First Lady Jill Biden tested positive for COVID-19 on Monday night, according to a statement. Jill Biden is experiencing mild symptoms and will stay at their home in Rehoboth Beach, Del., her commu…

First Lady Jill Biden tested positive for COVID-19 on Monday night, according to a statement. Jill Biden is experiencing mild symptoms and will stay at their home in Rehoboth Beach, Del., her commu…

  • MonkCanatella@sh.itjust.works
    620·
    1 year ago

    did you even read the article you linked? kind garbage is “well ackshyually, it’s endemic so the pandemic is over!” that doesn’t mean that covid isn’t a real threat. That’s the stupidest fucking argument you could have possibly made. Know what else is endemic? AIDS. Hepatitis. Malaria. Tuberculosis. Fucking Polio. Changing status from pandemic to epidemic doesn’t magically make it affect less people. It’s really heartless tbh

    • GBU_28@lemm.eeEnglish
      142·
      1 year ago

      Threat is not what is being discussed. Pandemic status is

      • MonkCanatella@sh.itjust.works
        24·
        1 year ago

        the original poster is arguing about the administrations response to the pandemic being at best, poorly managed, choosing the stock market over human lives. The dipshit who said “well technically a pandemix isn’t an epidemic” charged in and tried to chagne the conversation to one of fucking etymology. That’s not the point at all. They’re not pissed because of etymology, they’re pissed because the administration could have done A LOT more but CHOSE not to, because stock market

    • Chetzemoka@kbin.social
      102·
      1 year ago

      And we…have treatments and/or vaccines and public health campaigns for all of those endemic infections just like we will continue to do for Covid?

      I’m not sure why you think endemic is a judgement of risk. It’s not. It’s an epidemiological definition.

      • MonkCanatella@sh.itjust.works
        25·
        1 year ago

        I’m not even remotely arguing about the semantics of epidemiology, I’m arguing that it’s heartless to argue pedantic shit like that when it’s clearly still affecting people and still needs to be taken seriously, which the original poster is pointing out, and correctly so, that it’s not. The administration pushed for business as usual, choosing the stock market over peoples’ health. And you’re over here injecting that "well technically the word pandemic comes from the greek word pan. NO, that’s not what’s being discussed here at all

        • Chetzemoka@kbin.social
          81·
          1 year ago

          Except no one pushed for business as usual? Quarantines and higher level pandemic interventions are not appropriate for an endemic infection. We should be vaccinating and masking when there’s an increase in Covid infections. But we should also be doing that for influenza and we don’t.

          I’m not arguing semantics. Pandemic vs. endemic is a factual epidemiological definition. The problem is that we routinely choose not to deal with dangerous endemic infections like influenza. We should always have been doing more.