Three years ago this week, it sank in that this coronavirus thing was serious. I’d just attended a conference in London that, with hindsight, may have been a superspreader event. Hospitals were filling up. Several million deaths from the virus were — correctly — being predicted. Every plan you’d made was being cancelled. On March 11 2020, the World Health Organization declared Covid-19 a pandemic. Many of us spent the next two months indoors.
三年前的这一周，人们开始意识到新冠这个东西确实很严重。我当时刚刚在伦敦参加了一场会议，事后看来，那场会议可能是个“超级传播事件”。医院开始拥挤。有人预测会有数百万人死于这种病毒——确实如此。我们的所有计划全部被取消。2020年3月11日，世界卫生组织(WHO)宣布新冠为大流行病(pandemic)。接下来的两个月，我们中的很多人都没有出门。
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