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I’m not sure how this particular argument has to do with the status of a pandemic, which is based on some defined objective criteria, or so I suppose: When the
by hintymad 4y ago
I’m not sure how this particular argument has to do with the status of a pandemic, which is based on some defined objective criteria, or so I suppose: When the official emergency ends, some 15 million will lose Medicaid coverage; the reason for a student loan repayment pause will end; the rationale for Trump-era border restrictions, still held in place by a court, will disappear. All this policy transition must not be done carelessly or hastily.
- jfengel 4y agoThe pandemic isn't as well defined as you'd like to think. The WHO doesn't officially define it at all. They have a Public Health Emergency, and it happens when a panel of experts decides that there's a disease going around for which cooperative action can help.