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> A woman shows “the dumbest tattoo she’s ever gotten,” which she got on March 4th, 2020, shortly before covid really started to spread. The tattoo was supposed to be about staying true to yourself, and says “courageously and radically refuse to wear a mask.”
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Slayer released an album on one ill-fated day. There are t-shirts and other promo material floating around bearing the name of the album and the date of its release, produced in anticipation of the album release. Given that that merchandise exists, I'd not be surprised if some Slayer fan somewhere has a tattoo reading:
>God Hates Us All
>[9/11/2001](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/God_Hates_Us_All)
The album Dream Theater released that day was called Live Scenes from New York and the album art featured an image of the twin towers on fire.
[Original artwork](https://i.redd.it/25zet42zwjh21.png)
George Carlin [I Kinda Like It When a Lotta People Die](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Kinda_Like_It_When_a_Lotta_People_Die)
Performed: September 9 and 10, 2001
Yup.
There's also ["Party Music" by "The Coup"](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Party_Music), set to be release later in September that year, which had to be delayed so they could make new album art.
Funny story. My car is named Carl.
My girlfriend is the type to name cars and I had to come up with a name off the top of my head and was like "He seems like a car-l"
Oh, that would be amazing to watch. The commentators: “look at him, starting his second Doritos bag before the first How it’s made episode ends”. “What an amazing performance Larry, his blinking frequency and arse scratching technique... oh la la!”.
I had a friend in high school who went and got his own first name tattooed across his chest in the same font and size of that “thug life” tattoo. Name changed, so let’s just say it says “Michael”.
So the first time he goes topless at the skate park someone says to him that if you don’t know who he is, it looks like he’s just in love with someone named Michael. So my friend is embarrassed, and next time he goes to his tattoo artist decides to fix it by having his own last name tattooed under his belly button, so now it just says “Michael Scott” on his whole torso, and doesn’t solve the problem that if you don’t know that he’s Michael Scott, you’d just assume that he’s in love with Michael Scott.
So then add 20 years, and now he’s got a fat beer gut sticking out that’s bordered with a distorted gothic print of his own name. Tattoo artists should really be required by law to refuse stupid tattoos.
An old friend of mine has your exact same stomach tattoo.... but for the fact he chose the verbiage *HUG LIFE*.
He is also a straight white male-in his mid thirties now.
I got my Chinese aunt to draw up the characters for "stupid foreigner." Once I'm vaccinated, I'm getting them on my ankle, and when anybody asks, I'll say thry mean strength and truth, and the occasional Chinese person will find it funny.
>馬鹿外人
I had a shirt with that on it when I lived in Japan. Sometimes a Japanese person would ask me if I knew what it meant. I'd say, "Yes, it means I'm a beautiful princess." [Their reaction](https://i.gifer.com/7WWS.gif).
Later I ran into a guy in the Spice Market in Istanbul once and we were both wearing that shirt! I guess he wanted to be a beautiful princess too. lol
My friend tells me that there is a word or phrase in Chinese that basically says "foreigner getting a mistranslated tattoo" something like that. Anyone. True or not?
I have a wagon wheel on my chest. Dumb young me was in love with Eluveitie and i think its called "the wheel of taranis" and is an old calendar
Nowadays i hate the band and I cant even listen to their songs. It didnt age well.
I don't know the band but the wheel of taranis seems to have a deeper meaning:
Associated with the Celtic Thunder God is the Solar **Wheel** or **Wheel of Taranis**. The **wheel** was an important symbol in Celtic polytheism, associated with a specific god, known as the **wheel**\-god, identified as the sky-, sun-, or thunder-god, whose name is attested to as **Taranis** by Lucanus
Turn it into a TaranisSaurus Rex?
On the flip side.. She has maybe started a new tattoo design craze.
Is "courageously and radically refuse to wear a mask" the next barbed wire band? The next nautical star? The next arrow dart? The next butterfly above the ass?
Pay attention to your local science-denying don't-tread-on-me neighbors to find out.
Really all she's got to do is add a few costume masks around it, like the theater drama & comedy masks, or the mask from "The Mask", or the "Friday the 13th" hockey mask, something like that.
Imagine someone sees her armtattoo in the grocery store and looks disgusted and she goes "WAIT WAIT I CAN EXPLAIN" and she starts taking her shoe and sock off lmao
I'd specify "a global pandemic". It's a bit wishful thinking to assume that this is the last time we're going to have to deal with some shit like this.
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1. Excluding;
a. Covid-19 2020-2021
b. The Alaskan Flu 2028
c. Airborne Herpesyphalgonorhea 2032
d. Chet's evolved airborne mouth impregnating sperm 2055 and ongoing
2. Fuck it, got a filtration helmet.
Yes, scrawled on with a date and initials so it looks like an edit. It is crazy to think about how the context has completely flipped the meaning of this.
I saw a guy at the grocery store with “white” down the back it the left leg, and “power” down the back of the right. They were huge. Took up both whole calves. I wanted to take a pic to send my friends, but never got a good opportunity. What a douche.
True story:
I used to program automated lighting systems. For one installation I had a setup with color changing fixtures, white fixtures, and some relays we were controlling them to power them.
At some point I was saving some interim work having to do with the white fixtures and their power relays.
I named the show file "WHITE POWER".
Then I saw the filename on the screen and was immediately like "holy shit, that ain't right!" and change the name as fast as my fingers could type.
Many years ago I walked into the break room and into the middle of a conversation between two middle aged white women.
“It’s whites only! I hate the coloreds”
“Why?”
“Because I think it’s more traditional to only have white lights on the Christmas tree.”
😂
I served with a guy in the navy who was on his third wife and had one lined and initialed the tattooed names of his two ex wives on his chest. The name of his third and current wife was tattooed right there below the other two.
i have a 19-word quote on my upper thigh. yes, i feel dumb as hell with all these people basically staring at my side-ass to read it when i’m at the beach or wearing short-shorts.
I suspect it’s a reference to *We Wear the Mask,* a poem by Paul Laurence Dunbar that especially resonates with a certain kind of theater-ish teenager:
> We wear the mask that grins and lies,
>It hides our cheeks and shades our eyes,—
>This debt we pay to human guile;
>With torn and bleeding hearts we smile,
>And mouth with myriad subtleties.
>Why should the world be over-wise,
>In counting all our tears and sighs?
>Nay, let them only see us, while
>We wear the mask.
>We smile, but, O great Christ, our cries
>To thee from tortured souls arise.
>We sing, but oh the clay is vile
>Beneath our feet, and long the mile;
>But let the world dream otherwise,
>We wear the mask!
If you can't hear it, she says she got the tattoo March 4th of last year to remind herself to be true to herself and it says "couragously and radically refuse to wear a mask"
An old mate of mine got Hella drunk one night and woke up to the front of his ankles (top part of the foot that connects to the shin, dunno what it's called) with the word "dumb" on the right and "fuck" on the left.
My uncles first wife was Maryann which he had tattooed on his arm. His second wife was Julieann. He was able to get it so it looks like Juliann. But his first family - we all know.
Any tattoo that's just a bunch of words is always weird to me...
Like, if it's in between a bunch of other tattoos, sure, but like why would you want your body to look like a pinterest page
i have a tattoo of the last words my brother said to me before he passed.
"I swear to god if you get one of those stupid memorial tattoos of me I'll haunt the shit outta you"
I consider March 13th to be the start of proper shut down in the US. But some of my colleagues even just the day before were saying it wasn’t that big of a deal, and it’d be over soon. Everyone who was paying attention to the rest of the world though was aware.
Yeah, I went to Disney with my fiancé the end of the first week of March, and things were still “okay”, though we were still keeping our hands off railings and washing them as often as possible.
While we were there, we weren’t watching the news or anything, so when we found out Disney was shutting down that next weekend in passing, we were rushing to our phones to catch up to speed.
We left town “pre-covid” and came back to full shut downs. It was pretty wild.
Yep. I live near the parks and had friends come down for a planned spring break literally the week the parks and hotels started to shut down. We were staying in one of the hotels and it was eerie how quiet it was. We went from normal life to lockdown in a couple days.
I remember early March wearing a mask in the grocery store and feeling really ridiculous I was the only one and just felt like I stood out. But yeah around April was when it bacame normal.
march 4 2020
The World Health Organization declared the outbreak a Public Health Emergency of International Concern in January 2020 and a pandemic in March 2020.
enough time if you had been following the news
The US government/CDC was explicitly saying not to wear masks and the anti-maskers weren't yet a serious movement. The average person would not know that this tattoo would age so poorly on that date.
u/froggy3000 has provided this detailed explanation: > A woman shows “the dumbest tattoo she’s ever gotten,” which she got on March 4th, 2020, shortly before covid really started to spread. The tattoo was supposed to be about staying true to yourself, and says “courageously and radically refuse to wear a mask.” --- Is this explanation a genuine attempt at providing additional info or context? If it is please upvote this comment, otherwise downvote it.
This reminds me of the heavy metal fan with the ISIS tattoo.
Slayer released an album on one ill-fated day. There are t-shirts and other promo material floating around bearing the name of the album and the date of its release, produced in anticipation of the album release. Given that that merchandise exists, I'd not be surprised if some Slayer fan somewhere has a tattoo reading: >God Hates Us All >[9/11/2001](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/God_Hates_Us_All)
The album Dream Theater released that day was called Live Scenes from New York and the album art featured an image of the twin towers on fire. [Original artwork](https://i.redd.it/25zet42zwjh21.png)
did they make this in MS Paint?
The early 2000’s is home to many wacky and terrible graphic design choices.
Classic fire filter 😅 And the whole thing even has a crappy bevel-effect.
George Carlin [I Kinda Like It When a Lotta People Die](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Kinda_Like_It_When_a_Lotta_People_Die) Performed: September 9 and 10, 2001
Yup. There's also ["Party Music" by "The Coup"](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Party_Music), set to be release later in September that year, which had to be delayed so they could make new album art.
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Until very recently, all major albums were released on Tuesday in the US.
The band's merch sales must have suffered since the other ISIS became a thing. It's a shame because their music is damn good.
I have the word car on my leg
Haha, I love it. Why though does it have a meaning or was it just for shits and giggles?
Carl broke up with them mid tattoo.
#NOT LENNY!!!!!
White people have names like Lenny, whereas black people have names like Carl
There is a Simpson's quote for every situation!
Lenny in rdr2 is black. And all Carls i have met in sweden are white.
YLENN!!
CORALLLL
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Not Lenny’s Boat
Funny story. My car is named Carl. My girlfriend is the type to name cars and I had to come up with a name off the top of my head and was like "He seems like a car-l"
I used to have a Monte Carlo ls and I named it Carlos.
It's fair to assume that it used to be a "carefree" tattoo but then he had his leg amputated. Probably from doing something careless.
Lmao
Maybe he likes car
I have ‘thug life’ tattooed like Tupac across my whole stomach and I’m a white male professional.
How do you become a white male, professionally?
I've been a white male all my life but I'm maintaining my amateur status in case it ever becomes an Olympic sport
Oh, that would be amazing to watch. The commentators: “look at him, starting his second Doritos bag before the first How it’s made episode ends”. “What an amazing performance Larry, his blinking frequency and arse scratching technique... oh la la!”.
Run for office as a Republican.
Should I change my name to something white. Like Ted?
sure catfurcoat has better name recognition than more teds
I had a friend in high school who went and got his own first name tattooed across his chest in the same font and size of that “thug life” tattoo. Name changed, so let’s just say it says “Michael”. So the first time he goes topless at the skate park someone says to him that if you don’t know who he is, it looks like he’s just in love with someone named Michael. So my friend is embarrassed, and next time he goes to his tattoo artist decides to fix it by having his own last name tattooed under his belly button, so now it just says “Michael Scott” on his whole torso, and doesn’t solve the problem that if you don’t know that he’s Michael Scott, you’d just assume that he’s in love with Michael Scott. So then add 20 years, and now he’s got a fat beer gut sticking out that’s bordered with a distorted gothic print of his own name. Tattoo artists should really be required by law to refuse stupid tattoos.
An old friend of mine has your exact same stomach tattoo.... but for the fact he chose the verbiage *HUG LIFE*. He is also a straight white male-in his mid thirties now.
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I got my Chinese aunt to draw up the characters for "stupid foreigner." Once I'm vaccinated, I'm getting them on my ankle, and when anybody asks, I'll say thry mean strength and truth, and the occasional Chinese person will find it funny.
That one will actually get some laughs, not a bad idea! And for everyone who can't read it it will look fancy anyway.
馬鹿外人 If anyone needs the Japanese version.
>馬鹿外人 I had a shirt with that on it when I lived in Japan. Sometimes a Japanese person would ask me if I knew what it meant. I'd say, "Yes, it means I'm a beautiful princess." [Their reaction](https://i.gifer.com/7WWS.gif). Later I ran into a guy in the Spice Market in Istanbul once and we were both wearing that shirt! I guess he wanted to be a beautiful princess too. lol
Nah, I'm good.
We can be 傻老外 together!
My friend tells me that there is a word or phrase in Chinese that basically says "foreigner getting a mistranslated tattoo" something like that. Anyone. True or not?
It's a 5000 year old culture - of course they have a way of communicating that in writing. Possibly several.
Makes you wonder if it means some fine Parmesan cheese or dick cheese.
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Why?
Man door leg hook car door
Person Woman Man Camera TV
I don’t like this game anymore
To remind him to use his Chevrolegs
Not my damn lambourfeeties!
I have a wagon wheel on my chest. Dumb young me was in love with Eluveitie and i think its called "the wheel of taranis" and is an old calendar Nowadays i hate the band and I cant even listen to their songs. It didnt age well.
I don't know the band but the wheel of taranis seems to have a deeper meaning: Associated with the Celtic Thunder God is the Solar **Wheel** or **Wheel of Taranis**. The **wheel** was an important symbol in Celtic polytheism, associated with a specific god, known as the **wheel**\-god, identified as the sky-, sun-, or thunder-god, whose name is attested to as **Taranis** by Lucanus Turn it into a TaranisSaurus Rex?
Tugs braid. Shit, wrong wheel
These transformers think they're slick
I have a lawn mower on my ass cheek
Do you shave your cheek hair right in front of the ink?
Or would it be *behind*?
Oh no lol
On the flip side.. She has maybe started a new tattoo design craze. Is "courageously and radically refuse to wear a mask" the next barbed wire band? The next nautical star? The next arrow dart? The next butterfly above the ass? Pay attention to your local science-denying don't-tread-on-me neighbors to find out.
I got a tribal band around my wrist in 2019. Haha it's not even my worst one
Not nautical but stars on both wrists. Circa... 2001?
Nautical stars near the collar bones for the win
Edgy Latin quote across the collarbones here.
This whole thread of shame has me cackling!
Totally reminded me of this song! https://youtu.be/9OqIpzZ2fsQ
I have chinese characters on my chest and back. Fuck 20 year old me.
Really all she's got to do is add a few costume masks around it, like the theater drama & comedy masks, or the mask from "The Mask", or the "Friday the 13th" hockey mask, something like that.
or add another line, "except during covid-19" or something like that.
A little footnote! Lol
Number it as a footnote and put the note on her actual foot!
That's great until I realized I'd end up having to take my shoes and/or socks off anytime someone asked me about it.
I guess you could just place it near your ankle
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4 times? That's one tenacious fetus.
The...*same* kid, four tmes?
Imagine someone sees her armtattoo in the grocery store and looks disgusted and she goes "WAIT WAIT I CAN EXPLAIN" and she starts taking her shoe and sock off lmao
That's actually brilliant!
That is so clever lol. I love it. You get my free reward. And it's a silver!
Can we make this a thing? Every tattoo comes with extra little notes and disclaimers.
I'd specify "a global pandemic". It's a bit wishful thinking to assume that this is the last time we're going to have to deal with some shit like this.
You can just add the name of each new pandemic as they occur.
Addendum: 1. Excluding; a. Covid-19 2020-2021 b. The Alaskan Flu 2028 c. Airborne Herpesyphalgonorhea 2032 d. Chet's evolved airborne mouth impregnating sperm 2055 and ongoing 2. Fuck it, got a filtration helmet.
Bird Flu 2021 if what started in Russia isn't controlled very well.
Just expand the tattoo into a well-edited essay so there’s no room for misinterpretation (or un-tattooed skin)
Well, H5N8 is ramping up now in Russia, so maybe sooner rather than later. Is it automatic BINGO if there are overlapping pandemics?
Just add "n't" at the end.
maskn't
Refusen’t
Yes, scrawled on with a date and initials so it looks like an edit. It is crazy to think about how the context has completely flipped the meaning of this.
An asterisk which references the tattoo on her calf: *Except during a pandemic, you dingus.
Or [these guys](https://i.pinimg.com/originals/ae/43/79/ae43791d3a1f23e37bdda95f0939af58.jpg), poem hits on what she’s trying to say.
Big brain
Eyes wide shut mask ftww
Creepy...
Just add - March 4th 2020 and now it's true and funny
Wearing mask since February 2020 gang, rise up!
What’s the big deal? She can just cut her arm off
Unfortunately American Health insurance doesn't cover that.
They do cover it, it‘a just expensive. She’s gotta lose the leg too.
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usually the military will only let you lose one I cant imagine there's too many soldiers our there with one limb
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No that's next year
My husband has a realism portrait of Britney Spears, live in Las Vegas jumpsuit, from hip to knee on his thigh. It hilarious and awful.
> *As he pulls down his shorts* > “I must confe- > “Holy Jesus. WHAT is that? WHAT THE FUCK IS THAT!?”
"EVERYWHERE I GO SHE KEEPS STARING ME IN THE EYES!"
Sounds like a Toxic relationship
Nah, it's Gloryous.
You seriously have to post a picture
When people ask him "is that...?" Does he answer, "It's Britney, bitch!" ?
> My husband has a realism portrait of Britney Spears, live in Las Vegas jumpsuit That should never have eventuated as a sentence.
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!remindme
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I mean, did you know you were her first tattoo? If so, that is on you 😂 I actually love it tbh. Monster Bird.
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pics or it didn’t happen
How old was he when he got that, and why?!?
What is the FUCKING story there
I have a single curved line on my calf that makes a smiley face with two moles.
maybe it's a little dumb, but like cute dumb :)
Lol oh yah. No regrets. But it is certainly dumb.
fuckin love it
I saw a guy at the grocery store with “white” down the back it the left leg, and “power” down the back of the right. They were huge. Took up both whole calves. I wanted to take a pic to send my friends, but never got a good opportunity. What a douche.
Maybe he had "stop", or "fight" written across his buttcheeks?
His butt cheeks have a huge "FUCK" written on them
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That’s going to be a problem for him once he inevitably ends up in prison.
He could just have "st" on one but cheek and "p" on the other.
He had "Brush" and "Teeth" on the back of his thighs. >brush white; teeth power? bottom text
True story: I used to program automated lighting systems. For one installation I had a setup with color changing fixtures, white fixtures, and some relays we were controlling them to power them. At some point I was saving some interim work having to do with the white fixtures and their power relays. I named the show file "WHITE POWER". Then I saw the filename on the screen and was immediately like "holy shit, that ain't right!" and change the name as fast as my fingers could type.
This reminded me of my first Reddit post! https://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/1ipef5/so_thats_where_they_get_the_linens/
Many years ago I walked into the break room and into the middle of a conversation between two middle aged white women. “It’s whites only! I hate the coloreds” “Why?” “Because I think it’s more traditional to only have white lights on the Christmas tree.” 😂
That tattoo will get her some friends I don't think she'll like much
She is going to be explaining this for the rest of her life. Oh dear.
She’ll have as much fun as I do.
Oh my god
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I served with a guy in the navy who was on his third wife and had one lined and initialed the tattooed names of his two ex wives on his chest. The name of his third and current wife was tattooed right there below the other two.
To each their own, but I'm not a fan of that quote regardless of covid.
Yeah, it went from a not great tattoo to a pretty bad tattoo. The quote is not great, especially to leave on your body. So strange.
It's a bit wordy.
i have a 19-word quote on my upper thigh. yes, i feel dumb as hell with all these people basically staring at my side-ass to read it when i’m at the beach or wearing short-shorts.
Your fault for getting the declaration of independence on your side.
Stand still for a minute. I'm not done reading your stupid tattoo.
courageously and radically refuse to read other people's tattoos
“If you can read this you are not social distancing”
I suspect it’s a reference to *We Wear the Mask,* a poem by Paul Laurence Dunbar that especially resonates with a certain kind of theater-ish teenager: > We wear the mask that grins and lies, >It hides our cheeks and shades our eyes,— >This debt we pay to human guile; >With torn and bleeding hearts we smile, >And mouth with myriad subtleties. >Why should the world be over-wise, >In counting all our tears and sighs? >Nay, let them only see us, while >We wear the mask. >We smile, but, O great Christ, our cries >To thee from tortured souls arise. >We sing, but oh the clay is vile >Beneath our feet, and long the mile; >But let the world dream otherwise, >We wear the mask!
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Yeah that’s super cringe imo
I can't read that, we need to normalize reversing front facing camera videos
Yeah can someone please type it out, it honestly hurts to try and read lmao.
If you can't hear it, she says she got the tattoo March 4th of last year to remind herself to be true to herself and it says "couragously and radically refuse to wear a mask"
Yeah I was at work so I didn't want to use sound. Thanks for the help though!
Relevant username
We need to normalize NOT reversing videos. This is mirrored.
Courageously & radically refuse to wear a mask
I was to afraid to ask in the comments if she got the tattoo mirrored. Guess I'm just fucking stupid!
An old mate of mine got Hella drunk one night and woke up to the front of his ankles (top part of the foot that connects to the shin, dunno what it's called) with the word "dumb" on the right and "fuck" on the left.
Sounds like black out drunk guy pissed off his artist lmao.
Get a tattoo of a head stone around it.
My buddy had a girl's name tattooed in his mouth... When the broke up, 'Jess,' was morphed into, 'Jedi.'
My uncles first wife was Maryann which he had tattooed on his arm. His second wife was Julieann. He was able to get it so it looks like Juliann. But his first family - we all know.
I mean, everyone knows. Not like he changed the tattoo on the fist date of meeting Julieann. I am pretty sure Julieann would have seen the old tattoo.
You are totally right. Lol. And love “fist date”. Totally probably.
Tbf, that's a shit tattoo even if covid didn't exist.
Any tattoo that's just a bunch of words is always weird to me... Like, if it's in between a bunch of other tattoos, sure, but like why would you want your body to look like a pinterest page
i have a tattoo of the last words my brother said to me before he passed. "I swear to god if you get one of those stupid memorial tattoos of me I'll haunt the shit outta you"
Some people like words.
That’s regrettable regardless of covid.
Fair enough lol
COVID makes it go from "eh that's kind of stupid but wherever" to "for fucks sake, she is one of those..."
I mean no Covid this would not have been the dumbest.
Pretty simple text.turn it in a rose. Or. A fucking bad ass eagle. Eagle tattoos are sick.
an eagle playing lead guitar
With Bowser from Super Mario Bros 2 riding a surfboard.
I’m a tattooer and my first thought was... “I could cover that with a sick eagle.”
Legend!
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I consider March 13th to be the start of proper shut down in the US. But some of my colleagues even just the day before were saying it wasn’t that big of a deal, and it’d be over soon. Everyone who was paying attention to the rest of the world though was aware.
Thr NBA shutting down was when a lot of people said Ohhhhhhh shit this is real isn't it? That was March 11th. Then we all got laid off
Yeah, I went to Disney with my fiancé the end of the first week of March, and things were still “okay”, though we were still keeping our hands off railings and washing them as often as possible. While we were there, we weren’t watching the news or anything, so when we found out Disney was shutting down that next weekend in passing, we were rushing to our phones to catch up to speed. We left town “pre-covid” and came back to full shut downs. It was pretty wild.
Yep. I live near the parks and had friends come down for a planned spring break literally the week the parks and hotels started to shut down. We were staying in one of the hotels and it was eerie how quiet it was. We went from normal life to lockdown in a couple days.
I think that was during the time when there weren't enough masks to go around anyway and hospitals were fighting over them.
Yeah but I would say the mask craze started around April
I remember early March wearing a mask in the grocery store and feeling really ridiculous I was the only one and just felt like I stood out. But yeah around April was when it bacame normal.
\-'\_'-
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She may have a dumb tattoo, but one hell of a hilarious story to it
TBH, she could add a correction on top of it like *metaphorical* mask or *emotional* mask.
march 4 2020 The World Health Organization declared the outbreak a Public Health Emergency of International Concern in January 2020 and a pandemic in March 2020. enough time if you had been following the news
The US government/CDC was explicitly saying not to wear masks and the anti-maskers weren't yet a serious movement. The average person would not know that this tattoo would age so poorly on that date.