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was the 2003 SARS outbreak a big deal?

Posted on 3/31/20 at 4:37 pm
Posted by TulaneFan
Slidell, LA
Member since Jan 2008
14092 posts
Posted on 3/31/20 at 4:37 pm
I was 12 so I don’t remember anything about this. Did anyone actually give a frick back then? What was the overall reaction from the media and the American people?
This post was edited on 3/31/20 at 4:38 pm
Posted by SavageOrangeJug
Member since Oct 2005
19758 posts
Posted on 3/31/20 at 4:39 pm to
Hell no!

This one shouldn't be either.
Posted by Kafka
I am the moral conscience of TD
Member since Jul 2007
153854 posts
Posted on 3/31/20 at 4:39 pm to
It was such a big deal that I don't even remember it
Posted by northshorebamaman
Cochise County AZ
Member since Jul 2009
37436 posts
Posted on 3/31/20 at 4:40 pm to
I don't even remember it.
Posted by SavageOrangeJug
Member since Oct 2005
19758 posts
Posted on 3/31/20 at 4:43 pm to
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It was such a big deal that I don't even remember it
If you had walked up to me on the street today and said, "for $500 what year was the SARS outbreak?"

You would have left with your $500 still in your pocket.
Posted by Aristo
Colorado
Member since Jan 2007
13292 posts
Posted on 3/31/20 at 4:44 pm to
No, we were still riding the togetherness of 911.
Posted by LSU_Smash_the_West
Nawwwlins
Member since Jan 2016
1568 posts
Posted on 3/31/20 at 4:46 pm to
Savage come to the hospitals and see what I see. I’m just a contractor and I see ICU’s full I see and hear these people choking. We are making room for all these sick people. I thought it was no big deal till you actually see it and even worse hear it.
Posted by Wishnitwas1998
where TN, MS, and AL meet
Member since Oct 2010
63634 posts
Posted on 3/31/20 at 4:47 pm to
Nobody really paid attention to it back then

Little media time and of course they did if they or a family member had it but that’s it
Posted by nvasil1
Hellinois
Member since Oct 2009
17384 posts
Posted on 3/31/20 at 4:47 pm to
I remember it because I worked with a girl named Sarah that summer who everyone at work began calling SARS. She didn't appreciate it.

That was the extent of it being a big deal.
Posted by Lsupimp
Ersatz Amerika-97.6% phony & fake
Member since Nov 2003
85168 posts
Posted on 3/31/20 at 4:49 pm to
Previously, we just had a grin and bear it approach to these things. It was just viewed as the inherent risk of being human, we all knew there were viruses that could cull the herd.I think the Ebola “scare “ was the first psychological shift I noticed and this new approach has been completely unprecedented. I think a cost benefit analysis in earlier times would have always defaulted on the unsentimental and stoic side of commerce and the work ethic. More than political, the difference has been the new affluence we have now where we feel we should be largely exempt from risk and future plagues will be overcome with science and mass State intervention . It’s a monumental cultural shift no matter what you think about it.
Posted by Boring
Member since Feb 2019
3792 posts
Posted on 3/31/20 at 4:49 pm to
Everyone rolled their eyes and went about their business. Covid19 is actually caused by SARS.
Posted by TxTiger82
Member since Sep 2004
34324 posts
Posted on 3/31/20 at 4:49 pm to
SARS was bad for China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan, but the scale of the outbreak was much smaller, and it never really spread around the world like Coronavirus.
Posted by SavageOrangeJug
Member since Oct 2005
19758 posts
Posted on 3/31/20 at 4:51 pm to
quote:

Savage come to the hospitals and see what I see. I’m just a contractor and I see ICU’s full I see and hear these people choking. We are making room for all these sick people. I thought it was no big deal till you actually see it and even worse hear it.

Were you there to watch 34,000 Americans die with the flu last year?

34,000...THIRTY-FOUR THOUSAND...

When we reach half that with this virus. We'll talk.
Posted by FtHuntTiger
Lafayette, LA
Member since Oct 2011
677 posts
Posted on 3/31/20 at 4:55 pm to
Yes, the spread of the original SARS was stopped. Not sure how. But I do remember concerns at the time that it would have been scary if it had not been.
Posted by BowlJackson
Birmingham, AL
Member since Sep 2013
52881 posts
Posted on 3/31/20 at 4:55 pm to
I was also 12 and I remember it being talked about ad nauseum on the news. It was a huge deal, just never really made it over here in any meaningful way
Posted by LSU_Smash_the_West
Nawwwlins
Member since Jan 2016
1568 posts
Posted on 3/31/20 at 5:02 pm to
Ok bud. I’m not arguing with you. Just saying I see it. The hospital is FULL. I never in my life seen anything like it. Be safe dude
Posted by cattus
Member since Jan 2009
15155 posts
Posted on 3/31/20 at 5:05 pm to
I was in Asia a few days ago and was China during SARS and this seems a bigger deal on the ground.
I'm pretty sure I've had both tho and SARS was a mean bitch.
Posted by baldona
Florida
Member since Feb 2016
23303 posts
Posted on 3/31/20 at 5:05 pm to
quote:

I thought it was no big deal till you actually see it and even worse hear it.


Why did you ever think it was no big deal? Who is saying this? People like you that think its no big deal until you see one person you know affected are the absolute worst of society.

It is a big deal, it is going to kill a lot of people. We are humans, lots of shite kills us. For the low percentage of people that actually are hospitalized with this we shouldn't be stopping society the way we are.

You are the same person that doesn't realize how this is going effect the economy until YOU lose your job.
Posted by I Bleed Garnet
Cullman, AL
Member since Jul 2011
54846 posts
Posted on 3/31/20 at 5:09 pm to
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Ok bud. I’m not arguing with you. Just saying I see it. The hospital is FULL. I never in my life seen anything like it. Be safe dude



But how come the hospital isn’t full during flu season?
Posted by Centinel
Idaho
Member since Sep 2016
44121 posts
Posted on 3/31/20 at 5:09 pm to
quote:

Why did you ever think it was no big deal? Who is saying this? People like you that think its no big deal until you see one person you know affected are the absolute worst of society.

It is a big deal, it is going to kill a lot of people. We are humans, lots of shite kills us. For the low percentage of people that actually are hospitalized with this we shouldn't be stopping society the way we are.

You are the same person that doesn't realize how this is going effect the economy until YOU lose your job.


Bingo. Nailed it.
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