As multiple cities in Hubei province go on lockdown and people across China don masks and flee from anyone who sneezes, a video has surfaced of a more innocent time earlier this week.

In the short clip filmed back on Monday, an i-Cable News team paid a visit to a wet market in Guangzhou to ask residents what they thought about the virus outbreak in Wuhan that was only starting to really capture the nation’s attention.

“We don’t care. What’s there to be afraid of?” the aunties and uncles tell the reporter. “We’ve got the government. With the government, we have nothing to fear.”

When asked if that means they won’t be wearing masks, the group responds, “No masks! We are healthy. We trust the government!”

You can check out the clip below. iCable News is based in Hong Kong. It’s not clear if that had anything to do with the Guangzhou residents’ show of bravado.

An interview by @icablenews in Guangzhou regarding the outbreak of #WuhanCoronavirus in the country. And that is why the virus spreads so quickly. Video: @icablenews

Translated by: https://t.co/pRxFvfVf04 team#China #WuhanPneumonia pic.twitter.com/LpMwaXPCAY — HKRev – Hong Kong Local News Translation (@HkrevInfo) January 23, 2020

Hopefully though, these patriotic residents have since changed their tune. More than two dozen cases of the virus have been confirmed in Guangdong province.