It was a mix of obliviousness, not wanting to offend Chinese people (I remember going to the r/wuhan_flu sub everyday until it was quarantined lol) and just utter disbelief that something big like that could happen, like Normalcy Bias. 

Needless to say I was a bit flabbergasted that everyone there was basically just waiting for the news (and W.H.O.) to tell them what to do, and they call themselves scientists. 



OneOneSeven

were other professionals in your field oblivious too or did all of you pretty much get it?

birdeye21

What's a moment you'll never forget exactly where you were when it happened?

>I vastly underestimated how large of an ordeal it would grow to become..

I even worked in a science/medical field and couldn't get it through to anyone how big a deal it might be, absolute morons, and with PhDs and Master's degrees. 

And then the news finally gets to them, after however much manipulation, and they're down at CVS giving their 3 year old a vaccine that just came off the assembly line. 

https://media.tenor.com/xQgMNjM2jvQAAAAC/joker-its-a-funny-world-we-love-in.gif