[techbio]

If something is so obvious as to need no explanation, it just might be worth understanding what about it is causal. What can be done given the predisposition to obesity in a time of abundant necessities? It seems your conclusion is to let it go to the joint processes of sin and natural selection, which would tend to call into question your moral certainty.

EDIT: Another post today titled "Causal Information Affects Decisions" seems relevant here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29509236

[FeepingCreature]

I don't care about the moral aspect, I just thought it was established that obesity causes the body to be less able to handle ~any kind of stress. Is that actually incorrect?

Like, my confusion is that I didn't think we needed to go look for a new mechanism unique to Covid here.

[andy_ppp]

Yes but the point is your point is added onto buy the possibility (likliyhood given the study) that being fat has a particular mechanism for it being worse than all the other co-morbidities we're talking about. That's what the paper is studying!