re: For those of you old enough to remember, how does this situation compare to 9/11

This is a much larger impact overall than 9/11 based upon it's economic impact and loss of life.

9/11 was more shocking based upon it's nature.

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9/11 brought the world together

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The world is not the US

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Was one situation scarier than the other?

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Totally different, when 9/11 happened you felt a sense of wtf then a sense of they done f’d up. Lots of patriotic feelings. And this was all in a span of 24 hours.

This is different. I fear for my mother, and I fear for the economy. But I don’t feel anywhere near the same as when 9/11 happened.

On 9/11 I know exactly where I was at when the first plane hit. Matt and Kevin were on the radio discussing the first plane crash when the second hit the towers. And that is when you knew that shite wasn’t an accident. I don’t even know when the first US case of COVID19 was found in the country.

There was a real enemy on 9/11, the virus is just life and you can’t get mad at it. I just question a lot of decisions governments are making.

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This situation will dwarf 911 unfortunately

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How so?

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911 was sudden and shocking, and for a day or 2 I wanted to get my family away from the BR (petrochemical plants) area. After realizing there wasn't going to be an airliner crashing into Exxon, that fear turned into rage and anger, and I wanted some sort of retaliation.

This isn't the sudden out-of-nowhere jolt, since I've followed the Chinese outbreak a bit (hell, this site had some threads showing the extent the Chinese were going through to contain it, which was sobering).

Both myself and a lot of family work in healthcare, we all realized immediately it wasn't a hoax. And while most people are staying home and complaining about their income, we've been having to go in and risk exposure to a potential silent killer daily. And we're in our 50's, which is not the WORST demographic, but not the BEST one either.

I'm stressed, tense, irritable. I listen to people say "this is nothing, a hoax" and want to shake them... just because it's not immediate or wiping out the population today, it's NOT nothing.
I read people saying "hey, let the older people go, they will anyway", and again it stresses me- first off, I might be "older". Second, it IS hitting younger people, though not as much.

I should probably stop coming here awhile, but honestly, you still get more hard info here than you do at a news site. You have to ferret it out, but it's there. The news outlets don't have anything consistent.

Be safe.

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This situation will dwarf 911 unfortunately

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Kim Jong Il: It will be 911 times 2356.
Chris: My god, that's... I don't even know what that is!
Kim Jong Il: Nobody does!

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Was one situation scarier than the other?

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9/11 was scary because you didn’t know if another attack was coming or from where.

I will never ever forget watching the news as one tower burned and seeing the second plane crash into the second tower.

That moment was absolutely insane. Watching it live was bizarre in the truest sense of that word.

And then reports came in of more crashes. We were at war and we didn’t know with whom or what the next move would be.

Covid isn’t scary it’s just an illness. An illness with a less than 1% mortality rate under the age of 60. The scariest thing about it is the societal reaction to it.

And the most memorable thing to me so far is how absolutely incompetent every single local politician in New Orleans is and how absolutely insane our society is.

But 9/11 led to the Patriot act which is one of the worst pieces of legislation in US History.

I pray we don’t pass some kind of insane Virus Protection Act

9/11 stirred more anger and patriotism this is more like the fear and apprehension before a hurricane but this storm can't be seen and you don't know the track for landfall.

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The impacts are so wide reaching we can't even begin to understand it yet.

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I've been saying for a solid month about how much this will change modern life; if for nothing else, then for our mentality about our society and what the REAL problems are that politics, technology, etc. cannot instantly solve.

But it will affect more than that: Societal, humanitarian, war, geopolitical, scientific, technological, American politics and policy, etc. Its aftershocks will be felt for a generation to come. Hell just the debt alone from these stimulus packages and the imminent, impending threat of inflation will have the ability to wreck shop in the days, weeks, months and years ahead.

And I disagree with the original sentiment of this response thread that 9/11 didn't reach past New York. I was in high school and many schools across the country shut down classes for at least a couple days. There was so much uncertainty and confusion in the following days and weeks (e.g., a war, a draft, another attack, rumors of nukes, the subsequent anthrax scare, the stock market, etc.), and it was a jolt to our perceived reality of the good old days between the Gulf War and 9/11 when life was a peach for the country.

9/11 was like finding out your sweet little wife is a dirty whore, and that she's not sure of who the father of her unborn child is, but she knows it's not you. Coronavirus, however, is like trying to turn a whore into a housewife and knowing- praying- that she doesn't do the inevitable, and then she does and you start to hear the slow trickle of information on just how much of a sewer slut her raggedy arse really is.

Both are life and society-changing events, but the ramifications of the Coronavirus will be felt in the short, mid and long term far beyond 9/11. That said, to answer the OP'er with my opinion: Both play a larger-than-most part in the gearing of the wheels of history as it chugs along with its passengers strapped in for the ride. Both will have a "before" and an "after," and both will not be forgotten anytime soon: Each new generation has its burdens to bear and its lessons to learn from and its questions like yours asking, "What was 'this' calamity like compared to 'that one' back then?"

"Nothing under the sun is new."