Lol. The guy who fixes planes just told the guy who works frontline with COVID patients in a medical setting that he‘s wrong about patient characteristics. Amazing.
Even better, Quirky goes on to double down with stats that don’t speak to his specific claim. The claim was “Majority of people hospitalized are obese or overweight”, and the subsequent article spoke to risks attach to certain comorbidities, NOT the abundance of obesity in the overall hospitalized patient population.
There’s not staying in your lane, and then there’s looking at the car in the lane beside you and deliberately smashing into it. This is the latter.
As much as I find Quirky's continuing arguments to verge on trolling (separate from his selfish a***holery point of view), he is probably correct in his assertion about age, weight and hospitalization rates. There are probably (actually, definitely) several links that I could immediately provide that support it, however I won't. He can do his own damn research and find ones that specifically deal with his statements. That being said, the conclusions that he seems to reach and the solutions that he suggests are rarely backed up by data and the reality of society.
As someone who's been dealing with this first hand, I assure you, they're not.
And as strange as it may seem, Mike is also probably right. His dealings with it on the frontline are observational, but anecdotal, and likely limited to the facilities in which he works. Without further information I can only make assumptions or ask further questions
*. One of those assumptions is that the majority of the patients that he sees "don't look obese or overweight". When a majority of the population fall within that criteria, it becomes the normal body appearance, is not noted as unusual by the average person, and with the potential for an increased tendency to be less noticeable by clinicians unless there are other underlying morbidities. I welcome Mike to tell me how uncorrect I am in suggesting any shortfall in his practice of medicine (and I likely am), or how patient profiles have changed as this pandemic progresses.
*(and that's where the "Let The Old Die, I Want To Do As I Please Twins" fall short - they don't ask the further questions that their selected data and questionable articles should elicit, they stop when their bias is confirmed)
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