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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
Back when the pandemic was still going, I thought how nice it was that mankind got a ‘test pandemic’. One you could keep in check with reasonable effort.
Now that I’ve seen how many anti-vaxxers that pandemic produced and how it eroded trust in health institutes, I believe that is wasn’t a test, not even a warning, but a first strike to weaken mankind, only for the next pandemic to be more effective.
still going btw
Covid hit endemic stage years ago. It still exists, but calling it a pandemic at this stage is imprecise.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pandemic
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.
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/pandemic
So what now?
I’d say that the “outbreak” is long past.