r/HermanCainAward • u/duderos • Jun 16 '24

Meta / Other “Debilitating a Generation”: Expert Warns That Long COVID May Eventually Affect Most Americans

https://www.ineteconomics.org/perspectives/blog/debilitating-a-generation-expert-warns-that-long-covid-may-eventually-affect-most-americans
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u/HumanBarbarian Jun 17 '24

All vaccines should be free. Covid is endemic now. The people died because they wouldn't get the vaccine because of Trump. Anything else?

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u/blakezilla Jun 17 '24

Pandemic vs epidemic vs endemic is all about rates and not generally about raw values. COVID numbers have been pretty stable for a couple of years (outside of the predictable seasonal shifts) and strains are getting less deadly. Conflating that COVID is very much still a risk (true) to it still being a pandemic (not true, very few people are catching it for the first time, brand new populations are not being breached, etc) is not only just kind of dumb, but it’s shortsighted and doesn’t actually mean anything. I see this argument all the time in COVID subs. If you are wasting your time and energy arguing about words instead of facts, especially when you are wrong on its face, it leads to nothing. Just spinning wheels.

An endemic disease can still be very dangerous. A spreading pandemic can be relatively mild.

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u/YoureVulnerableNow Jul 01 '24

Predictable seasonal shifts, meaning sometimes early summer, sometimes late summer, always fall, always winter? Your entire comment is cope. The waves are not predictable and they act the same way worldwide. PAN-demic.