Noting Lynwood's post above, our area has gone to Phase 3 of 4 which means just about everything but recreation is now open. People are NOT being careful with just the sheer numbers out on the roads. We droven 100 miles down the local interstate and the traffic at 10:30 in the morning looked like a holiday Sunday afternoon. Our campground was also full though the owners has some strict rules that have to be followed or you will be evicted - warnings have been made already. Our town, the largest in the county now has 120 cases out of 530 for the county's 21 individual towns and the infection rate is still growing
To that NPR report - that woman is dead wrong in not calling the COVID-19 problem a pandemic. While having zip formal health education do have some language skills. Pan + epidemic (shortened to -demic) means worldwide and COVID-19 for sure has been and still is a major problem and the second wave may be worse if the current strain mutates.
A standard definition easily found in many sources:
- An EPIDEMIC is a disease that affects a large number of people within a community, population, or region.
- A PANDEMIC is an epidemic that’s spread over multiple countries or continents.
(Personal view only - if NPR is speaking, there is little real substance)