Real question (ready for the neg rep from the snowflakes)
Since the vaccine hesitant and anti-vaxxers are fair game for shaming, if we weren't in 2021, where the majority of social media interactions are heavily influenced by leftist culture - would everyone be just as open and willing to shame the overweight and obese who are literally weighing down hospitals?
Everyone, myself included, has enjoyed harping on anti-vaxxers clogging up our hospitals in this latest wave, but would it paint a different picture for people if we knew that wasn't really the issue and that regardless if someone is vaccinated or not vaccinated the reason why they are in the ICU is because they are simply a fat fuck? Last I checked the US said around 80% of their COVID hospitalizations and deaths were obese and overweight people, so I can't imagine Alberta being much different and I've tried looking for our numbers but I can't seem to find anything.
I feel like if we took all the energy spent shaming the hesitant and anti-vaxxers and put that towards promoting and shaming people into living healthier lifestyles, we could have actually prevented a bunch of hospitalizations and deaths. But we live in a society where someone's diet and the fact that they look like a land whale is off limits.
This came about the other day when I got caught up in a convo with a neighbor who was absolutely going off on anti vaxxers, but I'm looking at him and he smokes a pack of cigarettes and downs at least 6 beers a day and I'm just thinking in my head that even if he is vaccinated this unhealthy slob is going to end up in the ICU anyways.