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Kate's avatar

So true! All of this! I was a teen during the Hong Kong flu pandemic in late 1960s (between 1 to 4 million people worldwide died of this flu). No one panicked. Nothing shutdown. Adults went to work and kids went to school. There was little news coverage. We were hardly even aware that it existed. And that is how the covid situation should have been handled.

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Ohio Barbarian's avatar

Because it was never more than a common cold virus. I caught Covid in Cleveland in February 2020, and was over it well before the lockdowns. So did most of my coworkers.

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