A few days after Archduke Franz Ferdinand was assassinated in June 1914, Vienna’s Neue Freie Presse paper wrote “the political consequences of this act are being greatly exaggerated.”
Feel like I’ve seen more than one take like that about COVID... 
Replying to @tommycollison
They were, though. They were exaggerated by the Germans, who wanted a pretext for war with Russia. Successfully, it turned out.
1:08 AM - 18 May 2020
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