Maggie's Farm

From the fat article: "It’s not that you just are fat and all of a sudden you have diabetes or high blood pressure, it’s that you go to the doctor for a physical or strep throat or heart palpitations and they just say, ‘You’re fat, lose weight,’ and they don’t treat you, and then you stop going to the doctor. And then 10 years later, of course you’re an explosion of medical issues. Because you’re a human body and you haven’t seen competent medical professionals"

This just isn't true. Most people don't "need" a doctor until they are fairly old, perhaps in their 60's. The difference being "IF" you are healthy you won't have health problems requiring care until you are quite old when everyone gets health problems. However if you have an underlying condition or two or three you do need health care for those conditions. Being "fat" or obese is both a symptom and a serious health condition. Of course your doctor tells you to lose weight. Your obesity is literally killing you.

My father never went to a doctor until he was about 80 YO. My son who is 55 has never been to a doctor except to get childhood shots. Coincidently they were/are both ideal weight.

It's simple, if you are obese, lose weight or lose your life.

Of course. If you have serious health conditions you should see a doctor. Statistically most people don't need a doctor or regular checkups until they are old/older. There are an estimated 440,000 people who die each year from medical mistakes. Would it be appropriate to cite one or all of those cases to prove the point. No matter how many exceptions you cite the simple fact is most people are born, live some 60 plus years before they ever develop some serious health issues. AND, most importantly, they develop those health issues whether they see a doctor or not. It's not as though seeing a doctor will prevent high blood pressure. Yes they will treat it but many people being treated for high blood pressure die from stroke and many people who choose not to treat it don't die from stroke. It's almost as though the treatment doesn't guarantee anything (sarcasm) which it doesn't. My father died from hospital acquired pneumonia at 84 after an elective operation that he likely wouldn't have had if he didn't go to a doctor.

Does that mean I'm saying we shouldn't go to a doctor? Not at all. My only point is most humans live the first 60 or more years of their life without any serious illness AND that most humans do acquire a serious illness late in life without regard to if they see a doctor or not. That biblical quote of 3 score and ten tends to hold true if you can avoid violence and exposure to 3rd world diseases. Biden is bringing more of both to us.

You are technically correct. But the real definition of "woke" is grifter. Be it race, gender, climate change, EVs, white privilege/supremacy, etc. It is all grifting in one form or another.