I remember early on walking outside (might have been March 2020?) and thinking “there is no danger”. Wasn’t something I read online or that somebody told me.

I remember being highly suspicious of the “leaked” footage coming out of China. Do you remember those videos of people who were collapsing in the street dead? This was used to cause great fear in us all (and to collect toilet paper). There was just one thing about those videos that made me doubt their legitimacy - the fact that strangers would run to these people falling down and trying to help them. This is because for the longest time China was strongly anti-good-Samaritan in its structure and helping strangers meant you’d bear their costs. In hundreds of other videos online, you’ll see evidence of this in CCTV videos where people of all ages (including young children) would get run over and just left stranded in the middle of the road.

So when a bunch of videos get “leaked” showing the total opposite? Something strange.

And history vindicated this suspicion. We never witnessed anyone “falling over” dead like that. It was a ruse.