I’d say to my kids: “I was there when it was written”
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.
The only consolation, is that most of us looked at how many people were handling it at the time and said, “well they’re fucking idiots.”
Wearing pajamas, streaming Netflix, sitting atop our hoarded mountain of toilet paper
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“It’s true, all of it”
“Even the shitposts?”
“Especially the shitposts!”
My man.
Another one for my once in a lifetime crisis collection.
Why only once? The best things always have a sequel.
Then people born after 70s must be in a cinematic universe
Wtf Happened in 1971
Cool but I don’t need a goldbug conspiracy theorists’ website for that.
I am so confused, what is that website even trying to say!? Is it just a collection of graphs that seem to have some important turning point around 1971? Why choose that year in particular, you could do it for any other year? This seems like a lamer non-automated version of https://www.tylervigen.com/spurious-correlations
In 1971, USA dropped gold standard and it has given rise to all kinds of conspiracy theories.
Ohhh, makes sense, thank you!
“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
I don’t want to be that guy because it is a big number. However, in terms of the human population, there are 8 billion of us and when it comes to the difference between a million and a billion. It is about a billion. So about 0.04% of the human population. Terrible tragedy, yes however it is true.
But they didn’t say a small percentage, which would be accurate, but a small number, which is not.
That is fair, I thought I read percentage. My mistake.
Calculating impact by dividing the number of deaths caused by a thing that has existed for 4 years over a population size that includes people more than 100 years old won’t arrive at any sort of meaningful number. That’s why you use rates, or per capita, or some other way of adjusting for population size and time. COVID 19 is the third most common cause of death in the US in 2020 and 2021. Calling one of the most common causes of death a small number of people is grossly inaccurate.
I wanted Jimmy Kimmel’s segment This Week in Covid History to keep going.
The Economist had a much higher estimate in the middle of the pandemic
But it is over. It’s never going away just like Influenza and all kinds of other shit.
The pandemic is still ongoing. The US literally just had the second biggest wave of infections since 2019 this past week. It’s estimated that there were 2 million new cases on Jan 11th alone. The only reason it seems over is because they won’t let people test for it/keep track of case numbers and because the vaccines were effective against the new variants, which have been more infectious and more dangerous than the 2019 strain was.
You’re right that it’s never going away, but that doesn’t mean that it’s less dangerous than it was 3 years ago.
I didn’t say it was gone. Just like the housing “crisis” and the death of the American Dream. Covid-19 is now just another fact of life now. It has become endemic to the world.
So long as humans exist - so too will Covid-19 alongside every other flu/virus/bacteria that has ever plagued us.
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.
What “was” covid
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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
CCCPCCP doingCCCPCCP 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.”
Just CCP, CCCP was the USSR
you forgor a C
Haha thanks
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.
Well yeah. If people all over the world knew weeks earlier, obviously the health officials knew. But if they didn’t report it before, that doesn’t disagree with the textbook.
I remember I first heard about it a few days earlier, just after Christmas
I was working in the hospital at the time from a big-picture perspective and it seemed pneumonia cases were already spiking in the US during December 2019. My sister and my coworker both came down with a nasty “pneumonia” during then as well.
I was living in Oklahoma and I remember some of the local media mentioning this “coronavirus” thing that was spreading in China. I also remember people joking about Corona (the beer) being suddenly less popular.
Then in February, March, and April it getting more and more serious, and this is about the time that people started claiming it wasn’t real, and if it was, it wasn’t that bad, and if it was, then it was from a chinese lab bent on taking down the US…
April-May had me re-adjusting my previous opinions of people around me that I thought were rational.
Vape lung was pandemic in the states in 2019, even in non-vapers like my dad as well, and then disappeared post-covid?
A history textbook which goes past the 1960s? This definitely is not a book used in American classrooms
Now you kids know what it was like when 9/11 was in every history textbook by 2002.
It was always in our history books but we never talked about it
Guessing you mean in your post-2001 books, but this comment has me imagining a Black Mirror style thing where there’s this future prediction in everyone’s school books that all the teachers refuse to talk about.
😂 yeah my bad, I was in kindergarten when it happened. That would be amazing though
Did you know it changed everything? Because that’s what we were told regularly until about 2010 or so when pretty much everyone had stopped buying it.
Except it sort of did though. Life was pretty different in the 90’s compared to the mid 2000’s.
Life was pretty different in the 2000s than it is today. That’s just called time.
It also kind of kicked off the war on terror, and we know that had all kinds of ripple effects for the world at large
It didn’t change everything, but it did change some things. We still take our shoes off to get through airport security, for example.
Airport security is by far the most identifiable change for me personally. We never used to take shoes or belts off at airport security, we never walked through backscatter x-ray machines, we could carry liquids onto the plane and you could see your family or friends off at the departure gate even if you didn’t have a boarding pass.
That’s not exactly a huge societal change.
That’s more media than school. But my understanding of it is that it kind of did. Mostly for people who frequent airports and Muslims than anyone else though
They say history is written by the victors. I wonder who wrote this.
Inb4 ‘Probably Victor’
Author: Victor V. Victor
Who will win?
Didn’t know a virus could write
idk, according to Plague Inc. rules it lost
Some guy named Vinny “Vidi” Vici
A survivor.
The first time I felt old was when my youngest sister learned about events I remembered in school.
I was in elementary school when 9/11 happened. My brother is 6 years younger, and doesn’t actually remember it. So yeah, I felt old when he was learning about it in high school history classes; And I was only in my mid 20’s at the time.
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My great-grandma survived the Spanish flu as a teenager. But the high fever during the illness fucked her up so bad, she died of heart failure in her forties.
Yeah being disabled sucks. Millions of people live like this.
It’s not until it happens to someone you know that you really think about it.
But people learn to live with it.
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Again you learn to live with that.
You should do some reading about being disabled because you views are a little ignorant tbh.
No one on this planet is able to live without assistance, and needing others to exist doesn’t somehow reduce the value of ones life. You really have a lot of ableism to unlearn.
I’ve had it for a couple of months now. Sure, it sucks, and I can’t work currently, but I’d much rather have this than die though. This will pass (almost everyone gets better in a couple of years max), death is rather final. Also, don’t kid yourself about the people that had COVID but don’t experience long covid. Many of them have permanent changes to their body too, they just don’t know it.
I’ve had minor asthma my entire life, but didn’t used to really get asthma attacks. After getting COVID though I get them no problem. That was almost two years ago I was sick less than a week. Jogging, biking, sex, playing tag with the cats, need to grab my inhaler now.
I know you probably don’t mean it to but the idea that it’s better to die than to be chronically ill or disabled is ableist as hell. Society treating us like shit doesn’t mean sick and disabled peoples’ lives don’t have value.
How long until Republicans get that book banned for spreading false information? Lol
Those who control the present controls the past
gonna be generous and say give it about halfway through 2024
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.
What a bizarre experience.
When I was in school…I’m pretty sure the state history cirriculum was designed to be America centric, and pro-America. Any nation a boomer would remember being at war with? Not in the history books, or they appear out of nowhere, do something pro-America, and then disappear again, like Russia did from 1939 to 1945. And both World and US history classes end at 1950 because 1. to the limp dicks that actually make the policy, “The fifties are practically now” and 2. we haven’t done much “being the good guys” since the jitterbug fell out of fashion.
So I’m not used to seeing something in a history textbook that isn’t from at least two of my lifetimes ago.
We homeschool our kids, and are religious, but we are heavily opposed to Christian nationalism, and want our kids to learn what actually happened, not some whitewashed curriculum that downplays anyone particular people’s ideological downfalls.
We found a curriculum, but it took a while. One of the first ones I opened to read through had a first chapter titled “God’s gift to the world through America” noped right out of that one…
We had the same textbooks I see.
For a summary skip to Harambe.
