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.
三年前的這一周，人們開始意識到新冠這個東西確實很嚴重。我當時剛剛在倫敦參加了一場會議，事后看來，那場會議可能是個“超級傳播事件”。醫院開始擁擠。有人預測會有數百萬人死于這種病毒——確實如此。我們的所有計劃全部被取消。2020年3月11日，世界衛生組織(WHO)宣布新冠為大流行病(pandemic)。接下來的兩個月，我們中的很多人都沒有出門。
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