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Re:Decades after polio, Martha is among the last to still re... by throwawaylinux on Wednesday October 27, 2021 @11:22PM (#29022006)
Obesity too. As well as the injury to the sufferers, load they put on the hospital and healthcare system, and wider society is just staggering. Hundreds of billions, or about 20% of annual medical spending in the United States is due to obesity.

And yet I would never ever advocate for restaurants to demand BMI licenses for service, people denied jobs or freedom to travel or freedom to buy and eat the food they want to combat this, or forced gastric surgery "for the greater good". It would be horrific and inhumane.

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Re:Decades after polio, Martha is among the last to still re... by toqy on Thursday October 28, 2021 @01:21PM (#29028531)
If you could transfer your obesity and smoking habit to me by being too close to me at Target it would be a good comparison. Kill yourself however you please by all means.
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Re:Decades after polio, Martha is among the last to still re... by elzbardico on Thursday October 28, 2021 @02:22PM (#29029386)
Transmission according to the CDC involves prolonged close contact. Not very likely that you are going to catch it by a random choice encounter at target
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Re:Decades after polio, Martha is among the last to still re... by throwawaylinux on Thursday October 28, 2021 @06:45PM (#29032996)
And if you're so irrationally petrified of catching it despite being vaccinated you can choose to shut yourself in your house.

It's not like you can't catch it from vaccinated people, even if you could somehow tell them apart.

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Re:Decades after polio, Martha is among the last to still re... by throwawaylinux on Thursday October 28, 2021 @06:15PM (#29032736)
No, obesity puts a huge load on the hospital system and therefore deprive others of health care. This is one of the arguments used to bully people who don't want to be vaccinated.
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Re:Decades after polio, Martha is among the last to still re... by toqy on Tuesday November 09, 2021 @01:36PM (#29165509)
If there was a vaccine for obesity i would absolutely bully you into getting it for the same reason
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