Me, an enlightened intellectual in 2021: oh no
I already knew there'd be a global pandemic back then, but for some inexplicable reason I thought everyone would have the wherewithal to solve it with a couple months of full lockdown.
Yeah I remember being blissfully ignorant and terminally naive thinking "alright so we're not gonna be as swift and decisive as china but after it starts to get a bit bad they'll do some lockdowns and get it taken care of" BOY WASI WRONG
republicans: wow we dont need the government anymore to do our fascist cullings :angel-biblical-shh:
I mean, that had happeneded several times with other similar viruses untill this point. Remember how they cought Sars, and mers, and got those locked down and isolated? Turns out they been good at this for a while
Through the sheer power of china being way larger than us in every possible way even though we don't realize it. They get viruses transmission events more than we do.
A friend of a friend actually died from West Nile virus back in the day, I thought that shit was made up by Fox News to scare children
Hard same. But I do think the China coverage was somewhat scaremongery, with reports constantly trying to imply government mismanagement or oppressive quarantine measures. Hilarious in hindsight.
I remember people at work saying china was putting people in death camps when I mentioned how it was cool how fast they were assembling hospitals and testing facilities lmao
I remembered how much scaremongering was done over the first SARS outbreak, which while bad for the seven hundred people it killed obviously wasn't nearly as bad as what has happened with COVID-19.
Yes I distinctly remember the tweet going around in like Jan/Feb 2020, of some video from China of a drone yelling at an old lady to go home, and how the reaction was "how oppressive no freedoms"
I knew it was bad and we were fucked for years after looking at that graph of the virus spread in February 2020 in Italy. Shit was straight up exponential, to the moon. After that I started reading, which led to a few homemade masks and stocking up on n95s
This. I was out of state when that shit happened and I was watching it grow exponentially like “wew lad ima have to fly in a week or two...”
Don't feel too bad. In March 2020, I briefly believed the CDC's initial lie that "masks weren't necessary" until a Chinese friend convinced me otherwise and got me on a mask waiting list at a local Asian market.
After that I thought US would only take about twice as long to get the virus under control as China had in Wuhan....lmao....
I remember getting hyped for (international sporting event that was coming to my area) and then each day watching everything get worse and worse until it was cancelled. Oh how naive we were
Yeah I went to the movies in March like a week before lockdown and then I actually started paying attention and was like 😮
I hoped it was overblown and would just pass over but sadly it wasn't.
Same situation for me and she really likes to say I told ya so lmao
