re: 5 years ago today, it all began to shut down

Smallish world

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go to my grave knowing Will wade was about to go on a run that March.

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Would have been a hell of a tournament that year. I thought Florida State was the best team.

Never forget that COVID could get you at church, but couldn’t get you at the George Floyd riots.

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Regardless of where you stand on it today, I feel like most of us were pretty spooked early on. I know I was. Lot's of uncertainty. You couldn't trust Chinese news, and northern Italy was starting to look rough. We had a tornado hit Nashville on the 3rd. Things start shutting down the following week. The week after that my wife tells me she's pregnant with #2 with a 10 month old hanging off of her hip.

Not gonna lie, I was a little freaked out. Thinking of bringing a second kid into this world in the middle of a then unknown pandemic and wondering if my business would survive. I lost a lot of sleep early on. I recently looked at my journal from then, and that last week of March into the first week of April were heavy times.

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We had good reason to be freaked out. As you point out, we didn't know shite. The CDC didn't know shite. It was a novel virus. Those first weeks we didn't get clear word on how it was transmissible because scientists were still trying to figure it out. And nevermind the fact we had a big fat orange clown "leading" the country while this hit, clearly downplaying things in order to help his case for reelection.

I mean, yeah, no shite a year later people were better positioned to call out how dumb it was to have to wear masks, maintain separation, constantly use hand sanitizer, etc. There were a lot of really poor decisions made during the pandemic (especially shutting down schools), but those first few months it was 100% the right move of the CDC and WHO to encourage folks to use extreme caution until the scientists could understand exactly what it was we were dealing with.

The dipshits in here talking about "I never took any precautions" are exactly that, dipshits. They can pretend they knew what was going on, but they didn't. No one did. If you weren't trying to protect yourself and your family those first couple months you were indisputably irresponsible.

Crazy that 5 years have flown by so quickly

Man… I remember that vividly

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Pointed out the ridiculousness immediately. Have posts to prove

Gyms closed, but McDonalds open
Have to put masks on to enter restaurant, but take off once sitting
People wearing latex gloves all day as if infectious materials weren't going to stick to the gloves instead of hands

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none of this is really that ridiculous if you use some common sense and realize we were just TRYING to do what we could.

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Gyms closed, but McDonalds open

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People still have to eat

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Have to put masks on to enter restaurant, but take off once sitting

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would be pretty hard to eat with a mask on. It was really funny walking 10 steps through a restaurant with a mask and then taking it off after being seated but whatever

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People wearing latex gloves all day as if infectious materials weren't going to stick to the gloves instead of hands

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not sure where it was recommended to wear latex gloves all day and never take them off or change them.

The only good thing about covid was traffic wasn't as bad going to work.

Rudy Gobert sarcastically rubbing all the mics is still hilarious

It was truly amazing how many people just blindly believed the shot nonsense, mask nonsense, not going anywhere nonsense, and working from home nonsense

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Taking the rakes out of the bunkers on a golf course isn’t stopping shite. lol.

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I do miss the covid greens though. Hole placement was the same every time and the raised cup knocked 20 strokes off my round.