• ☂️-@lemmy.ml
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    19 hours ago

    can’t wait until like 2030, when we can all put this mess behind us and live our best lives!

    • tobis@lemm.ee
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      20 hours ago

      I think it started as making fun of the twitter verified check mark being purchasable.

    • fossphi@lemm.eeEnglish
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      22 hours ago

      Maybe it’s because of the follow button. But I don’t know, I don’t use tumblr

    • WalrusDragonOnABike [they/them]@reddthat.com
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      1 day ago

      August 2019 was maybe when people who pay attention to international news were starting to hear about some concerning disease spreading across the ocean? Maybe not even that far into the epidemic.

      • Apytele@sh.itjust.works
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        1 day ago

        I remember outbreaks in China being a December thing actually. It was all very fast, I remember joking to myself over Christmas break that “oh look I wonder how that will affect me graduating” and a few months later it started getting less funny.

        • veroxii@aussie.zone
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          1 day ago

          Yeah I remember being in Bali in December and reading about it. Then it hitting news in the west in January and I think by February or March dozens of people were dying in Italy with overflowing hospitals.