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Students: make sure you've read the assigned Forbes article on "Scannable Content" before creating your first post:

Acknowledge that writing is hard. Write it down. Then write about how you’re going to make writing happen. How will you find the balance in yourself to combine willpower with relaxation, stubbornness with joy? Write about how you’ve struck this balance in the past, with writing, a sport, a musical instrument—anything you’ve successfully learned to do.

References:

Heffron, Jack. The Writer’s Idea Book. Cincinnati: Writer’s Digest Books, 2000. Print.

Heffron, Jack. The Writer’s Idea Workshop. Cincinnati: Writer’s Digest Books, 2003. Print.

It’s tragic that some people still think that COVID-19 is just for geezers. That thinking is so pre-Delta variant.

COVID can complicate existing infections and make them spiral out of control.

It’s very sad that University of North Carolina Wilmington student Tyler Gilreath died of complications from COVID-19. It didn’t have to be this way.

“I cajoled, encouraged, threatened, and nagged for him to get vaccinated,” Tyler’s mother, Tamra Demello, told WECT. “I did everything I could possibly think. I think he did some research where he was thinking that it was going to hurt his heart long-term or something… I’m not even sure where he was getting his information which is super frustrating. Sometimes, I felt like the harder I pushed the more — he basically said to me, ‘mom, leave me alone. I can take care of myself.’”

After catching COVID-19 two days after moving from Cary to Wilmington to attend UNCW, Tyler got extremely sick. Demello said Tyler’s COVID infection morphed into a sinus infection combined with a staph infection, which later passed into his brain.

Deaths from the Delta variant of those under 30 are becoming increasingly common.

High school senior dies from COVID-19, Van Buren County health officials say

If you care about somebody, use every trick in the book to get them vaccinated.

It’s free, it’s easy, and takes under half an hour if you include the paperwork and the post-inoculation waiting period. 

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