Re:Locked-out New Zealanders outraged as visa scheme for ric...
by dzhiurgis on Saturday December 25, 2021 @08:17PM
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> Why does NZ grant visas to obese people?
They don’t. You go thru serious health check when getting work visa and then another check when applying for residency. If you are fat with serious health issues you won’t pass.
Re:Locked-out New Zealanders outraged as visa scheme for ric...
by seanmcdirmid on Saturday December 25, 2021 @08:24PM
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> If you are fat with serious health issues you won’t pass.
Obese doesn't mean morbidly obese. The former can get a work visa (very common actually) when the latter might not.
Re:Locked-out New Zealanders outraged as visa scheme for ric...
by dzhiurgis on Saturday December 25, 2021 @10:31PM
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Being overweight myself I can attest of health issues even that can cause. High blood pressure > some protein in blood that might indicate kidney damage which in turn meant months of health checks.
Same with a friend who had some lung abnormalities since birth - very stringent checks.
Re:Locked-out New Zealanders outraged as visa scheme for ric...
by seanmcdirmid on Sunday December 26, 2021 @12:21AM
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Obese is anyone with a BMI over 30, 42% of Americans are obese. It isn’t the same thing as being morbidly obese. I doubt New Zealand automatically screens out anyone with a BMI over 30. Consider that Australia itself has an obesity rate of 30% (about the same as NZ), but then Australians don’t need visas to work in Nz.
This is hilarious. Why hasn’t your society decided that nobody should die from obesity? Obesity kills far more people every year than COVID ever will, and would be a far easier problem to solve through legislation.
Why does NZ grant visas to obese people? Why are obese people allowed to go to restaurants or work? If the government made it difficult to be fat, far less people would die.