This, for example, is a pretty bad mischaracterization. Excess body weight isn't a massive predictor of COVID-19 risk until you get to extreme BMIspic.twitter.com/h59nZwHsfw
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This, for example, is a pretty bad mischaracterization. Excess body weight isn't a massive predictor of COVID-19 risk until you get to extreme BMIspic.twitter.com/h59nZwHsfw
Here's the chart from OpenSAFELY. Ignoring the issues with interpreting the ORs from this model causally (I know, I know) even the association between obesity and death doesn't get above race until a BMI of >40!pic.twitter.com/12DhS6cGRX
Oh, that is some brutal fat shaming from whoever published that.
To push the blame onto the individual is an often-used tactic when seeking to minimise the system's culpability.
Relax...we've survived far worse misinformation than that.
Besindes obesity, do you guys think "ethnicity" is a proxy for socio-economic background?
That? Well, we've learned that it's not socially OK to make fun of fat people, call them ugly, lazy, or stupid, but it IS OK, encouraged even, to care about our health. So we can insult fat people all we want, as long as we use health words! Neat trick, right?
Here are some examples! See? They just talk about health so it's not mean or prejudiced at all! Language is magic that way.pic.twitter.com/DTOLp67Ao8
Are you actually trying to say that being overweight is not the number one greatest health risk for having a poor outcome for covid? Come on...it’s not even up for debate.
Not acknowledging that obese people are at high risk is about the most harmful public health measure there could be. Covid discriminates. Period.
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