But a mandate that excludes fat people from working and being able to feed their families which is the thread topic? That's very different.
So for clarity, and please correct me if I am wrong. What you are saying is:
- You are ok with preventing a person from working because they have not been vaccinated, but you are not ok with preventing a person who has been vaccinated but because of their physical condition has similar levels of immunity to a healthy unvaccinated person.
Does the above statement represent you point of view?
Haven't seen any evidence regarding vaccinated fat people being more at risk
Did you read the article in the OP? Its from CNN. Its about as left as you can get. Shale MacGregor posted another link.
"Pooled analysis show individuals with obesity were more at risk for COVID-19 positive, >46.0% higher (OR = 1.46; 95% CI, 1.30–1.65;
p < 0.0001); for hospitalization, 113% higher (OR = 2.13; 95% CI, 1.74–2.60;
p < 0.0001); for ICU admission, 74% higher (OR = 1.74; 95% CI, 1.46–2.08); and for mortality, 48% increase in deaths (OR = 1.48; 95% CI, 1.22–1.80;
p < 0.001)."
You just have to look, its there.
Even if you had data that obese vaccinated were more at risk I'd be hard-pressed to be in favor of a mandate against them whereas I am in favor of a vaccination mandate for everyone.
Explain this please. Obese people are at significantly higher risk and they need a vaccination to simply be close to being on par with an actual healthy person. If you mandate everyone then there is still a disparity between healthy and obese and they are putting everyone else at risk (I dont actually believe this but it is the argument used against the unvaccinated that present an equal risk to the vaccinated obese.)
Considering 42.4% of Americans qualify as obese (
ref), a vaccine mandate makes more sense to me and the large number of obese could skew causation anyway. For example, Spain is considered one of the "fittest" countries in the world (
ref), but Covid wise they're not doing anywhere near as well (
ref) as Canada and just a little worse than the U.S. (although that could be for any number of other factors from genetics to the health care system).
over 2/3s of Americans are considered overweight. The distinction between overweight and obese has made all the numbers a lot smaller then they otherwise would have been.
As for Spain, it wasnt the fittest but the healthiest based on the Bloomberg categories, which are all potentially garbage. Sure, they may have low rates of obesity but the entire population could be overweight but not meet the criteria of obese. There is no metric for activity. Lists and rankings like this are dumb and so easy to manipulate.