It's been awhile, though I recall I saw a fat fetish story somewhere, with a very dark premise. The protagonist was kidnapped, and placed in a cell with a sink, toilet, bed, TV, electronic scale, unlimited food of any type, and not much else. The door would only unlock when the scale measured at least 100 lbs higher than when the protagonist went in. The catch was also that a 9 month deadline was set, or else the door would never unlock.
That meant the protagonist had no choice to not only eat as much as possible, but actively try to stuff even more to gain even faster, if there was any hope of escape. Of course, after escape, the newly established eating habits remain and the individual will never get to be thin again.
I didn't really like that story, but it is a pretty common theme.
As for real-life, that sounds like hell. COVID was already bad enough, and that was still with the ability to shop in person at supermarkets and box stores (albeit with those damn masks or face shields), or to visit parks. I'll fully admit that one of the nice things about COVID was it was a great excuse to gain a lot of weight, but I still wouldn't want something like that again. Personally I got through it unscathed, but I know a LOT of people weren't so lucky.
And yeah, a lot of people went fucking nuts during that time. At a local pediatric hospital, admissions quadrupled about 1-2 months after lockdowns started, but just before the enhanced unemployment benefits finally kicked in. They weren't for conditions directly related to COVID either. Most of those cases involved physical injuries ranging from stitches to more severe conditions like broken bones.
It was likely do to some who likely had little to no savings, but then lost all their income as they worked in fields affected by the lockdowns. Combine that on top of an already very high stress, precarious existence, and the results are explosive. It's not hard to see how emotions might run high, and practicality and logic goes out the window. Physical abuse makes no more logical sense than punching holes in walls, but unfortunately it happens anyway.
But yeah, fuck COVID. We don't need that again.
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