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Would you support the same attitude towards fat people?

They disproportionately drain medical resources due to life choices they made.



Am I a doctor? Do I support triage? Or am I just talking about why someone might take that position, given that they're the ones who have to clean up the consequences?

And, seriously, fat people? Do you really think that "a lifetime of eating choices, shaped by gut health, physical education, literal physical location, upbringing, and genetics" is equivalent to "sitting still for a vaccine, just like all the other ones you've uncontroversially received all your life"? Perhaps I've missed an easily-accessible vaccine against fat that the obese refused to get?

I don't think you do; I think you're choosing to present an untenable situation in order to score points. Just get the vaccine.


>> Just get the vaccine.

These days that means getting boosters. We are not at the point we were last year in terms of risk vs benefit, particularly for young healthy people.

https://youtu.be/iJ2W-1cKEtk?t=583


I think you didn’t answer the question because it highlights the principle behind your demand — and you don’t like that.

Histrionics from you aside, I’m entirely serious:

Do you support the same for fat people? …and if not, why not?

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You’re also ignoring that the vaccine is worse than the disease for the young and men under 40.

I think that’s because you’re not taking a principled position — you’re hysterical and seizing onto magic charms to make you feel better.


>Do you support the same for fat people? …and if not, why not?

I already answered this. No, I do not; please see the second paragraph in the grandfather comment. Why do you think that entirely illogical comparison has any place in this discussion? Just get the fat vaccine; duh! And there certainly weren't any fat people before late 2019! Wait, none of that's so? "Histrionics" indeed.

>You’re also ignoring that the vaccine is worse than the disease for the young and men under 40

This is a very bold claim. I roll to disbelieve! My magic charms give me a +2 to the roll. And I have darkvision.


Is there a free and effective vaccine against obesity that obese people are refusing to take? Are obese people acutely filling up hospitals causing issues for people in road accidents and with heart attacks getting delayed care?




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