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In reply to the discussion: 'Encouraging? (Eugenics) News From CDC: Most COVID Deaths Are "People Who Were Unwell To Begin With" [View all]PoindexterOglethorpe
(28,493 posts)I'm talking about things like chronic diseases.
It is true that an ability to store fat efficiently was very good during the many thousands, tens of thousands, of years when food could be scarce or unreliably available. Which is why so many of us are overweight and obese. But that doesn't make obesity benign. Early on in the pandemic, every time I'd read of some young person dying of Covid, I'd Google the name, and if there was a picture, invariably they were extremely overweight, usually obese. This is not fat-shaming. It's stating a fact. In my local paper, when they mention without giving names, of those who have died from Covid, very often it notes that the person had co-morbidities, without specifying what they are.
Diversity and genetic variation are good things. But when they result in ill health then they are less than good.