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Five Tips On COVID-19 Risk

You can make it if you try

Michael B. Wharton
3 min readJun 29, 2021
Pennsylvania Commonwealth microbiologist Kerry Pollard performs a manual extraction of the coronavirus inside the extraction lab at the Pennsylvania Department of Health Bureau of Laboratories.
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We live in dangerous times.

Leaders make two statements.

A. Take the vaccination.

B. The benefits outweigh the risks.

There is no mention of the immediate past and the half-million plus of often avoidable exits.

And they forget to include the second half of statement B. If you err, you suffer. They will be just fine.

That last bit gives clarity.

Five Tips

  1. Delta COVID-19 does not feel the same way that the original COVID feels. This information is critical for two reasons:
  • People can have Delta COVID-19 and be unaware of the disease or its contagion.
  • They might interpret the absence of more familiar symptoms as a sign that they are okay.

a. The original version of COVID is radically different from Delta COVID-19:

  • Delta COVID-19 seems to cause headache, sore throat, and runny nose, according to the ZOE COVID Symptom Study.
  • Original COVID-19 causes fever, dry cough, and tiredness.

2. All bets are off with Delta COVID-19 — it’s best to act as if you are in the before times before vaccines became…

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Michael B. Wharton
Michael B. Wharton

Written by Michael B. Wharton

Editor of Bold, Abundance and Stealing Fire. Has written for xlr8r and Role Reboot. Formerly NIH, Aol and Revolution Health. michael.wharton.writer@gmail.com

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