Pandemic: It’s a scary word. But the world has seen pandemics before, and worse ones, too. Consider theinfluenza pandemic of 1918, often referred to erroneously as the “Spanish flu.” Misconceptions about it may be fueling unfounded fears about COVID-19, and now is an especially good ti...
So, yes sort of, but there is a little bit of nuance. When we say something like: [Here is the situation], but/and [the other thing] doesn't help either. [the other thing] is not a main issue, it's just another thing that makes the situation worse. ...
Reality settles around me like a miasma of bitterness, and each day I try to push it aside in the hope there will be something that rescues me. I realize this abyss is mine. I allowed this to happen to me. Perhaps I could have prevented it, but I chose differently. I chose others ...
The word pandemic is scary to whole world. It is a pestilence of an irresistible ailment that has spread over an enormous district, for example, different mainland's or around the world, influencing a generous number of individuals. An across the board endemic illness with a steady number of...
“This feels like… Communism,” I said. As soon as the wordCommunismrolled off my tongue, I regretted it. “This is not what Communism is like,” said my Dad, apathetic to my misery and inherent privilege. He reminded me that his parents and siblings lived through the Mussolini regime ...
Ominously, theMinistry of Health states that: “The updated pandemic plan covers the health system response. It does not cover the all-of-government or wider societal response to a pandemic. It is also only one tool for developing the health system’s preparedness.” ...
And our last word for the vocabulary preview today is pandemic. E: Pandemic. M: Pandemic. E: Pandemic. M: So, pandemic is something scary. E: Well, yes. Um, it’s an even where a disease affects a lot of people, like we’re talking millions of people. M: Okay. E: And it ...
In so doing, the Hippocratic book Epidemics introduces at least two new meanings to the Greek word epidemos. On one side, the term suggests the application of a political category conceiving of a public problem—that is to say, it concerns the people’s disease, translated to Latin as De ...
Anepidemicinvolves the wide-ranging spread of a disease throughout an entire area or particular community where it’s not permanently prevalent. Apandemicinvolves an even wider spread, often reaching across the entire world. The wordendemicis used to describe a disease that persistently and regularly...
things might get better, make it kinda positive. But, as positive as Jevon is, she told me what she’s really been feeling this whole pandemic, even as things have gotten better in some ways, is this other complicated emotion, which, funnily enough, there’s actually a word for in ...