Comment by Sugimot0
4 years ago
Yeah iirc i was reading about a suspected outbreak of a new disease in China late 2019, I told my coworkers about it too and wondered how it hadn't garnered more attention, or if I had just watched too many bio-horror flicks, or fallen for clickbait-y fear mongering. I never suspected it's impact would have the scale it did, especially after the Ebola containment went so smooth.
Yet you, and nobody else, seems to have posted anything about it on HN
https://hn.algolia.com/?dateEnd=1577750400&dateRange=custom&...
If a tree falls and HN doesn't post it, did it ever happen?
I was not on HN prior to covid. The early news I read was likely the plague scare[0], but I definitely read the reuters article[1] when it came out which prompted me to talk to my coworkers about it. I was not sounding any alarms though, more like "check this out..." in the lunchroom.
[0]https://foreignpolicy.com/2019/11/16/china-bubonic-plague-ou...
[1]https://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-health-pneumonia/ch...