[LurkingPenguin]

> I think you're confused about why some unvaccinated people are being fired. It's not to be mean to them, it's to get them away from customers and employees so they don't pass it on and cause another shutdown.

The greatest confusion here is found in comments like yours, which imply that the vaccines provide sterilizing immunity and stop transmission of the virus, which they do not.

The latest on this: https://www.bbc.com/news/health-59077036

As for "shutdowns", the rationale du jour in places where vaccination rates are high but restrictions are still in place, and where people are often unable to access non-emergency healthcare services, is that the hospitals are overwhelmed.

The issue of obesity, diabetes, etc. is very pertinent to that, as the majority of the people being hospitalized have four comorbidities frequently associated with poor lifestyle choices.

As for deaths, https://www.bmj.com/content/372/bmj.n623 paints a very stark picture:

> Taking data from over 160 countries, the report found linear correlations between a country’s covid-19 mortality and the proportion of adults that are overweight. There is not a single example of a country with less than 40% of the population overweight that has high death rates (over 10 per 100 000), the report said. Similarly, no country with a death rate over 100 per 100 000 had less than 50% of their population overweight.

So maybe you should consider that "fat people" (as you call them) are a bigger pandemic problem than you argue. If "fat people" weren't clogging up the ICUs and dying, maybe it would be easier to start "living with the virus".

[craftinator]

> The greatest confusion here is found in comments like yours, which imply that the vaccines provide sterilizing immunity and stop transmission of the virus, which they do not.

My comment does not imply that. It implies that a vaccinated person is less likely to spread it than an unvaccinated person, which is obviously true, given that the vaccine significantly lessens the chances of having it (if you don't have it, you won't spread it), and even for those who do get sick, it lessens the severity of the symptoms (a person coughing mucus and spit everywhere is more likely to spread it than someone who just has a fever).