Will You Get a Booster Shot?

[Yppej]

Because with this virus and the variants, a person's decision and behaviors aren't affecting JUST themselves, but are impacting others.

Same with smoking, overeating, and a host of other behaviors that kill people and drive up healthcare costs for everyone else. Remind me again how successful the extremely well financed presidential campaign of Michael I'm Going To Ban Big Gulp Sodas Bloomberg was.

[Jane v2.0]

I'm fat, and I guarantee you I've never "driven up healthcare costs." Don't forget people who bear children, rock climbers and other adventurers, drinkers, hypochondriacs, people with mental illness, etc. etc. while you're vilifying people. Mostly what drives up health care costs in this country is simple greed.

[iris lilies]

I'm fat, and I guarantee you I've never "driven up healthcare costs." Don't forget people who bear children, rock climbers and other adventurers, drinkers, hypochondriacs, people with mental illness, etc. etc. while you're vilifying people. Mostly what drives up health care costs in this country is simple greed.

No we haven’t…not yet. Our time will come.

My hope has been that my massive heart attack happens in my sleep and about 6 months before obvious signs of dementia kick in.

I wouldn’t be surprised if dementia is shown to be a super expensive illness cor the taxpayers in nursing home /Medicaid costs. But I haven’t looked into that, so I do not know.

[Jane v2.0]

Most people--fat or thin--rack up the bulk of their medical costs in the last months of their lives. Like you, I hope for a quick, merciful end.

I certainly don't want an expensive entanglement with--to paraphrase Dwight Eisenhower--the medical-industrial complex.

[jp1]

Same with smoking, overeating, and a host of other behaviors that kill people and drive up healthcare costs for everyone else. Remind me again how successful the extremely well financed presidential campaign of Michael I'm Going To Ban Big Gulp Sodas Bloomberg was.

False equivalence. When overeating starts killing the people the overeater comes in contact with come back and try again. And we dealt with the risk smokers place on others by making them go outside to smoke now.

[Yppej]

False equivalence. When overeating starts killing the people the overeater comes in contact with come back and try again. And we dealt with the risk smokers place on others by making them go outside to smoke now.

The overeater sets patterns that pass on to the next generation. Children with two obese parents are 10 to 12 times more likely to be obese. Source: NIH

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/art...o%20be%20obese.

Children are also more likely to smoke if their parents smoke.

[Jane v2.0]

I think the genetic connection to weight is pretty well established.

[happystuff]

I think the genetic connection to weight is pretty well established.

True. It's not like a fat person will get in close physical proximity of someone and cause that someone to get fat.

[Yppej]

True. It's not like a fat person will get in close physical proximity of someone and cause that someone to get fat.

If they keep offering them fattening foods it will. I have gained a lot of weight at my current job because of this.

[ApatheticNoMore]

It's not like a fat person will get in close physical proximity of someone and cause that someone to get fat.

well maybe, since some infections do have a link with obesity. I doubt it's that easily transmitted, families or partners maybe, but "i caught it at the hardware store", seems about as likely as I caught syphilis there. And all this is about obesity and infections is pretty speculative, you can definitely catch covid from strangers somewhere.