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I remember people I knew stockpiling canned goods and everything. What a weird time.
And yet still not as weird as people stockpiling toilet paper and boycotting Corona beer in 2020.
We knew that the problem was already solved, but the media kept leaning into the sensational doomerism. That was the first time in my life that I realized that the media might not be unbiased or truthful.
And worshiping a cheese turd.
My bank said that like 20% of their clients emptied their accounts lol
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Boycotting Corona beer? Here in Germany I have heard that their sales went up when Corona happened.
I'm referring to news items like this one.
But, while looking for a source on that, I found a couple of articles (Snopes and PolitiFact) that say it's fake news.
So, this much 🤏 faith in humanity restored, I guess.
Here in Germany, Corona Beer was never that big, so I guess the amount of people who bought it because they had just noticed it for the first time is higher than the amount of people who would have bought it but didnt because of the disease.
It was probably just Trump supporters. Those guys eat all the gloom and doom stuff up because they actually really hope the world's going to end, as it's the only way they'll ever end up on top.
December 31st 1999, I was at a house party in Lexington, KY. We had a few radio stations playing for ambiance. Once we realized that at least 2 were playing Prince "Party like it's 1999," we tuned as many radios as we could. Turned out that 6 stations ended 1999 with Prince, and started 2000 with "It's the end of the world as we know it," by REM.
On December 31, 1999 I saw a truck loaded up with possessions and "HEADED TO THE HILLS GOOD LUCK EVERYONE" painted on the side.