Relatively major culture-maker Boing Boing is running the headline:
COVID pandemic enters seventh year with no end in sight
and the article is not ableist, not bullshit, not denying reality. Nice!
https://boingboing.net/2026/01/16/covid-pandemic-enters-seventh-year-with-no-end-in-sight.html
#BoingBoing #COVID #COVID19 #CovidIsNotOver #COVIDisAirborne
#Pandemic is over
It's … actually #endemic is local … so it's #PanEndemic
I wish my country could have stayed in our bubble
Bondi massacre killed 16
But the #SafelyReopen massacre killed over 20,000
@timjclevenger @kmpiw Endemicity and pandemicity are not based on death rates.
Endemic means particular to a subset of geography or people.
Pandemic means a human- infectious disease with global spread.
COVID-19 is very much still definitionally a pandemic.
Canada and the USA and many other nations have politically declared the political state of emergency to have ended.
A political state of emergency has nothing to do with whether a disease is pandemic.
Note that the HIV pandemic is decades old and ongoing, if you need a comparison to help you see. No serious epidemiologist would say that HIV isn't still a pandemic; no un-politicized epidemiologist would say that SARS-CoV-2 is not still a pandemic.
