Why President Biden was Right About the Covid Pandemic Being Over

In a 60 Minutes interview last week President Biden stated, "The pandemic is over, but we still have a problem with Covid. We're still doing a lot of work on it. But the pandemic is over."

This set the rightwingers in Congress and all over the conspiracy-driven fringe rightwing media to have nervous breakdowns. How dare he say it's no longer an emergency, said the same yakking heads who never accepted it as an emergency for the past three years. The same people who regurgitated Donald Trump's lies that it would be over by Easter of 2020, that horse deworming paste or the malaria drug hydroxychloroquine would cure you of Covid, that you could cleanse the lungs by injecting disinfectant, or that somehow shoving light into the body would do the trick, are suddenly pretending it's a four alarm fire.

But President Biden's right. According to an infectious disease physician with the American Medical Association, moving from a pandemic to an endemic "means the disease is still around but not at a level that's causing significant disruption in our daily lives."

Dictionary.com defines a pandemic as "a disease prevalent throughout an entire country, continent, or the whole world." It defines an endemic as "a disease persisting in a population or region, generally having settled to a relatively constant rate of occurrence."

The Biden administration has been monumentally successful in quelling Covid down to a very manageable level. Free test kits and free vaccinations have been available since President Biden took office, and now almost no one who contracts Covid ends up in the hospital, on a ventilator, or in a grave.

Instead of bitching about President Biden's statement, these professional complainers should be grateful.