It does not mean that the severity of the situation has increased or that people are getting seriously sick at higher numbers or higher rates than they are right now."

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So, it's a sick obsession with some of us, myself included. So with that said, what can you do?

我们看起来对这个有近乎病态的强迫了，包括我在内，你们能什么？

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A lot of didn't get sick from it now, and we got sick from it before.

许多人不会再因为微生物得病了,而人们以前则会因此生病

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That little J shaped curve is explained primarily by cigarette smoking because that keeps weight down in people, it also makes people sick so that their weight gets low because of that, and it explains the high rates of the disease risk there.

这个小J形曲线主要是由吸烟引起的,因为吸烟一方面能让体重降低,另一方面也引起疾病,疾病让人们的体重下降,这也解释了这里的高患病风险

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