Comments by "John Woodrow" (@johnwoodrow8769) on "Health officials ‘too scared’ of ‘being accused of fat shaming’ to give clear information" video.

@monicasahu07 Well I suggest your reread your original comment. Rita Panahi is making a VERY important comment about obesity (which is a MAJOR health crisis, far greater than covid, and has been for years), and you criticize her for "body shaming". Nearly 50% of the afro-american community in the USA are now classified as medically obese. It is something like 40% in the general community. Morbidly obese is something like 26% of the US population. Australia isn't far behind. It IS a major health problem, needs talking about, people need educating about the crap (can't even call it food) they eat these days, and the LAST think needed is people trying to 'cancel' those raising this critically important topic by making stupid comments about 'body shaming'. We need to stop the nonsense put out by the PC brigade that being overweight is fine, just love yourself, you are 'beautiful'. An overweight teenager is on a certain path to morbid obesity, very poor health, and a reduced life unless they change their lifestyle habits. Being obese is NOT healthy, it is not cool. Obese people are sick people, that is why a relative benign virus (covid) can knock them over quite easily.
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@monicasahu07 You can try and spin your total nonsense all your like. You're the only one constantly referring to 'hating', and that's your only contribution. I'm the one saying people need to heal by recognizing obesity is a serious health condition that they really need to addressed. You're either an idiot or troll, probably both, so don't expect a further response from me. And I won't bother to even read any further response from you, so don't waste your time.
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How can you possibly assume that people over 80 who died from covid weren't overweight? They may not have been in the very last stages of their life as they loose interest in food (especially the slop served up in old age institutions) and their muscles have wasted away. But you can bet the vast majority were overweight most of their adult life, high sugar diets from cakes etc, and have all the lifestyle driven diseases to prove it.
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Rita, good job raising the awareness of obesity as perhaps the biggest risk factor for a bad covid experience. This has been known since virtually day one in Wuhan when Chinese doctors noticed the trend. BUT .... you make some VERY serious health mistakes. You separated obesity FROM comorbidities. Show me an obese person and I'll show you someone with Type 2 diabetes, cardiovascular disease, kidney disease, etc. While the medical establishment may not classify obesity as an illness, in practical terms the person is VERY sick. And you say diseases like cancer, dementia, kidney disease "can't be helped". Not true. A person who lives on McDonalds and Coke, smokes cigarettes, drinks excessively is just a walking cancer, dementia, and kidney and liver disease. Sure a perfectly health person can get cancer, but the odds are MASSIVELY increased by lifestyle factors e.g. poor diet, lack of exercise.
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Totally agree, if people want to be fat and unhealthy that's their choice. But that's not the issue. The issue is why should the people who make the effort to look after themselves, and as such have a low risk from covid, be forced to endure lock-downs and wearing stupid masks around to protect the fat unhealthy people. They don't care enough to look after themselves, so why should the healthy people be asked to care more about the fat person's health that they are prepared to do for themselves.
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Don't reckon the reason health departments aren't making more of this issue has anything to do with 'fat shaming'. It's simply because they are in the pockets of Big Phama and want the ONLY solution to covid to be their product. It's not just obesity the health departments have ignored, its EVERY possible alternative to Big Pharma expensive vaccines. Where do you think the health official really want to score a job? For a public servants salary, or 3 or more times that at Big Pharma.
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@monicasahu07 You are simply in denial. Obesity is a major health problem leading with near certainty to Type 2 diabetes. You want to go blind, have one or both your legs amputated, develop Alzheimer's Disease...... just keep eating your Big Mac and Coke.
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@monicasahu07 So now your trying to deflect from your original nonsense by completely changing subjects to the health status of thin people. That is totally irrelevant to the medical FACT that it is obese people who are MASSIVELY over represented in poor covid outcomes. If you want to simply deny reality and put correct medical advice down as 'hate from many', well you are free to do so. But don't ask me to make any sacrifices e.g suffer lock-downs or wear stupid face masks to look after your health just because you don't care about it.
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