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While this does make more of
January 31, 2006 by cucular@isl.is (not verified), 3 years 42 weeks ago
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While this does make more of an incentive for people to wash their hands and be more hygienic, what does this mean for people who are heavy or obese, and depressed? I know a lot of people who are overweight that have had disgusting experiences of people being extremely rude to them just for the fact of being overweight. Telling the public that obesity is contagious will spur even more shunning and degrading acts towards overweight people.