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Lulu Garcia Navarro of NPR is retweeting people on what they said was The Moment for them on when the pandemic became apparent. Everything she retweets is giving me PTSD. These stories are all worth reading. 

 

 

 

Check the hashtag and her timeline for the things she's retweeting. 

 

 

 

For me, The Moment the pandemic became reality was when a couple NBA players got covid and the NBA postponed games. That was Wednesday, March 11. I decided to take my laptop home from work and I told my manager I wasn't coming back and that he couldn't stop me. I skipped out on my Wednesday night church gathering too. 

 

The next day, the NBA cancelled the season. Work sent everyone in our 4,500 person firm to work from home indefinitely. 

 

I went to the store to get 2 weeks of food because a potential 2-week lockdown was all I was hearing about. I have never seen a grocery store with so many completely empty shelves before. The only other time I felt the uncertainty and dread I felt then was during the Hawaii missile alert. 

 

 

 

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I don’t remember the exact date, but when my county issued a shelter-in-place order...Everything up until then seemed like, ‘This will wrap up in 3-4 weeks’, but when that happened it was like, ‘Ok, we are in serious trouble.’

 

Edit- That was apparently on March 23rd. 

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I remember I started following the virus in December and remember thinking that "if this get here, we have the wrong leadership to handle it." Fast forward a bit and we were more prepared than most, due to having 3d printers I already had masks and nitrile gloves. But what I remember is going to get my wife in 70mph winds during a 2 hour round trip drive. After that I went into how I could help and started 3d printing faceshields for the local hospital to help with any supply issues. Making ear savers and disposable door hooks for people that wanted them in the community. 

Other things I remember is that our sheriff's department had to escort a delivery of fruits and veggies because we were getting much in the way of produce. 

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The NBA thing combined with the Houston Rodeo shutting down the same week is when it became clear we were on a path towards a massive shift in life. I told my minority shareholders to prepare for no major movie releases the rest of the year. They thought I was crazy. Wish I were :/

 

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12 minutes ago, Chris- said:

I don’t remember the exact date, but when my county issued a shelter-in-place order...Everything up until then seemed like, ‘This will wrap up in 3-4 weeks’, but when that happened it was like, ‘Ok, we are in serious trouble.’

 

Edit- That was apparently on March 23rd. 

We were sent home on March 11th for "3 days" to see how the system would handle everyone working from home.... Have not been back since. 

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For me it was the speed at which things went. Prior to shit hitting the fan, I was worrying about things so I pulled senior management aside and told them that I was about to spend a lot of money to prep folks for the possibility of everyone working from home for the summer. I put in an order and before anything was even delivered we had visitor who had tested positive and that sent us all home real quick. That was last spring. I think I've been in the office maybe four times since then.

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23 minutes ago, CayceG said:

 

Lulu Garcia Navarro of NPR is retweeting people on what they said was The Moment for them on when the pandemic became apparent. Everything she retweets is giving me PTSD. These stories are all worth reading. 

 

 

 

Check the hashtag and her timeline for the things she's retweeting. 

 

 

 

For me, The Moment the pandemic became reality was when a couple NBA players got covid and the NBA postponed games. That was Wednesday, March 11. I decided to take my laptop home from work and I told my manager I wasn't coming back and that he couldn't stop me. I skipped out on my Wednesday night church gathering too. 

 

The next day, the NBA cancelled the season. Work sent everyone in our 4,500 person firm to work from home indefinitely. 

 

I went to the store to get 2 weeks of food because a potential 2-week lockdown was all I was hearing about. I have never seen a grocery store with so many completely empty shelves before. The only other time I felt the uncertainty and dread I felt then was during the Hawaii missile alert. 

 

 

 

 

Yep, same. 

 

When I first heard about this, I was thinking "Well, this disease sounds bad, but it won't cause major disruptions.  We had scares like SARS, Avian Flu, Swine Flu, and Ebola, but they came and went."  But the moment that NBA game got canceled, and then the entire season got postponed, was when I realized "Holy shit.  We could be fucked."

 

It's probably going to be etched into my brain forever, just like when 9/11 happened.

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16 minutes ago, CayceG said:

 

Lulu Garcia Navarro of NPR is retweeting people on what they said was The Moment for them on when the pandemic became apparent. Everything she retweets is giving me PTSD. These stories are all worth reading. 

 

 

 

Check the hashtag and her timeline for the things she's retweeting. 

 

 

 

For me, The Moment the pandemic became reality was when a couple NBA players got covid and the NBA postponed games. That was Wednesday, March 11. I decided to take my laptop home from work and I told my manager I wasn't coming back and that he couldn't stop me. I skipped out on my Wednesday night church gathering too. 

 

The next day, the NBA cancelled the season. Work sent everyone in our 4,500 person firm to work from home indefinitely. 

 

I went to the store to get 2 weeks of food because a potential 2-week lockdown was all I was hearing about. I have never seen a grocery store with so many completely empty shelves before. The only other time I felt the uncertainty and dread I felt then was during the Hawaii missile alert. 

 

 

 

 

 

Exactly the same moment for me. When the NBA suspended its season that's when I finally took notice that this wasn't another swine flu or whatever.

 

It took a little while longer for the shortages to hit my town, though. I went to to store once completely oblivious and the selection wasn't bad then a week later I went and the store looked like a post apocalyptic scene.

 

The ironic thing is that part of the reason I wasn't paying close attention was that from the beginning to mid March I was very sick with what might have been the virus.

 

I remember it was the 4th through the 7th when I was the absolute sickest(I can trace it to those days because March 9th is my birthday and I remember feeling merely really shitty by then. 4th-6th nights I remember absolutely burning with fever when I was trying to sleep, then I worked the 7th and could barely stand because my knees kept buckling.

 

I already had some really shitty stuff going on at work, so adding the sickness to it honestly makes last March one of the worst months I have had in my life, looking back.

 

 

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50 minutes ago, CitizenVectron said:

Everything really escalated in NA within a week or so. Crazy to look back.

I went back and re-read a few of the first page of this thread. Some takes hold up, many do not.

 

I remember not going to my friend's wedding in March 14 I think that was when I first made a major decision to not do things because of covid.

 

Pandemic also got me to stop biting my nails because of the bad advice being given re: masks and transmission vectors

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2 minutes ago, b_m_b_m_b_m said:

I went back and re-read a few of the first page of this thread. Some takes hold up, many do not.

 

I remember not going to my friend's wedding in March 14 I think that was when I first made a major decision to not do things because of covid.

 

Pandemic also got me to stop biting my nails because of the bad advice being given re: masks and transmission vectors

 

 

One that stuck out to me was that sometime in mid-March Riley did some math using flu death rates and plugging in Covid estimations at the time and came away with 450,000 deaths. Pretty close.

 

Though, I believe he earlier made some estimates with really high numbers that  turned out not to be close, but to be fair I think he was going off very early Covid numbers that were saying 5% or more fatality rate which, as far as I knew, turned out to be way too high.

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I took a trip to NYC right at the beginning of March. I had booked it months in advance, not realizing that it would be pretty much the last week we were allowed to do anything. It was my first real vacation in years, and so I savored it for that reason. It took on a little extra significance shortly after I got home and realized I wouldn't be doing a lot of these things any time soon. Not just travelling, but seeing plays, touring museums, casually eating in restaurants, relaxing in a coffee shop. I don't know if I had a specific Moment. 

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The moment was kind of a slow burn for me. I had been following the news since January and they kept talking about it. March rolled around, basically at my birthday things felt kind of weird even going to a restaurant. Then a couple weeks later at the hotel workers hours were being cut left and right until eventually it was like 2 people, and the hotel had like 5 guests. You could really feel it winding down. It was interesting because a week before I told a lady working there, "This might be the last time we see each other before quarantine," before quarantines were a thing. She was on the "the flu kills x number of people" bandwagon so she said, "we'll see!" and then a week later no one was really working there anymore.

 

Funny to reminisce about this when we all could just go back to the beginning of the thread. :p

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9 minutes ago, Signifyin(g)Monkey said:

The Moment for me was the other day when someone said “It’s been a year since the virus got here ” and I was like whaaaaat!!1!1??!

 

I kind of shoot the breeze with this guy who works at the grocery store and he was telling me the other day that it's kind of weird to look at old photos and videos now where no one is wearing a mask. And yeah it does kinda feel weird. I think it's going to feel weird after a year or more to go back to normal.

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2 hours ago, Keyser_Soze said:

 

I kind of shoot the breeze with this guy who works at the grocery store and he was telling me the other day that it's kind of weird to look at old photos and videos now where no one is wearing a mask. And yeah it does kinda feel weird. I think it's going to feel weird after a year or more to go back to normal.

Now when I watch a movie or tv show and there's a scene with a crowd I feel uncomfortable. Why won't those people wear a mask??? They need to take precautions!

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The NBA shutdown is what got me too.

 

I was already working from home that week, my kids were on spring break... when they announced the NBA was shutting down, I immediatly stopped what I was doing, drove to Sams and bought enough frozen food to fill our (smallish) deep freeze in the basement.

 

The week before that, (like very early march) my sister-in-law and her husband were in town from LA. They were both freaking out about the virus, but we had a normal visit. She had us take her to a Sams club here and she bought 2 giant packs of Clorox wipes and a bunch of other stuff and shipped it back to LA. We were laughing at her at the time, but the joke was on us.

 

My birthday is March 9th and my family went out to dinner, but it was just starting to feel very weird. The restaurant was practically empty and I may have had one of the last "normal" non-covid birthdays.

 

It was a crazy time. Now it's a year later, I spent most of my time working from home with 2 kids doing virtual school and it SUCKED. It sucked so much.

 

The worst part is that I feel like this stupid virus stole a year of childhood from my kids.

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My boss asked me "do you think you could work from home? We need to see if we're capable of doing so should it be necessary." And I was like "of fucking course I can because it's 2020 and our platform is web based there was never any need to be in the office to begin with." Then the next day I'm working from home and not even two hours into the workday a mass email goes out saying "everybody is working from home starting right now GTFO of the office." That was probably the moment for me. It happened a little before the NBA shutdown which was the next "oh shit" moment for me.

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13 hours ago, Chairslinger said:

 

 

One that stuck out to me was that sometime in mid-March Riley did some math using flu death rates and plugging in Covid estimations at the time and came away with 450,000 deaths. Pretty close.

 

Though, I believe he earlier made some estimates with really high numbers that  turned out not to be close, but to be fair I think he was going off very early Covid numbers that were saying 5% or more fatality rate which, as far as I knew, turned out to be way too high.

 

Yeah it was very scary not knowing the early mortality rate. Right now it seems that around 2% of people die compared to the diagnosed cases. HOWEVER, the death rate is almost certainly not 2%, it's likely that we are just missing a bunch of cases that are less serious (fewer symptoms, etc). I think the best estimates for mortality now are between 0.1% and 1.0%, which is still quite high for a rapidly spreading virus like this (though nothing compared to the 1918 flu, which may have been as high as 15%-20%).

 

We'll know in a few years when all the studies are complete, but the vaccines are going to save millions and millions of lives.

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10 minutes ago, CitizenVectron said:

 

Haha, wow! And do you both have the same mother's middle name and maiden name? And also, the same place your parents met, and also high school mascot? Please share!

Compare your SSNs while you’re at it. This is too crazy!

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My parents booked flights pretty last minute to come visit me like March 10 and then cancelled them a couple of days later. I remember thinking they were overreacting to Trump's Europe travel ban tweet. 

 

I think it was in the gap between my parents cancelling their flights and work telling us to stay home that I grabbed a monitor from my office. Kind of just saw what was coming and figured I should grab one. I think it was that Friday and then the following Monday they told us to stay home. 

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I also remember being upset because my parents were going to meet my ex's parents and I got myself mentally prepped for that and then wasn't happy about feeling like the rug was getting pulled out from under me there. In hindsight I just wonder if my dad would have liked her dad, who's a pushy prick. He was literally trying to talk me into putting an engagement ring on a credit card at one point, which my dad was supremely unimpressed with when I eventually told him about that. 

 

There was also weirdness because her sister was getting married and her dad invited my parents and they were going to have dinner or something the day before so that they weren't literally meeting at the sister's wedding. 

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