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Originally Posted by MTVN
Interesting account to follow, there seemed so little to be concerned about a year ago today. Go to Wuhan, just don't touch dead birds
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There was a huge panic about SARS in the early 2000's and it came to nothing, same with MERS outbreaks in the 2010's. There are also frequent outbreaks of (individually) far worse illnesses than Covid (ebola et al) in certain regions... So they probably just thought it was more of the same. In reality of course Covid is far less severe than all of those - but MASSIVELY more infectious... So was almost comically underestimated.