[jariel]

Was it lockdowns?

Or the beginning of the realisation that this is not the black plague come to wipe us out, and that it's going to affect mostly specific groups?

Edit: what they should map is probably a 'fear index'. Watching NYC / Gov. Cuomo on CNN every day, talk about 'hospitals overflowing' in NY, thinking 'OMG that is what is going to happen where I live soon' - literally Army Medical ships being sent in for civilian purposes, daily news clips of increasing numbers of deaths, all of the unknown - that was scary. We're no longer 'living in fear', rather, come to accept the uncomfortable terms of social distancing, not going to work etc.. The tone in the daily news is completely different. Also, we are now over the first wave of 'cognisance' of the situation. 3 months ago what happened was utterly unimaginable to all of us. Literally all businesses closing their doors, sports cancelled, we were in 'shock'. We're not in 'shock' anymore, we're dealing with 'the new normal'.