SweetSue92
Diamond Member
The pandemic can end when we say it ends.
In an era of little good news, this is it here. If you're unafraid, it's imperative now to live unafraid. The pandemic will end when the unafraid stand up and refuse to cooperate with the Fear Brigade.
In my area, at any rate, this is definitely happening. We are done.
When will the Covid-19 pandemic end? And how?
According to historians, pandemics typically have two types of endings: the medical, which occurs when the incidence and death rates plummet, and the social, when the epidemic of fear about the disease wanes.
“When people ask, ‘When will this end?,’ they are asking about the social ending,” said Dr. Jeremy Greene, a historian of medicine at Johns Hopkins.
In other words, an end can occur not because a disease has been vanquished but because people grow tired of panic mode and learn to live with a disease.
In an era of little good news, this is it here. If you're unafraid, it's imperative now to live unafraid. The pandemic will end when the unafraid stand up and refuse to cooperate with the Fear Brigade.
In my area, at any rate, this is definitely happening. We are done.
When will the Covid-19 pandemic end? And how?
According to historians, pandemics typically have two types of endings: the medical, which occurs when the incidence and death rates plummet, and the social, when the epidemic of fear about the disease wanes.
“When people ask, ‘When will this end?,’ they are asking about the social ending,” said Dr. Jeremy Greene, a historian of medicine at Johns Hopkins.
In other words, an end can occur not because a disease has been vanquished but because people grow tired of panic mode and learn to live with a disease.
How Pandemics End (Published 2020)
An infectious outbreak can conclude in more ways than one, historians say. But for whom does it end, and who gets to decide?
www.nytimes.com