📔 The Definition of Pandemic
the pandemic is not over, by any definition
Because apparently some people are not aware they can look this word up in the dictionary before deciding to stop using it.
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/pandemic
Merriam-Webster dictionary since 1828
entry for pandemic
Definition of pandemic
 (Entry 1 of 2)
1 : occurring over a wide geographic area (such as multiple countries or continents) and typically affecting a significant proportion of the population pandemic malaria The 1918 flu was pandemic and claimed millions of lives.
2 : characterized by very widespread growth or extent : epidemic entry 1 sense 3 a problem of pandemic proportions
pandemic
plural pandemics
Definition of pandemic (Entry 2 of 2)
1 : an outbreak of a disease that occurs over a wide geographic area (such as multiple countries or continents) and typically affects a significant proportion of the population : a pandemic outbreak of a disease a global pandemic Influenza pandemics seem to strike every few decades and to kill by the million—at least 1m in 1968; perhaps 100m in the "Spanish" flu of 1918-19. — The Economist
2 : an outbreak or product of sudden rapid spread, growth, or development : epidemic entry 2 sense 2 We have been talking about the pandemic of racism for centuries.— Roger Griffith Nobel-prize winning economist Robert Shiller warns a pandemic of fear could tip the economy into an undeserved depression.— Stephanie Landsman