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I hate when people say "the pandemic is over socially" (hexbear.net)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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That doesn't mean anything! That's not a thing! That has no basis in material reality!

If people are still getting infected all over the world all year, it's still a pandemic!

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

IMHO, we were ‘flying by the seat of our pants’, laboring under a mis-interpretation of research done back in the 30s during Typhus epidemic. With SARS-CoV-2 all of our understanding of airborn transmission was reviewed, and mistakes were corrected. Science progresses, but sometimes it takes a while, alas.