“Don’t be obese and you almost always will be ok. I know. It’s what I do for a living.”
Congrats, that’s a very important job. I keep seeing people at stores everywhere who are like gigantic partially full beach balls, using those handicap carts with fat overflowing in all directions. My wife insists they are all victims of some disease and can’t do anything about it.
I don’t remember those people from when I was young. Some people were ‘fat’ but not Jabba the Hut fat.
I am an internist, and what I was mainly speaking of was the main risk factor for dying from the flu is obesity. They are at higher risk of ARDS.
I recently heard Dr. Ben Carson say that people claim a “gland problem” for their obesity, which he agreed with, then added, “a SALIVARY gland problem. Haha!