Yes, They Want You Dead! (was "Healthy At Any Size")

[redrumloa]

‘No One Has To Be Healthy’: San Fran Taps Fat Activist As ‘Weight Stigma’ Czar​

San Francisco’s Department of Public Health has tapped fat activist Virgie Tovar as the liberal city’s “weight stigma” czar.

Tovar, author of “You Have the Right to Remain Fat” and a “DEI” professional, announced the position on her Instagram account on Monday.

“I’m UNBELIEVABLY proud to serve the city I’ve called home for almost 20 years in this way!” she wrote. “This consultancy is an absolute dream come true, and it’s my biggest hope and belief that weight neutrality will be the future of public health.”

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Tovar describes herself as a “leading expert on weight-based discrimination and body positivity with over a decade of experience,” according to her website, which also details her “DEI,” or “diversity, equity, and inclusion” work.

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“No one has to be healthy,” she said on a podcast. “Nobody owes anybody that.”

“No matter what size you are, you don’t owe anybody else your health,” the activist added after comparing being disabled to being obese. “In an ideal world, there wouldn’t be health-based gatekeeping at all.”

https://twitter.com/x/status/1869549120534597697

 

[cecilia]

Cory Doctorow’s prescient novella about health insurance and murder: ‘They’re going to be afraid’

The parallels between the science fiction writer’s five-year-old story and present-day events are startling

www.theguardian.com

even though people are talking about this, I still doubt there will ever be any change in the US

 

[Robert]

Cory Doctorow’s prescient novella about health insurance and murder: ‘They’re going to be afraid’

The parallels between the science fiction writer’s five-year-old story and present-day events are startling

www.theguardian.com

even though people are talking about this, I still doubt there will ever be any change in the US

Big medical and insurance corporations have a vested interest in keeping the people misinformed and scared of "commie" healthcare. Not only will it not change in the US but I can see the UK gradually going the same way.

 

[FluffyMcDeath]

Big medical and insurance corporations have a vested interest in keeping the people misinformed and scared of "commie" healthcare. Not only will it not change in the US but I can see the UK gradually going the same way.

The successive governments seem intent on making the National Health a broken organization. It's well along the path.

 

[redrumloa]

The successive governments seem intent on making the National Health a broken organization. It's well along the path.

I've heard not just medical in UK and Canada is b0rked, but overall economy too. I'm hearing Justin Trudeau, deified by the American left, is close to being forced out of office?

 

[Robert]

The successive governments seem intent on making the National Health a broken organization. It's well along the path.

Indeed, and who benefits? Well, that's fairly apparent when you see where some of the money is being "wasted". It's only "wasted" from the POV of the public, not those pushing the policies.