Lots of SFBA tech companies were encouraging WFH, cutting back on employee travel & even doing temporary office closures in response to potential coronavirus exposures so early on that they didn't want it to be public info lest they be ridiculed — the employees know.https://twitter.com/JulianScurci/status/1239684136400371712 …
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The infamous "No Handshakes, Please" headline Vox published in the Before Times referenced a policy at VC firm Andreessen Horowitz shared on Feb 6. Back then new cases were so rare they were reported 1 at a time & only 2 deaths had occurred outside China. https://twitter.com/balajis/status/1228447944287932416?s=20 …pic.twitter.com/VnxVqhdHVd
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I think in the end one big takeaway will be that doing all the stuff that was absolutely best **for the good of everyone** to do earlier, like social distancing policies & prepping for a potential lockdown, was exactly the same stuff that got you called a panic-stricken tool
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We all just got to watch exactly what an actual pandemic projected to quite plausibly kill millions of people looks like in its first few months. Most people clearly expected that to look like something else. We need to remember this
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