[Sugimot0]

Yeah iirc i was reading about a suspected outbreak of a new disease in China late 2019, I told my coworkers about it too and wondered how it hadn't garnered more attention, or if I had just watched too many bio-horror flicks, or fallen for clickbait-y fear mongering. I never suspected it's impact would have the scale it did, especially after the Ebola containment went so smooth.

[midasuni]

Yet you, and nobody else, seems to have posted anything about it on HN

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateEnd=1577750400&dateRange=custom&...

[Sugimot0]

If a tree falls and HN doesn't post it, did it ever happen?

I was not on HN prior to covid. The early news I read was likely the plague scare[0], but I definitely read the reuters article[1] when it came out which prompted me to talk to my coworkers about it. I was not sounding any alarms though, more like "check this out..." in the lunchroom.

[0]https://foreignpolicy.com/2019/11/16/china-bubonic-plague-ou...

[1]https://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-health-pneumonia/ch...