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All right, I will add now to your list of Twitter accounts which you should be following, because there are people that I'll quote often and have useful, different things to say. And this one is Rasmussen Reports. So the folks who do the Rasmussen poll, you need to follow their Twitter account because there's more interesting stuff coming out of their polls than there is in the news right now. Actually, the polls are more interesting than the news.

Here's something that Rasmussen reported. It was on a tweet today. Two-thirds of all Americans 65 years and older have been vaccinated. Did that kind of sneak up on you? I didn't think it was that good. Two-thirds of all Americans over 65 have been vaccinated. Wow, is that true?

And what should we be asking instead? What percentage of obese Americans have been vaccinated? Sorry, but we're in a health crisis and we can no longer pretend that being overweight is healthy.

There was a tweet I saw this morning. Talk about timing. Let's see, Jose Rosado, just a Twitter user, tweets a cover of Cosmo from just a month ago that showed a — I've told you before I don't do fat shaming, so when I go into this topic, if I use a word like fat it's not an insult word. I'm just speaking casually, okay? Are we on the same page? We're not doing any fat shaming here today or any other day. But we'll speak casually about it because it's important.

So it was a photo of a very overweight woman prancing around on the cover, and the cover said basically that this is healthy. It showed a very, very large woman and said this is healthy. Now I'm not going to comment on whether that is a good or bad thing to put on a magazine cover, but I will tell you that the current information is that the odds of dying from COVID are 10 times higher if you're above a certain weight. 10 times.

The pandemic was really an overeating pandemic. It really was. Because if you needed two things to die, nine and a ten times — you know, it's not a complete statement — but if you needed two things to die, you needed the virus, but you also, most of the time, like nine out of 10 times, you had to be a certain weight. Was it the virus that killed you or was it having two problems that killed you? And either one of them would not have individually — how do you say it's the one thing that killed you and not the other thing when both of them are known to be deadly health risks and you need both of them most times? You know, nine out of 10 times you need both of them in order to have the worst result.

So I feel as if this is another case where trying to be politically correct, which is to say that people who are above a certain weight are perfectly healthy, because we know that's not true. We know that's not true. But again, don't do fat shaming. It's a legitimate medical issue and it's just crazy that we ignore it.

Now here's a counterfactual. We saw that the countries that have the worst weight problems also have bad outcomes. But wouldn't that hold for states within the country? Shouldn't you expect the same correlation that wherever you have the largest citizens you should have the worst outcomes? Right?

Here are three states in the United States who are unusually good on controlling weight. Three states that have low BMI. So these are the least fat among the least fat states in the United States. Here they are. The least fat people are, let's see, New York, New Jersey, and California. How did they do with the coronavirus? Three worst ones, right?

So our three among the skinniest of our states — New York, New Jersey, and California — pretty big difference between their weights in those states and other states, and they did the worst. They did the worst. What's that mean? Well, every time we think we found the golden nugget of data that explains everything — ah, Sweden, now we know it's — oh no we don't. Oh, it's the BMI. Every time you see, okay, no that doesn't work. There are just a few too many variables going on.

I'll just toss out a few things that could be making this misleading. Number one, Florida does not have a border with Mexico. Why is it that every time we mention California, every time, why don't we say, well, California is basically Mexico now when you're looking at the virus? Because once the border becomes porous — and largely it was porous during Trump as well, that's not just something new with Biden, maybe it's worse — but why do we not mention that California and Mexico should be effectively seen as the same continuum of virus problem? The border doesn't have meaning to a virus. Whereas Florida's over there surrounded mostly by water and then the United States. Does that not matter? Are we going to treat that like tha