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Coronavirus.

The death toll now has risen above that of the SARS

out of break 17 years19. The United States The entire

on lockdown on lockdown The city is a little bit higher country. Unlocked out.

COVID-Ruance.

City may have to temporarily bury bodies on public land

when they're on. It was early April in the Year of Our Lord 1915.

The Great War ravaged Europe, feigning flames of hatred that would linger like smoke for years to come.

The first truly modern war. It painted the hills and meadows of France,

Germany, and Belgium red with rivers of blood. Bullets flew incessantly in those days, and

storms of artillery rained down like deafening tornadoes until the world itself was made new,

made less indifferent by the force of it all. Young men died, an entire generation lost.

And with their deaths, Christendom began its final hemorrhage in the West.

At this time of early spring, the western borders of Belgium were being constantly pushed here

and there by the allied powers from their French stronghold and the central powers pouring

out of the German bulwark.

France, with her soldiers arrayed in the bright colors of a more gentlemanly time, was suffering.

It was still early in the war, but she could already feel the cold drafts blowing in for

multiple chinks in her armor.

She had not even tasted the hell of Redun

or the forsaken fields of the Somme yet, but she already felt crippled. Thus it was that she called

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