Obese people do affect my health if they take a hospital bed that I could have used when I need it. Isn't that one of the same arguments applied to the unvaccinated?
If we didn't have so many obese people, would the hospitals be overloaded? Would we have a shortage of healthcare workers?
I am repeating them because repeating works. See the Parable of the Widow and the Unjust Judge. It is also what the others are doing, by repeating the same "tired" lines over and over about how the unvaccinated are killing grandmas.
By the way, I'm not trolling. I'm serious. HN guidelines ask that you assume good faith.
I don't know what to tell you if I look like a good competitor to you.
The Delta variant has a case fatality rate in the US of 0.1% for the general population, and 2% for those over 50.
That's not nothing. There are a LOT of people over 50 in a hospital.
https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/cases-updates/burd...
There is no reliable evidence of a higher IFR for the Delta variant.
That's the difference.
If we had a plague as bad as the Black Death, then yes, it would be deadly.
People will use the death numbers as counter-arguments, yet most deaths (94%-ish last I heard) are from people who had comorbidities, like obesity and such.
Until there is the same logic being applied to obese people as to the unvaccinated, as well as counting previous infections, especially for healthcare workers, I personally will not apply the same logic of smoking and drunk driving either.