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One problem with your analogy is that if you eat too much sugar, it doesn't affect my health.

Reichhardt 5y ago
Obesity is a major risk factor for severe COVID, and hence transmission and hospital occupation. Like the supposed factors that we are segregating the unvaccinated for.
- tasty_freeze 5y ago
  Obesity doesn't increase the likelihood of transmission, just the severity of the outcome for that individual.
  - ncmncm 5y ago
    Thus, "severe COVID".
  - mulvya 5y ago
    Obese carriers shed lot more virus, so they would be expected to have higher attack rates. ---- Exhaled aerosol increases with COVID-19 infection, age, and obesity https://www.pnas.org/content/118/8/e2021830118 https://www.pnas.org/content/118/8/e2021830118 In our observational cohort study of the exhaled breath particles of 194 healthy human subjects, and in our experimental infection study of eight nonhuman primates infected, by aerosol, with SARS-CoV-2, we found that exhaled aerosol particles vary between subjects by three orders of magnitude, with exhaled respiratory droplet number increasing with degree of COVID-19 infection and elevated BMI-years.
pdimitar 5y ago
It probably does because they'll need to go to doctors regularly, and that could be taking away budget that could be used for your health insurance down the road. But who knows, not an expert. As for your Covid worries, isn't it already established that Omicron is more contagious but with much milder symptoms? Or is that still unconfirmed? Not trying to start a flame war here but it's fairly obvious at this point that barring imprisoning everyone in their homes, Covid contraction still happens quite a lot out there. We can't seem to stop it, only reduce the rate at which it happens.
kgin 5y ago
True, though it does affect your insurance premiums and/or healthcare taxes
ncmncm 5y ago
It affects my relatives when everything they can buy has all the fiber stripped out, and is pre-loaded with sugar. I stay away from it, but my kids have less ability to stay clear. All the media they encounter primes them to believe that sugar is normal to expect in everything. They have no resistance. My mother-in-law just died of cancer in October. Her heavy sugar habit must have contributed to how fast it spread. In the hospital, the meals they provided were all loaded with sugar and stripped of fiber and fat. So, it affects us all, xbecause the full industrial might of the modern world is turned to pushing sugar on the population.

Obesity is a major risk factor for severe COVID, and hence transmission and hospital occupation. Like the supposed factors that we are segregating the unvaccinated for.

tasty_freeze 5y ago
Obesity doesn't increase the likelihood of transmission, just the severity of the outcome for that individual.
- ncmncm 5y ago
  Thus, "severe COVID".
- mulvya 5y ago
  Obese carriers shed lot more virus, so they would be expected to have higher attack rates. ---- Exhaled aerosol increases with COVID-19 infection, age, and obesity https://www.pnas.org/content/118/8/e2021830118 https://www.pnas.org/content/118/8/e2021830118 In our observational cohort study of the exhaled breath particles of 194 healthy human subjects, and in our experimental infection study of eight nonhuman primates infected, by aerosol, with SARS-CoV-2, we found that exhaled aerosol particles vary between subjects by three orders of magnitude, with exhaled respiratory droplet number increasing with degree of COVID-19 infection and elevated BMI-years.

pdimitar 5y ago

It probably does because they'll need to go to doctors regularly, and that could be taking away budget that could be used for your health insurance down the road. But who knows, not an expert. As for your Covid worries, isn't it already established that Omicron is more contagious but with much milder symptoms? Or is that still unconfirmed? Not trying to start a flame war here but it's fairly obvious at this point that barring imprisoning everyone in their homes, Covid contraction still happens quite a lot out there. We can't seem to stop it, only reduce the rate at which it happens.

kgin 5y ago

True, though it does affect your insurance premiums and/or healthcare taxes

ncmncm 5y ago

It affects my relatives when everything they can buy has all the fiber stripped out, and is pre-loaded with sugar. I stay away from it, but my kids have less ability to stay clear. All the media they encounter primes them to believe that sugar is normal to expect in everything. They have no resistance. My mother-in-law just died of cancer in October. Her heavy sugar habit must have contributed to how fast it spread. In the hospital, the meals they provided were all loaded with sugar and stripped of fiber and fat. So, it affects us all, xbecause the full industrial might of the modern world is turned to pushing sugar on the population.