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The Dying Butterfly

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Mom reached for the remote, turning up the volume on the T.V. This was what we did now. We sat around the coffee table in our living room, me, Mom and Dad along with Brad and Joyce. It had become kind of a routine all of us having dinner together waiting for the news.

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The Dying Butterfly

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One of the last moments before the news began to flow I was outside in my backyard. It was morning, I was eighteen, and my biggest dilemma in life was what university I was going to attend in the fall.

I woke to birds chirping outside my window. In the winter the birds were quiet, but in the spring their singing was new again, easily stirring me from my slumber. It was...

The Dying Butterfly

It’s been a long time since it all began. It started slow, a few people sick with some unknown disease back in China. The news would show the citizens there walking around in their makeshift or painter's masks. You felt for them, but we couldn’t help breathing a sigh of relief that it was them and not us.

Eventually, as the illness spread ripping through their country, governments all over the globe began taking action in an effort to keep it from their borders. Here at home, the effort was small...

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Cover photo by Andrew Neel at Unsplash.com

I published the ebook: The Dying Butterfly back in 2017, and since its publication, I have been asked a few times how I came up with my ideas on how the virus was handled. It has also been said by those who read it during COVID that it was eerily similar.

So, how was that possible?

It was pretty easy actually. I have a medical background working in a lab that worked very closely with a medical office upstairs. While I was working there SARS and eventually...