A couple of people begging us to take this seriously, most of us joking around about it, and then everything comes crashing down.
I've never wanted so badly for @yuneeq to be proven horribly wrong.
Trust me I wish I get proven wrong. Perhaps the cure is found tomorrow and distributed en masse. But the more I researched the virus and the lesser-known news from China, the more I started to get concerned. What will happen when it reaches the US? I figured from the quick China ban that we would be ready as the threat became more imminent. Then it reaches the US, and I start hearing from all sorts of potentially infected people that can’t get tested due to extremely narrow criteria and lack of test kits. But still, we have time for the US to get this right. We’re a top country, and we have all the resources to throw behind it.
But time passes and still nothing, and now I’m worried. Not panicking, but worried. And I don’t remember the last thing I worried about. Not a single impending hurricane, blizzard, or pandemic could get more than a yawn out of me. I’m worried not for myself, but for the countless people I know and don’t know, that are now at extreme risk, and for what - for no reason at all! I’m trying for over a month to convince people that they shouldn’t laugh it off, it’s not the flu, that people we love need to be protected and prepared for. That the more prepared we are, the less we need to worry. Instead people have been laughing at me for not wanting to shake hands or for stocking up on masks, sanitizer, and disinfectants. Calling me paranoid or irrational despite having none of these traits before in my life.
Someone told me they can’t sleep tonight. I told them I haven’t slept well the last month.
/end mindless rant