Bluesky

1332 readers

789 users here now

People skeeting stuff.

Bluesky Social is a microblogging social platform being developed in conjunction with the decentralized AT Protocol. Previously invite-only, the flagship Beta app went public in February 2024. All are welcome!

founded 6 months ago

MODERATORS

TheArstaInventor@lemmy.world

606

✨Late Stage Capitalism✨ (lemmy.blahaj.zone)

submitted 5 days ago by FundMECFSResearch@lemmy.blahaj.zone to c/peoplebluesky@lemmy.world

28 comments fedilink hide all child comments

Alt Text:

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

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] bleistift2@sopuli.xyz 2 points 4 days ago (1 children)

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.

[–] Duke_Nukem_1990@feddit.org 3 points 4 days ago (1 children)

pandemic, noun

****an outbreak of a disease that occurs over a wide geographic area (such as multiple countries or continents) and typically affects a significant proportion of the population : a pandemic outbreak of a disease

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/pandemic

So what now?

[–] bleistift2@sopuli.xyz 1 points 4 days ago

I’d say that the “outbreak” is long past.