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
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.
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 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
