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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

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[–] Duke_Nukem_1990@feddit.org 3 points 3 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 3 days ago

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