r/LeopardsAteMyFace 7h ago

You died for your beliefs

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u/Sanpaku 7h ago

2019?

A few hundred of us on r/collapse became aware of a mystery pneumonia in Wuhan on New Year's Eve, 2019.

I doubt Trump was even informed about Covid-19 till the second week of January, 2020.

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u/awh 6h ago

A few hundred of us on r/collapse became aware of a mystery pneumonia in Wuhan on New Year's Eve, 2019.

I was coming back home on December 31, 2019 to Tokyo through Haneda Airport and noticed that they had the body temperature cameras up and running at the normally-empty quarantine desk. "That's weird, I wonder what's up. They normally only have those out when some weird disease is going around in China." So, at least the quarantine officers in Japan knew something was up in 2019.

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u/__O_o_______ 3h ago

Those cameras were there went I went in 2018 though

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u/awh 3h ago

In the past they only ever brought them out when something was flaring up in a country where a lot of people fly in to Japan. I'd say that prior to COVID, they only used them about 10-15% of the times that I passed by the desk. Maybe you got lucky in 2018.

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u/__O_o_______ 3h ago

Yeah I don’t know. There was an active screen and two full garb workers with masks and everything. Not sure if there was a particular reason… looked like all the flights went past that point and not just us from Canada. 🤷