If you’re a fat person like me who’s feeling a bit shit because the government are using 7% of COVID cases ending in hospitalisation to justify a war on people who look like us, I love you and I’m sorry. I want you to remember a few things (A thread)

This is a government who encouraged people to clap for NHS workers but who refuse to pay them fairly. A government who want to lessen fat bodies but who also will give you money off going out to eat in restaurants because getting your money is better than keeping you safe.

And it’s not beyond me that the government are using a focus on fat bodies to cover the fact that Black and Asian people are the most at risk of death from COVID, and the government have the power and money to fix this immediately, but won’t.

This government who are talking so much about our larger bodies whilst ignoring the fact that millions of people are still reliant on food banks, and that food banks are so woefully under-funded that the public fund them through donations.

Your body is being used as a distraction technique away from the things that our government could easily help with. Our government are, again, trying to shift the blame on to you whilst underfunding things that could change and help the public in more meaningful ways.

If this hyper-focus on your body makes you feel ashamed, I want you to remember that you are not responsible for the death of thousands of people. Boris Johnson is. You are the keeper of your body. You make the choice on how to live. You are allowed to live.