Dr Amanda MacLean is having her usual busy time of it in a Glasgow A & E when a patient who seems to have flu symptoms dies when his whole body shuts down. The everyday stuff that was all we used to have to worry about. In the before times, Catherine is late picking up her son from childcare and wondering if she should dress up for Halloween for his sake. “More than one person has half-jokingly called me Cassandra.” The plot of The End Of Men does indeed betray the insight of a prophetic priestess. “It’s an understatement to say it feels surreal that I wrote a book about a pandemic disproportionately affecting men just before a pandemic disproportionately affecting men swept the world," she says. To be serious, Sweeney-Baird speaks to this in an author’s note that's offered by way of an introduction. Yes, yes, calm down at the back, there are several members of my own family who would doubtless be cheering too. At least it won’t if you were unfortunate enough to have been born a man, for while this particular bug is fatal to over 90% of the male population, it has no physical effect on women, although they can still be carriers. Run if you like, but it probably won’t do you any good. There’s a viral outbreak, which sweeps across the world, claiming victims from every social strata.
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