What is 'post-pandemic'?
The phrases we use for the moment we're in
Jul 13, 2023
4 minutes
We frequently discuss the pandemic as if it were a thing of the past. Indeed, the most traumatic and disruptive part of the pandemic is over for most people. But health professionals will say that though the health emergency has been declared over, we are still experiencing a global pandemic.
There are so many ways to look at the pandemic: There's the actual spread of the virus. And then there's the pandemic economy, the social distancing, the lockdowns, the masks and, most importantly, the hospitalizations and deaths.
As our lexicon has evolved, it's not surprising that different terms mean different things to different people.
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