Deaths due to obesity-related disease are also FAR more complex than COVID-19 deaths, because obesity is AT BEST a risk factor for these diseases On the other hand, the causal link between COVID-19 infection --> death is much stronger
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To put it another way, if you vaccinate 100 people against COVID-19 successfully, then none of them will die from the disease If you get 100 people to lose 20% of their body weight, SOME WILL STILL DIE OF THE SAME DISEASES
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(Even worse, vaccinations are often effective for a lifetime, while the majority of weightloss is reversed over the course of a decade. Getting 100 people to lose 20% of their body weight will probably result in only 10-20 of them maintaining that long-term)
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Not to mention one isn’t contagious.
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Actually, our global obesity pandemic is caused by the consumption of processed junk food. It really doesn’t matter if obesity itself causes hypertension, diabetes, or a susceptibility to the Wuhan Flu. The root cause of all is sugar laden and nutrition deprived junk foods.
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Ok then, how do you completely change the food system of, say, Indonesia so that the access to junk food (however you define that) is changed enough to reverse their obesity epidemic?
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Other than the fact that obesity is not a contagious virus?
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*psst* arguing against this extremely bad take is unlikely to be productive but if we're going there, COVID19 is probably the single modifiable factor that would most increase chance of death for those with chronic conditions *this* year, outside of poverty or missing meds.
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True, but to be fair I don't always come on twitter to be productive

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