Here’s one disturbing thing about COVID: It’s an unseen enemy. Two, it’s incredibly contagious. Three, you’re already infected, yet it still doesn’t hurt. This virus from hell is so sinister you’ll never know you re a carrier, unless to get “swabbed”, or start showing symptoms, a few days after contracting it.
But with swab testing inaccessible/too pricey in most parts of the world, you try and live a “normal” life until you, and those around you, start getting feverish, sneezing like crazy and start infecting others too.
And, unfortunately, people die from COVID. The primary route of transmission? There’s a growing body of evidence it’s through aerosol ultra-tiny particles loaded with virus wafting about in the air, especially in indoor settings. It’s how the the breath-and-sneeze-of-death cycle goes on, a growing number of scientists argue.
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Experts say the risk of exposure to coronavirus variants is higher in everyday situations than with the original strand and the margin of error is lower for what we can and can t do safely until more Canadians are vaccinated.(Ben Nelms/CBC)