I remember stockpiling staple foods like dry beans & rice. I remember all the medical people I knew taking it very seriously. I remember various comments by tRump.
“Looks like by April, in theory, when it gets a little warmer, it miraculously goes away.” “very much under control,” “We’re going down, not up. We’re going very substantially down, not up.” “...when you have 15 people, and the 15 within a couple of days is going to be down to close to zero, that’s a pretty good job we’ve done.” “And it will go away. Just stay calm. It will go away.”
@FreddieUK A study of death certificates tells us that it wasn't simply a matter of mis-classifying other causes of death. mis-classification doesn't explain the huge increase in the number of US deaths.
P.S. under this question I've also posted a more data-intensive table covering a six year period 2025-2020 comparing top ten causes of death based on death certificates.
@ElwoodBlues I think you may have misunderstood what I was saying to marine Bob. He said there were no flu cases. Neither of us said anything about deaths. I responded at the ordinary cases of flu that you normally have in the winter, will probably not diagnosed because people weren’t going to their GPs for routine appointments.
That my wife and I had an excellent St Patricks day meal of corned beef and cabbage the young man who was our waiter was great took good care of us and had a lot of personality, we gave him a very generous tip and thanked him for the great service. The next week Covid shut down all the restaurants I told my wife that young man just lost his job and felt bad for him!
I knew I'd had it in December, but didnt know at the time. I thought because I'd had it i was immune to getting it again. I was a key worker so carried on working, but living separately from my partner. A couple of times a week i was dropping off food for him as being an asthmatic he was terrified. I felt very alone and afraid
I was a senior in high school. I had just found out the guy I was dating was also dating some other girl who was way too young for him. Her and I actually became friends after that because she had all of my interests.
Our class was trying out Google Hangout before Zoom became a thing in schools. It was a fun time, everyone was just funnier at home. They told us that school would only be out for a month then shortly after it got closed for the rest of the year.
I used to take a college class during my senior year of high school, the professor who was teaching it also worked in a hospital. We got an email that she got covid and passed away. That always felt unreal, she was a really nice person. I remember when I did my presentation about dentistry and i got everyone tooth brushes. She requested a blue one and said she always has to have a blue toothbrush. May she rest in peace.
I lost my job in the first shut down. Then my house. Had to move back in with family. I remember the fear people had of it. The bafflement over the Toilet Paper. How Western Australia shut down its borders and didn't get as bad as everyone else did. And I remember the people who had been travelling through the state forced to stay put. Getting a new job at an Aged Care home and how horrid it was to work in a COVID ward.
It’s very easy to remember. My mother passed away 9 March and the world shut down the day of her service. We couldn’t hold the luncheon that we planned thanks to Big Blue.
I had a heart attack as we were confined (unrelated) and it meant I had complete rest immediately afterwards and I was free of worry about cancelling my plans.
My mom had just died, I had a full time kindergartener all of the sudden, my family dumped me and my son and I were doing his school from the back of our van because we had no wifi at home. It was a flipping mess for me.
Bob raises the following question: Are the Covid death numbers the result of mis-classification of other causes of death?
Here in the table are US death numbers for the top ten causes of death for six years ending in 2020. Notice how there are 20% more deaths in 2020 than the average of the previous five years? Doing the math, that's 500,000 excess deaths in 2020.
Notice how, in 2020, 345,000 of those 500,000 excess deaths are classified as Covid? Notice how almost all causes of death rose in 2020, including cancer & heart disease?
If there's any validity to the claim that lots of deaths have been mis-classified as Covid, why did almost all causes of death increase in 2020? Wouldn't mis-classification produce a reduction in those other causes? The evidence says mis-classification is a red herring.
I just remember feeling utterly terrified. Watching the news as the death toll crept up I wondered if I would be able to keep my family safe. It was horrible but now it seems long ago.
I remember that week well. I work in the grocery business so I was watching the crazy sales numbers as people started hoarding. The effects rippled through the business for a couple of years.
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I was on holiday wondering if my flights would be cancelled.
@JimboSaturn dude same we need to have another pandemic, but like instead of dying if you catch the illness, you lose 30 pounds and you become a fit bikini model😅
Massive propaganda campaign implemented in order to make people take a very dangerous and experimental “vaccine” which did nothing to prevent you from getting Covid. Covid something which was never as dangerous as advertised.
Why did the FLU almost completely disappear that year?
COVID didn't do anything .. governments shut us down. covid was an exercise in government control of the population via scar propaganda over the common flu 😒
