COVID shut down the world 6 years ago. What do you remember from that week?

It was scary. All these people getting sick, going to the hospital, being put on ventilators. But the scariest part of all was the people who were in denial of how serious it was, right up until they got sick and had to be put on ventilators.

On a personal note, I remember one person in particular. My dad had hired a subcontractor to work on the remodel of our duplex in southeast Portland. This guy sat down and talked to me on his smoke break, telling me about how the medical mask mandate was completely pointless, and he wasn't going to be observing it, because it was a test by the US government to see if people would take the mark of the beast without question. He just went on and on about how COVID-19 was made up, and kept telling me about details he was getting wrong and why they didn't make sense.

Then, just a few days later, he called me up and told me to tell my dad he wasn't going to be able to work because he was having flu-like symptoms, and he'd lost his sense of taste and smell.

I never heard from that guy again.