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
We’ll probably still be morons no matter when people are reading about it. At least it’ll provide reassurance that whichever things we screw up next are not unprecedented failures.
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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
Born in ‘71. Would really like a chance to catch my breath, but stuff won’t stop happening
Would really like a chance to catch my breath,
That’d be the covid…
I warned you about stuff bro!!! I told you dog!
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!
I hear they’re going to get a lot more frequent. I expect two Katrina-like events in the next ten years in Florida.
Maybe the tenth will be free.
The past tense in the book is concerning
I mean, the pandemic has been over for over a year.
Covid is just endemic now like the flu. It’s seasonal and is never going to go away.
Does it mention how badly trump fucked us with his COVID response?
I’ll be honest, even without Trump most Americans proved they were too stupid or stubborn to follow instructions, so he didn’t really need to do anything to slap the whole US with more infections.
I’m sure Trump didn’t help much with his stupidity.
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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 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.
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.
Vape lung was pandemic in the states in 2019, even in non-vapers like my dad as well, and then disappeared post-covid?
…wat
In 2019 there was an outbreak of a respiratory condition called EVALI and commonly referred to as ‘vape lung.’
Reported cases sharply dropped off in 2020, despite an increase in vape sales.
I just think it’s interesting, is all.
I suspect the dumbfounded reply you received was because one expected the word ‘epidemic’ to be used instead.
‘pandemic’ usually is taken to mean it has spread across several international boundaries. ‘pan,’ meaning ‘all.’
Wasn’t that traced back to bad thc carts?
Vitamin E and MCT oil are the most heavily cited causes and you can still get cartridges made with both.
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
There are still thousands of infections daily(~35,000 in the first week of 2024), and thousands of deaths weekly. Unless Plague Inc. rules have changed, Covid hasn’t lost yet.
Some guy named Vinny “Vidi” Vici
A survivor.
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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.
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.
My hypothesis is that when Covid started, the experts weren’t really sure of the long term effects, and they were preparing for the worst.
It’s bad enough as it is that I’m happy to wear a mask when appropriate.
More like as more people got sick, the worse side effects they found. At first, they didn’t think there were any real long-term side effects. Then people started having the heart and lung issues, brain fog, hell, they even found permanent COVID damage in guys’ testicles, causing infertility.
Even now, we don’t know the effects it’ll have had when we look back 10 years after the fact and make the connections between increases in conditions and COVID.
I was 34 when I first got it March 2020. I have no other health issues. I am not overweight. Covid fucked me up. My lungs were messed up for six months. I had long Covid for a year. My lungs are still not the same. I couldn’t smoke weed again if I wanted to (I was not a smoker at the time, but I did when I was younger). Then I got it two more times before vaccines were widely available. I’m a shell of the energy I had before, and I really feel like it did something to my brain
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 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.
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
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.
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.
