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Published:September 2021
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David Patterson began writing this book at the end of 2019. By the time he completed the manuscript in early summer, 2020, two extraordinary and unfortunate things had taken place. David mentions both in the pages that follow, but the reader might find his observations to be frustratingly incomplete.
First, and most obviously, David wrote the majority of the book right before and during the early stages of the COVID-19 pandemic. The world had only begun to fall off its axis, and in the first half of 2020, there was no way to predict just how long and how much this was going to affect the United States and the rest of the world.
But in addition to the disease caused by a novel coronavirus that disrupted life on earth, David mentions in this book that he was diagnosed with another, very serious illness in 2020 . . . and then he goes on to address other subjects and never offers the reader an update on his condition.
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