I'd say to my kids: "I was there when it was written"
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I was there, $name. I was there 4 years ago when the strength of men failed.
We're going to look like such fucking idiots when people read about how we collectively handled it.
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"It's true, all of it"
Another one for my once in a lifetime crisis collection.
Why only once? The best things always have a sequel.
I hear they're going to get a lot more frequent. I expect two Katrina-like events in the next ten years in Florida.
Maybe the tenth will be free.
The past tense in the book is concerning
Every pandemic that ended up as a seasonal disease is still active.
You can try denying they ended in this way, but you will end up with an unusable language because most things are technically not over as they had a continuation in some form.
Almost every sickness you get infected with had its hayday of mass genocide. It will die down and then occasionally reoccur.
Dont worry about it, they are mutating heck of a lot. 2020 pandemic is a lot different than the current situation is with the completely different strains we now have.
The current strains of COVID are more infectious and more dangerous than the 2019 strain was. Up until the end of 2023, the only reason we didn't hear about it was because the vaccines were effective against them (and the corporations want to pretend that it's been over for several years now). The latest strain is resistant to vaccinations from before the end of September, and the US just saw the second biggest spike in COVID cases since 2019, with an estimated peak at 2 million daily new infections on the 11th.
Just because big businesses say that the pandemic is over so everybody goes back to work and buying stuff doesn't mean that the pandemic ended. There are plenty of immune compromised people who never left quarantine because they can't with COVID still around. The rest of society simply decided that their deaths were less important than going back to drinking in crowded bars.
I mean, the pandemic has been over for over a year.
Covid is just endemic now like the flu. It’s seasonal and is never going to go away.
"For a small number of people, the disease could be fatal." Is three million people a small number? And as others have pointed out, the pandemic isn't over. https://www.who.int/data/stories/the-true-death-toll-of-covid-19-estimating-global-excess-mortality
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Does it mention how badly trump fucked us with his COVID response?
I'll be honest, even without Trump most Americans proved they were too stupid or stubborn to follow instructions, so he didn't really need to do anything to slap the whole US with more infections.
I'm sure Trump didn't help much with his stupidity.
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What "was" covid
Reported Dec 31, 2019, eh?
I was terminally online during that time, and some reports of a truly awful pneumonia in China were going around as early as mid-November. It was definitely known to be a major outbreak by early December. A lot of the early reports were taken down; just ~~CCCP~~ CCP doing ~~CCCP~~ CCP things.
Edit: whoops thought it had that extra C in there. Should probably use CPC anyway.
Yeah, I remember seeing TikToks about it way before December. Lots of “there are a LOT of people sick in China right now with pneumonia, and it has actually started to hurt their economy. It’ll eventually make its way over here” types of things. The warning signs were there, for those who cared to look.
I mostly saw it on the finance side of tiktok, since lots of financial analysts were like “uhh this shit could crash the economy if it spreads.”
When is the earliest heath officials reported it though? That paragraph doesn't disagree with your memory.
Considering there were quarantines in December, I'm pretty sure health officials were in the know. Though official international reporting may not have happened until Dec 31.
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They say history is written by the victors. I wonder who wrote this.
Inb4 'Probably Victor'
Some guy named Vinny "Vidi" Vici
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Now you kids know what it was like when 9/11 was in every history textbook by 2002.
A history textbook which goes past the 1960s? This definitely is not a book used in American classrooms
How long until Republicans get that book banned for spreading false information? Lol
Those who control the present controls the past
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The first time I felt old was when my youngest sister learned about events I remembered in school.
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Are they going to leave out the part where the president called it a hoax while simultaneously spitballing ideas about UV light, bleach and horse dewormer cures all while thousands of Americans were dying every day. Or the part where he emptied the treasury with zero oversight?
It's World History not American History. Different subjects.
For a summary skip to Harambe.
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