@glitterbag,
glitterbag wrote:
"A pandemic is a type of epidemic, but not every epidemic disease is pandemic.
So you can't say that a disease isn't epidemic because it's pandemic.
That would be like saying that a hurricane isn't a storm because it's a hurricane. A hurricane is a type of storm."
And this students, is a terrific example of repeating the obvious even though it's always been obvious and no one asked a question. In other words, "what time is it? It's quarter past Nine o'clock.........ahem!!! No you moron, It's fifteen minutes past 9"""". Understand now?
They were arguing about the difference between using the term epidemic and pandemic, and I just pointed out how it's not that relevant to discuss that.
It would be like two newscasters arguing because one keeps referring to a hurricane by saying, "the storm," and the other keeps saying that he's downplaying the hurricane by calling it just a storm.
The fact is that you can refer to a hurricane as "the storm," and it's not incorrect, i.e. because a hurricane is a type of storm.
Likewise, you can call COVID19 "the current epidemic," and be correct because even if it is a pandemic, it is still also an epidemic.
If it was as obvious as you say, they wouldn't have been debating about it.
