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?

The first report linked to above by the BBC in January didn't call it COVID though? They called it an unknown virus?

Hmm duno then it's a mystery I guess

Bizarre photo really.

Op, it is extremely common to misremember significant historical events AND to have a high confidence that you are correct as you are doing here. There is a lot of research on it where people have been interviewed immediately after an event about what they were doing when they heard about it and then again 20 odd years later. They are almost always wrong when interviewed a second time but utterly convinced they are remembering it perfectly as you are doing here.

Our memories are not video tapes, they are reconstructive based on the influence of external factors, retelling and other similar memories. There is no shame in misremembering- it wasn’t a hallucination, you have just edited it incorrectly in your brain over time.

This made me laugh! If that parent had teamed up with the headteacher at the OP's school, things could have been so different.

This is from the WHO website. It seems unlikely that the general public in the UK had intelligence about the virus before this date. I will leave it there as I think this is getting a bit odd.

https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.youtube.com/watch%3Fv%3DjE7yTbPKZq8&sa=U&sqi=2&ved=2ahUKEwjijPvDp-WSAxW2QEEAHfZSEhwQz40FegQIVBAY&usg=AOvVaw2onM4sXdMDx_bPI88rHfPp
at the start of this is a very short report on 6th Jan 2020 saying that the virus is not SARS. It then switches to the 12th Jan report.
I can’t find anything earlier.

I know all this but I wrote it down

I agree that it was being reported prior to Christmas but not named. And when it was named it was Corona Virus for a couple of months before people started saying Covid19 and then just Covid.

I recall watching something like you describe but couldn’t put my hand on my heart and say it was BBC News or date it. I do remember watching all the people trapped in the Diamond Princess cruise ship and thinking it must be serious if they won’t let them disembark and go to hospital.

I remember the video - it was terrifying and I can recall it vividly. I rarely watch the news though so would have likely seen it on social media - I couldn't tell you if it was pre or post-christmas but I am very sure that we discussed the "virus in China" on Christmas day so information/speculation was circulating - but I don't think the virus was named as COVID until February 2020.

The op knows it doesn’t cause fitting, she says that, it’s why the footage was odd. And that photo below of man lying flat with a mask on.

Absolutely - it was definitely known about in China at the very least long before any whisper of it was heard elsewhere.

This.

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I’m also backing the theory that it was a hoax video (or something) that ended up being broadcast out of context. Then when more detail came out it would have been hastily withdrawn.

Yes, I was just off looking that up because I would say that is the first time the world really heard of a cluster of novel pneumonia cases in China. And I really think the virus was confined to Wuhan at that point.

I think k this seems the most sensible answer

As others have said OP, it's not a mystery. Particularly given the shifting timelines around Covid, it is entirely possible to confuse and misremember dates, and genuinely believe you knew about information earlier than you did. It's happened to me, notably regarding work.

I appreciate you say you have written notes that corroborate your account, but there are many timelines around reporting on Covid (I'm in Ireland, I checked now, and the first reporting of a 'mystery virus, believed to be a variant of SARs' [so no mention of Coronavirus, and obviously the use of Covid was much later anyway), was on 16 January. All discussions at that time talked about a 'pneumonia' that was causing some concern. There was no reporting about this sooner than January.

The idea that the parents were concerned and worried about a school trip in December is not possible, at least not in relation to this matter - perhaps otehr concerns unconnected to COVID were at play?

I am reading a book about the way Covid was handled in Ireland, and repeatedly, I have stopped and been amazed, and nearly wanting to contradict what was in the book e.g. regarding the timing of certain restrictions, dates of return to school etc. I have 3 kids, and work in a university, and could have sworn to specific timelines about home schooling / education, or when we opened up campus and so on.

Our minds are very powerful and there is a huge fallacy of memory. The reality is that the 'news report' you imagine seeing did not happen, whatever you believe your diary entry to reflect.

My son and I hundred percent had Covid before Christmas 2019.

What? Who had a hoax video? OP is trying to say she saw it on the BBC at a date in December - that's simply not possible.

So you keep saying but not sharing exactly what you wrote down so just saying "I wrote it down" is meaningless.

If you know the date and time that the BBC news was broadcast then surely you can look up the exact episode and confirm what you saw?

What specifically did you write down?

You haven't said what you wrote.

The were actors.

You keep saying this, but we still have no idea what you actually wrote, or the date.