6 January

Many have asked about terms - endemic, pandemic, epidemic etc. The picture describes it well. Covid is an epidemic disease, and because it’s spreading across the whole world, it’s now a pandemic (pan - international). Epidemic/pandemic means infections will grow and fall exponentially, in repeated waves. Plenty of mention in the media about Covid becoming endemic. Meaning staying at a constant rate in the community (the green line), not in those up and down epidemic peaks. This is one of the biggest and most destructive lies of the pandemic. Covid is an epidemic disease, it won’t ever develop that stable disease pattern, without better vaccines and public health measures like masks, improved ventilation, and movement and gathering restrictions. If we just use the current vaccines alone, then we’ll experience endless epidemic waves, up and down, like we are right now. Not just once a year, like we do with flu, but all year, every year. The idea that getting us all infected will end the pandemic is a barefaced lie - it can’t and won’t happen. It will just create more and more of those red epidemic waves.