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The COVID - 19 pandimic spread to the United States coincided , more or less, with the anniversary of the Iraq war 17 years ago . Although a war and a pandemic are different experiences, one thing brought back a strong sense of d'eja' vu for me : the panic in anticipation of a looming "disaster" .
I was a junior collage student in Erbil , Iraqi Kurdistan , in 2003 when the United States and it's allies prepared to topple Saddam Hussein's rigime . There was a sense optimism about a post - Saddam world among the kurds , but also a widespread concern about the actual war .
Days before it became apparent the war was going to happen , schools, collages, businesses and government offices across Kurdistan were shut down . Life came to a stand still . streats were eerily deserted . Many people in major cities like Erbil left their homes and headed to the mountaineous areas near the borders with Iran and Turkey . Most were worried because the kurds were allied with the Americans, Hussein might use the cover of war to launch a chemical weapons attack against them has he had done in 1988.