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Pandemics end when people end them, not when the disease ends.
by mrfusion 6y ago
Pandemics end when people end them, not when the disease ends.
- bumby 6y agoDo you mean that pandemics don’t really end, but only get reclassified? Or do you mean they end when we cure ourselves through vaccines, herd immunity etc.?
- SpicyLemonZest 6y agoThese kind of highly communicable respiratory pandemics only get reclassified. What we call "flu season", for example, is just the continuing spread of past flu pandemics. Most health officials expect that this will be the long term trajectory for the coronavirus, even with vaccines and herd immunity.
- Retric 6y agoSome years we still have flu pandemics. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1957–1958_influenza_pandemic https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1957–1958_influenza_pandemic That’s 1+ million deaths when world population was less than 1/2 what it is today.
- mikem170 6y agoAnd the 1968 Hong Kong flu, which killed 1-4 million people, world population half of what it is today. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1968_flu_pandemic https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1968_flu_pandemic
- beamatronic 6y agoOr we can just wear masks in public forever. Wouldn’t that squash it? Every flu?
- simonebrunozzi 6y agoLet's all concentrate and make it end today, then!! I'm relieved the solution is so simple. </sarcasm>