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Originally Posted by Jibartik
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All I can offer is my experience and you know me well enough to know I'm offering the truth or not is up to you but this was my experience.
I found out about the pandemic through tiktok and youtube on my flight home from the holidays in December, at that time, being a doomer as you can imagine when I saw them pouring piles of dirt on doors to keep people in buildings I was like, "oh well here we go looks like zombie/virus is the end"
I bought a ton of masks etc for pre pandemic prices, and then like the murmurs of this stuff hit the USA and democrats and republicans alike, were doing what the establishment does, just scoffing at the idea of something like this happening.
and my jaw was on the floor listening to democrats I respected at the time saying not to wear and not to panic and I was like "well this is stupid masks work!"
and then it took a little while before they were in full panic mode to contrast trump while he was going china flu china flu, around that time. This was like all over the course leading up to march, which is where finally the country started taking it serious.
So somewhere in that 2-3 month period the dem leadership changed their tune. TBH I remember at the time thinking I should take screenshots and recordings of the stuff I was reading/listening to for this purpose but I was not that interested and I did think that we'd be on containerships evacuating cities by the time I needed them anyway.
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I mean yeah it's kind of hard to believe the flat statements you're making without seeing the proof, but I will also try to do my own research and educate myself further.
If what you're referring to is basically a change in tune in early March 2020 vs. what they were saying at the end of 2019, I don't really fault them for that. There have been a lot of reports about the further conversations that were occurring during that time period where government officials began to be briefed about COVID and basically being told that yeah this is actually going to be a really significant problem etc. Those types of briefings along with what we'd seen COVID do elsewhere by March 2020 could easily account for a valid change in tune (and that's honestly exactly what I went through as well in terms of not thinking it was that big of a deal in December 2019/January 2020 to thinking it was going to be a big deal by late February 2020).