The transmogrification of 'endemic' into 'benign' has been the crowning semantic achievement of the pandemic.

"Meanwhile, the White House’s id—the pundit class—keeps providing cover fire, declaring the pandemic’s toll overstated, or, in the latest twist from the University of California–San Francisco’s Monica Gandhi, offering a “scientific” rationale for doing less (i.e., stop testing, stop masking) by using “endemic” as a talisman to justify throwing our hands up in the air."
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https://www.thenation.com/article/society/orwellian-white-house-covid-policy/