4 years ago today, the COVID-19 outbreak was declared a pandemic by the World Health Organization

[just444]

4 years ago today, the COVID-19 outbreak was declared a pandemic by the World Health Organization. pic.twitter.com/D26U6vbFkd
- Pop Crave (@PopCrave) March 11, 2024

source 2On March 11 2020 the WHO declared the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak a global pandemic

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[irajaxon]

absolutely crazy. up until this past fall, my work still had covid restrictions (random testing*). few people in the US can grasp just how deep in it NYC was. i will never forget the emptiness and the non-stop sound of ambulances.

*and vaccine requirement, both now dropped

[goldenhera]

Yep. I worked for a hospital in NYC at the time. I wasn't a front line worker but my job put me in close contact with infectious disease clinicians on the regular. They were raising flags to me and my coworkers in February. I remember telling some of my friends that the illness was serious and they should be prepared to hunker down. One of them said, my friend who is a nurse says this is nothing. I was like, bitch I am speaking with high ranking infectious disease clinicians who are communicating with their colleagues in China and Italy. I think they have a better idea of what is happening.

[irajaxon]

my roommate, who had *just* graduated from a nursing program, went on a trip with friends "before everything closes" and came back with no sense of smell 😑

nurses are phenomenal, they do a really hard job, but there are some that are also the worst.

[phililen3]

Please forward that roomie my poop emoji...

[almostlawyer]

My cousin is like head nurse at a clinic and she was having birthday parties and shit during lock down, she didn't give a fuck

[swissbeauty23]

in NYC got LEVELED, prob harder than most parts of the country honestly. I think it's difficult for a lot of people to fully understand how bad it was for us.

the emptiness, the high rates of illness and death, the economic disaster of it all with little to no relief. so depressing. we're still recovering.

[spiceboy35]

the sirens, all day, every day for the entire month of april

[swissbeauty23]

the sirens in the silence :(

[monsterlovebosa]

They were putting bodies in uhauls that were parked on the street because there was no where else to put them. It truly was an awful time.

[evilfirepixie8]

Seriously. They were doing mass burials on Harts Island to deal with how many people were dying a day while our President got on the news to shit on us and fuck us on supplies and I will never stop being angry.

[swissbeauty23]

oh same. it was horrific.