Me, an enlightened intellectual in 2021: oh no

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Yeah I went to the movies in March like a week before lockdown and then I actually started paying attention and was like 😮

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Same situation for me and she really likes to say I told ya so lmao

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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.

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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

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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.

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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”

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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

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I hoped it was overblown and would just pass over but sadly it wasn’t.

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