During that first day this all hit the news, my co-workers were watching and saying things like, “You should come watch this! It’s like some kind of gas or something. People are just keeling over in the street!”
Don’t know if anyone else recalls this early media take on the situation, but I remember it INSTANTLY injected FEAR into the developing story.
I remember it well and have commented on it here. I’m of the belief that all that was a disinformation campaign launched by Chinese intelligence agencies.
I remember that and it was bizarre. Nothing like that anywhere else in the world happened. Either some ChiCom forced crisis acting or they were being gassed or otherwise poisoned by their government.
And our media ate it up and regurgitated it like it was gospel.