Shitposting comedy forums were ahead of the WHO when it came to this, it didn't take a genius to understand what was going on before shit completely hit the fan.

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tasuki 7 days ago | parent [-]

Yet the stock market mostly didn't get it. I know some people who made some money based on the knowledge that a pandemic was coming.

	▲	heavyset_go 6 days ago \| parent [-]
		Ideology is powerful and so is the bias towards the status quo, not to mention the want and belief that Everything is Just Fine™. At least in the US, there was a ton of political and economic incentive to pretend that nothing was wrong, as business proceeding as usual was paramount.