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The "drip drip drip" of data he was seeing from countries that were hit first told him what was coming, and he made it his mission to start a campaign for masks -- Masks4All. We wrote a whole new kind of development environment for writing it from scratch. So we rewrote it from scratch. And we decided to write a book about it.

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