But if you're under 60 and yourself fit and healthy, you'd probably not even notice if you caught covid and recovered. Everyone getting fitter is a huge collective win. Even outside the context of a pandemic--fat people have a hugely disproportional impact on national healthcare spend. All of our insurance would get cheaper and cheaper if we reduced the national BMI.

You still can get damages in heart, kidney and lungs from corona, even if you are asymptomatic and didn't feel anything. The first cases were reported from italian divers you can't work in their job anymore because of lung damages.

And the costs wouldn't really get lower, you just change the illness. If you are healthier, you live longer and your final illness most probably will be cancer. Expensive long te treatment. Obese people die faster and cheaper.

Organ damage is definitionally symptom for a disease.

And, if you do get a heart attack, which happened to my very fit professor when he died right before finals, you might not have the specialists available immediately for care because they are crunched for time dealing with a health crisis (obesity has made COVID much worse for example).

Maybe I am now paying for your health care heart attack? Costing me more, so I have some interest in weight of other people now. Maybe I am getting more financial trouble, which cause stress, which linked to heart disease: https://www.nih.gov/news-events/nih-research-matters/stress-...

I think cancer treatment is more expensive. Heart attacks have a pretty death rate.

But you get a fatter bill because of the obese population due to the way health care and insurance is structured.

this means, in the current world, you get to fat-shame the obese people, have color coded id cards based on their BMI, have them off flights etc till they prove that they ran on their treadmill today...