For a double cover whose projection admits no continuous section, we take two copies of the upper half-plane, topologized by ...
taking as basic open neighborhoods of points on either x-axis the symmetric “broken open Vs”, with fingers of equal length, but with left finger in the same half-plane as the point on the x-axis, and right finger in the other half-plane (omitting the corresponding point on that other x-axis).

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