Perfectly healthy? Didn’t we agreed that you were considered overweight and therefore had one of them comorbidities?
(speaking of someone who would be considered healthy in a lot of different ways, at least before a job change through a bunch of my habits out of whack, and is still technically overweight)
Fair point... My BMI is slightly over 30, so I am technically obese.
I know when California was opening up the various tranches of vaccine eligibility, they wouldn't allow you to get it just due to obesity, it was due to a BMI >= 40.
That said, BMI is bullshit. Most professional athletes are considered overweight or obese via BMI because while their body fat is miniscule, their muscle mass is WAY outside the mainstream. I'm not comparing myself to a professional athlete--my body fat % is something I need to reduce. But my muscle mass is pretty far outside the mainstream, so much so that my own doctor basically said BMI doesn't apply to me (while he said I should cut some fat).
Now, what I don't know is whether COVID bad effects correlate purely to higher BMI, or whether they correlate to the bad health that usually correlates with higher BMI. I also don't know how linear they are--do they really ramp up at BMI of 30, or do they really ramp up at morbidly obese BMIs of 40 or more?
Either way, I think I'm actually pretty safely in a "low risk" group. My BMI
might elevate it somewhat, but if so it's only one comorbidity and it's just barely in the obese category at all.