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1 minute ago, GoBills808 said:

Your ‘alternative POV’ might be better served checking out the OTW COVID discussion wherein the moderator in question has dedicated an extraordinary amount of time and professional expertise. 

Oh ok sounds good 

6 minutes ago, NewEra said:

I didn’t know you existed until this thread.  I wish I had kept it that way.  ?

Oh darn I’m so sorry for you. You gonna manage bud?

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1 minute ago, GoBills808 said:

How do I file counter complaint on behalf of Hapless Billsfan for wasting time dealing w idiot poster...where is that button

Awww poor whittle GoBills808 is ? 

 

Maybe learn how to handle alternate POVs instead of promoting shutting them down? Echo chambers are no good for anyone 

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14 hours ago, Hapless Bills Fan said:

 

Overweight, no; obesity yes as a covid-19 risk factor.  Of course obesity tends to coincide with hypertension and type II diabetes but it aparently still shows as a risk factor when they try to sort out the confounding factors. 

Football relevance: since "blocking enough daylight" is considered a Good Thing in a DL or OLman and even TE are expected to have a bit of heft to them, those guys may not be the "lean mean health machines" that we might commonly expect of pro-athletes and some of them by body fat % would probably count as obese - some of them may be in higher "risk categories" than one thinks

 

If you look at retired OLmen like Eric Woods, wow do some of them look skinny next to their playing weights

 

 

Um.  Hypertension per se is not a risk factor that "leads to diabetes" [note to ScottLaw: correlation is not causation. current thinking common underlying cause]
Quite a number of people have hypertension who are not obese or even overweight.  For some people, losing some weight can reduce hypertension, but not for all people
 

And I think Gugny's point may have been that a lot of Americans eat fast food regularly and are not obese or even overweight

Again, you keep citing ‘misinformation’ yet don’t even realize you’re just promoting your own POV. You’re not the authority in any of this and your cited authorities aren’t objectively experts. If you can’t handle that you shouldn’t be allowed to moderate anything.

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17 hours ago, Bferra13 said:

Man this threads a trainwreck. 

Bc the moderators on TWS are hypocrites 

4 hours ago, Hapless Bills Fan said:

 

I think he could have phrased it more clearly, but you are misunderstanding Mr WEO, who is actually a medical professional and grounded in these things.....

 

....In context, it’s clear what’s meant is we’re back-and-forth discussing comorbidities, and his point is that roughly half of America has the comorbidities that have been associated with poor outcome/death from covid-19.  Those being obesity, hypertension, diabetes, and heart disease.  They are somewhat, but not totally, associated - meaning that when summed together, they pretty much do impact about half of America.

 

A fact which is sometimes glossed over when various media talk as though Covid can only be a serious disease if you’re so old you’re on death’s doorstep or have rare conditions.

That’s just not true.   

Football relevance: the obesity and for all we know hypertension may affect a significant # of NFL players (albeit if hypertension, I’m sure it’s controlled for them to be cleared to play and controlled hypertension does not appear to be as significant a co-morbidity.  Highly athletic, fit obesity may likewise pose less of a risk factor (though I haven’t seen any data).

 

Appreciate if you could ratchet back the sensitivity on your trigger finger for shooting at “panic porn” whatever that means.

So you get to continue talking about coronavirus and making it into a thread about this but other people aren’t? As long as they agree with you right? You’re way too biased to be a moderator. How about some objectivity please.