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You Never Forget Your First Viral Pandemic

The coronavirus is the first time Gen Z and younger millennials have had to confront virality as something that can kill more than just your reputation

Meghan Daum
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6 min readApr 1, 2020

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TThose videos of spring breakers blithely dismissing the seriousness of Covid-19 that were making the…

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Meghan Daum
GEN
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Weekly blogger for Medium. Host of @TheUnspeakPod. Author of six books, including The Problem With Everything. www.theunspeakablepodcast.com www.meghandaum.com