The virus started spreading locally, moving easily in confined spaces like churches and restaurants, and infecting people who had not traveled to China — the start of a pandemic.
Places where a lot of people gathered together was where the virus easily spread to many people. Eventually everything was shut down.
It continued to spread locally throughout parts of Seattle, New York City and across the country, once again outpacing efforts to stop it.
I feel like once it came to the united states it spread so quickly. One week we heard the first cases then the next week more people and places being shut down. Then schools shut down. It all happened so fast.
About 85 percent of infected travelers went undetected, researchers believe. But they were still contagious.
One of the biggest reasons for it spreading so quickly is because people don't have symptoms but they still have it and are infecting the people around them.
As the outbreak moved across China in early January, international travel continued as normal.
It really surprising to me that even though there was so many people infected that they would continue international travelling.
At least 175,000 people left Wuhan just on that day, we found.
I think that it is really crazy how that many traveled in one day. I think that there was no way to control the virus from spreading when people are constantly traveling.
“The disease is preventable and controllable,” the government said.
I had no idea that China's government lied and said that the disease was preventable and controllable. They were not able to to control or prevent the virus at all.
The true size of the outbreak was much larger even then — an invisible network of nearly 1,000 cases, or perhaps several times more.
I think that because China didn't share about the virus soon enough that is also a big reason why it was able to spread so quickly.
Four cases grew to dozens by the end of December.
I feel like this spreads very quickly. This is also because of the fact that people don't even know that have it but continue to spread it to other people.
Not only does limiting the amount of time you spend plugged in to computers provide a healthy counterpoint to the tech-obsessed world, it also strengthens the parent-child bond and makes kids feel more secure. Kids need to know that you are available to help them with their problems, talk about their day, or give them a reality check.
I feel that parents and their children don't have good healthy relationships anymore because everyone is always using technology instead of actually doing things together.
“If you have a reason to be worried then okay, but it better be a good reason. I see parents who are just plain old spying on their kids. Parents should begin by trusting their children. To not even give your kid the benefit of the doubt is incredibly damaging to the relationship. You have to feel like your parents think you’re a good kid.”
I think that parents need to be able to trust their kids because their should also be privacy. Many of my friends don't have anything bad on their phones but their parents are regularly going through their whole phone.
“And that, in and of itself, can produce anxiety. Everyone needs a respite from the demands of intimacy and connection; time alone to regroup, replenish and just chill out. When you don’t have that, it’s easy to become emotionally depleted, fertile ground for anxiety to breed.”
I do think that getting a break from people is very important. Even if they are your family or best friends its important to have space.
Peer acceptance is a big thing for adolescents, and many of them care about their image as much as a politician running for office, and to them it can feel as serious. Add to that the fact that kids today are getting actual polling data on how much people like them or their appearance via things like “likes.” It’s enough to turn anyone’s head. Who wouldn’t want to make herself look cooler if she can? So kids can spend hours pruning their online identities, trying to project an idealized image. Teenage girls sort through hundreds of photos, agonizing over which ones to post online. Boys compete for attention by trying to out-gross one other, pushing the envelope as much as they can in the already disinhibited atmosphere online. Kids gang up on each other.
I feel like everyone compares themselves to other people on social media when people only post the best parts of them. People also use photo shop and so people are comparing themselves to unrealistic people.
But when friendship is conducted online and through texts, kids are doing this in a context stripped of many of the most personal—and sometimes intimidating—aspects of communication. It’s easier to keep your guard up when you’re texting, so less is at stake. You aren’t hearing or seeing the effect that your words are having on the other person. Because the conversation isn’t happening in real time, each party can take more time to consider a response. No wonder kids say calling someone on the phone is “too intense”—it requires more direct communication, and if you aren’t used to that it may well feel scary.
I feel that it is a lot harder to say things that are your true feelings to someone in person than over the phone. This is really bad though because we aren't learning how to do it in person.
“There’s no question kids are missing out on very critical social skills. In a way, texting and online communicating—it’s not like it creates a nonverbal learning disability, but it puts everybody in a nonverbal disabled context, where body language, facial expression, and even the smallest kinds of vocal reactions are rendered invisible.”
I also feel that all people aren't very good with communicating with one another anymore. Like when I am in class and we have a little free time everyone automatically goes on their phone rather than talking to the people around them. I think it's preventing us to talk to people. We use it as a distraction and a way to get out of talking to others.
Teens are masters at keeping themselves occupied in the hours after school until way past bedtime. When they’re not doing their homework (and when they are) they’re online and on their phones, texting, sharing, trolling, scrolling, you name it. Of course before everyone had an Instagram account teens kept themselves busy, too, but they were more likely to do their chatting on the phone, or in person when hanging out at the mall. It may have looked like a lot of aimless hanging around, but what they were doing was experimenting, trying out skills, and succeeding and failing in tons of tiny real-time interactions that kids today are missing out on. For one thing, modern teens are learning to do most of their communication while looking at a screen, not another person.
I would 100% agree with this. I spend a lot of my free time on social media and technology rather than interacting with people. Though my parents play a role in this too because they don't like me to go out with my friends a lot. I also feel that I am missing some good skills when interacting with others.
A survey conducted by the Royal Society for Public Health asked 14-24 year olds in the UK how social media platforms impacted their health and wellbeing. The survey results found that Snapchat, Facebook, Twitter and Instagram all led to increased feelings of depression, anxiety, poor body image and loneliness.
I think that this can be very true. This survey shows how social media has made teens have feeling of depression and many others.