "wisdom"...
It doesn't have to be murderous intent. The net effect is that corporate interests infiltrate government and get their agendas implemented, agendas that are *first and foremost* profit driven, irrespective of the well-being of the citizens to whom those recommendations, policies, laws, etc affect.
and the health effects could kill if what is lobbied for has a detrimental effect. There's so much economics and doing the best with what one got, not trying to be purely ideal.
There is no punishment, fine or taxation for being obese. Indeed you can actually recieve disability in some countries if you're fat enough. A high BMI is the primary comorbidity in 80%--or more, since no one has updated the statistics--of all Covid deaths or serious hospitalizations. Social ostracization and peer pressure isn't even an option now with this body positivity bs. I'm not trying to fat shame anyone, and it's regrettable if that hurts your feelings, but frankly Covid doesn't give a fuck about your feelings either.
Yup… now they learned the hard way ..Florida Asks for Hundreds More Ventilators as COVID-19 Cases Spiral, Says Report
Florida’s Department of Health and Human Services asked the federal government for 300 ventilators on Friday.www.thedailybeast.com
Looks like completely opening up with no masks mandates works guys! Pay no attention to the dire need for additional ventilators from the federal government. Wow, such amazing local governance! Fucking idiots.
Foreign corporations and governments with the vaccines and various profit and power agendas, too.
Florida Asks for Hundreds More Ventilators as COVID-19 Cases Spiral, Says Report
Florida’s Department of Health and Human Services asked the federal government for 300 ventilators on Friday.www.thedailybeast.com
Looks like completely opening up with no masks mandates works guys! Pay no attention to the dire need for additional ventilators from the federal government. Wow, such amazing local governance! Fucking idiots.
And you understand that this is an issue that is understood by everyone everywhere dealing with Covid and doesn't have to be questioned again?
Imagine if obesity could be treated with a safe, easy, cost-free injection that had been proven safe on over a billion people.
Got a link handy detailing all of those nasty side effects and deaths?
We are in this position because our Governor thought that taking a victory lap in early summer to catapult him into the National Spotlight was more important than actually managing the situation in his state properly..... Ill shut up now, because the reality of what is happening in Florida has to do more with Politics than anything else.Florida Asks for Hundreds More Ventilators as COVID-19 Cases Spiral, Says Report
Florida’s Department of Health and Human Services asked the federal government for 300 ventilators on Friday.www.thedailybeast.com
Looks like completely opening up with no masks mandates works guys! Pay no attention to the dire need for additional ventilators from the federal government. Wow, such amazing local governance! Fucking idiots.
Not a link, but this is based off of talking to people local to me, which is good enough for me.
The failure is on our leadership for not having pushed activity/ health and wellness (in conjunction with a vaccination plan) in the first place, that’s the issue. And it will continue to be an issue with future variants, which seem unending at this point, unless we address some of the underlying comorbidities and their root causes.
It's one of many failures. There's no single solution to fix what's going on because there's never going to be a magic bullet. If everyone in America were fit and at a healthy weight, then I'm sure the death rate would be much lower. The reality of the situation is Americans aren't fit and at healthy weights, and there's no way to snap your fingers and make that so any time soon. So, by all means, let's push people to start getting healthy and move in the right direction. Also, let's use every other weapon in our arsenal to get a handle on this in the meantime. We didn't stop fighting WWII while we waited for the Manhattan project to finish.
Being overweight by BMI is actually better than being in the 'normal' range when it comes to COVID.This was my mood board for that last post.
Didn't hear anything about the first point and as you illustrate 'normal' is what where?
It's just the truth. Obese people are at a much higher rate of hospitalization and/or death, overweight people have a lower incidence of hospitalization or death than normal weight range people.
www.cdc.gov
I'm sorry?
Here's a related post I did on the issue about a month ago.
Covid 19 Thread: [no bitching about masks of Fauci edition]
Children can’t escape from this. Kids don’t need to be vaccinated to go to school. Adults do not need to be vaccinated to go to work (and unlike the US in France your employer cannot force you to get vaccinated).www.neogaf.com
Okay I made a mistake. This one is on me I can admit it. I wrote per million people instead of death rate %. It makes sense that a country which has a lot more infections per million also has a lot more deaths per million.
(It is actually what I googled for, but failed to put into words as a non native speaker. My bad for the confusion)
Here is what I was trying to say :
It is pretty clear that those case fatality rates are pretty close even though the US has a 8-10x Obesity rate compared to Japan/South Korea.
So the same amount of people (from the pool of infected) die and blaming obesity on people dying of Covid seems like a big reach.
ourworldindata.org
1 and 5 are the most common ones I hear.
They don't have to because the society there is generally more compliant and has a greater emphasis on community protection and social awareness than Western countries like the USA. Masks, social distancing, and cleanliness are already culturally ingrained in the population without the government having to babysit them.
Tokyo is not all of Japan, and it's also one of the most populous and densely packed cities in the world. They do what they can, given that context, which is a lot more than any other similarly high density city in the West, and with less government coercion.
For me it's a mix of 1 and 5. Also 2 is becoming increasingly relevant, the 24/7 xeen propaganda is doing its thing.
1, 2 and 5 for me.
It's not a lie, but it doesn't take into consideration the changes on the ground over time, like prevalence of vaccinations or prevalence of variants. If you want a more time-relevant snapshot of the situation, you'd need to analyze the numbers in a shorter, more recent timeframe.