I commented this on an article about a new disease spreading in China January 3rd last yearpic.twitter.com/UC1d7ZuiCv
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I commented this on an article about a new disease spreading in China January 3rd last yearpic.twitter.com/UC1d7ZuiCv
Narrator: 2020 did, in fact, not calm down.
I don't know public health experts who could've told me that, but I do have a vivid memory of following the development of Ebola outbreak in 2014 and thinking how lucky we are is not respiratory...
...of course there was nothing lucky about this, and only reason I could think that is because I live in a rich arrogant European country. There is something to be said for the fact there were two PHEICs announced in the last 2yrs, but most people wdn't know what the other was.
After several weeks of internal debate, on Jan. 30, 2020, I emailed a warning to a very low key, easygoing Canadian friend. I thought he must be thinking “god she’s so dramatic.”
My partner was on Kangaroo Island doing communications for the fires there. Obsessively following the news when I heard of the spread of COVID-19 I went "oh damn, this changes everything"
I have a vivid memory of debating whether I needed to make a "COVID" folder in my dropbox.
In December 2019 my then 13 year old son said, "There's always something bad happening. Things aren't going well in the world". I told him these world events (I can't even remember what they were) came in waves and that this wave was done... things were getting better.
My last conference attended was the @StrokeAHA_ASA ISC meeting, mid-Feb. Mostly normal, COVID19 was really in my mind a concern if you traveled or have someone traveling to China. Little that I knew that within a month, we would experience a lockdown and forced to work from home.
I had been primed by reading @DavidQuammen prescient book "Spillover - Animal Infections and the next Human Pandemic" (2012!)
So... early 2020, I remember thinking "it's finally happened, it's here" when I read about wuhan for first time.
I read Pandemic by Sonia Shah a few years ago. That was my thought too, though I hoped it wasn't the Big One.
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