Bacterial and fungal isolation from face masks under the Covid-19 pandemic

Re:Bacterial and fungal isolation from face masks under the ... by remarkEon on Friday July 22, 2022 @12:20AM (#32188490)

>According to this 73.6% of adults over 20 in the US are classified as overweight or obese

My God.

I did not think it was that high.

I had thought “ehh 50%” based simply on who I see walking around at Costco, and you’re right shame on me for not looking up the relevant statistics to fact check CNBC. That’s a legit public health catastrophe. We’re slow walking into a health case disaster if this doesn’t change.

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Re:Bacterial and fungal isolation from face masks under the ... by p1necone on Friday July 22, 2022 @01:13AM (#32188765)

To be fair I think the threshold for 'overweight' is pretty low (and based on BMI which isn't a super great measure at least on an individual level), but yes it's definitely a problem.

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Re:Bacterial and fungal isolation from face masks under the ... by remarkEon on Friday July 22, 2022 @01:50PM (#32194966)

Yeah BMI is a very crude metric. Half the guys I was in the Army with would be “overweight” if you only used BMI (these guys were not overweight, they were yoked).

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