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CHAPTER 1
THE BOY WHO CRIED WOLF
“If you tell a big enough lie and tell it frequently enough,
it will be believed.”
– Adolf Hitler
“Fear is the mind-killer.”
– Elon Musk
How did we get into this situation? In late 2019, the
world was introduced to a new version of an old
disease, the coronavirus, or COVID-19 as it has come
to be known. In the phrase COVID-19, the ‘CO’
stands for ‘corona,’ the ‘VI’ stands for ‘virus,’ and the
‘D’ stands for disease and 19 refers to the year it was
recorded to have started. Whether it is coronavirus
4, coronavirus 8 or coronavirus 19, coronaviruses
come from a large family of viruses that are common
in people and many different species of animals,
including camels, cattle, cats, and bats. While there
