Two years ago today Covid really hit the fan

[just444]

Two years ago, today: March 11, 2020

• World Health Organization declares COVID-19 a "pandemic"
• Dow Jones average drops 1,200 points, ending 11-year streak
• NBA postpones season due to COVID-19 outbreak
• Tom Hanks announces he & his wife Rita Wilson have COVID-19
- Jack Detsch (@JackDetsch) March 11, 2022

sourcetwo years ago today covid-19

Comments

[cickiz]

it became real once tom caught it

[ljtryout]

I remember that ONTD Post and we knew so little that it was basically a death post. Everyone for sure thought they were goners.

Re: ur question, OP
The moment covid got real for me was march 16. Lockdown started in my country, people got arrested for going out and there were vids of people in Ecuador leaving dead bodies on the streets, which terrifies me to this day.

[genbu_no_miko24]

Yep Tom Hanks and the NBA shutting down the season is when I said oh it’s really here.

[lozbabie]

It was the NBA shutting down that made me go ‘oh fuuuuuck’

[syphilisdiller]

That was my last day of work for a long time. I went to my parent's house for what I thought was just going to be a night.

[masterofmystery]

that day was the day it became real for everyone. i just remember all those bits of info coming out that day just like one sucker punch after another

the month of march 2020 was neverending, it was astonishing how it felt like a fucking year in just that one little month

[tucker]

I actually remember my last time out with friends before lock down, it was early march and you might see one or two people wearing a mask but at that point wearing a mask still seemed a little weird so we just all used a bunch of hand sanitizer throughout the day

Then I went a looooong time without seeing anyone unless we were six feet apart and both wearing masks

[looneyboy83]

me and friend went out dancing the first friday of march in a packed club.

2 years later i'm itching to go dancing again.

[lolzerz]

my birthday is feb 18th, and my bf and i flew to my hometown for my birthday and i remember we had a 30 second conversation of "what if we get covid lol" before we went. it was in the news, but not one person we saw that weekend talked about it. no one was taking it seriously.

[speedychi]

awww, you have the same bday as my son <3

[semalina]

it became real march 12th for me when i went into the office and it was practically empty