[Dogbert41]

So it’s a virus that targets fat people! Good news! Oh, wait a minute...

[reasonisfaith]

Before we figure out this question, first we need to understand the more basic truths about this phenomenon that caused the shutdown.

You can’t understand anything until the basics are established. This is the nature of logical analysis and it applies to the interaction of all objects and events in the universe.

[38special]

Canines don’t get it either. Why doesn’t somebody look into that and figure out why?

[Equine1952]

Everything hits fat people harder. Duh! Drop a fat person off a step ladder. Wham! It leaves a mark.

[The Duke]

I'm quite overweight and 63 years old, and for me COVID came and went in two days. A good friend of mine - about the same age who was (operative word = "was") fit and trim suffered in the hospital with COVID for a month and finally died of organ failure.

The difference - I got the monoclonal antibody treatment immediately and stayed home taking Ivermectin, while he went the hospital route.

I mention my case just so those with excess body weight can know that COVID is not an automatic death sentence.

[logi_cal869]

.02:

Total BS.

Many examples out there, but here’s one from my sphere:

35 year old I know personally, normal BMI, got infected just after Thanksgiving, still sick.

They may or may not figure it out before the virus is endemic, but point of fact:

1. If the ‘vaccines’ worked, this wouldn’t matter,
2. If the guy I know had done absolutely anything in terms of well-known treatments - all of which have been well discussed here at FR - then he wouldn’t still be sick, facing hospitalization.

And no, there are no comorbidities with him. Zero. Perfect health (at least until almost 2 weeks ago).

[ifinnegan]

It really doesn’t matter why, what matters is that the narrative is false and it is not a grave threat to everyone equally, including kids, the risk is narrow and limited and the one size fits all draconian policies are wrong.

[GOP Poet]

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[dfwgator]

And yet Chris Christie is still alive.

[metmom]

Meanwhile it has been known from the get go that obesity is a major comorbidity and yet we have heard nary a word to the general public about losing weight to lower your risk of a bad outcome from Covid.

[Bigbrown]

How fat is too fat? Asking for a friend…

[jonrick46]

Why are those with HIV not included in the statistics?

Recently, a large-scale population-based study (Bhaskaran K, Rentsch CT, MacKenna B, et al. HIV infection and COVID-19 death: a population-based cohort analysis of UK primary care data and linked national death registrations within the OpenSAFELY platform. Lancet HIV 2021;8:e24–32) with over 17 million individuals was performed in England to investigate the association of HIV co-infection and the risk of COVID-19 mortality, and found that people living with HIV had a higher risk of COVID-19 mortality than those without HIV after adjusting for age and sex (HR = 2.90, 95% CI 1.96–4.30). If we combined the COVID-19 epidemic information around the world, would this relationship hold up as well as the England study? Are there differences among different countries? So far there needs to be more study on the role of HIV in COVID mortality.

[Trump Girl Kit Cat]

For crying out loud WE ALL knew this a year ago, these IDIOT scientists are just now discovering this REALLY???

[FLvoter]

An old friend’s husband just died of covid. He wasn’t an ounce under 400 pounds. Just 46 years old.

[ComputerGuy]

I thought it was gravity.

[Adder]

So it doesn’t hang out in other animals...its in burgers and biscuits!

Damn clever, them Chinese...

[TiGuy22]

The Wuhan virus… think of the proportion of overweight people in the west vs China. Virus that attacks fat cells, by design?

[Caipirabob]

Excellent information - Thank you!

[central_va]

Black, Hispanic, Native American and Alaska Native people in the U.S. have higher obesity rates than white adults and Asian Americans; they have also been disproportionately affected by the pandemic, with death rates roughly double those of white Americans. -NY Times

The COVID virus is racist.

[dkGba]

Since vitamin D is fat soluble I always thought overweight would have no problem maintaining good levels but OPPOSITE is true- overweight/obese need even MORE vitamin D because it gets stuck in fat stores and isn’t readily available for immune function