[Jiejeing]

One small correction: the pandemic certainly is not over.

[petilon]

Covid is not over. But the pandemic is over.

[nishs]

What is your distinction between the two?

[medvezhenok]

"Pandemics are known to cause widespread disruption, illness and hardship as we have experienced since 2020. An endemic means a disease is spreading in a community at the normal or expected level. A pandemic begins to shift to an endemic once the disease becomes more stable and manageable."

COVID has mostly moved from pandemic to endemic (like the flu).

[wombatpm]

People were scared during the pandemic. Until the fatality rate for COVID goes up significantly, people are going to ignore the risks.