I was going to ask if this is what twitter was like during SARS but apparently that was before twitter existed
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the only thing I remember about SARS was that I threw up at a Bat Mitzvah during the height of the media coverage and the janitor asked my parents if we had been to China recently before being willing to clean it up
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went down in history like Y2K- mostly remembered as an overreaction, precisely because it was reacted to
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the official state account of the number of cases in China has now surpassed the worldwide count from SARS (~8000)
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