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by grawprog 2289 days ago
>It's your typical pandemic response: - denial

- placating measures

- minor lockdowns

- major lockdowns and panic (running to the store to stockpile toilet paper, for some reason)

- total quarantine

- life slowly returns to normal

When in the last 100 years has this happened that you're basing your 'typical pandemic response' examples on?

It certainly hasn't happened in my lifetime...

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Depends where you are in the world.

H1N1, SARS and Ebola are in recent memory, but they didn't reach my neck of the woods.

H1N1 was not the same, at least. And SARS wasn't pandemic