People getting mad at Biden for saying the pandemic is done, yet he's not exactly wrong. Covid very quickly entering the endemic state would mean the pandemic is over, but covid is still here. Endemic means it's here to STAY... We live with it, it follows predictable patterns, and we get a (possibly) yearly shot, that adjusts and adapts as the virus evolves... Endemic vs pandemic, because we can box it in as it evolves, and it's no longer running rampant outside a predictable model... Endemic.
I'm not mad at him for saying it, but I am annoyed. I read something not too long ago that mentioned how covid should be toned down while Dems campaign. Saying it's over bc it's true (I don't think it is), and saying it to stay off topic for politics are two different things. It's especially dangerous for the immunocompromised. People only hear words that comfort them, so people are hearing it's over and take that as it's gone, done, behind us, which is hardly the truth.
@JoyfullyDazed As long as being upset/annoyed/etc over politics being politics doesn't keep y'all from keeping fascist nationalists from winning elections...
I'm all for questioning and holding politicians to task... As long as it doesn't allow truly authoritarianist fascists into power, simply due to our dissolutions and cynicism of the centrist "neo-liberal" politicians.