• 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.

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      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.

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        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.