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“Obesity” Actually Has No Link With Covid Hospitalizations
About 50% of people hospitalized for covid out of 148,494 across 238 hospitals were “obese” gathered from the study. Well, if I told you about 50% were women too would that be surprising? No, because about 50% of the population are women. Well, according to the CDC, 42% of the US population are “obese”. So there is actually only a small correlation between “obesity” and covid hospitalizations as 42 don’t seem that far off from 50 to me. But correlation doesn’t imply causation, and I have an alternative explanation for the 8% point difference, age. People tend to gain weight, both in muscle mass and fat, in there 20s and 30s. So there is a slight positive correlation between “obesity” and age. Age is actually a known risk factor for covid hospitalizations, weight on the other hand is not. The CDC must not understand basic statistics or even logic for that matter, or they have ulterior motives that don’t involve informing the public. They should publicly choose one.
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I feel like this is one of those situations where neither COVID nor Obesity is a good scenario to be in. As such, they definitely cannot be good to have together.
That being said, there was an attempted suicide in Missouri and a motorcycle accident in Florida that were both considered “COVID-19 Related” deaths. That’s obviously a false statement. Those individuals died from injuries from their respective incidents and COVID just happened to be present at the same time.
I’m not the biggest fan of Patrick Bet-David. He has the Bro/Bully interviewer thing Rogan does that annoys the hell out of me. But I saw a clip recently where he was interviewing Robert F. Kennedy and tried to corner RFK with the “But you gotta answer the question, Bro!” type of response when RFK said he needed to know more about the subject. Then RFK did an amazing thing of dropping knowledge from the last 60 years that made the question Patrick asked look minuscule in perspective. What PBD asked was barely a drop in the bucket of the bigger picture and RFK proceeded to school PBD on that. And then reiterated that he did not know enough specifically about the question PBD asked him to answer.
I feel like that’s what happened with COVID. “THEY DIED CAUSE COVID, BRO!”. You’re right… It wasn’t the 17 double cheese burgers they had yesterday that caused their heart attack and the lack of a big enough ambulance to haul their 670lb ass to the hospital. It was The Rona. Clearly.
In other news: People who have more birthdays tend to live longer than those that don’t.