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officialjunk · 2020-09-05 16:51:30+00:00

the pandemic is not over. information is limited. it is not possible to definitively draw this conclusion yet. it is possible it is significant.

anoncake | karma 1589 | avg karma 0.5 · | 2020-09-02 14:03:38+00:00

Is the pandemic over? Because if it isn't, there is no way to tell yet.

Jiejeing | karma 649 | avg karma 3.86 · | 2023-01-22 13:18:38

One small correction: the pandemic certainly is not over.

duncans | karma 519 | avg karma 2.45 · | 2021-06-11 13:47:16+00:00

It could be a realisation that the pandemic - even in relatively highly-vaccinated countries - is far from over.

petilon | karma 4311 | avg karma 5.08 · | 2023-01-22 14:30:53

Covid is not over. But the pandemic is over.

qbasic_forever | karma 10505 | avg karma 4.25 · | 2022-02-08 12:17:43

The pandemic isn't over, FYI.

greedo | karma 5954 | avg karma 1.58 · | 2020-05-09 02:12:04+00:00

You're assuming that the pandemic is over, which is far far from the truth. As one epidemiologist said, "We're not even in the second inning."

throwaway525142 | karma 168 | avg karma 3.29 · | 2020-08-13 13:15:55+00:00

I think it's not unlikely that the pandemic has not gone away by next year.

mikewarot | karma 10851 | avg karma 2.02 · | 2023-01-10 23:17:35

The numbers not recorded as "COVID related" clearly are. This leads people to falsely conclude that the pandemic is over, when clearly this is not the case.

I feel like we're ALL in the position of the indigenous people of the new world, exposed to European diseases for the first time, and even with modern medicine, I don't think we're likely to fair much better than they did over the coming years.

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wintorez | karma 1107 | avg karma 2.77 · | 2020-05-02 04:29:28+00:00

I fear that this pandemic eventually passes and we learn nothing from it.

amai | karma 2548 | avg karma 1.63 · | 2023-10-31 12:30:05

No mention of a pandemic? We might not always be as lucky as with Covid-19.

ricardobeat | karma 18682 | avg karma 2.77 · | 2021-07-10 15:16:24+00:00

> the pandemic is over

This is surprising to read, guess it depends on where you live? Different countries are still at different stages of the pandemic, and it is most certainly not over for a lot of them, especially with the delta variant causing a third/fourth wave.

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throaway46546 | karma 492 | avg karma 2.47 · | 2021-06-27 08:59:46+00:00

The pandemic has been ongoing for quite some time.

collyw | karma 8776 | avg karma 1.06 · | 2021-06-01 11:15:17

When is the pandemic over? By any objective measures it should be already.

MaysonL | karma 18139 | avg karma 3.93 · | 2022-05-22 15:59:34

The pandemic isn't over. Assuming that it is will lead to rather unpleasant outcomes.

ehnto | karma 13794 | avg karma 3.12 · | 2022-09-23 10:54:40

Pandemic not-withstanding or are you accounting for that?

jcpst | karma 1070 | avg karma 2.64 · | 2022-10-23 09:38:08

Still a pandemic, not an endemic. No scientific body has declared we have moved past the pandemic.

Now our health care systems are at the edge of their breaking point, people disregard spreading it through the community. We’re likely hitting another wave soon. Not good.

In the US, we have had a sustained 400-500 dying a day. The 4th leading cause of death, on average. That’s a huge deal for something that didn’t exist a few years ago, but no one cares.

Then there’s an economy that is being hit hard by millions of people with long covid symptoms that can’t work anymore. We don’t have an answer for that yet. But who cares.

But the sad part is I think you’re probably right. At least in the US, we are rugged individualists. Public health takes a back seat to that, because it would mean changing one’s one behavior for the good of many. So yeah, what else is there to do as a society.

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closeparen | karma 19960 | avg karma 2.77 · | 2021-06-07 01:06:54

Six months ago. I’m not sure it’s fair to say “there’s a pandemic going on” anymore. The vaccine is readily available. There are cases where this might not be enough to end the pandemic from your perspective (immunocompromised family member, etc) but we wouldn’t expect very many.

thickened | karma -3 | avg karma -0.5 · | 2021-08-16 14:37:46

Given how the pandemic has been going I would give this at least four to six months before any conclusive facts are put down.

thunderbird120 | karma 1030 | avg karma 6.73 · | 2023-06-07 21:01:37

I don't think there are any serious groups which are not acting like the pandemic is over by all practical standards.

Variants descended from the Spanish flu still infect and kill people but that pandemic is not ongoing. The point at which it made sense to accept even very mild disruptions to daily life due to COVID has passed and nearly everyone understands that.

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