Current Events > Remember back in February 2020 when

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We all thought dat Covid was just a flu thing dat would fizzle out in a couple weeks lol?

No, what are you Pepperidge farms?

I remember Dr. Drew going around acting like a specialist saying it wasn't going to be a big deal.

lol no. anyone with sense realized in november 2019 as reports were trickling out of china that we were looking at a pandemic event.

Fuck no, I remember Italy getting fucked and I was like I hope this shit never comes here and then U.S. citizens got COVID on cruise ships and they were bringing them back and leaving them at military bases and I was like fuck....

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sorry, off by a month. december.

I thought this was completely overblown and wondered why anyone was freaking out.

monkmith posted...

sorry, off by a month. december.

Yup, that's about when I remember the experts saying it's a matter of when not if covid becomes a global pandemic.

I think some of you forget how uninformed and stupid a lot people were then. As I said, I remember Dr Drew making TV appearances saying the flu was way worse. I even remember people here thinking America wouldn't have it as bad as Italy because they kiss each other on the cheek. There was a lot of denial going around either from stupidity or being uninformed.

monkmith posted...

lol no. anyone with sense realized in november 2019 as reports were trickling out of china that we were looking at a pandemic event.

My coworkers were predicting it months early. It was them saying "We had a pandemic in 1920, 1820, 1720..." Etc. They kept insisting that a global pandemic would hit in 2020 since history repeats.

Some of them are big time conspiracy theorists and pretty gullible. But then it happened, so, yeah. They were right about one, and it ended up worse than I could've imagined at the time.

Master_Bass posted...

Yup, that's about when I remember the experts saying it's a matter of when not if covid becomes a global pandemic.

the worst part is that because we'd fucked over relations with china to the point we had completely withdrawn our own watchdog groups that keep track of emerging diseases there we ended up blind. we had to rely on backchannel reports from doctors in china reporting to out of country labs, doctors that were afraid to report because their own country was cracking down on the news. had we kept our own experts there we'd have completely avoided china's regressive propoganda machine and their undying urge to keep their own population ignorant.

well, that and the fact that many governments around the world are/were headed by fucking morons willing to let their people die as long as it kept them looking good.