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Re:Vaccine experts: Covid-19 booster shots aren't needed now by CountDrewku on Tuesday September 14, 2021 @10:23AM (#28525286)
>They could no longer empathise with their patients, each describing a visceral anger at tending to ICUs of COVID patients, all unvaccinated.

Did you ask them if they treat obese people the same way?

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Re:Vaccine experts: Covid-19 booster shots aren't needed now by macintux on Tuesday September 14, 2021 @10:45AM (#28525614)
If obesity could be prevented with a simple shot, and was otherwise overwhelming our healthcare system, that might be a useful question.
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Re:Vaccine experts: Covid-19 booster shots aren't needed now by CountDrewku on Wednesday September 15, 2021 @06:31PM (#28545239)
It IS overwhelming our health system. The 1,3, and 9th causes of death can all be attributed to in whole or at least in part to obesity. And guess what it has a super simple treatment called exercise and healthy diet. You can add it to reasons for dying from COVID as well.

https://www.who.int/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/the-top-10-...

While we're at it since you seem to be really into some weird sort of eugenics mindset why don't you let us all know whether drug addicts should get treated? You might wanna tread carefully on this authoritarian attitude you've got going. You're treading a very fine line deciding who's worthy of treatment and who's not.

I do not want a medical system that gets to pass judgement on who they're going to administer treatment to. That's absolutely horrifying. These nurses can vent all they want but the moment they suggest they're not going to do everything they can to save people they should be relieved of their jobs.

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Re:Vaccine experts: Covid-19 booster shots aren't needed now by macintux on Wednesday September 15, 2021 @07:08PM (#28545611)
> While we're at it since you seem to be really into some weird sort of eugenics mindset

I’m morbidly curious what leads you to say that.

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Re:Vaccine experts: Covid-19 booster shots aren't needed now by dham on Tuesday September 14, 2021 @02:02PM (#28528404)
I mean you could get Osha to start banning foods or do whatever with the jurisdiction they have now. Tax sugar out of existence. Then government subsidize all healthier foods. I mean the amount of money we spent no Covid we could have done all this....

But wait are you saying people should be able to make their on decisions? Obesity effects only a single person. Nope obesity is transmissible. I've seen too many couples where 1 is skinny and the other is obese or overweight. They both become overweight.

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Re:Vaccine experts: Covid-19 booster shots aren't needed now by macintux on Tuesday September 14, 2021 @02:14PM (#28528542)
No one in the history of the world has died from obesity two weeks after simply spending time with another obese person.
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Re:Vaccine experts: Covid-19 booster shots aren't needed now by dham on Tuesday September 14, 2021 @02:40PM (#28528998)
Yes but if we sent everyone a Peloton in March 2020 and required use of it how many people would we have saved by now? Just pay people to use it which seems more ethical than paying people to take the vaccine.

Pandemics come and go. We might as well use fear to pass policies now like we did after 9/11

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