when i first learned about covid, it was november/december 2019 and i did a whole essay on the discovery of it and the spread of it within wuhan. i got some marks taken off for “fearmongering” in a portion where i talked about the dangers of zoonotic viruses and rapid mutation. it was graded in early january 2020 and we went into lockdown in march. i hope she thinks about that as much as i do
Nope. I immediately started making plans. First thing I did was sell some of my excess cars cause I knew I wouldn't be using them and wanted to salvage as much value from them as possible.
That was really smart to do because after the covid used cars became so expensive. I was able to get a 2008 Kia Sportage for my grandson just before the covid hit really big. I only paid $3,000 for it but now when I go to the used car lots that same 2008 is like $5,000 or $6,000
Biggest change post pandemic for me is the fact loans are now up to 72 months in length. Last time I was in the market 36 months was about the most you could get with a decent rate.
No, I started preparing my classroom for shutdown. I was wrong though. I thought we would shutdown after we got through Friday. We shutdown after school on Thursday. So my classroom wasn’t completely done, but close.
Weird thing was that the news kept saying my city's hospitals were totally overrun when they very much were not. That was odd. The whole media handling of that "event" was strange tbh.
When I first heard about it, I was at home. I was in middle school (8th grade). When my grandmother told us about it, all I thought was "oh well. Guess we're not going back to school". This happened a few days before the end of spring break.
I mean yes, because there have been other pathogenic illnesses which have turned out to be , I don't want to say false alarms, but for example ebola never became as big a problem (in the US) as COVID did though it was hyped up just as much, in my opinion.
Yeah having lived through sensationalist coverage of bird flu, SARS, H1N1 swine flu, ebola, mad cow disease, etc., I just assumed this was another outbreak that wouldn’t affect me or anyone I knew.
Nope, I had a mother who was terminally ill with a severe lung disease already, and a 93 year old grandma who was really fragile too. I took it seriously
Well, it took a while to hit. We heard about it in like October and November and it was a big thing. But it didn’t really hit until like March with tom Hanks.
Nope, but I did realize that a few days after some guy came into the supermarket I was working at and bought ALL OUR TYLENOL and my manager made me help him put it in the suitcase he brought, that I got a really nasty cold where I couldn't smell or taste anything for a day and a half. That happened in Los Angeles in November 2019.
Yupp. I worked in a warehouse packing pallets for grocery stores and such so we already had various protocols for containment going. It was super weird. Outside work the world was weird but inside it was just like normal.
Well it wasn't a microscopic image of a disease, what this report was showing was round colored orbs( blue,I think) with these pink things that almost looked like flowers
My wife is something of a hypochondriac so at the first mention in international news we stocked up on masks sanitizer etc before the first cases in our country. Sometimes a curse is a gift.
We did that in new zealand.
Closed the borders then went back to partying. Told a bunch of big artists we would let them in specially for concerts since they couldn't go anywhere else. Good times.
Covid and scenes of death was like war - something that only happens in other countries that we see on the 6pm news. Was like that for 2 years.
Nope. I remember reading the headline/article about a strange respiratory illness spreading in China. I thought, "That's something to keep an eye on." Then I read a headline a little later about the pathogen being identified as a coronavirus similar to SARS, which I was somewhat familiar with from taking a virology class. Then I thought, "Uh oh. This could lead to a pandemic." Then I remember watching the news with my mom, and the Chinese built two brand new hospitals in Wuhan for people infected with the virus. We were both like, "This is going to be really bad if they are resorting to these measures." Once there were confirmed cases outside of China, I knew it would end up being a pandemic. I felt crazy because everyone else was either apathetic or in denial. I remember people making definitive statements about the disease when it was brand new, and we knew nothing about it. I remember coworkers making statements about how it isn't that lethal or virulent or how it's just like a cold. I was like, "We have no idea if that is true. How would we know that already?"
I knew it was coming but I didn't know what it was, when that ship or cruise ship was out there on the ocean and people were dying. They've never come back to say what those people on that cruise ship were really dying from but at that time they said it was covid that was in 2019 I don't think the full effect of covid came through till 2020 maybe I've got my timeline wrong.
I was in foodservice. I worked 70+ hrs/week and lived by myself. It had no real affect on my life except making traffic better and people weirder (knowing that we made their food to order, then repacking it on the ground of the parking lot into their own containers with a garbage picker upper was a good one)
Like I get wanting to be cautious. That’s fine. But if you’re going to get sick from touching the container I put your food in, you’re going to get sick from the food as well.
I was working at a hotel and the overnight desk clerk used to love to regal me with any and all conspiracy theories. One day, he hit with this one about a "Chinese Flu" that was going to wipe out the world. I totally blew him off until I noticed guests that came in wearing masks.
When we read the news of overcrowded hospitals in Italy that February, we canceled our spring break trip to Germany because we didn’t want to get sick or stranded or end up unable to access museums because they’d likely be closed. By spring break, even US places were closed.
Kind of, but I did realize the "mystery illness" my Dad had in December 2019 was probably COVID. He was sick for weeks, and we canceled all holiday plans because he didn't want to get anyone else sick. Thank goodness for that though.
No, but my little sister was getting married the week we were all asked to stay home. So the airlines shut down, none of her immediate family made it, catering canceled on her but wanted to charge her, the venue cancelled and did charge her, and the dress shop didn't want to give her her dress. (It was being altered.).
She ended up having a Skype wedding in her back yard. There were like 6 people there that didn't live at the house. I honestly can't imagine the venue being prettier.
When I first heard about it, it was a China thing.
I was in the process of getting diagnosed with a major illness, and I checked in with my medical team that the medications I was on weren't coming from China, and that there wasn't going to be a disruption.
As a biologist with a PhD working in research at the time i listened carefully, read the first papers about it and listened to what epidemiologists and virologists had to say about it and went "oh fuck... humans are too dumb to understand what this means and it's gonna make everything 10x worse". Which is essentially what happened.
No. I began hearing about it in November of 19. Tried to find everything I could about it. When school resumed in January, I immediately began showing the movie Contagion in all my science classes. A few students were worried, most thought I was an idiot. I told them it could happen here, be prepared. The day we were told school was over for the year I was now a prophet.
No because it FINALLY clicked with me what was going on with my son.
He is autistic and has OCD and always has medical anxiety after my 12 year old daughter died from cancer when my son was 7.
In November of 2019 he was 13 and started getting really upset about an airborne illness from China. I actually went and bought a lot of medicine and made some medicine packs for us and my mom to show him that we were ready.
When I first heard about it. I thought okay, this is what he's been upset about.
My family went into our own personal lockdown a couple weeks before the official one. I rang up and told the organisation I was volunteering for that I wouldn't be coming in anymore. I was very surprised at the people still going about their lives until somebody official told them otherwise. Heads in the sand or what!
Edit: I was called a party pooper for saying in November/December 2019 that we were overdue a pandemic and would probably get one in next few years!
My brother also predicted it in tea leaves in January (no joke)
I didn’t grasp any of it at first. I was flying nonstop for work, and my husband and I went under contract on a new house in Feb 2020 (which worked out brilliantly because the housing market didn’t pop yet).
By around early March I knew we were in for something bad, but not before. I FaceTimed the movers on moving day. It was wild.
No. I worked in a level 1 trauma center (I was non-medical staff), and it was scary & crazy. I also came out in the late 80’s in the height of the AIDS crisis, and had similar rush of emotions during the worst of COVID.
Yep, that was me. Heard “new virus,” shrugged, grabbed snacks, and went back to scrolling TikTok. Little did I know…
when i first learned about covid, it was november/december 2019 and i did a whole essay on the discovery of it and the spread of it within wuhan. i got some marks taken off for “fearmongering” in a portion where i talked about the dangers of zoonotic viruses and rapid mutation. it was graded in early january 2020 and we went into lockdown in march. i hope she thinks about that as much as i do
Wow I'm sorry that that happened to you because what you wrote about was not fear mongering.
She probably forgot about it I’m sorry to say
Email her
I didn’t pay that much attention until March 12 or 13, and then I figured it would be over in June. I hope we never have to go through this again.
I am now just running out of the toilet paper I stocked up on in 2020.
No. My dad was diagnosed with terminal cancer and 3 weeks later he caught Covid and passed
I’m very sorry, as I’m guessing many reading this are also. What a terrible one-two punch.
Sorry for your loss
Nope. I immediately started making plans. First thing I did was sell some of my excess cars cause I knew I wouldn't be using them and wanted to salvage as much value from them as possible.
Lmao “excess cars” okay money bags
I agree with you completely absolutely and I agree with your perspective
😂
Hindsight 20/20 I glad I did this though cause now post-pandemic, I rarely frequent anywhere I used to. I am more of a homebody than I have ever been
That was really smart to do because after the covid used cars became so expensive. I was able to get a 2008 Kia Sportage for my grandson just before the covid hit really big. I only paid $3,000 for it but now when I go to the used car lots that same 2008 is like $5,000 or $6,000
Biggest change post pandemic for me is the fact loans are now up to 72 months in length. Last time I was in the market 36 months was about the most you could get with a decent rate.
Bad move in retrospct. During covid dealerships were writing me letters offering more thsn i paid new for my 3 year old cars sight unseen.
No, I started preparing my classroom for shutdown. I was wrong though. I thought we would shutdown after we got through Friday. We shutdown after school on Thursday. So my classroom wasn’t completely done, but close.
Nope. I work in a hospital and we were ramping up security and infection control and running drills. There was no ignoring it for us.
Partner is an ER nurse, and I knew it was real on day 1 when he googled something, said “it’s real” and calmly started phoning family.
I worked in a nursing home. We were watching things get worse and worse.
Weird thing was that the news kept saying my city's hospitals were totally overrun when they very much were not. That was odd. The whole media handling of that "event" was strange tbh.
When I first heard about it, I was at home. I was in middle school (8th grade). When my grandmother told us about it, all I thought was "oh well. Guess we're not going back to school". This happened a few days before the end of spring break.
I mean yes, because there have been other pathogenic illnesses which have turned out to be , I don't want to say false alarms, but for example ebola never became as big a problem (in the US) as COVID did though it was hyped up just as much, in my opinion.
Yeah having lived through sensationalist coverage of bird flu, SARS, H1N1 swine flu, ebola, mad cow disease, etc., I just assumed this was another outbreak that wouldn’t affect me or anyone I knew.
Nope, I had a mother who was terminally ill with a severe lung disease already, and a 93 year old grandma who was really fragile too. I took it seriously
Well, it took a while to hit. We heard about it in like October and November and it was a big thing. But it didn’t really hit until like March with tom Hanks.
Me 😆
Nope, but I did realize that a few days after some guy came into the supermarket I was working at and bought ALL OUR TYLENOL and my manager made me help him put it in the suitcase he brought, that I got a really nasty cold where I couldn't smell or taste anything for a day and a half. That happened in Los Angeles in November 2019.
To be fair that’s my response to pretty much anything on the news
Yupp. I worked in a warehouse packing pallets for grocery stores and such so we already had various protocols for containment going. It was super weird. Outside work the world was weird but inside it was just like normal.
When I first saw the supposed images of the virus, I thought oh how pretty,what is that ...then I learned
I've never seen pictures of it
Well it wasn't a microscopic image of a disease, what this report was showing was round colored orbs( blue,I think) with these pink things that almost looked like flowers
COVID made absolutely zero impact on my life except having to wear a mask for a while.
Same for me
My wife is something of a hypochondriac so at the first mention in international news we stocked up on masks sanitizer etc before the first cases in our country. Sometimes a curse is a gift.
We did that in new zealand.
Closed the borders then went back to partying. Told a bunch of big artists we would let them in specially for concerts since they couldn't go anywhere else. Good times.
Covid and scenes of death was like war - something that only happens in other countries that we see on the 6pm news. Was like that for 2 years.
Yes.
Hotels were empty and cheap. So many parties, so many hookups.
That sounds fun
Been shrugged off
Nope. I remember reading the headline/article about a strange respiratory illness spreading in China. I thought, "That's something to keep an eye on." Then I read a headline a little later about the pathogen being identified as a coronavirus similar to SARS, which I was somewhat familiar with from taking a virology class. Then I thought, "Uh oh. This could lead to a pandemic." Then I remember watching the news with my mom, and the Chinese built two brand new hospitals in Wuhan for people infected with the virus. We were both like, "This is going to be really bad if they are resorting to these measures." Once there were confirmed cases outside of China, I knew it would end up being a pandemic. I felt crazy because everyone else was either apathetic or in denial. I remember people making definitive statements about the disease when it was brand new, and we knew nothing about it. I remember coworkers making statements about how it isn't that lethal or virulent or how it's just like a cold. I was like, "We have no idea if that is true. How would we know that already?"
I was quite concerned when I first learned about it.
But the gov lies and overreactions tempered that.
I knew it was coming but I didn't know what it was, when that ship or cruise ship was out there on the ocean and people were dying. They've never come back to say what those people on that cruise ship were really dying from but at that time they said it was covid that was in 2019 I don't think the full effect of covid came through till 2020 maybe I've got my timeline wrong.
I was in foodservice. I worked 70+ hrs/week and lived by myself. It had no real affect on my life except making traffic better and people weirder (knowing that we made their food to order, then repacking it on the ground of the parking lot into their own containers with a garbage picker upper was a good one)
Like I get wanting to be cautious. That’s fine. But if you’re going to get sick from touching the container I put your food in, you’re going to get sick from the food as well.
No. My husband and I started paying closer attention to the news and what they were saying about China. We were glued.
I was working at a hotel and the overnight desk clerk used to love to regal me with any and all conspiracy theories. One day, he hit with this one about a "Chinese Flu" that was going to wipe out the world. I totally blew him off until I noticed guests that came in wearing masks.
Yeah until it came to the USA and started spreading
Yep. I figured it was just a new, renamed strain of the flu.
When we read the news of overcrowded hospitals in Italy that February, we canceled our spring break trip to Germany because we didn’t want to get sick or stranded or end up unable to access museums because they’d likely be closed. By spring break, even US places were closed.
Kind of, but I did realize the "mystery illness" my Dad had in December 2019 was probably COVID. He was sick for weeks, and we canceled all holiday plans because he didn't want to get anyone else sick. Thank goodness for that though.
Yep, and as some as the lockdowns started the overtime kicked into high gear. Made a little over 100k in OT for 2020.
No, but my little sister was getting married the week we were all asked to stay home. So the airlines shut down, none of her immediate family made it, catering canceled on her but wanted to charge her, the venue cancelled and did charge her, and the dress shop didn't want to give her her dress. (It was being altered.).
She ended up having a Skype wedding in her back yard. There were like 6 people there that didn't live at the house. I honestly can't imagine the venue being prettier.
I was already an older woman living by herself, and I was terrified. I was gonna die alone in bed. I didn't but it was a very scary time.
No.
When I first heard about it, it was a China thing.
I was in the process of getting diagnosed with a major illness, and I checked in with my medical team that the medications I was on weren't coming from China, and that there wasn't going to be a disruption.
Then it came to Boston, and I am in Boston, so.
It started in China?🤨🤔
As an ER nurse I can tell you we did not but the public sure did. Conferences, concerts, events were still attended. Ugh!
As a biologist with a PhD working in research at the time i listened carefully, read the first papers about it and listened to what epidemiologists and virologists had to say about it and went "oh fuck... humans are too dumb to understand what this means and it's gonna make everything 10x worse". Which is essentially what happened.
I meant to add that I was in 8th grade when i heard about it. It was during spring break, a few days before school.
No. I began hearing about it in November of 19. Tried to find everything I could about it. When school resumed in January, I immediately began showing the movie Contagion in all my science classes. A few students were worried, most thought I was an idiot. I told them it could happen here, be prepared. The day we were told school was over for the year I was now a prophet.
No because it FINALLY clicked with me what was going on with my son. He is autistic and has OCD and always has medical anxiety after my 12 year old daughter died from cancer when my son was 7.
In November of 2019 he was 13 and started getting really upset about an airborne illness from China. I actually went and bought a lot of medicine and made some medicine packs for us and my mom to show him that we were ready. When I first heard about it. I thought okay, this is what he's been upset about.
My life wasn't allowed to stop, so I had no other choice
Yes but I was sick as hell, tried to get up and do things, and went back to sleeping.
Yep.
My family went into our own personal lockdown a couple weeks before the official one. I rang up and told the organisation I was volunteering for that I wouldn't be coming in anymore. I was very surprised at the people still going about their lives until somebody official told them otherwise. Heads in the sand or what!
Edit: I was called a party pooper for saying in November/December 2019 that we were overdue a pandemic and would probably get one in next few years!
My brother also predicted it in tea leaves in January (no joke)
I remember thinking “that’s never going to affect us here.” Boy was I wrong.
I didn’t grasp any of it at first. I was flying nonstop for work, and my husband and I went under contract on a new house in Feb 2020 (which worked out brilliantly because the housing market didn’t pop yet).
By around early March I knew we were in for something bad, but not before. I FaceTimed the movers on moving day. It was wild.
I ordered masks. 😷 I was in active cancer treatment.
No. I worked in a level 1 trauma center (I was non-medical staff), and it was scary & crazy. I also came out in the late 80’s in the height of the AIDS crisis, and had similar rush of emotions during the worst of COVID.
I called it. Nothing more than the flu.
Turns out I was right
Yes. And it turned out exactly like I predicted. Every step.
You even predicted the bleach drinking and horse medicine?