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colorwheel ([personal profile] colorwheel) wrote in [personal profile] steepholm 2020-07-22 01:50 pm (UTC)

Body shape. Japanese people tend to be thin

as your friendly neighborhood faptol person, i urge you to be extremely skeptical of the framing of fatness as a risk factor. there are way too many factors to this for me to explain it in a dreamwidth comment, but fatness being listed as a risk factor is nowhere near a "clean" assertion. i mean, in some ways, nothing is a clean assertion; and in this pandemic, all information is still new because the pandemic is new; but even fully accounting for those, the framing of fatness as a risk factor sits inside waters that are far too polluted.

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