tankasnowgod
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It's kind of amazing that nobody's made the simple connection that all of the countries that already had mask-wearing as a semi normal thing in flu season i.e. japan and china seem to be the same places most pandemics come from in the first place. you can't mask around the fact that packing people like sardines has consequences
More like places where media claims that pandemics come from.
It seems to me "pandemic" is a very ill defined word, that doesn't really mean anything.
If the definition of "Pandemic" is reserved for a disease or condition that kills 20-50 Million people within a year like Spanish Flu (or 250 Million, adjusting for current population), then I have never seen a pandemic in my life, and probably never will.
If the definition of "Pandemic" is defined simply by media hysteria and declaration by so called officials, then I guess we are in one, and there have been around 20 or so within my life.
If the definition of "Pandemic" is defined as some disease or condition that affects 100,000 people or so worldwide, well, then I have seen a few dozen a year every single year I have been alive. And in this definition, COVID would rank 20th on that Pandemic list, in no way deserving of the coverage or response it got.
I've noticed people like to use a fluid definition, going with the third to justify COVID, but then reverting to the first when you bring up the fact that Tuberculous has killed more people this year than deaths that are even associated with COVID.