30 People Shared Their First Coronavirus Tweets In This Thread And They Range From Hilarious To Cringe
It's hard to believe, but we've been in a pandemic for over a year already. No one really expected it to last that long, or at least most of us hoped that it would go away if we followed the restrictions for a little while. But alas, we're even starting to forget what life looked like before the global shutdown.
Now we can only laugh at ourselves and how naïve we were a year ago. Indeed, do you remember what your thoughts about the virus were last March? Twitter user @AliceAvizandum thought it would be fun to remember what the tweets were like when this whole deal was new to us and asked people "show me the first tweet you did containing the word 'covid' or 'coronavirus.'"
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Let's go down the memory lane and take a look at what were people's first tweets about the coronavirus. Don't forget to upvote the ones you like the most and comment if you think that the tweets maybe didn't even changed that much from then till now.
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On the last day of 2019, the World Health Organization (WHO) took notice of report on the Wuhan Municipal Health Commission's website that there was a cluster of 'viral pneumonia' cases in the city. And on the first day of the new year, WHO started investigating how serious the matter was.
On January 9, 2020, WHO announced that the outbreak in Wuhan was caused by a novel coronavirus. The organization reiterated the measures that should be taken when controlling a new virus, but on January 13, the first case outside China was confirmed. Two months later, on March 11, 2020, COVID-19 was characterized as a pandemic.
It was a scary time, dealing with a new disease which spread around the world in such a short time. When countries started to announce lockdowns, at first it sounded kind of fun, staying home, having more time to fix our leaking sink or baking banana bread. We probably didn't let ourselves think that originally a two-week lockdown would be extended this much.
Who would personally persecute any asian person for that ? Nobody is that stupid.
We didn't know what was in the future, so some of the first tweets about it sound so out of touch in today's context. Nevertheless, some of them are actually funny and to be fair, we still joke about COVID-19, even when we have seen what a serious disease it is, because what else is left there to do?
Most of these tweets are more light-hearted than those we see now, but there were people who caught on from the very beginning that we should be careful and not think about this new virus as just another simple flu.
I had watched that Netflix doc, Pandemic, sometime around November 2019 & the minute that first Rona case landed right here in my home state (WA) I stocked up on essentials and my BFF who laughed at me & made tinfoil hat jokes ended up being super grateful when I drove 3hrs to deliver her some much needed TP, paper towels, flour & rice because she only had a Walmart& a Safeway within 1 hr of her and they went weeks at a time without staple items on the shelf.
We're already reminiscing about the time when the virus broke out, but we still have a way to go in stopping it and returning to normal life. Hopefully, after another year, we will be looking at the tweets people are posting at this moment and we will take a breath of relief that it is all over.
Well thanks for china to go and WARN us!!!! NOT. Stop eating every animal under the sun Asia.
Some called it a "hoax". Some called it "just a flu". Some said "mask doesn't do anything". The US president got it, then rip off the mask later. The people of United State had plenty of warnings and look how well we react those warning.
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The US and Europe didn't care much at the start because China was hiding the death rate and dismissing the severity of situation.
And some 6 months later, Trump urged people to not wear masks and inject clorox to cure covid. Funny huh.
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Uh covid didn’t hit America a couple months later, our first confirmed case was in January.
True, but the public wasn't really aware of it until a couple months later. I had been watching it beg of Feb and no one else seemed concerned in my area until beg of March. Ppl just thought it would be SARS or MERS all over again
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So SARS-CoV-1 was in 2002-2003. Considered eradicated in humans it had a 9-11% case fatality rate, or 774 known deaths as reported by WHO. SARS-CoV-2 is the one behind the current crisis and has caused (so far) just under 3 million deaths or a case fatality rate of 2% (give or take). In between we also had the H1N1 pandemic (or swine flu) in 2009 - between 700 million and 1.4 billion estimated cases and suspected 284,000 deaths. We either got the start of this one very, VERY wrong, or flu variants are getting stronger and the next one will be Plague-level. Based on the timing, somewhere in about 2039?
No, flus aren't getting stronger. 1) 1918 pandemic was way worse (700,000 deaths in the US alone) and 2) we are very familiar with the creation of flu vaccines so rolling one out isn't nearly as difficult as creating one from scratch. The issue with flus is that they are epizootic, meaning many variants affect many types of animals, and they can jump from animals to humans relatively easily. So different variations may be present in a domesticated animal population (like pigs or chickens) swap genes, become very virulent, then jump to humans, and spread rapidly because of how globally we're all connected. Writing this as a biochemist.
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i love this one haha. I'm too healthy and virus free on cocaine right now to read words
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I don't remember exactly what I said, but I remember that in mid March 2020 I said something about how my school was closing until about April. Yeah...
I don't have twitter but uh, this was from either January or February 2020: Corona-608...71-png.jpg 
Didn`t tweet anything. But at early january when we were planning a business trip to China later that spring I quoted to slightly worried co worker that no panic. Either this is handled due April or otherwise no one is traveling to China at April.
me: *sneeze* *cough*. my brain: CoRoNa ViRuS! gEt It ReAl! sHeT iS gEtTiN rEaL!
I don't remember exactly what I said, but I remember that in mid March 2020 I said something about how my school was closing until about April. Yeah...
I don't have twitter but uh, this was from either January or February 2020: Corona-608...71-png.jpg
Didn`t tweet anything. But at early january when we were planning a business trip to China later that spring I quoted to slightly worried co worker that no panic. Either this is handled due April or otherwise no one is traveling to China at April.
me: *sneeze* *cough*. my brain: CoRoNa ViRuS! gEt It ReAl! sHeT iS gEtTiN rEaL!
