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I really want the pandemic—the hundreds of millions with Long Covid, the tens of millions dead—to mean something. Like cleaner indoor air, normalised masking, funding for post-viral illnesses. Instead, we got mask bans, disability cuts and an anti-vaxxer in the White House

  • bleistift2@sopuli.xyzEnglish
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    9 days ago

    A pandemic […] is an epidemic of an infectious disease that has a sudden increase in cases and spreads […] worldwide[…]. Widespread endemic diseases with a stable number of infected individuals […] are generally excluded […].

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pandemic

    A pandemic […] is a “new but temporary, worldwide spread of an infectious disease with a high number of cases […].”

    https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pandemie

    Emphasis mine, translation also by me.

    Covid-19 has neither a sudden increase in cases nor is it new.