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by ToFundorNot 2258 days ago
It was the panic from the rest of the world, at the beginning of March it was business as usual. It became real when Italy locked down its people.

During SARS-1, I was in high school, and there was no major panic outside of downtown. I don't know about internally, so perhaps the hospitals were better prepared because of it this time.