Re:Flu has disappeared worldwide during the Covid pandemic
by greycol on Thursday April 29, 2021 @05:18PM
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If we're using the WHO definition of a pandemic it's a pandemic.
If we're using the dictionary definition of a pandemic "(of a disease) prevalent over a whole country or the world."
it's a pandemic.
If we're using the colloquial definition of a pandemic "a disease that spreads around the world killing lots of people" it's a pandemic.
If you want you can consider seasonal flu on the list of pandemics, fine, but you're simply wrong to consider covid not a pandemic and if you are trying to downplay how deadly covid is I'd say you're behaving in an ethically wrong manner too.
If we're using the dictionary definition of a pandemic "(of a disease) prevalent over a whole country or the world." it's a pandemic.
If we're using the colloquial definition of a pandemic "a disease that spreads around the world killing lots of people" it's a pandemic.
If you want you can consider seasonal flu on the list of pandemics, fine, but you're simply wrong to consider covid not a pandemic and if you are trying to downplay how deadly covid is I'd say you're behaving in an ethically wrong manner too.