The Pitt

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Hatorade said:

The lack of furry hate in here is disturbing, whole scene felt like a recruiting ad.

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Between that, the illegals, and the "brown woman" who doctors don't listen to, this episode seemed to go heavier than normal on the woke shit. The first season definitely had some, but more seems to be sneaking in this season. Which is disappointing.

Kajiimagi said:

yeah about that: I know the point was we were supposed to feel bad about the guy being *checks notes* 474lbs. I was never that big but for a few years I was in the 310 lb range and I can tell you it's a lot of work to be that fat. And by work I mean you have to eat a lot , all the time and/or drink a lot (which is what got me). When I decided I was tired of being a lardass I dropped 40lbs so fast people thought I was sick, and ultimately went down to 185. You don't accidentally get that fat.

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Having had to rehab several morbidly obese individuals (including a couple 750 pounders, which is over the weight capacity of most mechanical lifts in the hospital...) they reach those weights because modernity and people in their lives enable it. Food gets delivered right to their doors, or family hand delivers it to their mouths, they have mobility that doesn't require them to walk, if they need emergency medical assistance teams of firemen will haul them out...

And it's all calorie dense garbage, sodas, pastries, fast foods, chips, chocolate bars, etc.

Don't know if the episode in question went into it, but the best part of acute care for the morbidly obese is the cleaning their body part of it. They literally can not reach (and water can not flow into) the places that need cleaning, so it takes teams of nurses (usually the HCAs) to hold back the flab and fat folds in order to clean the crevasses that probably have been thoroughly cleaned in months/years.

But it's okay, we wouldn't want to hurt their fee-fees.