solved Prompt: My uncle is quick to judge other people. Â
Prompt: My uncle is quick to judge other people. Â Â I can imagine him saying something like this as we sit around the Thanksgiving dinner table. Â Â Â
“People are idiots!  Too many people don’t take care of their health.  They eat too much or they eat a lot of junk food or they smoke cigarettes or they drink too much alcohol or they don’t exercise.  So, they get sick from some chronic disease and die earlier than they should.   They don’t listen to their doctors and they won’t do what they should be doing to stay healthy.  Idiots!!
It’s true in general and it’s true in the case of COVID. Â Look at what happened when COVID first hit. Â Before the vaccines were available, it was clear that people who hadn’t taken care of their health were much more vulnerable to it. Â Not the old folks, of course — they were just old. Â Â But look at all of the younger ones who died: Â most of them had some pre-existing problem, like being fat or having diabetes that came from being fat. Â Â Â And now, look at all of the people who are still getting sick after the vaccines are available. Â Â Â They must just be idiots if they haven’t already been vaccinated. Â Â Â
The bottom line is that lots of people are idiots who make a lot of bad choices.   If they took care of themselves and listened to their doctors and other medical experts, they’d have a much better chance of having long and healthy lives.   Idiots!   They’re all idiots!”
Write a post in which respond to my uncle by using what you have learned in modules one, two and three. Â Â Apply the sociological imagination to your response. Â Help my uncle to understand why “they’re all idiots” is not a sociological explanation of rates of disease. Â Â Explain how the sociology of medicine would explain rates of chronic illness and patterns of COVID death/illness without saying “people are idiots and make stupid choices”: Â Â show him that using a sociological approach helps us to understand these rates/patterns better than being judgmental does.