The downside is that your readers, newly pandemic-savvy, know more about your chosen subject than might otherwise be ideal. That kind of perspicacity guarantees a couple of things: media coverage, firstly and requests from friends to buy their lottery tickets, secondly. Sound sorta familiar? Christina Sweeney-Baird finished her novel The End of Men (Doubleday Canada, 416 pages) in 2018, well before Covid’s protein spikes were a glimmer in any microscope’s eye. There’s tea in France but not in England. Travel and trade grind to a halt as the global search for a vaccine begins, but few are hopeful it’ll be any time soon. For a short period, the infected are asymptomatic and can spread the virus unawares. Victims drop dead mere days after developing flu-like symptoms. In 2025, a virus that targets only men has emerged out of newly independent Scotland.
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