velocomp wrote:
O.k., what does the LR think of this situation (skipping your place in line).
1. Person has type 1 diabetes.
2. State currently has moved type 2 diabetes up in line (Phase 2) stating that they are more susceptible.
3. Study released by John Hopkins says that is BS and the science shows Type 1 at equal or greater risk.
4. Person technically meets their State's BMI metric for Obesity (though they are an avid cyclist and if you saw them you wouldn't consider them obese at all).
What would you think if they use the Obesity metric based upon BMI to get the shot?
a. Shitty because they are skipping the line.
b. Fine, because they are just following the state defined rules.
Was there a consensus on #4 specifically? Looks like the sub-thread combined BMI and Diabetes, vs. BMI alone.
On BMI alone, if your BMI is high because you're healthy-muscular, and you know it, then it's poor form to sign up, b/c your bumping or delaying someone else at greater risk. But I think the guideline-writers just didn't want to get into the high BMI but healthy clarification... and so the onus should be on the individual making the call.
Now, for the plus-size-accept-my-big-body-as-healthy folks, it would be interesting if any of those folks claim their plus-sizes mean they're compromised and thus queue up for the shots.