The experience of being fat throughout the COVID-19 pandemic has been a multi-layered one. Weight was associated with higher mortality rates due to the virus soon after the world went on lockdown, followed by an influx of fat-shaming and online hate. Messages to keep off that “quarantine 15” and “start taking care of your health” increased. All of this — particularly the health trolling — was hidden under the guise of care for the fat community. As the race to reach herd immunity intensifies, individual states have expanded their COVID-19 vaccine eligibility markers to include more and more at-risk individuals. Among those eligible before others in their age group in states like New York are people with a BMI over 30. This seemed to trigger a change in tides: Fat people would be front of line to receive the vaccine due to the increased risk of complications from COVID-19 and the “care for health” many claimed to have for fat people seemingly dissipated, making way for people questioning why fat people get priority. And while access to the vaccine has left many fat folks — myself included — excited to get past the virus, an unfortunate question arises: Will this decision further the BMI’s reign of terror on the plus-size community?