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11 months after COVID-19 was spreading rampantly in China, a new leak from Hubei sheds some light on what was happening.Some documents leaked from the Hubei Centre for Disease Control talk about an undisclosed influenza that was spreading at the same time when COVID-19 had just been reported.

The leaked content also revealshow China presented optimistic figures to its citizens that were far from the reality on the ground.

On January 23, 2020, the ferocious coronavirus was spreading in Wuhan, and the city was overwhelmed by the rise in cases, and an unprecedented lockdown was imposed. Wuhan's 11 million residents were ordered to stay at home. The Chinese regime then began an aggressive campaign to control all information.

Soon after, armed policemen replaced civilians on the streets, and journalists reporting from ground zero began to disappear. Then, lab samples of the coronavirus were destroyed.

Ten months after the lockdown, and the memory still etched into peoples memories. The Chinese regime too is yet to face any accountability. Now, a string of shocking revelations have emerged in a leak from where it all began. 117 pages of classified documents have been leaked from the Hubei provincial Center for Disease Control & Prevention.

It reveals numerous inconsistencies in what was happening and what was revealed to the public. The report refers to an undisclosed early December influenza at the same time when COVID-19 had emerged.

Another health crisis

The documents show that another health crisis was unfolding: The Hubei province was reportedly dealing with a significant influenza outbreak, which was felt most severely in Yichang & Xianning.

Wuhan - the epicentre of the coronavirus outbreak was the third-worst hit. The documents show the outbreak was not disclosed to the public, which added enormous levels of additional stress on the already stretched health-care system.

The two outbreaks may or may not be linked - but the fact that China revealed no information regarding the magnitude of the influenza spike raises questions. The documents also show a wide-range of COViD-19 data on two specific days - February 10 and March 7.

But the figures released for these dates by the Chinese regime don't match at all. On February 10, China reported 3,911 new confirmed cases nationwide. But the documents show that the Hubei province was circulating a different total of 5,918 new cases.

On March 7, China reported 2,986 deaths in the Hubei province. But as per the internal documents, the figure was apparently 3,456.

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Alex Darus| Banner Correspondent

PROVINCETOWN A Finance Committee member has resigned from her position after criticizing the board leadership for ignoring basic norms of good local governance.

The criticism comes alongside a public focus in recent months on Finance Committee Chairman Mark Hatchs alleged social media posts on his private accounts demeaning members of the public.

Cultivating a culture of silence within a committee is a recipe for dysfunctionality, committee member Dorie Seavey wrote in her Nov. 19 resignation letter sent to the committee and Town Moderator Mary-Jo Avellar, who appoints committee members.

Seavy, who is a social impact consultant and community activist with a Ph.D. in economics, alleges that Hatch has not followed procedures put in place for the committee, a shortfall she says is ultimately leading to public distrust.

Ive watched the reputation of the committee sink in the public eye; it really has concerned me, Seavey said to the Banner in a phone interview Nov. 25.

The tipping point for Seavey came after she tried to raise two issues during a Nov. 17 committee meeting one, that the committee had not voted in new officers as required yearly by the town charter and, two, that in her 18 months on the board they had not reviewed the code of conduct policy, which states it must be reviewed annually.

For Seavy, the lack of review of the code of conduct, in particular, comes at a time when the public and the press have expressed deep concern regarding the social media conduct of Hatch himself, her letter states.

Hatch, who has chaired the all-volunteer committee five out of the six years he has been a member, did not return a call from the Banner on Monday, and has not returned previous calls as well.

The primary role of the nine-person committee is to provide independent recommendations to town meeting voters separate from the Select Board and town administrators on any proposed financial matters.

Hatch has faced criticism from others about alleged social media activity. Resident Laura Rood claims Hatch has violated the town charter and the Finance Committee's own code of conduct with misogynistic, racist, anti-Semitic, insulting and degrading posts on social media, according to her June 10 complaint to the Select Board.

Residents Robert Small-Jason and Stephanie Page want Hatch removed from the committee.

His online vulgarities and misogynistic remarks to members of the community need to see him removed from his board position, Small-Jason said in his June 8 email to the Select Board.

In her June 11 complaint to the Select Board and Avellar, Page called for Hatch to be removed from the board as well. Page alleges that Hatch uses a blocking mechanism on Facebook to avoid anyone who is a target of his remarks from seeing the information.

Further, this past summer part-time resident Alan Roth distributed fliers critical of Avellars hands-off approach with Hatch by standing outside of Bubulas By the Bay restaurant, where she works. The fliers referred to her as the Donald Trump of Provincetown and advised those planning to eat at Bubalas to be asked to be seated by someone else.

Avellar, in response to the complaints about Hatchs social media use, maintains that private comments on social media are free speech, and that she is not in the business of censoring anyone.

For Seavey, though, there has been a struggle to raise objections and issues.

In recent months, she said she asked Hatch to make both the election of officers and the code of conduct review agenda items for the board to consider. However, she said those requests were denied, which is why at the end of the Nov. 17 meeting, Seavey said she tried to raise the issues as general points of order, particularly after the Select Board had recently taken up the idea of a code of conduct for other town boards.

However, she said she was cut off by Hatch before she could finish her statement, at the moment when the meeting was about to go over its one-hour limit.

I was not inspired by the Select Board. I told you Dorie that will not be on an agenda. You requested it, I denied you. Thats that, Hatch said, based on a recorded version of the Nov. 17 meeting.

On the same day Seavey sent her resignation, on Nov. 19, Hatch sent out an email to the committee saying that elections will be addressed at the next Finance Committee meeting, she said.

Im glad if it does but it sure took a long time, Seavey said.

Denying agenda items, in Seaveys experience, has also been an issue with Hatch as the chairman.

Agendas are designed to serve the entire committee, Seavey said to the Banner.

For months, the committee has been mired in a question of whether to allow part-time residents, or nonresidents, to be appointed as alternate members, as allowed by the town charter. In March, the towns Charter Compliance Commission determined that the Finance Committee and the town moderator did not violate the charter by refusing to appoint a part-time resident.

In an effort to help improve the reputation of the Finance Committee, Seavey says she requested an agenda item in August proposing to work with the town moderator to improve the process for selecting members of committee, a request she alleges was denied by Hatch.

Seavey said she then requested an agenda item to consider improving the description of the existing selection process to help with confusion, which was also allegedly refused.

I find it nothing less than preposterous that this committee could meet roughly a dozen times over the last year and never once address the enormous confusion, Seavey said.

In her letter of resignation, Seavey also alleges that the letter submitted on behalf of the Finance Committee to September 2020 town meeting voters was never reviewed by the committee. In this case, she claims Hatch abused his authority.

While Hatch has kept quiet when asked for comment by the Banner, Finance Committee member Mark Del Franco said at a Nov. 23 Select Board, during public statements, that Seaveys complaints were part of a tension on the board that he did not understand.

It had a lot to do with the board member refusing to follow procedure and not liking being called out on it, Del Franco said. Others making complaints against the Finance Committee have no legal basis and are attempting to smear anyone who disagrees with those making the complaints, Del Franco said.

These are all volunteer and good people, Del Franco said of the committee, adding that dissenters give legal cover to nutcases, giving the example of Roth protesting at Avellars place of work.

Seavey, in turn, says she was taken aback by Del Francos comments because she said it is Hatchs policy that committee members need to have public comments cleared in advance.

Back in February, Seavey was the only member of the Finance Committee who was open to considering the application from a part-time resident to serve as an alternate. At the time, the majority opinion was that the town charter should be changed to align the Finance Committee with other regulatory boards and the Select Board, which would disqualify part-time residents from serving.

Seaveys resignation, she said, has everything to do with procedures not being followed.

Its not about getting part-timers on the committee, its not about challenging the moderators authority, its really about our responsibility to have good committee governance to therefore give people a reason to trust us, she said.

In light of Seaveys resignation, Avellar said she is bothered by townspeople who cannot agree to disagree about situations.

I feel sorry that shes taken this course because she was a good and valued member, I believe, even if people didnt agree with her, Avellar said.

Avellar stands with her belief that censorship is wrong.

I'm just not going to get rid of people because I dont like what they say or I don't agree with them, Avellar said. And if people want to vote me out of office, its their right to do so.

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Entitled Young Poland The Polish Arts and Crafts Movement 1890-1918, explores the works of Young Poland artists in the context of international arts and crafts movements, as opposed to art nouveau with which they are commonly associated. Ognisko Polskie

A beautiful new book giving a fresh perspective on Polands interwar artists of the Young Poland movement goes on sale tomorrow (December 1st).

One of the key figures of the movement was Stanisaw Wyspiaski, who was a contemporary of William Morris and whose painting, Motherhood, is one of the most iconic images associated with the movement.National Museum in Krakw

Entitled Young Poland The Polish Arts and Crafts Movement 1890-1918 , the book which is in English, explores the works of Young Poland artists in the context of international arts and crafts movements, as opposed to art nouveau with which they are commonly associated.

Featured on the Financial Timess list of Best new art books for autumn, it draws particular parallels with the English arts and crafts movement led by William Morris.

Other artists and works featured in the book include Jzef Mehoffer and his unfinished freize Nature and Art.National Museum in Krakw

During an online book launch, co-editor and curator at the William Morris Gallery, Julia Griffin, said: It is the worlds first book on Young Poland, seen from the arts and crafts perspective.

Over the last century, young Poland has been viewed almost exclusively in the context of European art nouveau, this does not allow for a more nuanced understanding of the complexity and values of the movement, it is also contrary to how Young Poland makers viewed their own practice, openly disassociating themselves from art nouveau, so we very much hope that our book can change the existing paradigm arguing that Young Poland displayed more fundamental parallels with the international arts and crafts movement which began in Britain in the 1880s.

Roisin Inglesby, senior curator at the William Morris Gallery, said there were many visuals similarities between William Morriss work and that of the Young Poland movement even though they were created in different countries and at different times. Ognisko Polskie/Twitter

Comparison Between Wyspianski's Pansie's design from 1897 and William Morris's Trellis Wallpaper 1862.Ognisko Polskie/Twitter

Young Polandbegan under the Austrian partition of Poland at the end of the 19th century in an area known as Galicia, today the area around Krakw and Zakopane in the Tatra Mountains. It was a patriotic movement which was largely a response to the non-existence of Poland at the time, when it was under partition between Austria, Russia and Prussia.

The National Museum of Krakw has the largest collection of art from Young Polandin the worldandmany of the works featured in the book can be found in the museums collections and other Krakw institutions.

The book is featured on the Financial Times list of Best new art books for autumn.FT

One of the key figures of the movement was Stanisaw Wyspiaski, who was a contemporary of William Morris and whose painting, Motherhood, is one of the most iconic images associated with the movement.

Other artists and works featured in the book include Jzef Mehoffer and his unfinished freize Nature and Art, Henryk Uziembos Stanied glass Spring and Stanisaw Witkiewiczs exterior and interior design for the House under the Firs in Zakopane, which initiated and popularised the Zakopane style of architecture and interior decoration.

Co-editor of the book, Professor Andrzej Szczerski, Director of the National Museum in Krakw, said that contacts between Polish and British arts and crafts artists of the pre-war period have been underestimated.ukasz Ggulski/PAP

The book also explores the contribution of less commonly known artists of the period, including Maria Pawlikowska-Jasnorzewska, who was more famous for her poetry, but who also painted intricate watercolours inspired by folk themes and Karol Kowsowski, who was a sculptor, creator of intricate wood carvings for the design of his Silent Villa, and also produced intricate and unique animal themed paper cuttings and lace designs.

Through a series of over 250 elaborate supporting images, the book seeks to show how the artists of Young Poland were more than just art nouveau inspired painters and were instead heavily inspired by the craftsmanship of highlanders from the Tatra mountains, as well as nature, history and peasant traditions and embraced these themes in their craft as well as their paintings.

Amongst others, the book tells the story of Young Poland through images of furniture, architectural and interior designs, paper cuttings and textiles, as well as wood carvings and stained glass and more unusual objects like engraved book bindings and even Christmas decorations.

The book will be published on the 1st December by Lund Humphries and will be available on the William Morris Gallery website.

During the books online launch, co-editor Julia Griffin from the William Morris Gallery said: It is the worlds first book on Young Poland, seen from the arts and crafts perspective.Ognisko Polskie/YouTube

It is the pre-cursor to a major exhibition of the same name which will be held at William Morris Gallery in October 2021.

The book was the result of a length research project co-financed by the Polish Ministry of Culture and National Heritage and was edited by Prof Andrzej Szczerski, Director of the National Museum in Krakw and art historian Julia Griffin from the William Morris Gallery and co-authored with Roisin Inglesby, Senior Curator, William Morris Gallery.

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The big splash of the Spurs offseason came last week when they locked in one of the returning pieces from the Kawhi Leonard trade by re-signing Jakob Poeltl. The deal, worth just over a reported $26 million through three years, didnt come as a total shock, but it could be a bolder move than many give it credit for.

For a team with ample raw materials, its not been clear how the Spurs will put them togetherat least not in ways that matter for winning teams. Can they establish a defensive identity? What will their defensive style be like? Which young player(s) develop star-level upside, and how would the other pieces complement on offense? Most of these questions remain unanswered, but the draft selection of FSUs Devin Vassell, Brian Wrights comments afterward, and now the commitment to Poeltl give us an outline to work with.

Lets start with the Poeltl contract and work our way backwards.

After averaging just 16.5 and 17.7 minutes his last two seasons in San Antonio, Poeltls new deal suggests a larger role moving forward as the team reloads. Also, theres this statement he made during his media availability last week:

There was some conversations about my role and how the team is going to look in the future. That was a big part of my decision as well. I wanted to be on a team where I felt comfortable and would get along and play well alongside my teammates.

Whether it happens during this season or after the summer of 2021 when LaMarcus Aldridges contract is up, it certainly appears that Poeltl will step in as the teams new starting center. Those two remain difficult to pair up at the same time, so Poeltl may need to wait unless the Spurs can convince Aldridge of the move amid a contract year, or they trade him earlier.

The Spurs have reason to put their faith in Poeltl, even if they didnt show it with minutes the past two years. His first season in San Antonio, the team went 16-8 with him as a starter; in last years forgettable 32-39 campaign, they went 9-9.

Can he stretch the floor? No, his longest shots as a Spur are the occasional push-shot-cum-jumper from 19 feet away. And while he did connect on 60% of those last season (really good!), hell likely keeping doing most of his scoring around the basket. That production will largely depend on others because of his lack of self-creation, save for those crafty fake hand-offs which spring him for open runs at the rim.

Defensively he can hold his own on switches, but hes going to guard pick and rolls by stunting and showing and dropping back whenever possible. And as we saw in Orlando versus Joel Embiid, he can be overmatched by bruising bigs.

Theres certainly room for growth: Poeltl can do more as a facilitator and improve his free-throw shooting, for starters. But for the purposes of team-building, Poeltl is what he is, and that gives us an idea of the other four players the Spurs may envision around him.

Poeltls strengths as a defender have been evident through two seasons in San Antonio. Opponents shot 11.8% worse within 6 feet of the rim when he was the primary defender last season, putting him in the mix with some of the leagues better deterrents. Combine that with a high block rate (he averaged 1.4 in limited minutes last season), high basketball IQ and deceptive mobility and you have a fine big to surround with switchable perimeter players. San Antonio dabbled in a switch-heavy scheme in Orlando that was happy to switch 1 through 4 while Poeltl hung back on pick and rolls, and its a formula were likely to see more of next season.

It suits the direction the Spurs have gone in recent drafts, with Vassell as the latest in long, athletic wings that can guard multiple positions, hit the defensive glass, and make plays. Heres Spurs GM Brian Wright after the draft:

Speed, length, shooting ability all hold value, so well continue to look for those things,... I think the league has really changed where you look at guys as one-position playersyoure either a 1, 2, 3, 4 or a 5. I think what you see now is youve got guards, youve got wings and youve got bigs, and depending on who theyre playing with you diversify. And you want guys who are versatile, who can play multiple positions.

The first team that comes to mind when I hear the guard-wing-big talk is Boston. Brad Stevens echoed a similar line in speaking about their approach to team-building three years ago and has ridden it to considerable success in the East. That philosophy has included a de-prioritization of the big position, with the team investing most of its cap space at other positions. The Spurs, with their theoretical starting center of the future on a similarly economical deal, can do the same as they start making use of their open salary books in this summer.

Its an open question as to whether the Spurs are actually trying to replicate what Boston is doing or whether they can with their young pieces who, a) average 2 or 3 inches shorter than the big wings the Celtics have platooned and b) havent threatened to reach the talent level of Jayson Tatum or Jaylen Brown. But if the idea is a free-flowing, four-out offense with multiple ball-handlers, then Poeltl can be the low-usage big that stirs the drink. Hes a strong screen-setter who can dive to the rim well enough to put pressure on a back-pedaling defender. He and Derrick White already have strong chemistry and, as guys like Dejounte Murray, Lonnie Walker and Keldon Johnson develop as decision-makers off the dribble, itll help to more routinely have Poeltl helping create advantages against a set defense.

Among Spurs rotation players, the Austrian was 4th in assists per 36 minutes last season, thanks largely to working off designated hand-offs and setting up guys like Bryn Forbes, Patty Mills and Marco Belinelli for pull-up jumpers. Whether he can keep getting dimes depends largely on the growth of his young teammates scoring off similar actions.

Poeltl at under $9 million a year should be objectively good value and a tradable contract should the Spurs look to move him. It also means having one likely starter at around 8% of the salary cap. Should the Spurs need a change-of-pace center to close out certain lineups with? PATFO can chase that, too. When youre a young team still trying to figure out who your future stars may be, and where they may come from, thats important.

Retaining him doesnt say much to the ceiling for the Spurs youth movement, but it definitely helps set a floor while laying the groundwork for what the front office decides to do next.

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By Diana ChengAAP Film & Arts Writer

Souvankham Thammavongsas short story collection How to Pronounce Knife is the winner of the 2020 Scotiabank Giller Prize. Established in 1994, the notable Canadian literary awards past winners include Alice Munro, Margaret Atwood, and Michael Ondaatje, just to name a few.

Born in the Lao refugee camp in Thailand, Thammavongsa came to Canada as a young child with her sponsored family. She grew up in Toronto where she still lives.

How to Pronounce Knife is a compilation of fourteen short stories previously published in literary journals and magazines such as Granta, The Paris Review, and Harpers. Several selections in the book are O. Henry and The Journey Prize winners.

Thammavongsas memory of living in a refugee camp might be vague as she left while still a toddler, her growing up in Canada in an immigrant family would have supplied much lucidity. The details of immigrant lives and clarity of insights mark her stories with poignancy as she creates on the page.

In the title story a young immigrant child learns to read. Perplexed by the word knife, she asks her father how to pronounce it. Kah-nnn-eye-ffff. Its kahneyff, he tells her. Her pronunciation of the word in class the next day when the teacher calls on her to read does not so much bring embarrassment but a conflict of loyalty, one that other characters in the stories of the book have to struggle with: the tug-of-war between loyalty to ones own family and culture vis--vis the larger society.

Thammavongsas stories bring us to lives we would seldom meet. Mani Pedi is about a failed boxer conceding to work in his sisters nail salon, learning how to do manicure and pedicure. His scarred and damaged face may be a sharp contrast to the polished nails and creamed facials, it doesnt stop him from dreaming, an internal flame which his sister tries to put out angrily.

Others extinguish their own dreams. Like the man whose wife has walked out on him in Edge of the World. While his daughter grieves for a mother lost, he does not. He had done all of this lifes grieving when he became a refugee.

Picking Worms tells the story of a mother and her fourteen-year-old daughter working as worm pickers in the dark of night. In this new land, theres only the two of them as the girls father drowns while pushing them to escape across a river. You could be picking worms but still have your dignity intact, and memories. Whenever I had any time to myself, I often got to thinking of my father. You arent supposed to remember things from when youre two, but I did. All we wanted was to live.

In other stories theres the voice of the female in a male-dominated society, regardless whether one is an immigrant or not. In the story Paris, the bosss wife watches her husband go out with a female worker. She and another female worker embrace and cry, albeit for different reasons. In Slingshot, Thammavongsa describes the internal world of a seventy-year-old woman whose yearning and desire is no different from a younger one.

Not that all the stories are about gloomy loses and hurts. Wit and humour bring delightful surprises in Thammavongsas writing. Randy Travis reads like an episode of a comedy sit-com. A wife is infatuated with the singer Randy Travis and asks her daughter to write fan letters to him. The daughter wants to snuff out her mothers craze and writes to the opposite effects. But her husband tries to please her, a husband who doesnt belt out the word love as readily as a country-western singer but shows hes no less loving than a white man.

Thammavongsas style is subtlety embedded in spare prose, occasionally sprinkled with a dash of witty humor. A word of wisdom is conveyed in these lines from Slingshot: You can do that with a joke, hide how you feel and mean what you say at the same time, and no one will ask you which it is. Apropos insight and a poignant skill of survival for her characters.

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I thank Penguin Random House Canada for the review copy.

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Princess Diana's former butler reveals what transpired between her and Prince Charles

Princess Diana's former butler, Paul Burrell, came forth breaking his silence on claims pertaining to The Crown being far from the truth.

Burrell said the show's depiction of what transpired between Prince Charles and Diana is quite accurate.

During an interview with The Sun, he said, "Josh O'Connor plays Prince Charles as a rather uncaring, cold person. And I'm afraid that's what I saw behind closed doors."

"He was married to probably the most beautiful woman in the world. But he didn't look after her, and that's what comes across in The Crown," Burrell added. He continued that the rift between Charles and Diana came afloat after her rise to fame.

"You're seeing an unknown young girl rise while Charles's star doesn't and her popularity becomes greater than his," said Burrell. "And that's the whole problem."

Burrell added: "Diana said to me, 'I thought when I got married that my husband would be there for me, to care for me, to support me, to encourage me, but he isn't.' People that jump up and say, 'Well, that's not factual', well, that's pretty close to the truth."

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Thats one of the key findings from a postcard survey of residents who live along the Greenway on both sides of the river, said Gunnar Patz, a senior UND fisheries and wildlife biology major who conducted the survey.

Patz received a $5,000 Main Street GF Challenge grant last winter to launch the survey, working with Greenway coordinator Kim Greendahl, the Greenway Technical Committee and Jay Boulanger, a UND wildlife professor who left the university in July for a new position as president of White Buffalo Inc., a nonprofit conservation group headquartered in Connecticut.

The goal of the survey was to collect baseline data on the status of deer populations and depredation problems along the Greenway in the two communities.

As part of the survey, postcards with survey information were mailed in August to 1,500 residents living along the Greenway, along with information about responding to the survey either online or by filling out paper copies.

About 20% of the residents sampled responded to the survey. The wide range of responses was unexpected, Patz said.

Patz and Greendahl were on hand to present findings from the survey Monday night to the Grand Forks City Council and Tuesday night via Zoom to the East Grand Forks City Council.

We were surprised in the comment section about how strongly some people felt about the deer population and the damage that they had been receiving to their yards, Patz said in an interview. Some people wrote huge paragraphs about how they really feel about the situation and some people said they loved the deer.

Also of note, most of the respondents who had lived along the Greenway 10 years or more said theyve seen an increase in deer numbers on or near their property. A few homeowners suggested hunting as a way to control deer numbers, but a hunt wasnt among the 12 questions included in the survey.

The Greenway Technical Committee plans to continue periodic surveys and perhaps set up trail cameras in places to get a better handle on deer activity.

As a fisheries and wildlife biology student, Patz said the survey provided the opportunity to conduct research with significant management implications.

I think it was an amazing experience especially to give me a personal look into the beginning stages of a management plan for the deer population in Grand Forks and East Grand Forks, he said.

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Backyard shed maker Modern Shed has added a newcomer to its product line: the DW, a $129,000 tiny home on wheels.

Modern Shed has been known to build backyard sheds that can serve as home offices and gyms, storage units, guest bedrooms, and more. But after almost 20 years of doing so, the company has decided to pivot this year amid the coronavirus pandemic to unveil a tiny home on wheels known as the Dwelling on Wheels, or the DW.

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"We wanted to leverage that experience [of building sheds] to offer something that embodies agility, which is really something this year has asked of all of us," founder of Modern Shed Ryan Smith told Business Insider in an email interview. "The DW can do a lot it's great for enjoying nature short-term, for off-grid living, or as a second, remote home."

Right now is also a strategic time to sell tiny homes as the movement has increased in popularity this year as the coronavirus pandemic continues to rage on in the US, according to a report by the Wall Street Journal.

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