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EDIT: I am wrong and can't add. Jan 30th was two months ago. Leaving this here to remind me not to post on HN pre-coffee. > Three months ago there were rumors
by alasdair_ 7y ago
EDIT: I am wrong and can't add. Jan 30th was two months ago. Leaving this here to remind me not to post on HN pre-coffee.
> Three months ago there were rumors that there was something brewing in some part of China most people had never heard of.
Three months ago was January 30th. The number of cases on that date was 7,711 and the number had been increasing at roughly 50% every day for WEEKS at that point.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_the_2019–20_coronavirus_pandemic_in_November_2019_–_January_2020 https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_the_2019–20_coro...
- freeopinion 7y agoThree months ago was December 30. "On 29 December 2019, a hospital in Wuhan admitted four individuals with pneumonia and recognized that all four had worked in the Huanan Seafood Wholesale Market, which sells live poultry, aquatic products, and several kinds of wild animals to the public." http://weekly.chinacdc.cn/en/article/id/e3c63ca9-dedb-4fb6-9c1c-d057adb77b57 http://weekly.chinacdc.cn/en/article/id/e3c63ca9-dedb-4fb6-9... Please please please don't make me defend people I don't want to defend.
- alasdair_ 7y agoThank you. I can't add, at all. I am going to edit the post to permanently enshrine my inability to do basic math. :)