As opposed to morbid obesity.
Did I posit morbid obesity as an origin for H1N1?
All I said is that I don't find it surprising that the morbidly obese might be more susceptible to the opportunistic infections that actually kill flu patients since their lungs are already under strain from all that extra fat. Therefore I asked whether obesity is a factor in seasonal flu mortality. If it isn't, then the link to obesity is specific to the new flu and therefore interesting.
The fact that current farm practices are conducive to breeding new disease strains should not be controversial. The peak-to-trough part of the business cycle is an outlier. Carnot would have died laughing.
All I said is that I don't find it surprising ... If it isn't, then the link to obesity is specific to the new flu and therefore interesting.
So I gathered and retrieved a quote from the bloomberg article to illustrate a dimension of the experts' indifference to H1N1 pathogenesis. Obesity should be uninteresting to epidemiologists who purport to investigate the origin and propagation of communicable disease precisely because it is a pre-existing condition, characteristic, of morbidity per se.
Try to magine my dismay then as I read this ridiculous article.
The fact that current farm practices are conducive to breeding new disease strains should not be controversial.
Quite. But institutional medical PR avoids industrial analyses and prophylatic recommendations, preferring to promote palliatives case by case.
That is, in my book, a failure of public offices, made all the more disturbing and dismal by persisting communications to characterize H1N1 symptoms as a threat to humanity so far greater than obesity, diabetes, hypertension, HPV, CHF, COPD, prostate cancer and erectile dysfunction, war, and of course life-style
as to warrant mandatory vaccination. Diversity is the key to economic and political evolution.
