And doesn’t make any sense anyways since most Americans are obese I thought?ProfX wrote: ↑Mon Jan 10, 2022 5:43 am I of course agree with you. Over on DU, there's a thread where people are like, "so all the people who died were obese". Yeah. OK. This reminds me of arguments with tritumi. "They chose to be fat". Did they? Are we really gonna have this discussion in a vacuum, without talking about the U.S. food system, food deserts, restaurant portions, all the systemic issues involved here? Also that, yes, genetics, metabolism, matter, sometimes not everybody can just go out and hit the gym in the middle of a pandemic? People really do gain weight from things not totally in their control ... gosh honest!
What you call "health elitism" is definitely at play. "Well, if they just got more Vitamin D, were vegan, drank spirulina, did lots of goat yoga and jazzercise, and had a healthier lifestyle they would have been fine". Maybe, maybe not, personally it reminds me of those Shingrix ads where they point out the shingles virus doesn't give a f**k how healthy a lifestyle you live. This "well it's only taking out the unwell anyway" as if we just need to shed "fat and unhealthy" people like social excess is ... SOCIAL DARWINISM. And I don't care who's mouthing it. Right wingers, "spiritual celebrities," or the CDC director.
Obesity was one of those major comorbidities she was talking about, but so are things that are inarguably not in peoples' control, like various congenital disorders. Saying "it only culls the weak and unhealthy" is eugenics thinking. I also wanna keep pointing out people might have some of these comorbidities without knowing it as they haven't been detected until they got COVID.
Sigh.
Not making a judgment comment or call I’m just remembering that the numbers are very high so I don’t get it either.
When Zowie on this board commented how angry he or she was about the lack of attention given to the situation especially in Southern California by the Biden administration it caught my attention.
This is just not being handled right. Did the dumbest person alive hand the Biden administration the worst possible situation because of their negligence and desire to kill Democrats, of course. It is time to force companies to make what we need and build the sites that we need for testing and whatever else. President can do this.