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578 sats \ 5 replies \ @OneOneSeven 9 Nov 2023 freebie \ on: What's a moment you'll never forget exactly where you were when it happened? meta
Saw an article on my phone early January 2020 while scrolling through those crappy recommended ones on the Chrome homepage:
China pneumonia outbreak raises spectre of Sars as number infected jumps to 44
Then, when they wanted to quarantine an entire city...
Wuhan’s 11 Million People Face Quarantine as Virus Fears Spread
...I remember sitting in camping chair that I used for gaming in front of the TV, thinking about the phrase "Never let a good crisis go to waste"
I remember seeing some early charts and trying to explain to people the significance of an exponential curve. It was clear to me how quickly it was spreading. Everyone else thought I was insane.
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China pneumonia outbreak raises spectre of Sars as number infected jumps to 44
no lie i feel like i remember this exact headline too, saw it on my phone while on a walk out in the snow. Had just heard talks of it from a friend recently before then.
I vastly underestimated how large of an ordeal it would grow to become..
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I vastly underestimated how large of an ordeal it would grow to become..
I even worked in a science/medical field and couldn't get it through to anyone how big a deal it might be, absolute morons, and with PhDs and Master's degrees.
And then the news finally gets to them, after however much manipulation, and they're down at CVS giving their 3 year old a vaccine that just came off the assembly line.
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were other professionals in your field oblivious too or did all of you pretty much get it?
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It was a mix of obliviousness, not wanting to offend Chinese people (I remember going to the r/wuhan_flu sub everyday until it was quarantined lol) and just utter disbelief that something big like that could happen, like Normalcy Bias.
Needless to say I was a bit flabbergasted that everyone there was basically just waiting for the news (and W.H.O.) to tell them what to do, and they call themselves scientists.
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