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As I write this column I am wrestling with a bout of flu or Covid-19. One health expert has told me that Covid-19 is not completely gone and it rolls in on the wheels of flu. So sometimes when you think it is flu it could well be Covid-19. So if I stop mid-column just know that Covid-19 has got me or I have got Covid-19.

I am currently dealing with issues more serious than distinguishing between flu and Covid-19. The most significant thing that happened to me was to attend a Wellness event last Saturday. Usually men, including yours truly, avoid such events because at these events they will tell you things like

• You are dangerously close to being diabetic • If you don’t quit smoking very soon you will start coughing large amounts of trachea.

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