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Hiro’s story

The room was simple: two small windows to let some light in and enough space to fit three cows. The bed was a slim wooden mattress put on a metallic base. Food was given two times a day, lunch, and dinner. There was no breakfast. Patients were expected to always stay in their small room and not burn calories.

Hiro arrived a few weeks ago from a city beyond the mountains. In that city, the virus had spread in a few weeks, blindly killing…