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Re:New York's largest healthcare provider fires 1,400 unvacc... by ballarak on Monday October 04, 2021 @07:35PM (#28753757)
The obesity examples fails because obesity is non-contagious. The issue with COVID is that not getting vaccinated puts your coworkers even more at risk in an environment where you're already much more likely to be infected.

Additionally, in health care you're often working with patients who have comorbidities, for these patients, contracting COVID from a healthcare worker could be a death sentence.

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Re:New York's largest healthcare provider fires 1,400 unvacc... by Mirioron on Tuesday October 05, 2021 @02:52AM (#28756239)
But the risk with obesity and Covid is that they both overload the healthcare system. As long as it keeps working fine then Covid is unlikely to spiral out of control. Obesity itself seems to make Covid worse.
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Re:New York's largest healthcare provider fires 1,400 unvacc... by throwaway0a5e on Monday October 04, 2021 @08:26PM (#28754111)
>The obesity examples fails because obesity is non-contagious.

There's plenty of research showing that people tend to gravitate toward the weight of other people they are around.

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Re:New York's largest healthcare provider fires 1,400 unvacc... by p45please on Monday October 04, 2021 @08:33PM (#28754158)
What an interesting response, do you really think obesity is similar to a contagious virus or are you just grasping at straws to support your ideology?
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Re:New York's largest healthcare provider fires 1,400 unvacc... by throwaway0a5e on Monday October 04, 2021 @09:09PM (#28754390)
> What an interesting response, do you really think obesity is similar to a contagious virus or are you just grasping at straws to support your ideology?

All I'm doing is pointing out that a statement in the parent comment is false, nitpicking essentially. It's kind of what we do here. There's no need to project an entire ideology onto me. Just because I disagree with one particular falsehood on one particular side of an issue does not immediately mean I am on the "other team".

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