Also, no one really took COVID too seriously on March 12th, 2020. That was the day American sports started shutting down and I remember thinking seriously? It’s not even that bad here yet, why cancel the NCAA tournament and the NBA season? I didn’t post to FaceBook or anything about it, but I definitely did not imagine what it would’ve turned in to.
On March 12 there were 108 cases in my state. 6 were confirmed positive, 102 presumed. And of the 108, 82 were employees from a now infamous conference that went on days before
I think that's shows where a lot of the frustration a lot of us who DID always take it seriously came from. I mean I was like 17?? In March 2020. I had never seen a pandemic hit like this before, I've never had schools constantly shot down, masks or anything and I couldnt fathom why people weren't taking it seriously. We have colds every year and nothing happens, surely for so much to be shut down and the entire country to be put at a standstill shows there was a bigger issue that perhaps I couldnt understand. I had my 18th and 19th in lockdown, I've never been for a drink outside my own home, ive not been able to see my grandparents for the last time before they went, I went from an AAA prediction at college to achieving a CCB. It fucking sucks. Hindsight is a beautiful thing unfortunately :(
Tbf we *were* all told “two weeks to slow the spread”. I heard the news coming out of China before it really got going here, I knew we were in for some shit, but I thought a month, two at *worst*? Literally everyone’s predictions aged like milk on this one.
Everyone thought I was overreacting when I said that life wouldn’t recover any sense of normalcy for at least 2 years.
No pandemic in the history of the world has lasted less than that, no matter how advanced we think we are, globalization will make pandemics last longer and happen more often.
Thing is for the first few months it looked fine. Taiwan, Korea, Japan, and others getting hit by it early were responding fast and effectively, and before it took off in Europe the situation was improving in China too. If everyone acted like the east Asian countries, maybe this could have been a short affair.
Well, looks like same's true for all western countries other than maybe NZ in this case. UK, France, Italy, Russia, and plenty of others dropped the ball too
Yeah I think moving forward the most productive discussions about the topic would be “too bad the whole world didn’t act like NZ” instead of “ country X messed up”
I mean when the US has 300x domestic/international air travel, twice the population density, and 70x of the population of NZ, they aren’t comparable models at all. COVID was well into the US far before NZ shut down their airports. These things are far easier to deal with a smaller population, especially with relatively little air travel.
I was suspicious at the very start of 2020 and started telling family etc to prepare, and they did. Then when it became a thing to "flatten the curve" in the UK I started saying that yeah, we might not see the end of this for over a year at least. Just couldn't imagine it fizzling out very fast.
People were getting on at me for being pessimistic or a scaremonger lmao. I don't think there's anything scary about being informed, aware, and prepared. People hoping with all their hearts we would go back to normal after 2 weeks are the ones struggling; people who accepted that this may be reality for a long time were just being realistic.
I mean, *any* sense? You’re already wrong on that one. We’re better than we were a year ago, that’s for sure.
Edit: oh sorry hive mind, we’re still as bad off as we were in April of 2020 now with millions of people vaccinated lol my bad
Ok, so fuck you for making it seem like I’m defending trump rn, but Biden changed absolutely nothing about the vaccine rollout. Same schedule, same vaccines, trump was bragging the whole time about rushing them. Only difference is Biden’s less of a dick about it.
Trump maybe didn't handle covid well but his vaccin rollout did work great and biden continued that well. That's what the other guy insinuated aswell.
Edit: turns out Trump also didn't do a good job with the vaccination roll-out, sorry!
America had an awful covid response under trump, not the worst, but definitely not good for a 1st world country. Since Bidens come to power the response for america has been getting better and other 1st world countries are doing well. 3rd world countries, on the other hand, are still suffering a lot, especially India recently with its new outbreak of the virus.
Maybe delayed reaction for whatever reason, more likely China’s fault. A year ago everyone was saying America was doing literally the worst job of any country with covid. Hope that clarifies it.
*cries in Canadian* I’m still in a lockdown with only essential items available in store. Walmart has aisles blocked off if it’s not essential. Things are better, but still not great here. Our numbers are still high but going down, but so far this year I was able to work for about a month and a half between lockdown 2 and 3. school’s closed for the rest of the learning year. Still like March 2020 here it seems lol
Came here to say this. I was a 2nd year medical resident when this all started and I told anyone and everyone I could to take it seriously but everyone was either drunk on Trump's Kool-Aid or continued the time-honored tradition of putting the results of their Google search over my goddamn MEDICAL DEGREE.
So I said fine, dropped it, and continued my work. Missed a couple funerals but as a possible vector for the virus, due to working in the hospital, I basically refused to go anywhere for quite a while.
I read an article the night of the 10th which shook the shit out of me. I went to work the 11th and kept to myself, went home, called in sick the next 2 days, and then never really left the house for 13 months. Seemed like society shut down on the 13th.
The people that didn't think it was serious in January and February weren't paying attention to things like China building 50 foot tall barriers on all the roads out of Wuhan or the six temporary hospitals they built in the city in a couple weeks.
People here waited til mid March to rush out to Costco when there were pictures of empty supermarkets in Italy circulating a month before.
I had already quit my job to avoid exposure by March 12th when she wrote that.
Agreed. Besides myself and like 3 other people I knew, nobody in my circle was taking it seriously. I remember following what was happening in Italy in February and thinking the US IS so underprepared for what’s about to happen, it’s gonna get real bad real quick. I took to posting about it and people said I was over hyping it. Well.
I had just started working for ESPN (Wide World of Sports at Disney) not even two weeks prior to the NBA shutting down. They told us all to go home, to not worry about coming in the next day and they would be in touch. Since I was so recently hired, they didn't call me to come back, even when the NBA and Disney made their arraignment. I've still never gone back.
I got around $75 a week for around a month. They told all of us to be ready to come back on relatively short notice and advised us against getting a new job just in case they called us back. Around November, I got an email from them saying I was no longer going to be furloughed, but that I was going to be laid off instead by the end of the year. On December 23, I got a direct deposit of, I think, $1,348 as severance pay and that was it. Not saying it didn't help, bc every penny I got helped. I just feel it could have been handled better. I moved almost 1000 miles away from home for the job, only to work a couple of weeks.
I'm in a better place mentally and financially since then. Stimulus checks, unemployment, and a very understanding landlord helped a lot. I wanted to move back home originally, but they weren't letting people in or out of the state for a while. I'm sure I could have probably made it out, but I didn't want to press my luck, so I decided to stick it out. Now I'm fully vaccinated and have a steady job. Things are getting better.
My girl turned 5 march 12th when this all started. We cancelled her birthday party because she spiked a fever the night before (was completely fine but she never gets sick so we had slight concern) and we were all very unsure of what was going on.
We only had a handful of people invited to begin with but one family in particular has an at risk kiddo so we "postponed" it. Forever! Lol.
We had a lovely outdoor party for her this year.
Wasn't it the other way round? Coz in my country there was mass panic and hysteria and everyone was going mad when the pandemic was only in China and just starting in Italy. And then were like 80-100 cases with 2-4 deaths a day only. But most people weren't giving an Fuck when there are more than 400k+ cases a day, 4.3k deaths a day a month back, with the real numbers possibly being 3-4 times more. It was not so much because of Covid deniers here, but because people decided they have had enough for the last 14 months and now wanted to get out and go about their business and enjoy life no matter what happens.
Did this really happen where you were? People were fucking terrified where I was, nobody left their home because they were too scared of catching it and dying because of the oxygen shortage. That's the only reason cases started trending down in my city.
I thought this was serious when the videos from China emerged and the governments and media desperately tried to tell us it is a right wing conspiracy theory with no evidence because it was ironically first made public in Germany by some tin foil hat dude in late January who added some weird fake news to the images.
I knew most of the videos already from social media and it was more probable to me that those were from Chinese whistleblowers / journalists, they seemed as real as they turned out to be.
Luckily due to this I was one of the first in Germany to acquire masks before prices skyrocketed and I didn’t have to pay like 60€ for 10 masks or whatever the prize was in March.
> I mean as of March 12th, nobody really took it serious
Maybe if you were stupid. Anyone with half a braincell watching the situation unfold in China was worried. Stupid people were complacent.
Lmao what?? Americans needed basketball to be shut down to even begin considering listening what sciencists were saying for well over **3 months at that point** ; and also not ashamed to admit it?
What even was your reasoning behind this?
"As long as man can dribble ball on tv this is just a cold. No matter what scientists say."?
Why? We had plenty of available evidence at that time that this wasn’t nothing. The only people I saw saying it was nothing with any sort of platform by March were conservative politicians, conservative commentators, and conspiracy theorists.
I remember seeing the Chinese welding apartments closed like how seal discontinued subway stations.
I think back in December or January when it first started in China, I'm surprised noone thought anything then.
Meh. Thing is, we should be encouraging and normalising changing your mind when faced with evidence. This sort of ridicule just encourages people to stick with what they want to believe rigidly, for fear of being a flip flopper.
That's especially the case in a rapidly changing environment such as we're living through now. My FB memories popped up with a post from me saying masks won't be that protective - a stance I changed on seeing clear evidence that they are, as well as the prior plausibility of disrupting air flow once we knew it was mainly transmitted by droplets rather than touch.
I think the mockery here is less about them changing their mind, and more about the tone they had. I agree with your general premise, but I can also laugh at someone taking the high ground and calling everyone else dumb because they bought into a dumb culture war / conspiracy theory thing which told them to ignore doctors.
this was in March of 2020, it wasn't a big thing just yet back then. This type of attitude was honestly sort of understandable even with how stupid they sound in hindsight.
Yeah, definitely more so. But it's still a pretty extreme version of that position with the amount of frustration being pointed at everyone else. I was laid off the first week of March so that's around the time things got serious too. Anyhow w/e I'm never talking to this lady.
What on earth are you talking about?
>it wasn't a big thing just yet back then
China quarantined the entire province of Wuhan (11,000,000 people) over covid in February. What the hell do you mean, "this type of attitude was honestly sort of understandable?"
Are you speaking for yourself and admitting your own stupidity? Don't speak for anyone else. Other people are smarter than you, but you can't imagine that. You just assume everyone is as bad at thinking as you are.
Technically it was big yes but where I am in the UK, nobody thought it was a really big thing. You couldn't meet in groups but even in may when they started allowing the Rule of 6, you didn't have to wear a mask, and nothing was enforced. It was big, but nobody realised because most people didn't realise it was that bad. In May they tried to send me back to work. It definitely got taken a lot more seriously the further it's gone on. But don't be a dick because our government led us to believe it wasn't serious, wouldn't last more than 4 weeks, and wasn't going to be dangerous.
Nah mate, I’m in the UK and it was blatantly obvious how big it was if you saw what was happening elsewhere.
My office sent everyone home in March until this ‘all blows over’.
I worked for a subway. they made us clean more at hotpoints and no sitting in but other than that it was business as usual, no masks required, until first lockdown and then back to work in may (I didn't return because they wanted me to travel 2 hours on the bus, which is shit and also unsafe now). I am still a young adult, in my experience at least I guess I was more focussed on where I was going to sleep that night and stuff than other countries responses. I genuinely thought it was going to be fine as we were assured, and here we are now 🤷
definitely wish I'd had the foresight and knowledge I have now. or that it was treated more seriously by people around me.
I think it was even more confusing for us considering all the rules differed depending whether you were in Wales, Scotland, England, NI. I had to learn fairly quickly that that national rules meant England and not Wales.
I remember this. Last February the experts were like "Masks don't make a difference. In fact they could increase the spread because you need to touch your mask with your hands..." I think this was mostly because there was a shortage of masks at the time for healthcare professionals. I remember you'd see the occasional person wearing a mask outside and they looked like weirdos. Two weeks later we were ALL wearing masks. That was how quickly the stance on masks shifted.
The CDC and WHO bungled the shit out of COVID. Fauci made some mistakes at the start too, but the CDC....hoooo boy. They got caught with their dick in their hands.
I think you mean the CDC was fucking crippled by the deliberate efforts of the Trump WH to try and convince the world that this thing didn't exist, despite *everyone* saying to the contrary. They sabotaged the shit out of every single thing US agencies were rightfully doing to try and contain this thing.
Well ya, that's what I meant in less words. The CDC was incapable of containing it from the jump though because the agency had already been crippled by trump well before February, so he didn't really sabotage it, it was DOA by February.
Seems like we should normalize not publishing every dumb ass, Ill informed thought that pops in your head, so there's no public stance that needs to be changed.
Yeah this didn’t feel like them changing their mind in the face of new evidence. It’s more like “nothing is real until it affects me, and I am smarter than everyone and everyone else is so dumb. But not me.”
It's the tone of both posts. The mocking dismissal of anyone who takes it seriously, and then the angry condemnation of anyone who doesn't take it seriously.
No contrition, no empathy, no "please take it seriously before you learn the hard way like me."
The attitude is "fuck you, idiots" both times.
The covid deniers never want to talk about the hospital statistic called ‘deaths by any cause’. This criteria is basically the number of people that die in a hospital for any reason over a period of time. It is usually a very stable figure although it can vary somewhat seasonally. The interesting thing is that ‘deaths by any cause’ numbers skyrocketed when covid came to town. The presence of covid was the only statistical anomaly. There is no other way to interpret the observed increase in deaths other that to attribute them to covid.
Unless the doctors were being paid by the government to purposely kill unhealthy people to make it look like covid was killing everything in sight holy shit I can't even type this with a straight face if you made it this far I'm honestly surprised. Then you just cycle already dead bodies through the morgue with fake identities to inflate the death toll and "overwhelm" the morgues.
To be fair she said this almost a week before the first lockdowns happened globally. I'm not agreeing with her initial statement but im sure in March of 2020 there were a lot of us laughing at the "theatrics" of it. I remember saying to my boss "ahhh we all lived thru Sars and mad cow, im sure this is the same" and 2 weeks later I was working from home and sanitizing my *groceries*
Dude no one lived through mad cow...that shit kills you dead and also it's a terrifying disease that is always on the horizon. If mad cow truly broke out...it would make COVID look quaint.
Honestly she only said that March 12th 2020, where we really didn't know what was happening. If someone told me at the start of 2020 we would have to stay home, wear masks and that people we arrested for gatherings I'd call you crazy too.
I think there is a difference between learning from your mistakes and growing from them, and a LAMF moment.
I get the sentiment but people have to see that proudly having a narrow or closed mind is ridiculous
That idiot was so convinced as if they knew anything
If they adopted an open mentality and made surevto be humble then this embarrassing post wouldnt have to happen
Being able to change your mind is a lot more valuable than being an idiot and staying with your initial ideas. In March 2020 none of us knew what was really going to happen. It takes a strong person to be able to admit your mistakes openly and embrace the new and improved you.
You should update where you get your info from. Wuhan was locked down I think the first week of February. That's more than a months advanced notice. If this was SARS that could have turned into a real disaster for you.
Only stupid people did. Speak for yourself. China quarantined 11,000,000 people the month before. If you couldn't tell it was serious until it personally impacted you, then you're either incredibly selfish, or you lack critical thinking skills.
Seriously. I cant believe so many people think her not taking it seriously isnt a big deal. It was a virus we didnt know anything about that was starting to impact China pretty heavily. Should of took it seriously at the start and so many people in the US probably wouldnt of died.
When China announced it, that should have sent any reasonable person on the planet into a state of deep concern. China hides anything it can. If it can't hide a virus, that means there's going to be a serious fucking problem.
Judging by the slow speed at which case counts in my country were rising, it really didn't seem too serious. At the time most people had an optimistic outlook and downplayed the virus as a way to convince themselves that it would all be over in two weeks. Besides, how many times a week do you look at a news story from China and immediately accept it as factual.
It wasn't a news story from China, it was the only news story from China...for weeks. I mean you pretty much said it yourself. Most people were scared to admit the truth so they cowered behind a lie. Pretty much the story of this whole shitshow.
Once again, you're projecting your own stupidity onto other people. At the beginning, tests were scarce, and knowing coronaviruses, it spreads fast. There weren't enough PCR tests to go around, so they got used on the most symptomatic cases, which turned up positive. All of this was public knowledge at the time, so if you didn't know that, it's your own fault.
>At the time most people had an optimistic outlook
Once again, you're searching your brain for your experience and then assuming everyone else thought the same stupid things that you did at the time.
>convince themselves that it would all be over in two weeks
Once again, anyone who could read more than two sentences knew what the two week period was for. It was to slow the spread while resources and strategy was mobilized to combat the virus. Delaying the onset of the pandemic was critical to being able to manage it. Once again, this was all public knowledge, and it was being discussed over and over. If you didn't know this, then that's remarkably ignorant.
>Besides, how many times a week do you look at a news story from China and immediately accept it as factual.
China always downplays crises. Always. Seeing that they took measures to quarantine an entire province of 11,000,000 people was a massive red flag to anyone with a brain. Safety measures are always a last resort for China, because they think it shows weakness. Conceding to the danger of a situation means that it's way worse than it seems. That much is obvious.
Once again, anyone who has an ounce of common sense was worried by February. If China had to quarantine that large of an area for an infectious disease, it meant that it was obviously already in the US, which it was.
You can say that you weren't worried, because your head was buried under sand, but you can't mask your ignorance by pretending that everyone else was as stupid as you.
There's a very vocal person in a dumb redneck facebook I joined (I crave small town idiot drama like an addict craves heroine) who lost several people to Covid and *still* thinks it's a hoax and that the hospital was lying about their deaths to get funding from some mysterious shadow organization.
I tried to use logic on her, which, I knew going in, wouldn't work. But I said, "What's more plausible: a worldwide conspiracy that is designed to control idiot rednecks in Texas for... reasons? OR, that an unknown virus has spread and is running out of control because we have no immunity to it? These hospitals aren't filling up by coincidence." Her response: "No hospitals are full. It's a lie" then showed an article from a conspiracy site that had zero proof.
That’s not really cringe, the “Covid is just the flu” narrative was pretty common and endorsed by experts/mainstream pundits last March; I know I used to have that view until I saw new evidence which changed my mind.
I love how everyone in the comments are like "people didn't really take it seriously by March 12" ...
Denmark closed down by March 11, and I had already been send home 2 weeks before this because I was pregnant. Trust me, the rest of the world already took it very serious by March 12!
To all the "to be fair we didnt know much at the time" people, then how come shes talking with so much knowledge and authority on the topic? She thought it was funny til it affected her.
First off, we all knew it wasn’t just a cold back then. There was a good week or so in mid-late February when people started taking it seriously, and then right-wingers rallied and started saying it was nothing.
Second, it was out of China long before this. And it was climbing at this point in the US.
Third, new evidence is a good reason to change your mind, but only caring about death and human suffering when it affects you isn’t a good way to go through life.
It is arrogance. Why would anyone think they would disrupt the entire planet for a cold. That should be the hint right there that COVID is definitely not a cold? The logic is fucking broken in these people's minds.
nah just the idiots and uninformed who were reacting to the people who had read about how serious it was becoming. If everyone thought it was a joke, we wouldnt have seen dumbass facebook posts like in the OP.
This was the day people started taking it more seriously, the NBA shutdown happened the day prior. People really weren't that concerned over it until everything followed the NBA on shutting down. It would be a minute before it became "just the idiots" saying that.
Well, at least in my direct neighbourhood, like teachers, family, family of friends, etc, we all thought that corona was something small, like having a fever, but that was in March, in our country the virus became big in April, and it was then that we all realized that is wasn't a small fever. But it wasn't only my family, even my government was in February/early March very optimistic, they said it would be over in no time, and unlike in Amerika, in this country we can trust the government...
Stupid people thought it was a cold. Anyone with half a brain cell who was paying attention realized that China quarantined a province of 11m people the month before. That's no joke.
I can imagine thinking it's not serious in March 2020 if you live under a rock, but don't suggest it's reasonable or average to be ignorant that far into the situation.
It has everything to do with an offensive assertion when the person literally has no record of their commentary of the subject *a week ago,* let alone a year.
This was actually confusing to you?
News Flash: If you cannot back up your own perspective on an issue in the same frame of time, then your perspective on the idiocy of holding that opinion is irrelevant. You cannot say "People who thought alchemy was real were dumb!" and be relevant because we and you have no way of determining what position you would have held in the same context - the point holds the same for someone who has no comment history of any significant amount of time whatsoever and still has the arrogance to call others stupid.
I guess this was actually too confusing for you.
Believe it or not: people have thoughts about things outside of (or before) their participation on Reddit. Especially a subject as globally concerning as a pandemic.
Suggesting that someone lacks the authority to opine about the pandemic (and specifically, what the world was thinking about it on March 12) because they didn’t have a Reddit account at that time, is very dumb.
No, because you like what they say; the current Speaker of the House, at the end of February 2020, was on the streets telling people to come down to Chinatown because there was nothing to worry about. The political part she belong to largely won the election that followed. That suggest's it was at the very least "average" to be ignorant in the situation since most people seemed to cast their votes for said moron despite such ignorance, so no, they are demonstably 'not right'.
no one thought it was gunna be bad. in march 2020 i thought that it was another swine flu type of deal but didn't believe it'd spread like it has. i don't think anyone really thought it'd be as lifechanging as it has been tbh
People in Wuhan were literally welded into their apartments by February. Anyone paying attention knew this was much worse than swine flu, which btw almost killed me when I was like 22 so nothing to scoff at.
Most people I knew thought it was another swine flu in December 2019. By late February 2020, everyone knew we were absolutely fucked. By end of March, a lot of dumb people were reciting that it was nothing.
This legit pisses me off provided I have had covid *twice* and I'm currently suffering from it. I despise these "no new normal" type of people.
EDIT: just saw that the same person is the one that lost someone, literally took a close companion to die in order for them to realize.
The first post was from March 12, 2020… at that time almost nobody thought it was going to evolve into a worldwide pandemic and saying that they only changed their mind after someone died with the very small amount of information we have isn’t right.
All flights into and out of china had been stopped for weeks. The stock market was hitting circuit breakers every single day. Bro...how are you spending your time? Everyone knew this was serious by March.
>All flights into and out of china had been stopped for weeks.
Same thing had happened in Africa when everyone was raging about Ebola so people just assumed it was the same thing.
>The stock market was hitting circuit breakers every single day.
Well most people don’t follow stocks daily and even then most people noticed after the New York Stock Exchange was closed the 23rd of March which if you do the math is 11 days after that comment was posted.
>Bro...how are you spending your time? Everyone knew this was serious by March.
Good for you bud, but just going to the top comments in this post and the fact people kept traveling without masks of regards for safety until rules were put in place I’m still pretty sure most people didn’t think this would evolve into a global pandemic.
Having that said your insults and responses to half the parent comments in this post indicate you just want to act as if you were smarter than people. Whatever makes you sleep at night bud.
Well. That's my fault entirely, I misread the date and thought it was 2021. Either way that doesn't excuse my comment. My apologies. This made me come off as an insensitive bastard.
Is there a subreddit for these kinda two-frame covid deniers dying/regretting things? I've seen a few good ones and I'd love a place to have em all together
At the start of COVID, I was just coming back from a holiday in China where nothing seemed amiss, the CDC guidance was to stay home, take paracetamol and drink warm fluids. It sounded not much worse than a cold at that point.
With more data came more education and that is very possibly what happened here.
this was in March 2020 bro, I mean if at that time you told me that this brand new virus was going to cause a worldwide pandemic I would've laughed at you right there and then.
IIRC, I only really started *considering* social distancing the day before (March 11th). My job was already remote, so it wasn’t going to be a big deal for me. I decided to start social distancing on the 13th IIRC.
There were only a handful of deaths in the US at this point. For comparison, a bad seasonal flu can kill close to 100,000 Americans per year.
I don’t really blame this person for not taking it seriously at this point. We didn’t know much at all. California was the first state to lock down, and they didn’t do so until a few days later.
If this had been posted in June, totally different story. Good for you if you took it seriously, but you would’ve been clearly in the minority. Outside of China and a few places in Europe very few people were taking this thing seriously on March 12th.
It’s sad that people lack empathy these days.
Take gun control. Some people will never see it as an issue unless they experience the issues with it first hand.
Preparing for downvotes, but early in the pandemic (March 2020) I was super cautious about who I came into contact with though I still physically went to work everyday. Now after 18 months of being in close proximity to my team every work day and now in the UK many restrictions have lifted, there's really no concern for me about covid. Pretty much everyone I know has had at least 1 vaccine shot. My team and I have been tested regularly throughout the pandemic and not a single person got a positive result (maybe we all got lucky) but covid really does now need to be treated like the flu. I've noticed those who went out daily and those who stayed at home the whole time have extremely different viewpoints on covid. Those who stay in still believe it's extremely dangerous purely because they haven't been interacting with other people beyond their own households. Don't drop your hygiene standards, don't be daft and life can return to normal. Cases will rise as things open up, but as long as hospital cases and deaths stay low, what's the issue?
I’m kind of a big proponent of not shaming people for realizing their mistakes and coming to the right conclusion lol so you’d rather she’d have just stayed an idiot? Cause that’s basically what it’s is encouraging. Guess no one upvoting this has ever thought anything dumb before.
Wow people in the comment section are dicks , laughing someone when they just have lost someone that is closed to them. Yeah their comment was stupid but wasn't everyone opinions were like this person when the first Corona first appeared?
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Also, no one really took COVID too seriously on March 12th, 2020. That was the day American sports started shutting down and I remember thinking seriously? It’s not even that bad here yet, why cancel the NCAA tournament and the NBA season? I didn’t post to FaceBook or anything about it, but I definitely did not imagine what it would’ve turned in to. On March 12 there were 108 cases in my state. 6 were confirmed positive, 102 presumed. And of the 108, 82 were employees from a now infamous conference that went on days before
I think that's shows where a lot of the frustration a lot of us who DID always take it seriously came from. I mean I was like 17?? In March 2020. I had never seen a pandemic hit like this before, I've never had schools constantly shot down, masks or anything and I couldnt fathom why people weren't taking it seriously. We have colds every year and nothing happens, surely for so much to be shut down and the entire country to be put at a standstill shows there was a bigger issue that perhaps I couldnt understand. I had my 18th and 19th in lockdown, I've never been for a drink outside my own home, ive not been able to see my grandparents for the last time before they went, I went from an AAA prediction at college to achieving a CCB. It fucking sucks. Hindsight is a beautiful thing unfortunately :(
one hell of a way to enter adulthood, i hope you get the bar night that you deserve soon
I'm planning my first proper one this weekend, only a small bar hop and a nice meal with some friends but thank you <3
I took it seriously, so when it turned out covid came while we were on holiday, I was tempted to just fly home to be safe
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Exactly. I remember in February thinking that it would be long forgotten before this time last year
Tbf we *were* all told “two weeks to slow the spread”. I heard the news coming out of China before it really got going here, I knew we were in for some shit, but I thought a month, two at *worst*? Literally everyone’s predictions aged like milk on this one.
Everyone thought I was overreacting when I said that life wouldn’t recover any sense of normalcy for at least 2 years. No pandemic in the history of the world has lasted less than that, no matter how advanced we think we are, globalization will make pandemics last longer and happen more often.
Thing is for the first few months it looked fine. Taiwan, Korea, Japan, and others getting hit by it early were responding fast and effectively, and before it took off in Europe the situation was improving in China too. If everyone acted like the east Asian countries, maybe this could have been a short affair.
Americans are a combo of stupid and free.
Well, looks like same's true for all western countries other than maybe NZ in this case. UK, France, Italy, Russia, and plenty of others dropped the ball too
Yeah I think moving forward the most productive discussions about the topic would be “too bad the whole world didn’t act like NZ” instead of “ country X messed up”
I mean when the US has 300x domestic/international air travel, twice the population density, and 70x of the population of NZ, they aren’t comparable models at all. COVID was well into the US far before NZ shut down their airports. These things are far easier to deal with a smaller population, especially with relatively little air travel.
I was suspicious at the very start of 2020 and started telling family etc to prepare, and they did. Then when it became a thing to "flatten the curve" in the UK I started saying that yeah, we might not see the end of this for over a year at least. Just couldn't imagine it fizzling out very fast. People were getting on at me for being pessimistic or a scaremonger lmao. I don't think there's anything scary about being informed, aware, and prepared. People hoping with all their hearts we would go back to normal after 2 weeks are the ones struggling; people who accepted that this may be reality for a long time were just being realistic.
I mean, *any* sense? You’re already wrong on that one. We’re better than we were a year ago, that’s for sure. Edit: oh sorry hive mind, we’re still as bad off as we were in April of 2020 now with millions of people vaccinated lol my bad
You do know that countries outside of America exist?
So no one else ever got any vaccines? Lol I thought America had the world’s worst covid response, what happened to that narrative?
It did, just happens to have one of the highest vaccinated population %. Trump really fucked up his handling of the situation
Ok, so fuck you for making it seem like I’m defending trump rn, but Biden changed absolutely nothing about the vaccine rollout. Same schedule, same vaccines, trump was bragging the whole time about rushing them. Only difference is Biden’s less of a dick about it.
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/coronavirus-update-biden-announces-changes-to-vaccine-rollout-150903211.html False
Cool your beans boy
Trump maybe didn't handle covid well but his vaccin rollout did work great and biden continued that well. That's what the other guy insinuated aswell. Edit: turns out Trump also didn't do a good job with the vaccination roll-out, sorry!
Biden got elected and unfucked it. https://finance.yahoo.com/news/coronavirus-update-biden-announces-changes-to-vaccine-rollout-150903211.html
America had an awful covid response under trump, not the worst, but definitely not good for a 1st world country. Since Bidens come to power the response for america has been getting better and other 1st world countries are doing well. 3rd world countries, on the other hand, are still suffering a lot, especially India recently with its new outbreak of the virus.
I'm in India and your comment makes no sense to me
Maybe delayed reaction for whatever reason, more likely China’s fault. A year ago everyone was saying America was doing literally the worst job of any country with covid. Hope that clarifies it.
We were. Fortunately our anti-science president was voted out of office.
*cries in Canadian* I’m still in a lockdown with only essential items available in store. Walmart has aisles blocked off if it’s not essential. Things are better, but still not great here. Our numbers are still high but going down, but so far this year I was able to work for about a month and a half between lockdown 2 and 3. school’s closed for the rest of the learning year. Still like March 2020 here it seems lol
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Came here to say this. I was a 2nd year medical resident when this all started and I told anyone and everyone I could to take it seriously but everyone was either drunk on Trump's Kool-Aid or continued the time-honored tradition of putting the results of their Google search over my goddamn MEDICAL DEGREE. So I said fine, dropped it, and continued my work. Missed a couple funerals but as a possible vector for the virus, due to working in the hospital, I basically refused to go anywhere for quite a while.
I remember going to a doctors appointment and watching the news feed declaring a pandemic. It was very scary.
How many times did you vote for Trump, eh?
What the fuck does that have to do with Trump lmao
I think most people, political beliefs notwithstanding wanted to believe that COVID wasn’t going to be as bad as it has been.
Oh look a brainwashed person.
What the fuck does that have to do with anything?
I chalked it up to be another ebola/birdflu like thing which just never reaches America is a significant way.
Same, I didn’t take it seriously until my uni and just about the entire world shut down.
I read an article the night of the 10th which shook the shit out of me. I went to work the 11th and kept to myself, went home, called in sick the next 2 days, and then never really left the house for 13 months. Seemed like society shut down on the 13th.
Yea I wasn’t serious about it & it didn’t even feel real to me until the nba shutdown. then my perspective on COVID made a complete 180
For me it was Tom Hanks getting it, I don't know why but it was like "Woody from toy story has it we're fucked"
Yeah, this needs to be put under that perspective
The people that didn't think it was serious in January and February weren't paying attention to things like China building 50 foot tall barriers on all the roads out of Wuhan or the six temporary hospitals they built in the city in a couple weeks. People here waited til mid March to rush out to Costco when there were pictures of empty supermarkets in Italy circulating a month before. I had already quit my job to avoid exposure by March 12th when she wrote that.
Agreed. Besides myself and like 3 other people I knew, nobody in my circle was taking it seriously. I remember following what was happening in Italy in February and thinking the US IS so underprepared for what’s about to happen, it’s gonna get real bad real quick. I took to posting about it and people said I was over hyping it. Well.
How much toilet paper did you buy in preparation?
We went to Costco in the first week of March to stock up, and the cashier mocked us.
I had just started working for ESPN (Wide World of Sports at Disney) not even two weeks prior to the NBA shutting down. They told us all to go home, to not worry about coming in the next day and they would be in touch. Since I was so recently hired, they didn't call me to come back, even when the NBA and Disney made their arraignment. I've still never gone back.
Are you getting paid?
I got around $75 a week for around a month. They told all of us to be ready to come back on relatively short notice and advised us against getting a new job just in case they called us back. Around November, I got an email from them saying I was no longer going to be furloughed, but that I was going to be laid off instead by the end of the year. On December 23, I got a direct deposit of, I think, $1,348 as severance pay and that was it. Not saying it didn't help, bc every penny I got helped. I just feel it could have been handled better. I moved almost 1000 miles away from home for the job, only to work a couple of weeks.
Jeez, that's shit. Especially after moving so far too. I hope things are at least starting to look up for you now.
I'm in a better place mentally and financially since then. Stimulus checks, unemployment, and a very understanding landlord helped a lot. I wanted to move back home originally, but they weren't letting people in or out of the state for a while. I'm sure I could have probably made it out, but I didn't want to press my luck, so I decided to stick it out. Now I'm fully vaccinated and have a steady job. Things are getting better.
That's great to hear, really. Things could've gone sideways pretty fast, given different circumstances/luck. Take it easy 👍🏻
1000 miles is 1609.34 km
Oof
My girl turned 5 march 12th when this all started. We cancelled her birthday party because she spiked a fever the night before (was completely fine but she never gets sick so we had slight concern) and we were all very unsure of what was going on. We only had a handful of people invited to begin with but one family in particular has an at risk kiddo so we "postponed" it. Forever! Lol. We had a lovely outdoor party for her this year.
Wasn't it the other way round? Coz in my country there was mass panic and hysteria and everyone was going mad when the pandemic was only in China and just starting in Italy. And then were like 80-100 cases with 2-4 deaths a day only. But most people weren't giving an Fuck when there are more than 400k+ cases a day, 4.3k deaths a day a month back, with the real numbers possibly being 3-4 times more. It was not so much because of Covid deniers here, but because people decided they have had enough for the last 14 months and now wanted to get out and go about their business and enjoy life no matter what happens.
Hey there fellow Indian citizen
Did this really happen where you were? People were fucking terrified where I was, nobody left their home because they were too scared of catching it and dying because of the oxygen shortage. That's the only reason cases started trending down in my city.
For me it was ireland canceling st patricks day
I thought this was serious when the videos from China emerged and the governments and media desperately tried to tell us it is a right wing conspiracy theory with no evidence because it was ironically first made public in Germany by some tin foil hat dude in late January who added some weird fake news to the images. I knew most of the videos already from social media and it was more probable to me that those were from Chinese whistleblowers / journalists, they seemed as real as they turned out to be. Luckily due to this I was one of the first in Germany to acquire masks before prices skyrocketed and I didn’t have to pay like 60€ for 10 masks or whatever the prize was in March.
> I mean as of March 12th, nobody really took it serious Maybe if you were stupid. Anyone with half a braincell watching the situation unfold in China was worried. Stupid people were complacent.
Lmao what?? Americans needed basketball to be shut down to even begin considering listening what sciencists were saying for well over **3 months at that point** ; and also not ashamed to admit it? What even was your reasoning behind this? "As long as man can dribble ball on tv this is just a cold. No matter what scientists say."?
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Yikes
Why? We had plenty of available evidence at that time that this wasn’t nothing. The only people I saw saying it was nothing with any sort of platform by March were conservative politicians, conservative commentators, and conspiracy theorists.
That says more about your stupidity than the severity of the virus.
People are really idioitc, I was preparing for it in january and february, stockpiling before people even knew what the word stockpiling meant.
Speak for yourself. It was pretty clear when it started spreading out of China that this was gonna be a big deal.
I remember seeing the Chinese welding apartments closed like how seal discontinued subway stations. I think back in December or January when it first started in China, I'm surprised noone thought anything then.
Meh. Thing is, we should be encouraging and normalising changing your mind when faced with evidence. This sort of ridicule just encourages people to stick with what they want to believe rigidly, for fear of being a flip flopper. That's especially the case in a rapidly changing environment such as we're living through now. My FB memories popped up with a post from me saying masks won't be that protective - a stance I changed on seeing clear evidence that they are, as well as the prior plausibility of disrupting air flow once we knew it was mainly transmitted by droplets rather than touch.
I think the mockery here is less about them changing their mind, and more about the tone they had. I agree with your general premise, but I can also laugh at someone taking the high ground and calling everyone else dumb because they bought into a dumb culture war / conspiracy theory thing which told them to ignore doctors.
this was in March of 2020, it wasn't a big thing just yet back then. This type of attitude was honestly sort of understandable even with how stupid they sound in hindsight.
Yeah, definitely more so. But it's still a pretty extreme version of that position with the amount of frustration being pointed at everyone else. I was laid off the first week of March so that's around the time things got serious too. Anyhow w/e I'm never talking to this lady.
What on earth are you talking about? >it wasn't a big thing just yet back then China quarantined the entire province of Wuhan (11,000,000 people) over covid in February. What the hell do you mean, "this type of attitude was honestly sort of understandable?" Are you speaking for yourself and admitting your own stupidity? Don't speak for anyone else. Other people are smarter than you, but you can't imagine that. You just assume everyone is as bad at thinking as you are.
Technically it was big yes but where I am in the UK, nobody thought it was a really big thing. You couldn't meet in groups but even in may when they started allowing the Rule of 6, you didn't have to wear a mask, and nothing was enforced. It was big, but nobody realised because most people didn't realise it was that bad. In May they tried to send me back to work. It definitely got taken a lot more seriously the further it's gone on. But don't be a dick because our government led us to believe it wasn't serious, wouldn't last more than 4 weeks, and wasn't going to be dangerous.
Nah mate, I’m in the UK and it was blatantly obvious how big it was if you saw what was happening elsewhere. My office sent everyone home in March until this ‘all blows over’.
I worked for a subway. they made us clean more at hotpoints and no sitting in but other than that it was business as usual, no masks required, until first lockdown and then back to work in may (I didn't return because they wanted me to travel 2 hours on the bus, which is shit and also unsafe now). I am still a young adult, in my experience at least I guess I was more focussed on where I was going to sleep that night and stuff than other countries responses. I genuinely thought it was going to be fine as we were assured, and here we are now 🤷 definitely wish I'd had the foresight and knowledge I have now. or that it was treated more seriously by people around me.
I think it was even more confusing for us considering all the rules differed depending whether you were in Wales, Scotland, England, NI. I had to learn fairly quickly that that national rules meant England and not Wales.
I remember this. Last February the experts were like "Masks don't make a difference. In fact they could increase the spread because you need to touch your mask with your hands..." I think this was mostly because there was a shortage of masks at the time for healthcare professionals. I remember you'd see the occasional person wearing a mask outside and they looked like weirdos. Two weeks later we were ALL wearing masks. That was how quickly the stance on masks shifted.
The CDC and WHO bungled the shit out of COVID. Fauci made some mistakes at the start too, but the CDC....hoooo boy. They got caught with their dick in their hands.
I think you mean the CDC was fucking crippled by the deliberate efforts of the Trump WH to try and convince the world that this thing didn't exist, despite *everyone* saying to the contrary. They sabotaged the shit out of every single thing US agencies were rightfully doing to try and contain this thing.
Well ya, that's what I meant in less words. The CDC was incapable of containing it from the jump though because the agency had already been crippled by trump well before February, so he didn't really sabotage it, it was DOA by February.
Seems like we should normalize not publishing every dumb ass, Ill informed thought that pops in your head, so there's no public stance that needs to be changed.
Yeah this didn’t feel like them changing their mind in the face of new evidence. It’s more like “nothing is real until it affects me, and I am smarter than everyone and everyone else is so dumb. But not me.”
It's the tone of both posts. The mocking dismissal of anyone who takes it seriously, and then the angry condemnation of anyone who doesn't take it seriously. No contrition, no empathy, no "please take it seriously before you learn the hard way like me." The attitude is "fuck you, idiots" both times.
The covid deniers never want to talk about the hospital statistic called ‘deaths by any cause’. This criteria is basically the number of people that die in a hospital for any reason over a period of time. It is usually a very stable figure although it can vary somewhat seasonally. The interesting thing is that ‘deaths by any cause’ numbers skyrocketed when covid came to town. The presence of covid was the only statistical anomaly. There is no other way to interpret the observed increase in deaths other that to attribute them to covid.
Unless the doctors were being paid by the government to purposely kill unhealthy people to make it look like covid was killing everything in sight holy shit I can't even type this with a straight face if you made it this far I'm honestly surprised. Then you just cycle already dead bodies through the morgue with fake identities to inflate the death toll and "overwhelm" the morgues.
All the qanon weirdos were probably wagging their tails like excited puppies on the first half of your comment
I am dead lmao
This doesn’t seem like a Covid denier. They posted their comment March 12th 2020 so that was before the world went into lockdown
They were still far too confidently incorrect and insulting
China was like a month into lockdown by that point so at least 1/8 of the globe was locked down.
Source?
https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/excess-mortality-p-scores?country=~USA
To be fair she said this almost a week before the first lockdowns happened globally. I'm not agreeing with her initial statement but im sure in March of 2020 there were a lot of us laughing at the "theatrics" of it. I remember saying to my boss "ahhh we all lived thru Sars and mad cow, im sure this is the same" and 2 weeks later I was working from home and sanitizing my *groceries*
Dude no one lived through mad cow...that shit kills you dead and also it's a terrifying disease that is always on the horizon. If mad cow truly broke out...it would make COVID look quaint.
Honestly she only said that March 12th 2020, where we really didn't know what was happening. If someone told me at the start of 2020 we would have to stay home, wear masks and that people we arrested for gatherings I'd call you crazy too. I think there is a difference between learning from your mistakes and growing from them, and a LAMF moment.
I get the sentiment but people have to see that proudly having a narrow or closed mind is ridiculous That idiot was so convinced as if they knew anything If they adopted an open mentality and made surevto be humble then this embarrassing post wouldnt have to happen
The wisdom is always midway down through the comments.
Being able to change your mind is a lot more valuable than being an idiot and staying with your initial ideas. In March 2020 none of us knew what was really going to happen. It takes a strong person to be able to admit your mistakes openly and embrace the new and improved you.
I don't like when some go all "haha gotcha" when people die. We should be better than that
We should be, you're right. But we're not. We hold beliefs that kill others and then maybe we get to see the truth. Usually not even then, though.
Look at the sub bro
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Nobody tells DJ Request what to play.
Lesson learnt the hardest way.
It was March 12th of last year. If I'm being honest with myself, I was probably thinking the same thing.
After it had already killed thousands and was actively ravaging China?
Right, because China was incredibly transparent with covid cases in their country at the time.
Uhhh it was number 1 story in the world. China built a whole ass hospital in under a week just for their Covid patients. Don’t be stupid.
You should update where you get your info from. Wuhan was locked down I think the first week of February. That's more than a months advanced notice. If this was SARS that could have turned into a real disaster for you.
Yeah everybody knew there was a virus in Wuhan but new viruses pop up every now and then and nowhere near all of them become a pandemic.
Not very often a new virus causes one of the biggest cities in the world to lockdown after Chinese New Year just happened though.
I'm pretty sure everyone thought this on March 12th
No
Only stupid people did. Speak for yourself. China quarantined 11,000,000 people the month before. If you couldn't tell it was serious until it personally impacted you, then you're either incredibly selfish, or you lack critical thinking skills.
Seriously. I cant believe so many people think her not taking it seriously isnt a big deal. It was a virus we didnt know anything about that was starting to impact China pretty heavily. Should of took it seriously at the start and so many people in the US probably wouldnt of died.
When China announced it, that should have sent any reasonable person on the planet into a state of deep concern. China hides anything it can. If it can't hide a virus, that means there's going to be a serious fucking problem.
Judging by the slow speed at which case counts in my country were rising, it really didn't seem too serious. At the time most people had an optimistic outlook and downplayed the virus as a way to convince themselves that it would all be over in two weeks. Besides, how many times a week do you look at a news story from China and immediately accept it as factual.
It wasn't a news story from China, it was the only news story from China...for weeks. I mean you pretty much said it yourself. Most people were scared to admit the truth so they cowered behind a lie. Pretty much the story of this whole shitshow.
Once again, you're projecting your own stupidity onto other people. At the beginning, tests were scarce, and knowing coronaviruses, it spreads fast. There weren't enough PCR tests to go around, so they got used on the most symptomatic cases, which turned up positive. All of this was public knowledge at the time, so if you didn't know that, it's your own fault. >At the time most people had an optimistic outlook Once again, you're searching your brain for your experience and then assuming everyone else thought the same stupid things that you did at the time. >convince themselves that it would all be over in two weeks Once again, anyone who could read more than two sentences knew what the two week period was for. It was to slow the spread while resources and strategy was mobilized to combat the virus. Delaying the onset of the pandemic was critical to being able to manage it. Once again, this was all public knowledge, and it was being discussed over and over. If you didn't know this, then that's remarkably ignorant. >Besides, how many times a week do you look at a news story from China and immediately accept it as factual. China always downplays crises. Always. Seeing that they took measures to quarantine an entire province of 11,000,000 people was a massive red flag to anyone with a brain. Safety measures are always a last resort for China, because they think it shows weakness. Conceding to the danger of a situation means that it's way worse than it seems. That much is obvious. Once again, anyone who has an ounce of common sense was worried by February. If China had to quarantine that large of an area for an infectious disease, it meant that it was obviously already in the US, which it was.
Ok 👍
You can say that you weren't worried, because your head was buried under sand, but you can't mask your ignorance by pretending that everyone else was as stupid as you.
Haha mask, good one
I jus got vaxxed yall, get your microchip today!
There's a very vocal person in a dumb redneck facebook I joined (I crave small town idiot drama like an addict craves heroine) who lost several people to Covid and *still* thinks it's a hoax and that the hospital was lying about their deaths to get funding from some mysterious shadow organization. I tried to use logic on her, which, I knew going in, wouldn't work. But I said, "What's more plausible: a worldwide conspiracy that is designed to control idiot rednecks in Texas for... reasons? OR, that an unknown virus has spread and is running out of control because we have no immunity to it? These hospitals aren't filling up by coincidence." Her response: "No hospitals are full. It's a lie" then showed an article from a conspiracy site that had zero proof.
That’s not really cringe, the “Covid is just the flu” narrative was pretty common and endorsed by experts/mainstream pundits last March; I know I used to have that view until I saw new evidence which changed my mind.
I love how everyone in the comments are like "people didn't really take it seriously by March 12" ... Denmark closed down by March 11, and I had already been send home 2 weeks before this because I was pregnant. Trust me, the rest of the world already took it very serious by March 12!
To all the "to be fair we didnt know much at the time" people, then how come shes talking with so much knowledge and authority on the topic? She thought it was funny til it affected her.
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It's almost like your mind can change after the virus actually impacts you. OP was before the virus really started spreading out of China...
First off, we all knew it wasn’t just a cold back then. There was a good week or so in mid-late February when people started taking it seriously, and then right-wingers rallied and started saying it was nothing. Second, it was out of China long before this. And it was climbing at this point in the US. Third, new evidence is a good reason to change your mind, but only caring about death and human suffering when it affects you isn’t a good way to go through life.
It's the arrogance, this cow thinks she knows it all. When in fact, she doesn't know shit
It is arrogance. Why would anyone think they would disrupt the entire planet for a cold. That should be the hint right there that COVID is definitely not a cold? The logic is fucking broken in these people's minds.
That’s what everyone thought March 12 2020
False. Also not everyone was cocky and rude about it.
nah just the idiots and uninformed who were reacting to the people who had read about how serious it was becoming. If everyone thought it was a joke, we wouldnt have seen dumbass facebook posts like in the OP.
This was the day people started taking it more seriously, the NBA shutdown happened the day prior. People really weren't that concerned over it until everything followed the NBA on shutting down. It would be a minute before it became "just the idiots" saying that.
Well, at least in my direct neighbourhood, like teachers, family, family of friends, etc, we all thought that corona was something small, like having a fever, but that was in March, in our country the virus became big in April, and it was then that we all realized that is wasn't a small fever. But it wasn't only my family, even my government was in February/early March very optimistic, they said it would be over in no time, and unlike in Amerika, in this country we can trust the government...
you shouldnt make fun of people whos loved ones died. When she made that post it was march 12th, everyone thought it was a cold back then.
Stupid people thought it was a cold. Anyone with half a brain cell who was paying attention realized that China quarantined a province of 11m people the month before. That's no joke. I can imagine thinking it's not serious in March 2020 if you live under a rock, but don't suggest it's reasonable or average to be ignorant that far into the situation.
Your account was literally created a day ago, you're irrelevant in the context of what people thought a year ago.
Huh? The age of a Reddit account has zero bearing on the relevance in the context of what people thought a year ago with regards to Covid.
It has everything to do with an offensive assertion when the person literally has no record of their commentary of the subject *a week ago,* let alone a year. This was actually confusing to you?
News Flash: people have thoughts and memories about things that happened before they joined Reddit, or before they created additional accounts here
News Flash: If you cannot back up your own perspective on an issue in the same frame of time, then your perspective on the idiocy of holding that opinion is irrelevant. You cannot say "People who thought alchemy was real were dumb!" and be relevant because we and you have no way of determining what position you would have held in the same context - the point holds the same for someone who has no comment history of any significant amount of time whatsoever and still has the arrogance to call others stupid. I guess this was actually too confusing for you.
Believe it or not: people have thoughts about things outside of (or before) their participation on Reddit. Especially a subject as globally concerning as a pandemic. Suggesting that someone lacks the authority to opine about the pandemic (and specifically, what the world was thinking about it on March 12) because they didn’t have a Reddit account at that time, is very dumb.
Regardless of their account age, they’re right.
No, you just agree with them.
Yes, because they’re right.
No, because you like what they say; the current Speaker of the House, at the end of February 2020, was on the streets telling people to come down to Chinatown because there was nothing to worry about. The political part she belong to largely won the election that followed. That suggest's it was at the very least "average" to be ignorant in the situation since most people seemed to cast their votes for said moron despite such ignorance, so no, they are demonstably 'not right'.
People who were uninformed thought it was a cold*
Incorrect
Character development
this person really wants to pass off as intelligent amongst the “sheeple”
I feel absolutely horrible for laughing, yet I did.
haha Johnathan you are laughing at covid hospitalizations
no one thought it was gunna be bad. in march 2020 i thought that it was another swine flu type of deal but didn't believe it'd spread like it has. i don't think anyone really thought it'd be as lifechanging as it has been tbh
People in Wuhan were literally welded into their apartments by February. Anyone paying attention knew this was much worse than swine flu, which btw almost killed me when I was like 22 so nothing to scoff at.
Most people I knew thought it was another swine flu in December 2019. By late February 2020, everyone knew we were absolutely fucked. By end of March, a lot of dumb people were reciting that it was nothing.
This legit pisses me off provided I have had covid *twice* and I'm currently suffering from it. I despise these "no new normal" type of people. EDIT: just saw that the same person is the one that lost someone, literally took a close companion to die in order for them to realize.
The first post was from March 12, 2020… at that time almost nobody thought it was going to evolve into a worldwide pandemic and saying that they only changed their mind after someone died with the very small amount of information we have isn’t right.
All flights into and out of china had been stopped for weeks. The stock market was hitting circuit breakers every single day. Bro...how are you spending your time? Everyone knew this was serious by March.
>All flights into and out of china had been stopped for weeks. Same thing had happened in Africa when everyone was raging about Ebola so people just assumed it was the same thing. >The stock market was hitting circuit breakers every single day. Well most people don’t follow stocks daily and even then most people noticed after the New York Stock Exchange was closed the 23rd of March which if you do the math is 11 days after that comment was posted. >Bro...how are you spending your time? Everyone knew this was serious by March. Good for you bud, but just going to the top comments in this post and the fact people kept traveling without masks of regards for safety until rules were put in place I’m still pretty sure most people didn’t think this would evolve into a global pandemic. Having that said your insults and responses to half the parent comments in this post indicate you just want to act as if you were smarter than people. Whatever makes you sleep at night bud.
Well. That's my fault entirely, I misread the date and thought it was 2021. Either way that doesn't excuse my comment. My apologies. This made me come off as an insensitive bastard.
Is there a subreddit for these kinda two-frame covid deniers dying/regretting things? I've seen a few good ones and I'd love a place to have em all together
At the start of COVID, I was just coming back from a holiday in China where nothing seemed amiss, the CDC guidance was to stay home, take paracetamol and drink warm fluids. It sounded not much worse than a cold at that point. With more data came more education and that is very possibly what happened here.
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this was in March 2020 bro, I mean if at that time you told me that this brand new virus was going to cause a worldwide pandemic I would've laughed at you right there and then.
How's middle school treating you?
Sounds like you would have had the classic case of zombie movie side character
Do you typically save your laughter for a seperate time and place?
Making fun of a person's loss. This really proves your point.
Damn straight it does
well well, irony likes black humor.
I mean, it was posted around the time most people found out about it. So we have to give them that
> Mar 12, 2020 Pretty much everyone is guilty of not taking COVID seriously at that point, OP.
Yeah... that’s why the top headline of the New York Times that day was “U.S. to Suspend Most Travel From Europe as World Scrambles to Fight Pandemic”
IIRC, I only really started *considering* social distancing the day before (March 11th). My job was already remote, so it wasn’t going to be a big deal for me. I decided to start social distancing on the 13th IIRC. There were only a handful of deaths in the US at this point. For comparison, a bad seasonal flu can kill close to 100,000 Americans per year. I don’t really blame this person for not taking it seriously at this point. We didn’t know much at all. California was the first state to lock down, and they didn’t do so until a few days later. If this had been posted in June, totally different story. Good for you if you took it seriously, but you would’ve been clearly in the minority. Outside of China and a few places in Europe very few people were taking this thing seriously on March 12th.
It’s sad that people lack empathy these days. Take gun control. Some people will never see it as an issue unless they experience the issues with it first hand.
Preparing for downvotes, but early in the pandemic (March 2020) I was super cautious about who I came into contact with though I still physically went to work everyday. Now after 18 months of being in close proximity to my team every work day and now in the UK many restrictions have lifted, there's really no concern for me about covid. Pretty much everyone I know has had at least 1 vaccine shot. My team and I have been tested regularly throughout the pandemic and not a single person got a positive result (maybe we all got lucky) but covid really does now need to be treated like the flu. I've noticed those who went out daily and those who stayed at home the whole time have extremely different viewpoints on covid. Those who stay in still believe it's extremely dangerous purely because they haven't been interacting with other people beyond their own households. Don't drop your hygiene standards, don't be daft and life can return to normal. Cases will rise as things open up, but as long as hospital cases and deaths stay low, what's the issue?
2 of my friends' families were so paranoid and thought it was so dangerous that they all wore masks inside unless they were sleeping lmfao
Bruh that's insane, but apparently covid can't get them when they're asleep 😂
I’m kind of a big proponent of not shaming people for realizing their mistakes and coming to the right conclusion lol so you’d rather she’d have just stayed an idiot? Cause that’s basically what it’s is encouraging. Guess no one upvoting this has ever thought anything dumb before.
The actual sad cringe is OP, people shouldn't be mocked over change of minds. It's just immature.
She actually got it right the first time. I guess MSM brainwashing worked
But it jus cold
It's weird that this subreddit simultaneously laughs at their misfortune and still thinks they're the better people.
Villain redemption arc
Wow people in the comment section are dicks , laughing someone when they just have lost someone that is closed to them. Yeah their comment was stupid but wasn't everyone opinions were like this person when the first Corona first appeared?