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> Cheeseburgers don't work that way. No, but you can't completely exclude the manipulative effects of communal eating habits. You can't exclude the multi-billi

> Cheeseburgers don't work that way. No, but you can't completely exclude the manipulative effects of communal eating habits. You can't exclude the multi-billion dollar tactics to promote, associate, tempt, entice and feed children, adults and families with fast food. Nor can you exclude the actual food, including portion size, sugar content, and cost/value from having a "transmission" effect of hooking vulnerable people on convenient, cheap, endlessly available junk food. All repeatedly validated via communal eating habits, symbols, signs and billboard displayed everywhere. Imprints of these messages become part of your brain's neural network over years. Cheeseburgers don't work like the virus, but you can wake up one day and realize you've consumed 50 kilograms of cheeseburgers, fries and coke in the last year, and wonder how the hell that happened and why you're now in the high risk category.

iab 5y ago
This is true, and irrelevant. You can’t vaccinate against the spread of obesity, which is what we are talking about
- exodust 5y ago
  It's not irrelevant. Obesity is an epidemic. "One of today’s most blatantly visible – yet most neglected – public health problems" according to the WHO. Someone above pointed out to you that the majority of COVID deaths are in specific populations -- the elderly, the obese, the diabetic, and that "maybe we should think about that", which you replied with "you can't vaccinate against obesity". Vaccination is just one way to deal with an epidemic. The WHO coined "globesity" to describe the escalating global epidemic "taking over many parts of the world". "Its health consequences range from increased risk of premature death to serious chronic conditions that reduce the overall quality of life." https://www.who.int/activities/controlling-the-global-obesity-epidemic https://www.who.int/activities/controlling-the-global-obesit...
  - iab 5y ago
    It is irrelevant to the discussion of vaccines, of which this one. Or do you believe we can vaccinate against obesity, because I am starting to think you do

iab 5y ago

This is true, and irrelevant. You can’t vaccinate against the spread of obesity, which is what we are talking about

exodust 5y ago
It's not irrelevant. Obesity is an epidemic. "One of today’s most blatantly visible – yet most neglected – public health problems" according to the WHO. Someone above pointed out to you that the majority of COVID deaths are in specific populations -- the elderly, the obese, the diabetic, and that "maybe we should think about that", which you replied with "you can't vaccinate against obesity". Vaccination is just one way to deal with an epidemic. The WHO coined "globesity" to describe the escalating global epidemic "taking over many parts of the world". "Its health consequences range from increased risk of premature death to serious chronic conditions that reduce the overall quality of life." https://www.who.int/activities/controlling-the-global-obesity-epidemic https://www.who.int/activities/controlling-the-global-obesit...
- iab 5y ago
  It is irrelevant to the discussion of vaccines, of which this one. Or do you believe we can vaccinate against obesity, because I am starting to think you do