More Americans are saying they’re ‘vaxxed and done’

Re:More Americans are saying they’re ‘vaxxed and done’ by namarie on Monday January 10, 2022 @06:25PM (#29884559)

Honestly, comparing people who are fat to unvaccinated people who could change their vaccination status with a few free jabs but day after day refuse to do so is more likely to tell me you despise fat people more than anything else.

I absolutely agree that no one should ever be threatened to have medical care taken away from them! That is precisely why I'm ok with villifying (note that I'm not saying "calling them names" or "refuse treatment") the unvaccinated, as that is precisely what they are doing! And no, this is absolutely not comparable to anything else: there has been no sudden explosion in the last two years of obesity or drunk driving or smoking to the point that there are no hospital beds for anyone else. Only covid has done that.

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Re:More Americans are saying they’re ‘vaxxed and done’ by s1artibartfast on Monday January 10, 2022 @08:34PM (#29885949)

I would say that the obese in particular deserve to vilified far more than antivaxxes, because they are doing damage year after year. An estimate 20% of US healthcare costs (~200B/yr) are related adult obesity. Think of how many lives could be saved with that money. These people are essentially murderers based on the externalities they impose on the rest of us.

Hospital Costs and deaths associated with covid are easily surpassed by the obese if you add up just a few years.

https://www.healthycommunitieshealthyfuture.org/learn-the-fa...

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