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[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago

Can't say I've ever heard of NPR before today, might have been handy to know before I decided to go to the hospital over a large cyst on December 19, 2019, that's probably where I got it.

Anyways, from Wikipedia...

"The World Health Organization declared the COVID-19 outbreak a Public Health Emergency of International Concern on 30 January 2020, and a pandemic on 11 March 2020."

By then I had already got it and had already recovered. When I finally heard about it on the news, I was like 'well ain't that fucking cute, a day late and a dollar short'