David Bremner quoted Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel
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Of all of them there at the bar that night, the bartender was the one who survived the longest. He died three weeks later on the road out of the city.
— Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel (Page 20)
Narrative power move. This is the first explicit mention of the pandemic.