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[โ€“] coffee_poops@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

While they are "less deadly", they appear to cause an Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome. Not to mention "long covid" with its increased risk of blood clots and dementia.

[โ€“] MonkRome@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Both of which appear to also be dropping in severity with time. If you were to say, people should still be careful and wear masks in a crowd, and generally take covid seriously because it's still dangerous, I completely agree with you. But at some point continuing to call something a pandemic is abusing the word a little, once it's being fully managed and generally under control then it's no longer a pandemic. Our own policy places us somewhere between a pandemic and an endemic, so I suppose it really depends on your definitions of the words and how squishy our perceptions of those words really are.