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Introduction: The 1999 book “Gift of Fear” bears testimonials from brash celebrities, hardly the shy, retiring types, including: motivational speaker Tony Robbins, playwright David Mamet, Oprah Winfrey and horror writer Margaret Atwood. It’s a unique book on intuition with anecdotes on one individual burglarized after another, in which “fear gave [him or] her the courage to” respond in x, y, z ways. The analogy of burglar signals could be applied to infectious disease alerts.
“Denial has an interesting and insidious side effect. For all the peace of mind deniers think they get by saying it isn't so, the fall they take when they get victimized is far, far greater than that of those who accept the possibility. Denial is a save-now-pay-later scheme, a contract written entirely in small print, for in the long run, the denying person knows the truth on some level, and it causes a constant low-grade anxiety. Millions of people s…
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