Re:Covid-19: stigmatising the unvaccinated is not justified
by Arnt on Saturday November 20, 2021 @12:13PM
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The stigma isn't not so much about increased likelihood of hospitalisation. It's about decreased likelihood of hospitalisation for things like cancer. I mention cancer because two people IRL have mentioned cancer operations to me.
IMO if obesity took so much of the hospitals' resources that they had to defer cancer operations, then the obese would get a considerable stigma.
Re:Covid-19: stigmatising the unvaccinated is not justified
by tata71 on Saturday November 20, 2021 @03:34PM
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What percent of people hospitalized with COVID are overweight/obese?
Re:Covid-19: stigmatising the unvaccinated is not justified
by Arnt on Sunday November 21, 2021 @03:12PM
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I've seen data on that somewhere, and IIRC it's one of the factors that would be significant if the simple single bit "vaccinated or not?" didn't make everything else fade into the noise. Look at https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33932335/ for example. So and so many "per cent increase", while lack of vaccination causes "factor of x" increases and fuck the per cent.
Next up: increased likelihood of hospitalization of other choices that aren't choices for a minority of those groups that everyone wants to demonize, like the obese.