I was stocking our pantry and warning people to get ready. Everyone thought I was nuts.

Yeah there was that one night at the grocery where the guy in front of me at the checkout had an entire shopping cart full of canned beans and I was like Hmmmmmmmmm

I started warning & preparing as soon as I saw a respiratory virus with an R of 2-3 was circulating in China right at Lunar New Year. My roommate thought I was trying to scare her into not kicking me out for calling her an alcoholic. We had the first (documented) case in the US a couple weeks later.