{"id":289,"date":"2023-07-18T18:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-07-18T22:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/?p=289"},"modified":"2023-08-12T21:02:43","modified_gmt":"2023-08-13T01:02:43","slug":"the-pandemic-really-is-over-no-seriously-we-mean-it-this-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/news\/the-pandemic-really-is-over-no-seriously-we-mean-it-this-time\/","title":{"rendered":"The Pandemic Really Is Over, No Seriously, We Mean It This Time"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Jessica Wildfire<\/h2>\n<h2>July&nbsp;18, 2023<\/h2>\n<p>There\u2019s an opinion piece in The New York Times heralding a new \u201cpositive milestone\u201d for Covid. It declares that excess deaths have magically dropped back down to where they were before the pandemic\u2014thanks to vaccines, Paxlovid, and \u201cnatural immunity.\u201d They\u2019re calling it \u201ca sign that the pandemic really is over.\u201d You can almost hear their desperation. There\u2019s just one problem.<\/p>\n<p>The math literally doesn\u2019t add up.<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/jessicawildfire.substack.com\/p\/the-pandemic-really-is-over-no-seriously\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/jessicawildfire.substack.com\/p\/the-pandemic-really-is-over-no-seriously<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<h3>Jessica Wildfire<\/h3>\n<h3>July&nbsp;18, 2023<\/h3>\n<p><\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/news\/the-pandemic-really-is-over-no-seriously-we-mean-it-this-time\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Pandemic Really Is Over, No Seriously, We Mean It This Time<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[18,10,106,14],"class_list":["post-289","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-covid-19","tag-opinion","tag-pandemic","tag-sars-cov-2","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=289"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":292,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289\/revisions\/292"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=289"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=289"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=289"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}