Pandemic’s 5-Yr Mark: 36 Actuality-Altering Occasions
Bobanjohnofficial
- March 7, 2025
- 3 Min Read
Nicely, properly, properly, it has been FIVE years since 2020 and a sure p*ndemic started.
As a result of the pandemic dramatically altered everybody’s notion of time and place, let’s look again at some genuinely shocking occasions that occurred proper earlier than our lives fairly actually modified eternally…
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5 years in the past, simply weeks earlier than the pandemic started, Charlotte Awbery went viral on the subway for singing “Shallow.”
Little did we all know we would all be hunkered down doing dalgona espresso challenges weeks later.
3.
The Chiefs received the sport.
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And the largest films in theaters have been The Invisible Man, Sonic the Hedgehog, and Unhealthy Boys for Life.
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5 years in the past, in the beginning of 2020, “Dance Monkey” by Tones and I, “Somebody You Liked” by Lewis Capaldi, and “Good as Hell” by Lizzo have been the largest songs.
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Lil Nas X received huge for “Previous City Street” on the Grammys.
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Billie Eilish was essentially the most awarded artist of the evening.
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And Lana Del Rey wore a costume from Dillards and introduced her cop boyfriend as her date.
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5 years in the past, in the beginning of 2020, Megan Fox and Brian Austin Inexperienced have been nonetheless collectively.
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Jennifer Lopez was nonetheless with A-Rod.
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Invoice Hader and Rachel Bilson had simply made their purple carpet debut.
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Channing Tatum and Jessie J had additionally made their purple carpet debut.
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And Elon Musk was nonetheless with Grimes.
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Talking of individuals with a ton of youngsters. At the start of 2020, Nick Cannon solely had three youngsters. Now he has 12.
19.
5 years in the past, simply earlier than lockdown, Parasite received huge on the Academy Awards.
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Folks have been nonetheless making Cats jokes.
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Folks have been freaking going bananas over Brad Pitt and Jennifer Aniston reuniting.
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Ellen was nonetheless on TV.
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Trendy Household was additionally nonetheless on TV.
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And in unhappy celeb breakup information, Vanessa Hudgens and Austin Butler had simply damaged up.
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5 years in the past, we have been all speaking about Jennifer Lopez being snubbed for a Hustlers Oscar nomination.
27.
These SEVEN individuals have been operating for the Democratic nomination.
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In February, Pete Buttigieg had simply received the state of Iowa within the primaries.
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After which Bernie Sanders received New Hampshire and Nevada.
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And within the State of the Union, Nancy Pelosi tore up a duplicate of Trump’s speech.
31.
5 years in the past, on the finish of January 2020, Brexit official occurred.
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In different exits, Megxit was introduced round that point, too.
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And Donald Trump was acquitted by the Senate on each articles of impeachment.
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5 years in the past, “social distancing,” “superspreader,” “flattening the curve,” “N95s,” “PPE,” “variants,” and “quarantines” weren’t in any of our vocabularies.
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There was zero discuss Moderna or Pfizer.
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Lastly, that smurf rally was nonetheless held in France.
