Lies All the Way Down

Just realized that obesity is another area where liberals lie to you “for your own good.”

“It’s ok for a 10-year-old to weigh 300 pounds” is another bit of mendacity where they think they are protecting people but just harming them even worse in the long run. What’s odd is these same mooks will abuse others online when they see someone’s overweight cat (which everyone knows is very harmful to the cat), but then will not apply the same obvious conclusion to humans.

Another thought on obesity as it relates to medical care: the obese have better outcomes now than they formerly did because so much more care is thrown at them. Everyone in the medical field knows that obese people require vastly more treatment, and more drastic interventions earlier, to achieve the same results as those in the normal weight range. That is very hard to capture in the statistics, by the way, but it’s just generally true.

I shouldn’t have to point out (but knowing how poorly people read, I do) that this diverts resources away from normal-weight patients that they would otherwise receive.