Exactly my point. Covid is a negligible risk to young healthy people compared to elderly, sick, obese people. This will have an effect on their risk calculations determining if they should take a vaccine which was rushed through safety trials or to take on a virus naturally which their immune systems can easily defeat, according to the data.
>In rich Asian countries like Japan, I haven't heard of a significant difference in infection fatality rate compared to western countries.
If you look at the data, you'll see the significant difference.
The US has 139.30 deaths per 100,000 people from covid.
Japan has 4.88 deaths per 100,000.[1]
>As for obesity, it is actually worse in northern Africa than in Europe, and closer to the US. And southeast Asia is getting close to Europe as these countries develop.
Indeed, if you look at the obesity map and the covid map of the world, you'll see the same correlation of obesity and larger relative covid risk in northern Africa.
[1]https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/COVID-19_pandemic_death_rate...
In Africa, the population is much younger than in the US and life expectancy is lower. People die from other causes like malaria, malnutrition, violence, etc... much more often than in the US, so mechanically, the relative risk of dying from covid is lower.
In rich Asian countries like Japan, I haven't heard of a significant difference in infection fatality rate compared to western countries. They have less deaths overall because they have less cases, certainly because they manage the pandemic better. In poor Asian countries, it is essentially like Africa.
As for obesity, it is actually worse in northern Africa than in Europe, and closer to the US. And southeast Asia is getting close to Europe as these countries develop.