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In reply to the discussion: Is weight a factor for severe Covid? It's not clear! [View all]Ocelot II
(115,693 posts)isn't fat-shaming; it's just established fact based on many studies. Diabetes, heart disease and lung disease are also comorbidities, and pointing that out about those conditions isn't diabetes-shaming, heart disease-shaming or lung disease-shaming. Likewise, the fact that obesity is a condition that could make covid worse isn't a criticism. It's just reality, and many studies have established it. Nobody is blaming people for it, or for being diabetic or having heart or lung disease. Or, for that matter, for being old. These comorbidities are why vaccines were made available to people who have them, along with the elderly, before the general public. That doesn't sound like shaming to me, it sounds like helping. Fat-shaming is real, but this isn't it.