COVID and the moral panic over obesity lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2021/09/covid-…
The vast majority of people in the study who were, per the study’s definitions, unhealthily fat, *did not have any statistically significant increased risk for either hospitalization or death from COVID, relative to people at what the study defines as a “healthy weight.”*
"insignificant differences in relative risk are, in the context of the moral panic over obesity, treated as irrefutable proof that fat people are dying of this or that illness, that has been caused supposedly by their fatness."
Assuming correlation reflects perfect causation, if everyone in the US could be "ideal" weight it would have reduced COVID deaths 5%. If everyone could be magically turned into a woman it would have reduced COVID deaths 37%, because gender appears to be a much larger factor
Good thread on how the weak correlation between obesity and COVID deaths is being weaponized by the anti-anti-COVID set:
https://twitter.com/kevinnbass/status/1438640304349794304
Not only is obesity less of a risk factor than being male, making everybody into someone with a BMI of 20 is precisely as realistic a goal as turning all men into women
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