Dude, the fatality rate doesn't have anything to do with labeling an infectious disease as a pandemic (or not)...geez!
A pandemic (from Greek πᾶν, pan, "all" and δῆμος, demos, "people") is an epidemic of an infectious disease that has spread across a large region, for instance multiple continents or worldwide, affecting a substantial number of people. A widespread endemic disease with a stable number of infected people is not a pandemic. Widespread endemic diseases with a stable number of infected people such as recurrences of seasonal influenza are generally excluded as they occur simultaneously in large regions of the globe rather than being spread worldwide.
Exactly. It is kind of bullshit fact twisting miss information that pisses me off. People doing mental gymnastics to make their point look factual.
It's a pandemic because of how infectious it is. the fact that it pretty much spreads like wildfire.
Also as the UK would say you can't talk about death rate until AFTER the whole thing is dealt with, cause then you can look at excess deaths over the whole period.
this right here.
You can also say
R>1 and thats about it.
Right, that's why the flu has been a pandemic each year, and the world went crazy. Right... Every year the flu is a pandemic, but it's not hyped up, is it? It's hyped up in the media for a purpose. I used the wrong word. I should just have stuck to my usual scamdemic term for what has been happening. Have a good one.
The problem with using terms that are not accurate is that people will not take you seriously...with good reason.