Do you remember this Covid news footage?

[Sitonyourdressmavis]

Chatting to SIL last night and we were remembering news footage we watched before the Christmas of Covid when the news was coming out of China about this virus. We clearly remember watching as a family news footage (would have been on BBC normal news not online) from China of people collapsing and fitting in the streets then being zipped up on stretchers and body bags and loaded into a black and yellow van by hazmat suited doctors/army. We all clearly remember this , it was not a film. What was this footage? Covid didn't present like that at all? We remember being really scared. SiL is a nurse and we remember her saying "what the hell is this thing"
Anyone else remember this footage?

Yes that was my comment and I stand by it. If the OP is adamant she saw what she said she did on a TV on the 18th December it was most likely a clip from a film or report about another virus being muddled with the memory of these later clips.

Yes there were videos similar showing dramatic scenes both real and fake during the pandemic but these scenes were not being shown in December 2019.

Well I saw one on Dec 18th as I wrote it down!

A reasonable question, considering the OP's insistence that she saw it before Christmas 2019. As the majority of posters know that there was no such footage being shared at that time. 🤷‍♀️

And yet you still can't be arsed typing out exactly what you wrote down which if it really proved anything I'd have thought you'd be happy to do given how much else you've written.

I've checked my diary, the pre-christmasy drinks I mentioned were on Dec 20th

You're missing the point.

"Saw some scary news today" does not equal "this is an exact record of this news story".

Because each time you remember something, you add in new information to the old memory. You literally change that memory. Memory isn't a videotape of what you did - it's more like a modern document with autosave. Every time you change the file, you change the memory - but you only remember the latest version.

You don't have a special brain or a special kind of memory that works differently to anyone else's.

(Or in this case, apparently not, if you're refusing to add any of the information people are telling you to your brain!)

I thought it was named 19 as it was a 19th documented coronavirus variant? Or something? Not for the year 2019

Africa is not a country 🙄

Nearly all countries in Africa had a lockdown.

I am intrigued as to how you think scientists are supposed to find a better way to treat the most vulnerable for a hypothetical novel virus without knowing what that virus might be, @PocketSand?

It's not that I can't be arsed. I know how this will go as been on MN a long time. It's evidenced by the way you've written this post to me which is sarcastic in tone and combative

If I type it out and it's exactly what I've said, I'll be accused of making it up. Or opposite will happen and my words will be picked apart so for example " trip is going ahead as school.letter sent and outbreak is nowhere near where they are going" will be people saying outbreak could mean anything (which I've already agreed) my earlier report of diary entry is pretty much word for word.

I didn't put that though. I put about a news story where people in China were falling in the street from a virus, and it looked scary
I remember it as family friends child going on school trip to China!

Covid 19 Co = corona Vi = Virus D = disease 19 = the year

Covid 19 is the disease not the virus

Out of interest OP, the diary entries written around the one you wrote on the 18th - do they link to anything that can definitely be proven to that date ( a celebrity dying or marrying).

Not trying to be patronising but is it possible you used up a 2019 diary in 2020 or wrote on an incorrect page?

Only asking as the only thing in question here is the date

I was in Germany over new year (30/12 to 03/01) and I remember reading about it in a German newspaper and talking to my friend about it. Didn’t see it on the TV news then, but if it was being reported that early in the papers, then it would have been on the news too. I can’t help you OP, but I think you could be correct.

No one is disputing it wasn't being reported at the end of December early January though. It just wasn't being reported in early/mid December or earlier as some have claimed.

No definitely not. I keep a daily diary and always get a new one for Christmas

No one is saying it didn’t happen, what is being disputed is the OP saying she saw and wrote in her diary that the BBC had a news report in early December showing people in China, dropping dead on the street.
These videos did circulate, mostly online and all timestamps ( including the one you shared which was dated March 2020) show these clips were widely shared at earliest in early January.

Scores of ‘ I remember that’ ‘ I saw that’ is not in dispute but they did not see it or recall it from The BBC in early December.

It’s the Mandela effect and is fascinating phenomenon.

OP, your vivid memory of 18 Dec news reminded me of something.

In New Zealand many years ago there was a TV "documentary" about an outbreak of foot and mouth in NZ (which doesn't have that disease and it would be huge disaster in a still highly farming based country). It used footage from the UK and other countries, showing the government response to the growing disaster (cutting real footage of real politicians from interviews and splicing it together to look like they were talking about F&M), film of burning of huge piles of dead cattle and shots of devastated famers. It was distressing and very realistic. At the beginning and end of the programme it was made clear it wasn't true and was a fictional depiction of what an outbreak might look like in NZ if our stringent border controls on importing stock failed.

Yet for YEARS a sizable number of people thought it was true and had happened. It even made it's way to Australia (my brother lived there and got told it as fact and had to ring us to check!). Some people hadn't seen the programme and had been told about it as if it was fact, the passed that on to others. Others had seen it but missed or not registered the big "this is fictional" announcements at the beginning and end. Others thought it had happened and that all the subsequent media denials and explanations were a big cover up., All of this was way before the internet so it was mainly word of mouth that escalated all this.

It's so easy to conflate different things into a new meaning and to create a different timeline. You saw something significant to you on 18 Dec, bad enough that you wrote about it. It might have been about China or something else. It might have been a clip of something similar from the past. Who knows. The drama and trauma of Covid and lockdowns that followed so soon afterwards means you now believe it was about Covid. Based on the timelines and the news source being BBC that seems unlikely but it doesn't mean you are wrong that you saw something on the 18th that created an impact on you at the time.

This would make sense

I vividly remember hiding in the en-suite on Christmas Day reading about a doctor in wuhan who was warning about the weird virus that was killing people in a building. He then died. I think it was in the daily mail - it was a long, hard day please don’t judge me.

I remember this so vividly because I was also drinking wine and eating mini rolls while hiding from my crazy family - it was the last article I read before thinking my time was up and I would have to go and play charades with loads of wired kids.

A few posters on here have said that the footage did not exist... go back to the start of the thread.

Ok so I have just googled this and apparently he didn’t raise the alarm until 30th December. So I can’t have been reading about it while hiding in the dark with my mini rolls and wine. Maybe the wine addled my memories?!

They're technically correct to say it didn't exist, because the COVID footage the OP claims to have seen in early december 2019 didn't exist at that point in time.

I don't recall anyone saying it didn't happen at all, perhaps I'm mistaken but I've had a look and can't see anything. Can you clarify which posts?

The nhs posted the following guidance on the 15th of December 2019.

https://www.england.nhs.uk/2019/12/public-urged-to-act-fast-to-avoid-festive-flu/#:~:text=England's%20top%20doctors%20have%20urged,hospitals%20was%20at%20moderate%20levels.

They said that there was a lot of flu about and the levels are expected to rise.