[internet_user]

Irrelevant.

a plainly false statement was made: "it's the only truly global pandemic in a century", your goalposts movements notwithstanding.

Lack of knowledge around basic facts of the field (public health) is a clear and immediate disqualification from any further consideration.

Do you really make suggestions on changes to public heath and epidemiology based on "a quick google"?

Best of luck to you.

[SideburnsOfDoom]

> Do you really make suggestions on changes to public heath and epidemiology based on "a quick google"?

This is nonsensical ranting. The idea that "There can and should be changes to public health and epidemiology" is not the same as "making suggestions personally", do not conflate them. For the former, all that you need to know is if others have found areas for improvement, and clearly they have (1), so your statement has no merit whatsoever.

The "a quick google" part only applies to the severity of previous pandemics, do not apply it to the other parts. Or rather, lets hear your expert wisdom on that subject - was the severity the same as COVID-19 then?

If you want fixed goalposts, then the one thing to answer is: do you deny that the current pandemic "can and should cause changes to public health and epidemiology" ?

1) https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/04/health/239-experts-with-o...

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-022-00925-7

https://www.wired.com/story/the-teeny-tiny-scientific-screwu...

[internet_user]

The WHO decided they were a true pandemic. Take it up with the WHO experts to reclassify them as something else.

Until then enjoy being wrong.

[SideburnsOfDoom]

Thank you for answering the question on the _severity_ of previous pandemics in the 20th century. Your insight and expertise, your attention to detail, and your understanding of what you reply to, has enriched us all.