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Re:Doctors investigate mystery brain disease in Canada by oblio on Wednesday May 05, 2021 @05:03AM (#27047718)
I heard about Covid in January. It was still kind of localized, at the time, we didn't know much about it.

Around mid-February I saw in the news that there was a somewhat big cluster in Italy and realized that everyone was screwed :-(

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Re:Doctors investigate mystery brain disease in Canada by ekianjo on Wednesday May 05, 2021 @05:54AM (#27048038)
The first news about COVID were at the very end of december 2019 at least on mainstream media.
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Re:Doctors investigate mystery brain disease in Canada by oblio on Wednesday May 05, 2021 @09:03AM (#27049319)
True, but between actually seeing the first news and figuring out: "Oh my God, this is going to be a global pandemic!", it took me a while. I think most people were in the same boat.
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Re:Doctors investigate mystery brain disease in Canada by cmrdporcupine on Wednesday May 05, 2021 @01:14PM (#27052700)
My wife had taken a couple infectious diseases courses as part of her anthropology degree so she was tuned into this whole thing and the first article she read about it end of December I remember her freaking out. "Oh, great, another SARS-type virus has been found, we're screwed" and me being like "honey, you're being paranoid. relax."

I hate it when she's right.

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