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Re:Most Covid-19 hospitalizations due to four conditions by zuminator on Monday November 01, 2021 @02:36AM (#29063656)
Overweight people per se don't create hospital shortages. You can argue that obesity is a huge expense overall but it's a predictable and manageable one. It doesn't generally cause sudden spikes in medical utilization in the way a pandemic or epidemic can.
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Re:Most Covid-19 hospitalizations due to four conditions by throwawaylinux on Monday November 01, 2021 @02:54AM (#29063747)
Unvaccinated people per se don't create hospital shortages either.

> You can argue that obesity is a huge expense overall but it's a predictable and manageable one.

I can argue that it is a huge expense that costs society and impacts service to others, and may absolutely contribute to shortages, and therefore is a fine analogy to use when exploring the merits of the covid response.

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Re:Most Covid-19 hospitalizations due to four conditions by timeon on Monday November 01, 2021 @07:44AM (#29065458)
> Unvaccinated people per se don't create hospital shortages either.

Except they do.

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Re:Most Covid-19 hospitalizations due to four conditions by throwawaylinux on Monday November 01, 2021 @09:31AM (#29066426)
No they don't. Hospitalizations do. Which are people who contract covid. Which includes vaccinated and unvaccinated people. And hospitalization rates are higher in people with other issues like obesity.
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