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- Nairn3
re: Diabetes, above - I'm probably going to be shat on by karma for saying this, but one thing I've noted in the daily-reported "Not-so-old person with no underlying health conditions dies from C-19" stories is that a lot of them are 'a bit hefty' - not fat, not gross or anything - just a bit big-boned. ie. the sort of people, now that you mention diabetes, who might suffer from the condition without necessarily recognising it as such.
- had this image in my head since reading about the overweight middle aged male 'superspreader' in china (carried the virus for 49 days until plasma treatment)kingsteven
- i got dumped on a week ago for posting a podcast that specifically mentioned that obesity was a factor in mortality and why it was going to hit the USA hard.MrAbominable
- You got a link to that, MrAbominable?
Ta!Nairn - This was a news story about a week ago...
https://metro.co.uk/…webazoot - https://www.thesun.c…webazoot
- @Nairn - the JRE episode with Michael Osterholm (epidemiologist). Re Obesity. Fair warning, not going to change your opinion on JRE if you're predisposed.MrAbominable
- It's a fascinating interview nonetheless: https://www.youtube.…MrAbominable
- Being fat is only of a benefit in famine.shapesalad
- So the skinny folks can bbq you.shapesalad
- overweight increases risk i read 2 two weeks ago.neverscared
- I more meant being 'solid' rather than overweight. But yeah, point taken - no novel thinking here. It was just something I noticed.Nairn
- "novel" thinking.MrAbominable
- Yeah, my thoughts exactly, ppl not knowing they had underlaying issues and appearing healthygrafician
- The weight itself isn’t the issue. It’s just an indicator for actual issues, like hypertension and diabetes. Like Nairn said, unrecognized at the time.monospaced
- I’m probably a bit big boned by your estimation. Not even close to fat but not even remotely skinny. I’m scared risk, but I’ve also had a strong immune system.monospaced
- Year after year my wife and son get the flu. Bad. Really bad. Wanting to die bad. Year after year I barely get fatigued and I’m basically swapping spit all daymonospaced
- I’m starting to wonder if we already had it and didn’t know.monospaced
- the average person in the UK is overweight, the average person in the US (BMI~29) is borderline obese. just another thing to add to the causation calculations.kingsteven
- but it's all statistics... plenty of really healthy bigger folks out there. obesity could be a multiplier if other conditions or age added in to the mix.kingsteven