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cute girls in the first grade because of the “cooties”
virus that I knew all girls had.
Even as I briefly isolated myself from humanity
to write this book, I cannot escape the fear-inducing
messages being pitched at me from every direction.
Even now, when I sit down in my “Man-Cave” to write
this book about the coronavirus, I do what I always
do when I write a book, I shut the door and prepare

for uninterrupted focus on the research and writing
task at hand. However, this time, when I turn on the
orchestral Beautiful Mind soundtrack on Spotify,
my focus is constantly being interrupted by Spotify
letting me know of what steps they, as a company, are
taking to combat the spread of the coronavirus.
During the past thirty days, as I have been

researching and gathering the data for this book, I
have been relentlessly interrupted by CNN, Fox News,
Google, YouTube, Facebook, Spotify, the Weather
Channel, that one store that I bought socks from
once, and nearly every other business and platform
with a relentless reminder of the dangers of the
coronavirus pandemic. And when those platforms
are not reminding me to be worried and to live in
fear, the physical billboards that I see around town

in route to the grocery store remind me to “WASH
HANDS OFTEN WITH SOAP AND WATER FOR
AT LEAST TWENTY SECONDS” to prevent the

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