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100 sats \ 3 replies \ @birdeye21 OP 9 Nov 2023 \ parent \ on: What's a moment you'll never forget exactly where you were when it happened? meta
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..
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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