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Epidemiologist. Writer (Guardian, Observer etc). "Well known research trouble-maker". PhDing at @UoW Host of @senscipod Email gidmk.healthnerd@gmail.com he/him

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    Health Nerd‏Verified account @GidMK Aug 23

    Health Nerd Retweeted Bridie Jabour

    I have a very vivid memory of talking to my boss (a global health expert) before I went to Europe in January 2020. He told me that this would change the world and I thought he was being a bit dramatichttps://twitter.com/bkjabour/status/1429771875408744449 …

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    Bridie JabourVerified account @bkjabour
    You know how lockdown brings on really vivid memories. I have most vivid memory of my deputy editor saying around a crowded news conference in early March 2020 “this could be the biggest story of our lifetimes” And me thinking “god he’s dramatic”
    3:29 PM - 23 Aug 2021
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    • 💉💉#VaxUp #DemCast Gail Waldby SARV-CoV-2 Mary Lancaster David #GetADamnShot 😷 Bloomberg 🤨🖖🛎 JP CRedding, PhD Cthulhu Dreams KMS Raddle | #ZeroCOVID Policy Advocate
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      2. Josiah Grindrod‏ @JT_Grindrod Aug 23
        Replying to @GidMK

        I commented this on an article about a new disease spreading in China January 3rd last yearpic.twitter.com/UC1d7ZuiCv

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      3. kentonagbone‏ @kentonagbone Aug 24
        Replying to @JT_Grindrod @GidMK

        Narrator: 2020 did, in fact, not calm down.

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      2. Overly. Honest. Editor.  😷 💉 💉‏ @Edit0r_At_Large Aug 23
        Replying to @GidMK

        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...

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      3. Overly. Honest. Editor.  😷 💉 💉‏ @Edit0r_At_Large Aug 23
        Replying to @Edit0r_At_Large @GidMK

        ...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.

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      1. Ida Ivey‏ @IdaIvey1 Aug 23
        Replying to @GidMK

        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.”

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      1.  💧 Ian "Department of Diseasology"  🍩 Musgrave‏ @ianfmusgrave Aug 23
        Replying to @GidMK

        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"

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      1. Dr. Andrea Iaboni‏ @dementiarehab Aug 23
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        I have a vivid memory of debating whether I needed to make a "COVID" folder in my dropbox.

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      1. Evelyn K‏ @EvelynK70180157 Aug 23
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        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.

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      1. Abraham Alahmad, PhD (Blood-Brain Barrier Sci)‏ @scientistabe Aug 23
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        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.

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      2. Dr. Joe‏ @NoLogoJoe Aug 23
        Replying to @GidMK

        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.

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      3. Amelia Natoli‏ @Vortex_warrior Aug 23
        Replying to @NoLogoJoe @GidMK @DavidQuammen

        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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