> My grandfather died a few years ago
How many is a few?
he died around 2 years ago, when COVID just became a thing
Then your brother is retarded, and having to even question it is retarded, especially considering even the most rabid of lockdown and vax fanatics didn't really start screeching until about March 2020.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/COVID-19_pandemic_in_the_United_States
> More than 39.5 million confirmed cases have been reported since January 2020
> Arrival date January 13, 2020[4](1 year, 7 months and 3 weeks ago)
> The first known American deaths occurred in February.
> On March 6, 2020, Trump allocated $8.3 billion to fight the outbreak and declared a national emergency on March 13. The government also purchased large quantities of medical equipment, invoking the Defense Production Act of 1950 to assist.[19] By mid-April, disaster declarations were made by all states and territories as they all had increasing case
There was talk about it in 2019, though mostly related to China.
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