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Re:Covid-19 is now officially a pandemic, WHO says by badsectoracula on Wednesday March 11, 2020 @02:59PM (#22549133)
LGR had a great Y2K video where he presented what the problem was: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xm5OiB3CPxg

In short, it was massively overblown and misunderstood - people expected their own computers to blow up and even made shelters - and some scammers even took advantage of those fears. It made perfect sense for someone who didn't knew what was going on and was fed on doom and destruction to see things continuing without any hitch and wonder what was the fuss all about.

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Re:Covid-19 is now officially a pandemic, WHO says by flukus on Wednesday March 11, 2020 @08:37PM (#22552333)
> In short, it was massively overblown and misunderstood

Absolutely, the hype was way above the risk. But if the hype wasn't there I'm not sure it would have been prevented, so it served a useful purpose.

As a society we need the right amount of panic at the right time, but for this pandemic it feels like too much and too late.

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