# Did Anybody See This coming?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-anybody-see-this-coming/851343>\
**Category:** The Quarantine Zone\
**Tags:** covid-quarantine\
**Created:** [April 8, 2020, 2:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-anybody-see-this-coming/851343 "2020-04-08T14:27:33Z")\
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**Author:** ![elfkin477](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a9a28c/32.png) [@elfkin477](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elfkin477)\
**Post date:** [April 11, 2020, 3:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-anybody-see-this-coming/851343/61 "2020-04-11T03:07:02Z")

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I heard a little bit about the 27 “weird pneumonia” cases on New Year’s Eve, but my cat had just died two days earlier so I was a bit too distracted to think much about it. I was already pretty concerned by the end of J when the Diamond Princess stuff was going on and cases began popping up out west but I still didn’t anticipate that we would end up in lockdown like China. Not until they started massively screwing up testing.

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**Author:** ![Monty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/monty/32/47_2.png) [@Monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monty)\
**Post date:** [April 11, 2020, 3:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-anybody-see-this-coming/851343/62 "2020-04-11T03:32:38Z")

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> [@elbows](#):
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> Channel News Asia posted their 100Th straight day of covid coverage today.
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> Both thorough and extensive from the beginning, coverage mapping it’s every step through Asia and out into the rest of the world. it was clear it would be a pandemic, even in early days. If you’d been reading a single SEAsian news source, wide coverage was literally everywhere.

Do you happen to have an online link to this?

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**Author:** ![elbows](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/b3f665/32.png) [@elbows](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elbows)\
**Post date:** [April 11, 2020, 12:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-anybody-see-this-coming/851343/63 "2020-04-11T12:49:27Z")

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Sorry, I got mixed up, it was actually on The South China Morning Post site, NOT Channel News Asia. Totally my bad. (But both are widely respected, large scale news providers in SEAsia,)

> **[SCMP marks 100 days of covering coronavirus pandemic](https://www.scmp.com/announcements/article/3078914/south-china-morning-post-marks-100-days-covering-coronavirus-pandemic)**
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> First of many reports on ‘mystery illness’ in Wuhan was published on December 31, 2019. The Post has chronicled in detail how Covid-19 has profoundly changed the world, uncovering crucial truths about the virus and its spread.

(Hoping this link works !)

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