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

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[dreamdate]

COVID became real when me and my boss were walking all over the midtown trying to buy a laptop for people in the office to work from home and every electronic shop was cleaned out. And then going to Target and seeing everything cleaned out, and just trying to find toilet paper. And seeing coverage after coverage of bodies being taken from hospitals in NYC. It's so hard to wrap my head around or accept that we all have trauma surrounding this pandemic. I didn't lose anyone, and I'm grateful to have remained employed during those two years, but the emotional and mental toll it takes on you is real. The last seven years have done some irreparable damage.

[likeiused2]

how could I forget the toilet paper thing?

[nigelwitthebrie]

I remember the coverage of NYC hospitals...yet so many on faceboom and Instagram kept saying it was fake, propaganda news. It boggles my mind on how much people were in denial about the pandademic.

[ferelden]

Yeah as someone who lives in Brooklyn this fucking made me livid. Our pain and trauma consistently called fake, propaganda, etc. Seeing gleeful posts about the Covid situation in NYC in 2020 made me so angry.

[arsenicsugar]

it became real to me when I found myself frantically packing up some hand sanitizer I miraculously found to send to my parents. Also when I was hand sewing masks out of an old cotton dress for myself and my husband 😬

I can't believe it's been two years. I was playing Animal Crossing to keep sane lol.

[buries]

i've been working from home for two years now and i don't remember how to function in an office world, anyway. it became real to me then because the lockdown disrupted my routine so much. (i have anxiety and like routine, so march was a very difficult month for me.)

[new_peteland]

We were in England at the time, and this weekend two years ago was our first weekend of lockdown. Not the official one. We sensed it was coming and decided not to leave the village as two weekends before we’d gone into Yeovil and I’d caught a cold that evolved into the worst sinus infection of my life. I had to actually temporarily sign up at the local GP for antibiotics. It’s so wild to think we self locked down thinking it would be over in no time, and we ended up having to stay in England for an extra two months before we could travel back to Scotland when they briefly lifted lockdown in the summer. Anyway, I’d highly recommend Somerset, it’s fucking beautiful and the cider is great.

[walterwhiteh2o]

Two years! And the end isn't near. I was planning a trip to London and Paris and started the year great. I remember my mom telling me that on the news they were talking about some virus in China, and then came March and shit hit the fan. We were on lockdown for months. Obviously, I didn't travel, I lost my job in April because of the pandemic and everything got worse and worse. My only hope is that this becomes easier to control until it finally reaches an end. I never thought that we'd go through a pandemic and a potential World War 3 (I hope not), and all at the same time.