SARAH VINE: Who'll dare to face the facts on obesity and Covid-19?

The Daily Mail ^ | May 5, 2020 | Sarah Vine

[TalBlack]

As a high school senior I was 6ft 175lb, 32 inch waist and I was considered overweight by 20 lbs by any chart I ever saw. At the time 20 lbs qualified as obese. At the time me and my friends were described as “skinny” by others more than once.

[CharlesWayneCT]

On the other hand, obesity is a symptom of several of the co-morbitities, so if you have severe diabetes, you will also be obese; it isn’t necessarily the obesity that kills, it’s the reason you are obese.

Note that the article never bothers to ask if the fat people have other underlying conditions. I don’t believe they are reporting simply on “fat people who have no other conditions”.

Note also how they absurdly claim that age you can’t change, but obesity you can. Like how is someone going to go from being morbidly obese to being “normal” in the next 2 months? Sure, in some people it was a choice, but it’s not a choice you can change in the short term.

Note that when they did NOT include obesity in the list, they still found in New York that 96% of the deaths had one or more comorbitities, meaning even ignoring obesity,you could predict who was going to die based on the other things — that suggests that being fat, in and of itself, isn’t a big driver.

Because, 40% of all new yorkers are morbidly obese, and a LOT of them have no other issues, so if just being fat would kill you, that would show up more than 4% in the death rates.

[Kriggerel]

But... But... But... Snowflakes’ pwecious fee-fees! How DARE they indulge in fat-shaming! :P

Seriously, I was the second fattest kid in my High School (”fat” by early eighties standards, not today’s standards), and whether I liked it or not, one of the *mildest* forced-nicknames I got from the jocks was “tits”.

[GailA]

Not really, hard stuff burns gut, beer does little unless taken in quantity, mostly just makes me sick. Wine is like acid.