Comments on: Obesity and COVID death rates https://thenewneo.com/2021/10/04/obesity-and-covid-death-rates/ A blog about political change, among other things Wed, 06 Oct 2021 06:42:56 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 By: AesopFan https://thenewneo.com/2021/10/04/obesity-and-covid-death-rates/#comment-2580973 Wed, 06 Oct 2021 06:42:56 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=111038#comment-2580973 The obesity problem can be handled if you limit your holiday treats to this.

https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/858cfa0a5ea4e4eb401256774a6e48405b552e7d0b10186af81ce22eabedec11.jpg

]]> By: William Graves https://thenewneo.com/2021/10/04/obesity-and-covid-death-rates/#comment-2580936 Wed, 06 Oct 2021 02:28:23 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=111038#comment-2580936 This isn’t demonstrated as causal because there is no identified mechanism. It’ an abuse of the post hoc ergo propter hoc fallacy.

]]> By: Zaphod https://thenewneo.com/2021/10/04/obesity-and-covid-death-rates/#comment-2580928 Wed, 06 Oct 2021 01:47:16 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=111038#comment-2580928 @Tina:

Re: OAS1 / rs10774671

(Seems to have been a pretty boring old gene until Covid came along.)
https://www.snpedia.com/index.php/Rs10774671

Thanks for the link!

FWIW, I found that my 23andMe raw data dump did not contain any entry for rs10774671 but my AncestryDNA genetic data did have it. These from mid 2018, so later or earlier 23andMe assay chips could be finding it. Or maybe it just got lost in the wash when mine was done.

Anyway I’m A/A so I’ll just go revise my will now. Om: you’ll be getting my collection of Mao Badges.

]]> By: Griffin https://thenewneo.com/2021/10/04/obesity-and-covid-death-rates/#comment-2580920 Wed, 06 Oct 2021 01:09:48 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=111038#comment-2580920 Here is a story about death certificates of ‘COVID deaths’ by Jennifer Cabrera. She looked at 700 of them.

https://covidreason.substack.com/p/we-got-access-to-700-covid-19-death?r=7ikwa&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&utm_source=

]]> By: ArmyMom https://thenewneo.com/2021/10/04/obesity-and-covid-death-rates/#comment-2580815 Tue, 05 Oct 2021 17:26:29 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=111038#comment-2580815 I agree that something malicious is going on….
https://amgreatness.com/2021/10/04/canadian-doctor-says-something-malicious-is-going-on-after-hes-punished-for-treating-covid-patients-with-ivermectin/

]]> By: Tina https://thenewneo.com/2021/10/04/obesity-and-covid-death-rates/#comment-2580801 Tue, 05 Oct 2021 15:17:03 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=111038#comment-2580801 Some others have alluded to this new study. “G” has a protective effect against severe covid, while “A” does not. G is common in Africa, and to a much much lesser extent in Europe; rare in Asia and the America’s, particularly Peru. Presumably indigenous people have the A gene in high amounts. If you have done 23andme etc you can see your own status-I happen to be A/G, as is half of my family; no one is GG, some are A/A. This gene may account for the terrible havoc by Covid we saw in Peru, but I suspect we will find other genes.

https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.abj3624#F2

]]> By: Rufus T. Firefly https://thenewneo.com/2021/10/04/obesity-and-covid-death-rates/#comment-2580791 Tue, 05 Oct 2021 14:25:12 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=111038#comment-2580791 Maybe neo would allow physicsguy to do a guest post with images from his graph and explanations?

]]> By: sonny wayz https://thenewneo.com/2021/10/04/obesity-and-covid-death-rates/#comment-2580790 Tue, 05 Oct 2021 14:21:54 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=111038#comment-2580790 @Aggie:

“It’s a little sad that a worldwide organization like the W.H.O. didn’t set out and specify reporting guidelines early in the pandemic…”

1] The WHO may be part of the problem.
2] Would China, Russia, etc. actually follow the guidelines?

]]> By: David+Foster https://thenewneo.com/2021/10/04/obesity-and-covid-death-rates/#comment-2580789 Tue, 05 Oct 2021 14:17:59 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=111038#comment-2580789 “the researchers employed cutting-edge techniques of statistical analyses”

Would be nice if they said what those techniques might be. Sounds like a job for plain old multiple regression analysis to me.

(YEARS ago, I was crossing out the phrase “cutting edge” on press release drafts and adding the annotation “too hackneyed.”)

]]> By: Kshoosh https://thenewneo.com/2021/10/04/obesity-and-covid-death-rates/#comment-2580785 Tue, 05 Oct 2021 14:09:29 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=111038#comment-2580785 Guy- good comprehensive rundown!

A correlation that occurred to me when looking at the high COVID mortality countries is: smoking. It’s clear Vitamin D is critical, and many of the countries with high death tolls are in parts of the world where it’s more uncomfortable to go outside and get your Vitamin D. Don’t many of those same countries have higher than average rates of smoking (I’m thinking specifically Bosnia and Herzegovina, Hungary, Bulgaria, and Czechia)?

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