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minus-squareZron@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·4 months agoGod, I hope it doesn’t spread, because then people will keep saying global pandemic. Pandemic already means global. It’s like saying Mariachi Band, or ATM Machine.
minus-squareexplore_broaden@midwest.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·4 months ago (of a disease) existing in almost all of an area or in almost all of a group of people, animals, or plants “An area” could be a country, a Canadian pandemic is possible just as a global pandemic is.
God, I hope it doesn’t spread, because then people will keep saying global pandemic.
Pandemic already means global.
It’s like saying Mariachi Band, or ATM Machine.
“An area” could be a country, a Canadian pandemic is possible just as a global pandemic is.