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SaHiB's avatar

It was a pandemic, perhaps a variant series of them. Pandemics aren't usually commonly fatal; how many people die of colds, chickenpox, or herpes? How covids were spread, whether person to person, or something else, remains in question.

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Den Arto's avatar

According to the classical (real) definition of a pandemic, Covid should not have been a pandemic. It was a pandemic of protocol murders.

" Cohen and Carter state that the WHO changed the definition of an

influenza pandemic by excluding reference to the words "with enormous

numbers of deaths and illness."

What the article fails to state is that the WHO made two changes; the

second change was to drop the requirement for a new sub-type with a simple

reassortant virus meaning that many seasonal flu viruses could be

classified as pandemic influenza."

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SaHiB's avatar

A pandemic with much mortality is a "plague". Let's not exaggerate terms.

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Den Arto's avatar

To repeat, "the WHO changed the definition"

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SaHiB's avatar

Horton's WHO has no access to my 1969 Webster's Third New International Dictionary, but is welcome to change its internal definition of anything in any manner it like. I don't hear it. Don't exaggerate.

"An epidemic of unusual extent and severity" (def. 2) needn't necessarily entail enormous numbers of deaths. Pandemic with no illness? Do you refer to the PCR-assisted, "asymptomatic" fake illness? Paul Craig Roberts does not approve of that message!

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Den Arto's avatar

CDC also changed their definition. So by your definition if we have colds all over the globe, we have a pandemic of colds?

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SaHiB's avatar

The Seedy Sea also doesn't have access to my dictionary.

Yes, colds are usually a pandemic.

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