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Originally Posted by jmg
I wonder what the qualifications would be for "healthy" people? BMI? Have you smoked? Have you ever had CVD? Immunocompromised? Do you do drugs? What age?
How would you define "isolate"? Self-quarantine? Or law mandated house arrest? Special camps to house people in separate from the "healthy"?
"It's a lot easier to control a smaller at risk population than to lock down everyone with the large population and land mass of the US." - this is easy to say until you actually start to think of how you would actually implement it. Sure, you could "control" a small group of people based on classifications set by a governing body, but that is a slippery slope because controlling people isn't the difficult part, actually choosing who to control is, and I'm not talking about the act of choosing, I'm talking about the difficulty in being right, and the consequences of drawing a line between people who can and people who can't.
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You're just being argumentative and obtuse for the sake of it. Obesity is listed as a risk factor. There are well established guidelines by the medical community. You know the ones everyone keeps pointing to as part of the following the science. These guidelines as to whether you fall under the category of being obese have not been argued. If you have any of the comorbidities then you're in the high risk group. Many of these people are already in assisted living situations or are known to require additional care. These people require the extra precautions to keep them safe. The procedures are already in place in facilities such as nursing homes which should have implemented them far sooner.
Those that are not sick enough to require assisted care can self isolate. If they choose to continuously go out in public that's on them.