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Remember the Before times? When did it really hit you? For sure I was living in the first ten minutes of Shaun of the Dead for awhile.

Posted by loosilu (aka loosilu2) Mar 25 '20, 07:45

It first hit me when I was out of the blue requested to run the pandemic web page at work, and I noticed that my co worker was REALLY REALLY freaked out.

But it didn't REALLY hit me until March 12, when I saw some numbers and went, oh shit. Then I immediately canceled my family's Ireland trip in May.

Responses:

First weekend of march, 5 of six weddings canceled -- nm - zeitgeist Mar 25, 11:52 1
- Facebook memories, every other day pix of bands at taverns, friends, jammed together in a booth, dancing -- nm - zeitgeist Mar 25, 11:53
I don't remember -- nm - mud Mar 25, 08:23
when we were leaving for Florida at the end of February, brought hand santizer, wipes; then seeing Disney and realizing how fucked the US was -- nm - Beaker Mar 25, 08:22
we went remote instruction, sure, and that was huge. it was the NBA cancelling that really told me how long this is going to last. -- nm - amanda Mar 25, 08:13 1
- My kids have yet to do one day of remote instruction classes because of spring breaks. I'm not sure we're even seeing the impact yet. -- nm - oblique Mar 25, 08:14
Reading other responses, it was that 2nd week of March. things getting postponed, canceled. Sports stuff. School stuff. - zunkskunk with the bad take Mar 25, 08:08
Been a slow build. Maybe third week of Feb was my first inkling. Read a thing about how stocking up before there was a panic was one of the best - mafic Mar 25, 08:06
When Italy went on country-wide lockdown. -- nm - mara Mar 25, 08:02 1
- With the Lombardy region shortly before that -- nm - con_carne Mar 25, 08:07
It was March 5th as I followed up the news from the day before. I thought that it was starting and we weren’t going to take it serious. -- nm* - Qale Mar 25, 08:01
I think it was when Trump closed travel to Europe. -- nm - Mop Mar 25, 08:00
For me it was reading that article somebody posted here from the Italian Doctor. -- nm - Strongbad Mar 25, 08:00
When the NBA shut down within minutes of a positive test and every sports event shut down within 48 hours of that. -- nm - Will Hunting Mar 25, 07:59
That news dump on the 11th when the NBA was cancelled and Tom Hanks had it. -- nm - Reagen Mar 25, 07:57 8
- While this does seem forever ago at this point, I don't think it hit my fully then. - ty97 Mar 25, 08:05
- Yep. Exactly here. - Dark Callisto Mar 25, 08:02
- For me at the same time, even though I had been working on it. It was still far away, until then. -- nm - loosilu Mar 25, 08:02
- Yeah everything went plaid in the course of an hour. -- nm - Tim Mar 25, 07:59
- Yep. This. Thats when I knew it was going to snowball from there. -- nm - Jovian Mar 25, 07:59
- That was *only* 14 days ago?! -- nm - ty97 Mar 25, 07:59 2
  - yesterday at 4:30, jen mentioned something that had happened at 8:30 am and stopped and laughed and said "these days, that was ten years ago." -- nm - amanda Mar 25, 08:15 1
    - It's so true -- nm - ty97 Mar 25, 08:21
It will sound horrible, but it really hit me when my sister's boss was forbidden to go into the office until she tested, as she had been in a wedding - Marlowe Mar 25, 07:55
It hit me two weeks ago when one of my clients told me they were heading to Maine to wait things out. The subways were getting less crowded by the day - Krusty Mar 25, 07:53
I'll be honest, not sure it has "hit me" yet. Yes, I'm taking precautions. Keeping in touch with my parents making sure they are too. - Cuzzin Todd Mar 25, 07:50
To be honest, I'm not sure it really has. Yes, we're isolating and WFH (mostly) but outside of that my life is semi-normal still -- nm - oblique Mar 25, 07:49 1
- I think if I had not been dragged in by surprise, I'd be the same. -- nm - loosilu Mar 25, 07:50

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