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Diary of a plague year

A columnist confronts the pandemic

IT HAS BEEN a year since the pandemic started to affect Western societies. Here is how one columnist coped as the months unfolded.

This article appeared in the Business section of the print edition under the headline “Diary of a plague year”

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