Muh Muh Muh My Corona (virus)

I'll cop to having never heard this theory. I'm not aware of any studies to that effect one way or the other.

 

Global Obesity Levels - Obesity - ProCon.org

At a glance, according to this link:

India is 4th-least obese, 2nd in the world in cases. Gonna have to work to catch the US but not impossible.

 

Why is COVID-19 more severely affecting people of color?

According to recent data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), non-Hispanic American Indian or Alaska Native people had an age-adjusted COVID-19 hospitalization rate about 5.3 times that of non-Hispanic white people. COVID-19 hospitalization rates among non-Hispanic Black people and Hispanic or Latino people were both about 4.7 times the rate of non-Hispanic white people.


While there's no evidence that people of color have genetic or other biological factors that make them more likely to be affected by COVID-19, they are more likely to have underlying health conditions. Having certain conditions, such as type 2 diabetes, increases your risk of severe illness with COVID-19. But experts also know that where people live and work affects their health. Over time, these factors lead to different health risks among racial and ethnic minority groups.

 

We have figured out that you are the master of the false equivalency, yes. Because of masks, Vietnam also had no cold or flu season this year. Why do you suppose that was, because only fat people get the flu and colds?

 

Immune system is everything. Obesity weakens the immune system. It's not just one thing (surviving vs. dying). It's a domino.

Better immune system = even if you contract a viral load, your immune system can kick its ass before you even know you have it.
Better immune system = even if the virus catches a foothold, you can fight it off with mild symptoms.
Better immune system = even if you are hospitalized, your chances of a surviving outcome are better.

India's death rate is 84 per million (US is 682). They have a lot of cases because 1.35 billion people means they have a lot of everything. But among those who contract the virus, they are dying at a rate EIGHT TIMES lower than the US.

Let's recap:
India 4x the population of the US, 10x the population density, yet . . .
fewer cases overall, 10x fewer deaths, death rate 8x smaller.

Give the US India's death rate, and we'd be at 27,375 deaths. Sound pretty good?

 

U.S. is staring down a 'substantial third wave' of coronavirus cases. Here are the numbers

 

you literally just told me it wasn’t about deaths but cases

 

I sure didn't intend to do that.

 

That’s supposed to be an own, but libertarians genuinely want a world in which a restaurant is allowed to do those things, under the assumption that people would just choose not to eat there