Vores tykke kammerater i USA er bange

Vores tykke kammerater i USA er bange, rigtig bange. I USA må lægerne vælge hvem der kan få respiratorbehandling for CV19 og tykhed vil sandsynligvis være en af kriterierne for fravalg.

De amerikanske sundhedsmyndigheder har bestemt sig for at tykke mennesker har højere risiko for at dø af CV19, selvom det på ingen måde kan konkluderes på baggrund af det nuværende datagrundlag.

"Throughout the pandemic, Dr. Anthony Fauci, the leading COVID-19 expert in the United States, has repeatedly said that heart disease, lung disease, diabetes, and “obesity” make people more at risk for developing a severe case of COVID-19. But only three of these are actual diseases. So-called “obesity” is an arbitrary designation based on the unscientific body mass index (BMI). While Fauci believes he’s helping Americans keep themselves and their loved ones safe, he’s actually dressing medical fatphobia up as medical fact."

"Though our culture uses the phrase “obesity epidemic” ad nauseam, fatness never infected communities and killed with impunity. Unlike COVID-19, hospitals didn’t flood with fatness victims; harried doctors forced to triage. In Anti-Diet, Harrison explains that BMI guidelines were lowered in the late ’90s, suddenly throwing millions into “overweight” and “obese” categories. As a result, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention researcher William Dietz tried to convince his colleagues that an obesity epidemic was sweeping the nation. They were not persuaded. After all, the flu, Ebola, and HIV were epidemics, but fatness? No way. Dietz then presented a series of chilling maps that dramatically shifted from light blue (low rates of “obesity”) to siren-red (high rates). Somehow, this manipulative presentation worked. Dietz had sounded the fatness alarm, creating the “obesity epidemic.” This proved to be one of the most lucrative inventions of our time, with the dieting industry becoming a multibillion-dollar business."

Claudia Cortese for Bitch Media:

https://www.bitchmedia.org/article/fatphobia-in-coronavirus-treatment?utm_content=bufferb11a4&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook.com&utm_campaign=buffer