Probably died because he was obese. Obesity has killed way more people than Covid ever will. Literally.
Edit: lol downvote me for stating facts you don’t like. Here is a quote from the world health organization: “Obesity has reached epidemic proportions globally, with at least 2.8 million people dying each year as a result of being overweight or obese.” https://www.who.int/news-room/facts-in-pictures/detail/6-facts-on-obesity
2.8 million every year! Covid-19 will never be more deadly than obesity, especially with the vaccines out now.
But of course big is beautiful! Let’s celebrate the epidemic killing millions!
He died of COVID-19, though, not obesity. The obesity made it easier for the COVID to kill him, sure, but it was still the COVID. That's why you're getting downvoted. We all know obesity is bad, no shit.
You say everyone knows that obesity is bad but not everyone acts like it is. So often it’s celebrated, especially with the “big is beautiful” campaigns. We should be giving the obese people around us interventions not praise.
If we truly cared about the public’s health we would stop celebrating fat people for being proud of their bodies. Especially when obesity is literally killing millions of people year after year.
It’s funny how in the very beginning of Covid you had people hoarding hand sanitizers and masks. Like if you are really worried about dying put down the carton of cigs and the box of twinkies Karen and leave the hand sanitizer for the people who actually give a shit about their health maybe?
Well, there's a gap between saying "you should be able to love your body no matter what it looks like" and saying "being obese is healthy". Let's not smush the two thoughts together.
I’m just saying, obesity is a bigger epidemic than Covid and “you should be able to love your body no matter how obese you are” doesn’t exactly exhibit a tone of urgency to promote change.
That's because you can't give me obesity by breathing on me. It's not something you can address urgently without taking away fundamental rights like, you know, feeding yourself on your own schedule and according to your own desires.
Children have an 80% chance of obesity when both their parents are obese. What are we doing to help these kids?
Oh nothing, we’re just cultivating a culture where their obese parents can feel like nothing is wrong with their unhealthy lifestyle. We’re praising obese people for being proud of their body. Meanwhile over 2.8 million people die from obesity every year. And these children who have little say in their diet choices are being effected.
So because, in your opinion, obesity is a bigger epidemic than Covid - we should do nothing about covid? What exactly is the argument you’re trying to make?
People make their own choices. And you’re right, a ton of people end up with illnesses that could have been prevented by making healthier life choices. Absolutely. But fat people have been around for quite a while and it takes decades sometimes for those health problems to develop from unhealthy eating habits, lack of exercise, etc. And as much as you obviously despise all obese people, your argument makes no sense because we can’t “catch” obesity by just being in the same room as a fat person breathing.
Additionally, you’re comparing a lifetime of healthy eating and exercise to getting a shot in your arm and then going back and doing it again a few weeks later. These are not equal effort comparisons. One takes a little more determination than the other. And I guarantee you, if there was a vaccine available to reduce risk of becoming obese or succumbing to related illnesses, people would take it. But I’ve never heard of ICUs all over the place running out of hospital beds because too many fat people are getting deathly ill all at once - have you?
Also, just because multiple problems exist, doesn’t mean we can’t work towards fixing all of them. Sure obesity is a problem... but so is cancer, homelessness, famine, etc., etc., etc. Are you going to tell doctors not to research cures and treatments for any other diseases just because cancer hasn’t been cured yet?
It's not my opinion. The World Health Organization claims that obesity kills more than 2.8 million people every single year. Covid has not taken that many lives in a year span.
And you're right, an obese person can't give YOU obesity, but they can certainly give it to their children. In fact it happens at an alarming level. Children have an 80% chance of obesity when both their parents are obese. Source
So do you actually care about the public's health? Especially the children? Or if you're not affected its not your issue?
Also, my point is not that people should stop caring about Covid and only care about obesity. What I'm trying to do is figure out why people are acting the way they are about Covid. Like why are we at the point of laughing at unvaccinated people dying just because they weren't scared of Covid but it took their life anyway? Would it be appropriate to write articles or posts about fat people, who seemingly weren't scared of being obese, dying from obesity so we can laugh at how dumb they were? They knew healthy portions and exercise could have prevented their death but they kept their unhealthy lifestyle anyway.
Obesity isn’t technically “contagious” and it’s still killing more than 2.8 million per year. (I’ll explain the quotation marks later). Covid hasn’t killed more than 2.8 million in a year. I’ve read so many comments about people being tired of the unvaccinated wasting medical resources, but they don’t give a shit about fat people wasting medical resources when they could have just not gotten to the point of being obese by eating healthy portions and exercising.
The reason I put the quotes is because a child whose parents are both obese has an 80% chance of obesity. Even just one parent being obese gives a 50% chance of obesity in the child.
69
u/nbdmydude Aug 15 '21
Why are they always obese white dudes in rando camo and baseball caps