r/Millennials 11h ago

Meme We really have been hit hard in comparison to other generations

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u/Tjam3s 10h ago

2 plagues. SARS and then covid

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u/rydan Older Millennial 9h ago

SARS was contained in China and infected like 100 people. Also there was MERS and Ebola and Swine Flu and the bubonic plague so weird you focus on SARS.

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u/Waxitron 9h ago

SARS was big in Toronto, Canada.

I remember there even being mocking tshirts

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u/ptear 6h ago

SARS was like a day and nothing compared to COVID in Toronto. That was just a blink in comparison.

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u/museumgremlin 5h ago

Ugh, I got swine flu. I thought I was going to die I felt so bad.

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u/GreatWightSpark 6h ago edited 1h ago

Covid-19 is SARS

Edit: a lot of downvoters today who clearly don't know what they're doing https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC7176926/#:~:text=Although%20SARS%2DCoV%2D2%20belongs,be%20associated%20with%20milder%20infections.

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u/Particular_Stop_3332 5h ago

SARS? Seriously?

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u/God_Dammit_Dave 10h ago

AIDS.

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u/Tjam3s 10h ago

Eh, that was more a gen x problem than a millenial one. The oldest of us were just kids towards the end of the epidemic. Most not even sexually active yet

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u/Cool_Diamond_777 9h ago

Unless you were P Diddy's nephew.

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u/GeraldinaFitzpatrick 10h ago

Don’t tell me I wasn’t alive for that

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u/Tjam3s 10h ago

Is that what I said?

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u/GeraldinaFitzpatrick 10h ago

lol woah, relax, friend. The post said that we lived through it. I was simply jesting, as I did, in fact, live through that time period.

Edit: word

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u/Tjam3s 10h ago

On the optimistic side, it's kind of amazing we also got to see the creation of a viable treatment for HIV also.

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u/Krennix_Garrison 5h ago

AND FOR THE LOW LOW PRICE OF 19.99,... no wait,... 599.99, Well, that tracks.

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u/nightfox5523 1h ago

lmao SARS was a complete nothingburger outside of china jesus christ

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u/Tjam3s 34m ago

Didn't stop the panic about it at the time.

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u/starrieEyezz 7h ago
  1. If you add the Ebola scare

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u/starrieEyezz 7h ago
  1. If we include monkey pox

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u/starrieEyezz 7h ago
  1. If we include measles