Corona Viruses have been around since the 1930s, and we have coped with them with very little social disruption.
very little disruption?
ha.. sorry mr NeverLeftEngland
but corona viruses played very bad roles in asia. the only reason england didnt experience them is because commercial travel was not a thing in the 1930's
since then people have learned how to be hygeinic. and to cough into their arm. avoid being around sick people.
every 20 years there is a strain thats moderately harmfull. every 100 years there is a strain that is severely harmful
we were long over due.. and then.. it came
betwen 1930-2010 asia was very careful. and when the era of commercial flight became a thing(1960's) they were very careful at border control.. stopping flights when there was a local epidemic
but in the 1980's it become an international concern
but in 2020 silly old western countries worked around asias border flights. and still flew in planes to pick up westerners in asia and bring them to the west.. (repatriation flights)
so if you want to know how it escaped asia and got to england.. the answer.. repatriation flights ordered by boris
and thats pretty much a fact detail that you can use as a anti-gov rhetoric which people will actually get behind
if would governments didnt do repatriation flights. the world would have avoided covid by may 2020