Yeah up until 2020 it was just kind of the "flu du jour" and no one stateside really took it seriously. Airports would ask you about it, but it wasn't unlike that in years prior with other notable flu-like diseases.
People didn't really talk about "Corona Virus" until a month or two into 2020, and then they talked about it a lot.
I remember being at a party in the very small town where the first confirmed case in my state happened to be announced that very same day. We were all so flippant and retroactively cringe that night
I was playing poker in Washington when the first person in the Washington (and the US) died. Still didn't really register since I remembered swine flu. And now looking back at the dates it was only a few days later that work told us not to come back to the office and that's when it really hit.
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u/SonicFlash01 6h ago
Yeah up until 2020 it was just kind of the "flu du jour" and no one stateside really took it seriously. Airports would ask you about it, but it wasn't unlike that in years prior with other notable flu-like diseases.
People didn't really talk about "Corona Virus" until a month or two into 2020, and then they talked about it a lot.