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QUANTUM TIMES
THE CORONAVIRUS
went to heaven?” Kobe asked the man.
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“Sure.’’ The man smiled at him, and he took
out a long paper, and then, he put on Have you ever stayed at home for mon ths
glasses and read. “Kobe Byrant, bor n on because of bats? Things are forced to stop
August 23, 1978 and died on January 26, because of the coronavirus. The effect of the
2020...” “Stop there first,” Kobe said. “I know virus is inevitable, and the symptom s of being
my name is Kobe Bryant, so you can just tell infected is hard to identify since it's similar to
me about what happened before I died.” the flu, but there are solutions so far.
“Okay, sir.” Then, he threw the paper to the Unbelievably, the cause of the virus are
little angle, and then, he found a newspaper bats, and the virus is costing lives in China
and read, “Before you died, you were and many countries. In December, som e
onboard a Sikorsky S-76 helicopter. There people in Wuhan, China were eating bats
were nine people on the helicopter, because they heard that bats could make
including you and your daughter, Gianna them healthy. After the virus had appeared
who died. Oh, I’m sorry to say that.” “It’s for a few days, some doctors in the Wuhan
okay...wait, you said Gianna died, too That’s hospital warned the public that this might be
impossible! Where is she now?” Kob e a virus that could spread as SARS in 2003, but
shouted at the man. The man said “Oh, I nobody trusted them because they thou ght
think she’s over there.” this was ridiculous. Later, those peop le kept
He pointed to the left. Kobe turned to the eating other wild animals even when they
left and saw Gianna was running to him knew those animals might have viruses. They
with a big smile, and Kobe saw she came still believed that bats and snakes could
with a basketball in her hand. “It's time to make them healthy. I think that peop le who
practise basketball, dad.” She said “Let’s go, ate bats are selfish; now the virus has killed
hurry!” Kobe smiled at Gianna and said thousands of people and those who ate bats
“Okay, let’s go now, but wait… what time is it caused the virus. So basically those peop le
now Mr.White Robe Man?” He asked. “It’s literally kill thousands of people.
9:45 A.M in Los Angeles now, Mr.Kob e Additionally, the virus spreads quickly
Bryant.” through being close with the infected peop le.
People who go out without wearing face
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