I dedicate this post to the literal hundreds of people who have told me that COVID is now endemic and not still a pandemic.
WHO leader says COVID-19 is "still a pandemic"
A World Health Organization leader says she is worried people are still too eager to move on from COVID
https://www.salon.com/2024/01/04/leader-says-19-is-still-a-pandemic/
Seems to have qualities of both at this point.
@ericjmorey Are you disagreeing with the WHO expert who leads the organization's COVID-19 efforts?! I'm curious your education and background that would lead you to do so.
Nope. I'm not. But focusing on taxonomy and nomenclature entirely misses the point that Dr. Van Kerkhove was making.
Covid-19 is still a very large concern globally and there are good tradeoffs to be made to make it far less of a problem, but it requires that people don't get complacent. This includes not exhausting people with academic categorization minutiae so that they lose interest in trying to stay informed in ways that are actually relevant to their lives.
@ericjmorey Yeah. That was her point. She specifically said it was still a pandemic so that people like you can parse nomenclature and suggest it's a problem to call it a pandemic. 🙄
Go ahead and dwell on this one insignificant point for your ego's sake. But know that you're not helping by doing so.
I'm not wrong. But it's not important. Thanks for continuing to belabor this non-critical point.
You can bow out of the replies if you wish, my dude.
@ericjmorey @augieray Dude, you came in to conflate the two terms, before nit-picking that each respective one is too academic and distracting to bother with, while being wrong on both counts. Bow out of the replies, my guy.