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Why? How present was covid in the US, UK, Australia, Canada, Ireland, New Zealand ("the anglosphere") in March 2022? It was still precautionary "Let's see if we
by Macha 5y ago
Why? How present was covid in the US, UK, Australia, Canada, Ireland, New Zealand ("the anglosphere") in March 2022? It was still precautionary "Let's see if we stop it getting in" thoughts in those countries at those times. Large numbers of cases were still mostly in Italy and China at that stage. And China had only recognised it as a pandemic two months earlier, so I don't see any real complaint to be had of classifying 26 months as "two years", even if you want to focus on when it started rather than when it became a global pandemic.
- toyg 5y agoThere are ample doubts about the actual start of the spread. Even beyond that, two countries in very different continents showed large clusters, it became pretty clear that it had spread everywhere - we just had no real visibility of it, and political figures (particularly in the anglo world) were just clutching at straws to deny it. This was well before the last week of March.