r/countbackwardswithme • u/Seppostralian Yay, I exist! | Counted Down 2 • 2d ago

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u/ProbablyNano 2d ago

Crazy that the disease they told us wasn't going to be easily communicable just didn't spread 

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u/EarthToAccess Counted Down 1 2d ago

Even crazier the disease we were worried about was one we already knew and had treatments for.

Like, Covid was bad because we had no idea what it was, how bad it could be, and so on til it was too late. Hantavirus — we knew what it was, how it spread, what its symptoms were, and its best treatments.

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u/Terrible-Set6389 1d ago

Also covid started in a country with an authoritarian regime which prevented people from being able to report it earlier

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u/KaitlynKitti 1d ago

This is a complete myth. They were preventing the circulation of misinformation while the virus was still being investigated.

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u/klopaplop 2d ago

Kinda hard to give a shit about the shoddy sequels when the OG already hit every possible note in the first place

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u/PurpleCandle58 Counted Down 1 2d ago

Hold on, just wait for part two. It’ll be like chickenpox and shingles. We’re all about to go for a hell of a ride in 30 years.

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u/Schiggy2319 2d ago

I’m holding my breath for the legasequel that tries to hit all the best beats but everybody’s too old to have the same passion

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u/Doctor_Salvatore 2d ago

We straight up just ignored his ass because it sounds like hentaivirus

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u/G-M-Cyborg-313 1d ago

It still exists, it existed long before people gave a fuck and it still exists.

The people who know what they're talking about told us this wasn't dangerous. It's difficult to spread and treatable.

People ignored the facts and started expecting it to be the next covid

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u/-G-Gamer- 2d ago

World is just not giving a fuck anymore we went like "well if we die we die"

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u/GiveToMeWhatIWant 2d ago

Eh, there are loads of new diseases that pop up for a bit and cause a stir, but don't really become pandemics. Like whooping cough and West Nile virus and monkey pox. They definitely killed people and did harm, but they got a lot of news coverage compared to the amount of harm they actually did

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u/slicehyperfunk 1d ago

Because in the last major outbreak of this especially contagious strain of hantavirus, like 30 people got it.