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adjl posted...

Because obesity isn't contagious, mostly. Not that "there are zero measures to prevent obesity" is a remotely factual statement. There are extensive anti-obesity measures being taken, including regulations on serving sizes (which have often been shot down by people that gobbled up industry propaganda like it was a 2-for-1 special on deep fried butter), pretty extensive health promotion campaigns, efforts to improve school lunches (remember when all the kids got mad at Michelle Obama because they wanted more cheeseburgers?), the mere existence of gym class... If you don't think anything's being done to combat the obesity epidemic, you haven't been paying attention.

What I mean by zero measures is that there's no laws preventing you from refilling your soda cup more than once. Regardless of what they serve at school lunches, you can still go home and stuff your face full of Twinkies. The point is these people ultimately still have a choice of how to live their lives, despite the amount of harm they're doing to themselves. Also, obesity can be contagious in the sense that children of obese parents are incredibly likely to pick up their same habits.

Also, this is just speculation on my part, but if people in this country had better eating habits and actually used face masks consistently, we would never have suffered the amount of losses that we did. Take a country like Japan for example, where obesity is rare and everybody wears a mask. Their case to death ratio is .006%, whereas the U.S. is .01%.

So basically, this country has issues, and Covid is just exposing some of them. Trying to mandate this particularly vaccine isn't going to fix the underlying issue. What it really does is set a dangerous precedent moving forward. You have people supporting the denial of medical treatment for unvaccinated patients. What if somewhere down the line your health insurance decides not to cover something that they believe you could have prevented? There's countless things to consider and it's not the black and white issue people make it out to be.