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@iampaulkerry Well, I think the choice to see it that way involves a certain amount of confusion and wishful thinking about how "endemic" might mean "milder" or reduce the necessity of mitigation. (See: many governments worldwide.)Permalink On twitter.com
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@iampaulkerry Which is to say, it feels a bit like ecstatically celebrating that you're no longer (for example) prediabetic and not grasping that transitioned to full-blown diabetes is not actually a positive outcome at all.Permalink On twitter.com
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@iampaulkerry I'm no expert but in the medical histories I've read, serious diseases going from pandemic to endemic hasn't been great overall. I wish I thought it was a case of people assuming endemic was the only possible outcome, rather than delusion about "endemic" actually means. *shrug*Permalink On twitter.com
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@iampaulkerry And I suppose I should note I'm denigrating people with diabetes. It's just it adds a lot of risk and complication and unpleasantness to your life, and one typically doesn't celebrate developing it, despite any mental relief one might feel not being at risk anymore.On twitter.com
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@iampaulkerry The analogy is flawed, though, since people tend not to die of prediabetes the way they do of diabetes, whereas people die or are sickened by COVID just as much in pandemic as in endemic phases. (Endemic just does it in a slower and more protracted way, right?)Permalink On twitter.com
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@iampaulkerry I probably would feel differently if I didn't get the sense that "endemic" is being bandied about as a reason to go back to drinking water straight from the Broad Street Pump, as Neoliberal John Snow's parody account would put it: twitter.com/NeoliberalSnow/Permalink On twitter.com