“Hospitals are overwhelmed”
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By that same argument the common cold is the longest running pandemic in human history
Kind of. Once a pandemic becomes recurrent enough that it's just part of life, it's "endemic". Technically yes, the cold is a pandemic we've just gotten used to.
Still a pandemic as it mutates regularly, which is the standard the CDC is using to continue to force mandates on hospitals with Covid.
The flu mutates regularly and is still considered an endemic.
Major organizations had to change the definition of pandemic so that it would be.
Twelve years ago H1N1 Swine Flu happened. It infected a lot of people, but (Like COVID-19) the death rate wasn't very high.
The definition of Pandemic was then changed (by FDA, WHO etc) to exclude a mortality rate.
So you are right; but only because they changed the defintion.